Ken, Ken, Ken

Ken Rosenthal gets it all wrong in a recent article for the Sporting News. It's great when writers point to Jermaine Dye's poor production. Hard to produce from the DL, there Ken.

Look, the A's already fired a hitting coach this season and it seems they haven't got a lot from their advance scouts. The A's also faced more than a few pitchers for the first time and it's really tough to win a ton of games when EVERYBODY is gunning for you - even the media. When you're the team to beat, teams tend to design, research and work their tails off to beat specifically you.

Everybody on the A's is having a down year at the plate - except Ramon Hernandez, but he had three 'below expectation' years in a row. And people forget the A's are playing in a Ques Tec stadium at home, and not so much on the road. That may not matter in the stat sheet becasue it's still the job of the players to produce.

The Ques Tec argument is a bit of a smelly load - but you never know how much that enters the mind of a hitter at the plate.

The A's don't need a base stealer or to bunt more. They just need to hit the ball out of the park a few dozen more times.

Then again, it seems like offense is in a bit of a decline this season across the board. Any argument there?

The Umpire's union and the generally uneducated morons with microphones (Steve Lyons, Rick Sutcliffe, Joe Morgan) tend to fraudulently misprepresent Ques Tec and it would not be a surprise if the parent company filed a lawsuit against those individuals should they lose the MLB contract or other opportunites in the baseball world.

It's sort of like bad mouthing a company in the press and threatening boycots, then buying stock of the chief competitior. After the smoke clears and the company's stock bottoms out - snatching it up on the cheap and singing the company's praises in the media to drive the stiock price up, again. Sorry, didn't mean to bring up 'diginified social leaders'.

It's just funny when people who are against Ques Tec have no idea how the process actually works and still bad mouth it. "The people doing the ratings are not qualified". Yah? Neither are 95% of the 'personalities' on TV and radio broadcasts in MLB. Yet, the casual fan seems to listen to Rick Suitcliffe (is it just us or does it sound like he's churning taffy as he tries to speak?) and idiots like Harold Reynolds when they put their ill-gotten two cents in on the subject.

Peter Gammons: "Lord, please save us from the endless prattling about QuesTec. At the All-Star break, the ERA in games with QuesTec was 4.44, in games without it 4.43. What it's become is the convenient excuse for players and umpires alike, which brings us back to the Eddie Vedder line, "there's no right or wrong, but there's good and bad."