2013 MLB Hall of Fame Screechfest

So what you're calling for -- have the stones to write it -- is guys like Plaschke to be demoted or fired. Or, short of that, going to Plaschke and saying: "You're intellectually bankrupt. Either update your paradigm or get washed out to sea. You have one year."

What you're digging into is an uncomfortable place that a lot of sports editors never, ever want to go.

 

Dick, serious question. Do you even fucking watch baseball?

 

So, is Mr. Good Guy Jim Thome not going to make it the first time?

Or is he such a good and swell fella that writers will swoon him in with a 98% vote?

 

Another guy who nobody ever seems to accuse of using PEDs, but I think some voters are just going to assume the worst of everybody over the last 20 years. Or at least every power hitter.

 

What's a "baseball"?

 

Yep, this is exactly what I mean.

The most important thing that beat reporters do now, by far, is cover the front-office and business side of the game. Free agency. Trade discussions.

 

Very true. Because now every game is televised and anyone who wants to watch it can do so. Thus, we already know the score and who did what. The only real news is the stuff we don't see.

The problem is --- as evidenced by some of the current football reporting --- is that unless your sources are truthful and forthcoming, you wind up with a lot of speculation and very few facts. And the more you speculate, the more likely you are to be wrong and come off looking stupid, like some of these football reporters and their sources.

 

Sure, if you think the game is played on a spreadsheet.

 

What is this the answer to?

 

Yep. We all have our own opinions and that's fine. We're free to disagree.

IMO, Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds and Craig Biggio are all douches. Pay for their autographs? I wouldn't take their autographs if you paid me to do so. Hall or no Hall.

If anything, I just smiled at the voting yesterday for no other reason than it showed I was not alone in my evaluation.

 

That a guy watching the game at home and pulling numbers off of baseball-reference.com can do a better job than a person hanging out at practices before the game or seeing how people react off of the camera.

 

What does the bolded part have to do with a spreadsheet?