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Lateral Quicks wrote:It would be nice if our prospects got better with time instead of worse, at least in the first few years of their careers.

Despite his historically poor production on both sides of the ball, by Arencibia’s estimation it was the media who ran him out of town.

“I think the media made me out to be a monster — I wasn’t. They changed a lot of things that I said or made up stories. So I thought that that was a big thing that went down. I learned how much media does control things.”

Arencibia did not specify to which reporters or media outlets he was referring. Of the allegations he said were falsely reported, he mentioned only one: that he had complained to team president Paul Beeston about Hayhurst and Zaun, which he said “wasn’t even close to what happened.”

Arencibia himself was actually the source of that report, when he said in an MLB Network radio interview that he spoke to the “team president” about broadcasters “that we employ” and asked, “How do you build a fan base when everything that fans are hearing is negative?”

Though he once again declined to specify about whom or what he was speaking, Arencibia also said he considered taking legal action against some members of the media, whom he vaguely accused of defaming him.

Two_Key_Goose wrote:I can't seem to find where I read it, but apparently when the criticism had started in the media (or a bit after) as DeRosa was doing an interview I guess JP went to him and discussed the criticism saying something along the "I'm here to hit homeruns and drive in runs, why don't they say that" to which DeRosa replied, "how about getting on base and letting others drive you/them in". JP either muttered something or walked away, and DeRosa was dumbfounded.

Think where I read said it might've been a Damian Cox piece, just trying to rack my brain now.

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