What if Rio Ruiz could hit like he is now?

Photo by Will Newton/Getty ImagesJon Heyman blocked me on Twitter a couple of weeks ago.

He made some comment about how the Orioles shouldn’t be on the same field as the Yankees because the Yankees are good and the Orioles are bad, and I told him, verbatim, to “find a new schtick.” Should have been harmless, but the man is habitually hyper-sensitive.

The notion these “tank-jobs” aren’t “good for the game” is as lazy as it is commonality for the olds. Mike Elias, Sig Mejdal and the rest of the Orioles administration attempting to rewrite the wrongs of a patchwork regime isn’t bad for baseball. It’s necessary.

What people like Heyman don’t or refuse to understand, and what I myself have come to…