rigelian":25mjq5r4 said:
I think you got too far in your effort to discredit Kawakami here. He basically said it would be amusing if Carroll replaced Harbaugh, but he in no way suggested it was a serious possibility.
Yeah, that's reasonable. My point though was that EVERYTHING in this column, just like everything that Kawakami writes, should be read as amusement and not as a serious possibility. Nothing is in that column is based on a single thing outside of Kawakami's own mind. Him acknowledging that his own Carroll spitballing is stupid (while in the middle of doing it) is Kawakami at his best. Typical Kawakami is stuff like this from the same column:
I know this: 49ers execs firmly believes if they’d just fired Singletary 1 game earlier in 2010, and installed Tomsula for Game 15, instead of only for Game 16, they probably would’ve made the playoffs that season and been dangerous in them.
Unless you're a regular reader of Kawakami or know his schtick you might believe that his "I know this" and "49ers execs firmly believe" means that it's actually true or that he actually heard this through sources in the 9ers org. If you do know his schtick you know that for Kawakami "I know this" just means "this spitball of mine seems more reasonable to me than my other spitballs."*
It's why 9ers fans didn't listen to him when he claimed Harbaugh and Baalke's relationship was good in early February (he "knew this" because it made sense to him because winning makes things better), just as they didn't listen to him when he claimed Harbaugh and Baalke's relationship was irreparable three weeks later (he "knew this" because there was word of their disagreement, and because they're both very competitive and don't always see eye to eye). He never knows anything because he doesn't actually cover the 9ers and even for the teams he does cover (Warriors and Raiders) he never actually relies on sources or does any actual reporting.
None of this is Kawakami at his worst though, which is when he gets caught just making stuff up, and spends the next month writing about how awesome he is and how much sh!t he has stirred (what happened when he got caught just making stuff up about the Raiders, and Herrera threatened to clean his clock).
*FWIW where this spitball comes from is someone else's unlinked actual reporting from inside the org that Tomsula could serve as a transitionary coach again if needed. That' reporting that's worth believing, although admittedly much less sexy than what Kawakami claims to "know" from it.
