I've cut my base clogging related google news searches down to every other week. When was it said/when did the IQs of everyone in that room lower? Actually, I'm off today as I get ready for the road trip and to send a kid off to college for her senior year. But I will weigh in on the subject in the next few days. It's probably a good thing I wasn't in that room today. We'll be waiting. And congrats. It shows that Dusty still doesn't understand that OBP is a means to scoring runs, just like hitting for power. The clogging comment is in reference to his previous base clogging comment, in which he said walks by slow guys are not valuable/actually detrimental since they can't run: "I think walks are overrated unless you can run. If you get a walk and put the pitcher in a stretch, that helps, but the guy who walks and can’t run, most of the time he’s clogging up the bases for somebody who can run." Dusty still hates guys taking walks, and still hates when his pitchers walks opposing batters because it leads to runs...or something.