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Hey, Simers, Remember "Google Boy"?

T.J. Simers, who, along with chronic Times dimbulb columnist Bill Plaschke, amount to the biggest plague on Los Angeles sportswriting imaginable, is starting to realize that Ned Colletti's hiring was a scam designed to elicit happy remarks from the clueless media goon squad who can't discern from real talent. In Simers' Jan. 4, 2005 column "DePodesta's Computer Must Have a Bad Virus", he baldly criticized the trade that brought Dioner Navarro to the Dodgers. DePodesta brought in Navarro in the salary dump trade that sent a declining Shawn Green to the Diamondbacks; in exchange, the Dodgers nabbed the former number one prospect in an admittedly thin Yankees farm system. After a year and a half of unimpressive offensive numbers and at times poor defensive play, Colletti shipped him to the Devil Rays with starter more...