Murray Chass is still an idiot

Last week we commented on NY Times baseball writer Murray Chass who "suggested" if the Red Sox do not sign J.D. Drew that they could consider Barry Bonds.

Apparently Chass heard from many members of the wired Red Sox Nation and Tuesday morning he sniffs in the Times

It was a joke, a throwaway line, but only one of more than two dozen readers who responded via e-mail messages seemed to figure it out.

“I’m assuming,” one fan wrote, “that your comment about the Sox signing Bonds to play left and moving Manny to ‘his original position in right’ was made tongue-in-cheek.”

Give that man a cigar. As for the rest of the e-mail writers, do not pass Go, do not collect $200.

“Manny Ramírez in the expansive right field at Fenway?!” a New York lawyer and Red Sox fan wrote. “Why not make David Ortiz the shortstop while they’re at it.”

This was from the same lawyer who once vowed never to read another On Baseball column by this writer but then sent a critical e-mail after the very next column about the Red Sox.

“I thought you were never going to read another column?” I replied by e-mail at the time.

“I can’t resist reading them,” he wrote back.

To be fair, perhaps I failed to make it obvious that the Bonds-Ramírez idea was a joke; humor can be a dangerous area in which to tread. And, in the interest of full disclosure, it wasn’t even completely my line. An editor was the first to say, in jest, that the Red Sox should just sign Bonds instead of Drew.

Barry Bonds in the same sentence as Boston Red Sox is not a laughing matter and no you did not make it clear that it was a "joke". The kind of garbage you have been writing deserves to be in the NY Post not the Times.

Go write about your beloved New York Yankees and leave us alone up here in the provinces.