Los Angeles Times columnist
T.J. Simers deserves credit. No matter what you think of the guy, he's not afraid to get into it with players in the locker room, and he's not afraid to write exactly what he thinks. Which is why
he can write columns like this, in which he calls
Andruw Jones "Tubbo" and "clueless" after having a summit with Jones in the Dodger clubhouse. Awesome:
Without the fans, I said, there's no reason for you to be here in Los Angeles playing baseball and no way you're getting paid $36 million over the next two years. "I don't care," he said. "You play for the team, you don't play for the fans. The fans never played the game. They don't know."
Both a Tubbo and clueless, which really isn't a very good combination for the player with the highest annual salary in Dodgers history.
Um ... yeah. Probably not the most polite way to write a column, but Jones couldn't have handled that interview any worse. Rather than claiming to do his best for the fans, or something like that, Jones officially said he doesn't care, just before pointing at Simers' belly and guessing that Simers was "going to die tomorrow." That's a fantastic way to exacerbate fan hatred, not to mention draw columnist ire. Officially, Jones now has both.
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Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 1)
1. First off, this reporter is a joke. Oh sure, lets get the deep exclusive "news" by taking on a player that's in a terrible slump. Then let's make sure to make it really dramatic when the player that's playing on a new team for the first time since he was 16 says that he cant worry about the fans...that he's more focused on doing what he needs to do for THE TEAM! Wow, how stupid of Andruw to say he was more focused on doing his job for his team...vs worrying about what fans think/say. The point here is...this is a pathetic example of some hack trying to grab a headline. For sure Jones is stinking it up right now and strikes out a lot...but the DODGERS decided to risk the big salary despite a big slump year for him last year in Atlanta. So STOP WHINING and deal with it.
Posted at 5:29PM on May 11th 2008 by C S
2. CS, Simers is not a hack writer, this is his schtick. He is not trying to get some deep exclusive story here. He has been calling him Tubbo from day 1, and if you read the LA Times you know that Simers writes in this particular style.
Posted at 7:49PM on May 11th 2008 by Alejandro de Castro
3. Actually Simers and Jones are both deuche bags...Frank McCourt deserved both of them.
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