BROCK AND SALK

The case for Rob Johnson

Jul 20, 2010, 8:29 AM | Updated: Apr 4, 2011, 7:52 pm

Editor’s note: This is Mike Salk’s latest post for USS Mariner. You can read Dave Cameron’s posts on the Brock and Salk blog every Thursday.

Over the past few months, Mariners fans have disagreed on plenty of topics. But it seems that the one thing they agreed on is that Rob Johnson stinks. According to the calls, emails, texts, posts, and Tweets: he can’t catch, he can’t hit, and he shouldn’t be playing.

And yet he does keep playing.

So let’s assume for a moment that there is a good reason why. I set out to find it.

To read the rest of Salk’s story, go to USS Mariner.

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