While I know people give tons of crap to BP, Rany is one of the founding fathers of the modern sabermetric movement. It’s a crying shame that a simple personal blog post (that in no way represents his practice or the views of BP) will keep him out of the KC BP event.

Thank god our GM has enough class to realize that baseball in general, but especially losing, is frustrating, and that journalists can write whatever they want. I read the original article and the one regarding the banning, trying to reserve judgement, but banning is, in my eyes, never justifiable. If the article had been unreasonable, uninformed, ad-hominem, racist or otherwise extremely inflammatory, then they might have had a leg to stand on.

Instead it’s an article, written by a doctor, documenting a series of medical treatments by the team that are, at least in hindsight, patterned as downplay, bench, exacerbate, and finally, fully diagnose and treat. If this is not the case, then the team should have thousands of pages of medical records to prove it. If instead of fighting what they consider false speech with true speech, the team intends to become belligerent and start banning bloggers, they can go fuck themselves.