Do you think being a baseball player entitles you to some secret code of baseball knowledge? You can literally look up ANYTHING about baseball on the Internet. Not to mention books, a TV show called Baseball Tonight, DVD's, etc. It's not like we're talking about building the space shuttle from scratch and then making it launch here.
You ever heard of Peter Gammons? He's in the HOF, but I guess he doesn't know anything about baseball since he didn't play. I guess George Will doesn't know anything about baseball either. He only wrote Men at Work- one of the best baseball books ever.
Let me tell you something that never dawned on Ol' Ron- if you don't want us to criticize you, if you really want your Nancy Boy coach to be your coach and us to accept it- you need to win some games, and you need to not be pussies. As a fan at MSU, I expect Championships fairly regularly. I expect us to play good baseball, and if you know what? If you lose, I can accept that as long as you play hard and don't make lame excuses- you may not have personally, but your former coach routinely did. Those two things are what MSU baseball is about- Championships and solid baseball. It's not about being some in the Ron Polk social club- and if your looking for that, join a fraternity. I hear the Pikes have a decent intramural softball team. This is why we don't want Raffo. Raffo means that the fraternity attitude will continue. We want our damn team back, and if you don't desire to do the two things that MSU baseball is about because you don't want to get yelled at, or whatever, please leave. You are not what MSU baseball is supposed to be about if that's your attitude.
And as far as your "I'm a baseball player, I know more than you" attitude- just know that you and your teammates vast dearth of knowledge led to the first losing season at MSU since 1975. Knowledge is good. (Hey! It's not Germans!)</p>
