It was agonizing leaving off Blyleven and those for whom statistical arguments can be made such as Jeff Bagwell, Barry Larkin, Don Mattingly, Tim Raines and Larry Walker. Oh, and Alan Trammell, who should be more than an afterthought. But the Hall should be reserved for the very best of the best, not the best [...]
Archive of posts tagged terrible sports journalism
Things That Make My Eyes Shoot Lasers
From Mr. Seth Livingstone of USA Today: [Juan] Gonzalez: A two-time MVP and an RBI machine. Like Jim Rice, the American League’s most-feared hitter at his peak. This is pressing all my buttons at once. I am so annoyed at reading this sentence that I have to right about why. First off, Gonzalez’s MVPs were [...]
When Pointing Fingers, Make Sure Your Aim Is True
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Queens), who released a report a day after the Daily News’ broke the story, blasted Major League Baseball for its exorbitant tack-on fees at a news conference Saturday. “There’s not a lot of rationality with these fees,” Weiner said. “Major League Baseball is nickel-and-diming the public, and it adds up to big [...]
Behold: A Dumb Paragraph
There’s so much bizarre to terrible sports journalism that I don’t give it much attention unless it’s pretty egregious, and honestly that hasn’t happened in a while. A lot of the stuff that is totally out there is by professional trolls like Greg Doyel and so I don’t pay them any mind. I’m also not [...]
Sometimes You Just Have To Look And Stare
The New York Yankees are hitting .275/.384/.469 as a team through Tuesday’s games, leading the American League in on-base percentage, slugging and runs scored. But Nick Johnson hasn’t been a huge asset thus far, despite his .407 on-base percentage. The veteran is hitting .146 and has just three extra-base hits all season. He’s hitless in [...]
Reminder: Bill Conlin is a Known Chass Clone
Grabbed from my Hall of Fame voting archives: I voted for Tim Raines his first year of eligibility. But when he failed to get 25 percent of the vote, he was moved to the back burner. Sorry, that’s just the way it has to be. Maybe more eligible ballwriters should have measured the Rock’s career [...]
Hitting Homers To Power Outages Overnight
Apparently Bryant Gumble and doesn’t know how to look up a player in baseball-reference. Well he shouldn’t worry about that because I’ll do it for him: Jeff Bagwell Year Age Tm Lg G PA HR SLG OPS 1991 23 HOU NL 156 650 15 .437 .824 1992 24 HOU NL 162 697 18 .444 .812 [...]
The Worst 2010 Hall of Fame Ballots I Found
Because I keep a nerdy spreadsheet tracking all the ballots I find, I’m able to look back and be irritated at some of the worst Baseball Hall of Fame ballots instead of forgetting about them. I consider this a positive because it reminds me of whose opinions I should not care about later on in [...]
2010 Baseball Hall of Fame Results With Ugly Graphs (Updated!)
Update 1/8 Graphs now not ugly. Thank you, Microsoft Excel 2007 you are much better than 2003. For my own crazy purposes, I keep track of the Hall of Fame ballots that are made public by writers every year. You can see the crazy nerdsheet here. This year, the shocking thing that happened was the [...]
Hot Stove Authority Abuse
This article has no by-line but according to the Daily News, here are “Five Free Agents the Yankees are Eyeing”: 1. RHP John Lackey (11-8, 3.83 ERA): The Yankees will be hesitant to pay him what he wants, but if Andy Pettitte retires, they may have to. 2. INF/OF Mark DeRosa (.250, 23 HR, 78 [...]
