Jim Riggleman on why someone would say that stuff about Ichiro. Forget what I said about Ned Yost, you’re cool with me dude.
Pettiness, seventh-grade mentality, just pettiness of whatever jealousy, pointing fingers, deflecting responsibility, lack of accountability, just a lack of a character. These things happen when you’re losing; you’re not seeing that happen with winning teams now. But those winning teams go out and lose a couple games and you’ll see it.
JJ Putz had this to say.
People have a lot of differences of opinion on a lot of things, but to say something like that in the paper and not fess up as to who it is, whoever said it is a coward.
I guess we can count these guys out. Regardless, in the end it probably doesn’t matter. Whoever said these things is probably not 1/5th the contributor Ichiro is and shouldn’t be around next year (if he’s even around now). Let him go to the Yankees and say that stuff about Jeter so ESPN can devote entire episodes of PTI, Around the Horn and E:60 to it. We don’t need it.
