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

[slappy4428]

Re: Scoop Accuses SI of Racism

Just curious, at this point, why should any of us care what Scoop thinks or writes?

Because it gives us a chance to bash him and its what we collectively do best

 

[SuperflySnuka]

Re: Scoop Accuses SI of Racism

You'd think that someone so racially sensitive as Scoop would tell the Page 2 designers that, yes, that's Roger Clemens in the photograph accompanying the alleged column. But, no, that's not Satchel Paige with him. It's Buck O'Neil.

It's a metaphor.

Actually, it's a pun.
And Page 2 is getting to be quite the landfill, isn't it?

YOU'RE TELLING ME THAT THEY DID THIS ON PURPOSE? NO WAY! THAT IS CLEARLY A MISIDENTIFICATION...WOW.

 

[Oz]

Re: Scoop Accuses SI of Racism

Just curious, at this point, why should any of us care what Scoop thinks or writes?

Because it gives us a chance to bash him and its what we collectively do best

Point taken. I probably should have seen that response coming.

 

[Nathan Scott Phillips]

Re: Scoop Accuses SI of Racism

You'd think that someone so racially sensitive as Scoop would tell the Page 2 designers that, yes, that's Roger Clemens in the photograph accompanying the alleged column. But, no, that's not Satchel Paige with him. It's Buck O'Neil.

It's a metaphor.

Actually, it's a pun.
And Page 2 is getting to be quite the landfill, isn't it?

YOU'RE TELLING ME THAT THEY DID THIS ON PURPOSE? NO WAY! THAT IS CLEARLY A MISIDENTIFICATION...WOW.

Probably just some really shitty cutline writing. It's not like it says Satchel Paige, left, with Roger Clemens, was left off the list. Hell, they don't even identify Clemens properly.

 

[Nathan Scott Phillips]

Re: Scoop Accuses SI of Racism

Naturally, he also screws up his facts even when it would support his case. A-Rod is not a foreign-born player. He was born in New York and grew up in Miami.

I think the omission of Bonds is far more glaring, but it's pretty obvious why that happened. The actual "math" on him is more convincing than anyone's short of Ruth, Mays and Aaron.

EDIT: Oh, they corrected the A-Rod reference, and noticed that Rivera is actually the only Latin-American born player on the list. Yesterday's version was different.

 

[slappy4428]

Re: Scoop Accuses SI of Racism

Naturally, he also screws up his facts even when it would support his case. A-Rod is not a foreign-born player. He was born in New York and grew up in Miami.

I think the omission of Bonds is far more glaring, but it's pretty obvious why that happened. The actual "math" on him is more convincing than anyone's short of Ruth, Mays and Aaron.

EDIT: Oh, they corrected the A-Rod reference, and noticed that Rivera is actually the only Latin-American born player on the list. Yesterday's version was different.

Wonderful thing about the web. It makes revisionist history so much easier.

 

[jgmacg]

Re: Scoop Accuses SI of Racism

The introduction to this piece, written by Tom Verducci, is, in its entirety, a disclaimer.

It is an explanation of how imprecise and fungible these choices are, and of the weird marriage of art and science baseball brokers in the American heart and mind, and of how the very design of the photo illustration is meant to stimulate argument.

The picture is an occasion for debate.

That great African-American and Latin players are underrepresented is a perfectly valid observation.

In fact, it's a hanging rhetorical curveball.

Scoop swings.

And misses.

 

[Van Lingle Mungo]

Re: Scoop Accuses SI of Racism

Some things are so unhidden they go beyond being missed -- they get totally overlooked.

But once I got past the names, past the digitally constructed illustration, un-caught up in the mystery of the greatness of this fictional squad,

It wasn't until I stopped looking at the picture and began to look into it that I noticed how unbeautiful the picture

I wonder if he was drinking the Un-Cola while reading this.

 

[jaredk]

Re: Scoop Accuses SI of Racism

I wish Mr. Jackson,a professional writer, would explain to amateurs the rules of spelling that determine whether or not a hyphen is used in a word that begins with "un." I find his usages uncanny, even un-usual, though, it should go un-said, not unexpected.

 

[Sportsbruh]

Re: Scoop Accuses SI of Racism

I would tell Scoop ya'll talking about him - but he's toooo busy to be bothered.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Re: Scoop Accuses SI of Racism

The introduction to this piece, written by Tom Verducci, is, in its entirety, a disclaimer.

It is an explanation of how imprecise and fungible these choices are, and of the weird marriage of art and science baseball brokers in the American heart and mind, and of how the very design of the photo illustration is meant to stimulate argument.

The picture is an occasion for debate.

That great African-American and Latin players are underrepresented is a perfectly valid observation.

In fact, it's a hanging rhetorical curveball.

Scoop swings.

And misses.

You post better than Scoop writes.

 

[Freelance Hack]

Re: Scoop Accuses SI of Racism

The introduction to this piece, written by Tom Verducci, is, in its entirety, a disclaimer.

It is an explanation of how imprecise and fungible these choices are, and of the weird marriage of art and science baseball brokers in the American heart and mind, and of how the very design of the photo illustration is meant to stimulate argument.

The picture is an occasion for debate.

That great African-American and Latin players are underrepresented is a perfectly valid observation.

In fact, it's a hanging rhetorical curveball.

Scoop swings.

And misses.

You post better than Scoop writes.

Hell, that's not saying much. Even d_b posts better than Scoop writes