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 [...]
Archive of posts tagged terrible sports journalism
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 [...]
I Can Make Up Outlandish Rumors Too
Last night I was told by an MLB executive that the Yankees plan to switch Derek Jeter to Left Field this season, citing his declining range in the field. This would allow the Yankees to start Ramiro Pena–a glove they really like–at Shortstop and shore up their infield defense. One long-time scout said that he [...]
Bill Madden: 2009 Spink Award Finalist
Bill Madden, terrible sports writer for the NY Daily News is a 2009 Spink Award finalist.Winners of the Spink award get mention in a permanent exhibit at the Baseball Hall of Fame, though they are not actually considered Hall of Famers. When you see ESPN call Peter Gammons a “Hall of Fame” writer, they’re referring [...]
