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Scoop Accuses SI of Racism and Wonders if D-Mac is hurt by N.O. Game (Updated)

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UPDATE-Did anyone see Scoops newest column where he asked which McNabb? The early season one or the one who lost to New Orleans? How can someone write that column after one subpar game by someone who was doing so amazing? Maybe if McNabb had a string of bad games, he could write something to that effect. Here it is: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=jackson/061016

And this is when the skepticism about Donovan McNabb will begin to take its toll and affect him for the rest of the season.
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Sorry Scoop, you're the only one who is wondering if one bad game will affect him at all.

He also said that McNabb was better than Manning (and according to his column, so did the guys on ATI (I didn't watch.)) It is beyond me how 8 years of outplaing McNabb could be erased after 6 games

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Well, after Whitlock called out Scoop for bojangling, Scoop hasn't done anything to make it look like he has stopped bojangling. Although he doesn't ever come out and say it, his newest column (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=jackson/061011) basically accused Sports Illustrated of being racist in keeping Satchel Paige, Roberto Clemente, and Barry Bonds off their all-time all-star list.

Ruth is not the only player whose representation in baseball is larger than the game itself. There are two others, and it's interesting -- funny in an oversensitive, cryptic, culturally paranoid type of way -- how both were not chosen for the picture. Or the corresponding roster.
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Funny how Scoop says that there are only 3 players who are larger than the game (Ruth, Clemente, and Paige), when none of them broke the color barrior in baseball. Jackie Robinson is a much more important player than Paige and Clemente, yet Scoop didn't mention him. Must be because he was included in SI's roster, so that might hurt his arguement.

How can "experts" not take Clemente's four batting titles, .317 batting average, 12 Gold Gloves, 1966 MVP, 1971 World Series MVP and World Series batting averages of .310 (1960) and .414 (1971) -- but take Ted Williams' math (.344 BA, 521 HRs, two MVPs), Willie Mays' math (660 HRs, 12 Gold Gloves, two MVPs)
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Willie Mays was black, so how can Scoop include him in this example to prove that SI is racist?
 
Re: Scoop's Newest Bonjangling Column

Clemente was simply one of a kind.
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Not really. Al Kaline, almost Clemente's direct contemporary, had an almost identical career. Almost precisely identical. Go to baseball-reference and check it out.

And nobody intelligent would ever suggest Al Kaline be included in the starting lineup of the All-Time Team.
 
Re: Scoop's Newest Bonjangling Column

SI has to love a competitor writing a column like this. Scoop is so hung up on the illustration that someone who hasn't seen the cover might be inspired to check it out. Or maybe buy SI's new baseball book, which is the whole impetus behind the cover. The all-time team is an amusing quick read (and the art is interesting when you read the story behind it), but debating someone else's best-of list isn't compelling column fodder to me.
 
Re: Scoop Accuses SI of Racism

Also, Clemente's career .317 batting average is a lot lower than most of the players on SI's list.
 
Re: Scoop's Newest Bojangling Column

how is someone's "representation in baseball is larger than the game itself"? what the hell does that even mean?

i also love how he shoots his whole argument in the foot by arguing that you can't take the "math" of cobb, mantle, williams and mays but not clemente. um, yes, you can. not to get all firejoemorgan.com, but clemente's career OPS+ was 130, nowhere near any of the other four. williams was 190, for christ's sake. clemente--very good hitter, hall of famer, great man. williams--best hitter ever. but he's white, so we can't say that without being dickheads. scoop is such a tedious one-trick pony. what's the longest he's ever gone without writing a race-realted column?
 
Re: Scoop Accuses SI of Racism

It's a stupid column, but to say he accused anyone of racism would be an exaggeration at the least.
 
Re: Scoop Accuses SI of Racism

Satchel's image on that team would not be about him -- it'd be about Gibson and Cool Papa Bell and Roy Campanella and Larry Doby and Biz Mackey and Oscar Charleston and Peanut Johnson; Roberto's image would stand for Ortiz and Pujols and Pedro and Johan and Vlad and everyone in between, including all those who will eventually make it into baseball's Hall of Fame because No. 21 was a pioneer who changed the game forever.
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What's Minnie Minoso? Cuban chopped liver?
 
Re: Scoop Accuses SI of Racism

This is the worst kind of nonsense.

There's a powerful argument to be made about recurrent and institutionalized racial imbalance in the mainstream press. This wasn't it.
 
Re: Scoop Accuses SI of Racism

Hank Aaron, who I'm pretty sure is black, is depicted larger than any of the other players, including Babe Ruth. He's the first one you notice. That doesn't happen is SI is trying to exclude minorities.
 
Re: Scoop Accuses SI of Racism

The ESPN piece on Latino players EXPOSED Sports illustrated. Besides, who reads sports illustrated anymore?
 
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