WHOA! .... Bill Conlin resigns amid child molestation investigation

This.

Conlin has been irrelevant in Philly for 20 years. Maybe longer.

Look, I spent 22 years covering pros at a suburban daily before getting laid off a few years ago, and I still live in Philly, and I know this market. Drip is trying to pass himself off like some sort of Philly Media Insider. He is not one. Trust me. Just about everything he posts is wrong or based on a faulty assumption. He might be a big-shot on this board. He is not one in real life.

Bill Conlin hasn't mattered to sports fans in Philadelphia for two decades.

As he's grown increasingly older and bitter and more and more out of touch, his Phillies coverage has grown old, bitter and out of touch as well. He writes out of arrogance and bitterness, not out of insight or reportage. He clings to the same tired stories about old scouts he used to drink with in Clearwater, old Phillies he was buddies with from the 1970s (McCarver, Carlton), front-office execs he used to pal around with decades ago.

The unbridled arrogance he showed in those emails to Daulerio and in occasional posts on this board he also has displayed in his columns. The contempt for his readers comes through loud and clear, and that contempt is mutual.

Nobody in Philly could name one strong column Conlin wrote in the last 15 years. Maybe 20. Nothing. There's nothing there. He doesn't matter, hasn't mattered in years and years.

He's like the blathering old grandpa, half asleep on the couch, mumbling about the old days while the rest of the family eats Christmas dinner. We laugh at him, we feel sorry for him, but we sure as hell don't want to hear his stories again.

Bill Conlin has been a non-factor here forever, and anybody who tells you otherwise is out of touch with the market.

 

Nice job. Thanks.

 

You must be new. Welcome.

Drip is a joke, and the whole board knows it.

 

Yes, I'm a joke. Tell me where I'm wrong on my facts here Yankeefan. I'll wait.

 

I think the newbie did a hell of a job describing you Drip.

 

I'm just wondering what the hell a guy named William Penn would know about Pennsylvania.

 

Yeah, William Penn. You were a suburban writer. That may explain the comprehension problem.
I never said that Conlin was "relevant." No one is "relevant." If you need a columnist to formulate your opinion of a game or event you have seen for yourself, then I really feel for you.
Also, I don't proclaim to be a Philly Media Insider.

 

It was a grant from the crown, founded upon the Enlightenment promise of religious freedom! And hurling batteries at athletes!

 

JD Drew gets a battery thrown at him and all of Philly takes a hit. The same thing happens in Chicago, Boston, or New York, it doesn't generate the same publicity. It's b.s.

 

Φιλαδέλφεια - or "brotherly love", compounded from philos (φίλος) "loving", and adelphos (ἀδελφός) "brother." Also Συσσωρευτής ("battery"); αθλητής ("athlete"); Εσείς bum σας ("you bum, you"); Και εμείς έχει του αυτοκινήτου ("and then we keyed his car.")

 

I doubt Conlin mattered to anyone younger than 50. Is he the talk if the town at the local bar?

 

Perhaps you are right there Stitch. I haven't polled everyone in the Delaware Valley but his name is still known by the masses.
But this isn't important. What's important is that this guy has been accused of molesting six people and he has resigned abruptly over the allegations.
Everything else is just something for people to speculate on.