Murray Chass, recently fired from the New York Times for being Murray Chass, has started a not blog. Now, when you go there, you may notice it looks like a blog (it even uses WordPress–I looked at the page source because I am nosy like that) but it is most certainly not one. I know this because he says so:
Bloggers, however, are welcome to visit this site; so are stats freaks, fantasy leaguers and Red Sox fans. How else will they know what is being said about them by a columnist they love to hate?
Otherwise, this site will most likely appeal primarily to older fans whose interest in good old baseball is largely ignored in this day of young bloggers who know it all, and new- fangled statistics (VORP, for one excuse-me example), which are drowning the game in numbers and making people forget that human beings, not numbers, play the games.
There’s nothing really to say here that hasn’t already been said, because you can’t convince someone who is so solidly against any sort of statistics to the point where he actively hates people who use them that those stat-heads in their mom’s basement actually do enjoy watching baseball and often like players regardless because of emotional attachments.
It is, however, really funny to see someone actually use “new-fangled” in a sentence seriously.
