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The good, the bad, the ugly: The Blue-Gold game

With the spring game in the rearview and a successful Blue-Gold weekend in the books, it’s time for another edition of good, bad, and ugly. Full disclosure: No column is more subjective. Nor is there any column more difficult to write.

Football writing ain’t exactly Nietzsche. So when singing the praises of Torii Hunter or Jay Hayes, you’re also singling out a lost snap by Nick Coleman or Alex Bars. That’s the double-edge sword of intersquad scrimmages, when wins and losses are basically the same as losses and wins. (I feel like Yoda just writing that sentence.