Over the last couple days, I have had most of my comments censored even though none of them violated the site's posting guidelines. I know, everybody has had that experience and it is the main thing that makes Al-Arianna so frustrating.
Anyway, everyone knows about HuffPo's product placement relationship with the Orange County hegemons at Disney and one of my deleted comments had to do with who I wanted to see go at ESPN. So I present them here and I am sure you will agree with me.
Jettisoning Stephen A. Smith was a good start, as his George Jefferson act got old real fast. But they also need to drop that brown nosing blowhard, Dick Vitale, who makes me change channels everytime he is on. Vitale, who had a short stint at Detroit University as a basketabll coach, is now in the Basketball Hall of Fame only because his tongue has rimmed the right folks. He has about as much right to be enshrined as Chuck Cottier does in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Next on the chopping block should be whoever the blithering idiot they make the excellent Pam Ward put up with on their collegiate softball broadcasts. Not only does this bimbo talk too much, she often doesn't know what she's talking about and seems to be there to be a cheerleader more than an analyst. Compared to her, Fernando Vina is Vin Scully.
And speaking of "Mr. I Can't Criticize Anyone" and steroid abuser Vina, he has to go, too, as does Eric "I can't string two words together coherently" Young. How in God's name anyone could decide to hire these two spluttering bozos is beyond any rational contemplation.
Next to receive a pink slip should be sideline stroke queen Erin Andrews, who is notoriously (and unprofessionally) touchy and huggy with players in the locker room. She sets the cause of women in broadcasting back 40 years.
And can anyone, and I mean anyone, tolerate Chris Berman and his cloying nicknaming of players, his general pomposity and assholiness as well as his pathetically overweening constant attempts to prove that he's hip? I didn't think so. This guy's style is as dated as faux wood paneling.
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Saturday, May 30, 2009
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Rick Sutcliffe: Idiot of the Day
During the pre-game portion of the Dodgers-Phillies tilt Wednesday, ESPN commentator asserted that Jamie Moyer should be considered for the Baseball Hall of Fame based almost solely on prevailing 249 games over his career despite possessing a lot less than dominating stuff.
He equated Moyer with, get this, Bob Gibson, who was victorious 251 times during his time with the Cardinals because they have similar win totals. This is one of the stupidest things I have heard in baseball this year.
Look, it's great that Moyer, whose fastball wouldn't hurt me if I caught it barehanded, has been able to make a living for 22 seasons with his soft, softer and yet softer repetoire. He is a two time 20 game winner and one of the smartest hurlers in the national pastime.
However, you have to look at the stats. Moyer has never had an ERA under 3.00 during his career. Gibson had a CAREER ERA of 2.91. Moyer's lifetime WHIP of 1.32 is the mark of somebody who has been just what Jamie is, a journeyman. Gibson's insane 1968 campaign had him boasting a beyond God-like 0.53 and it was 1.19 overall for his 16 seasons in the bigs. Moyer has had only four seasons out of his 22 in MLB where he met or exceeded that.
Gibons's H/9 was in the sevens lifetime. In 16 of his 22 campaigns. Moyer has averaged more than nine knocks for a regulation battle. In more than half of his career, Moyer has given up four earned runs or more a game, putting a lot of pressure on his offense to score for him. This is despite pitching in the extreme pitchers park that is the Mariners home stadium
So the Gibson comparison was laughably asinine.
The Bert Blyleven Marching and Chowder Society will cheer Sutcliffe's analysis because if Moyer is to be considered a candidate for enshrinement then Blyleven goes in by voice acclimation.
But you know who else does? Try Jim Kaat.
Kaat, who was actually a pretty solid pitcher in his day and who won a roomful of Gold Gloves in the bargain, finished with a 1.26 WHIP and a 3.45 career ERA to accompany 283 wins. Kaat's overall stats are better than Moyer's by just about any measure while largely toiling in a park much more favorable to batters than Seattle's homeground. Only their H/9 are comparable.
If Moyer, for some reason, goes in and Blyleven and Kaat don't it would be a farce.
He equated Moyer with, get this, Bob Gibson, who was victorious 251 times during his time with the Cardinals because they have similar win totals. This is one of the stupidest things I have heard in baseball this year.
Look, it's great that Moyer, whose fastball wouldn't hurt me if I caught it barehanded, has been able to make a living for 22 seasons with his soft, softer and yet softer repetoire. He is a two time 20 game winner and one of the smartest hurlers in the national pastime.
However, you have to look at the stats. Moyer has never had an ERA under 3.00 during his career. Gibson had a CAREER ERA of 2.91. Moyer's lifetime WHIP of 1.32 is the mark of somebody who has been just what Jamie is, a journeyman. Gibson's insane 1968 campaign had him boasting a beyond God-like 0.53 and it was 1.19 overall for his 16 seasons in the bigs. Moyer has had only four seasons out of his 22 in MLB where he met or exceeded that.
Gibons's H/9 was in the sevens lifetime. In 16 of his 22 campaigns. Moyer has averaged more than nine knocks for a regulation battle. In more than half of his career, Moyer has given up four earned runs or more a game, putting a lot of pressure on his offense to score for him. This is despite pitching in the extreme pitchers park that is the Mariners home stadium
So the Gibson comparison was laughably asinine.
The Bert Blyleven Marching and Chowder Society will cheer Sutcliffe's analysis because if Moyer is to be considered a candidate for enshrinement then Blyleven goes in by voice acclimation.
But you know who else does? Try Jim Kaat.
Kaat, who was actually a pretty solid pitcher in his day and who won a roomful of Gold Gloves in the bargain, finished with a 1.26 WHIP and a 3.45 career ERA to accompany 283 wins. Kaat's overall stats are better than Moyer's by just about any measure while largely toiling in a park much more favorable to batters than Seattle's homeground. Only their H/9 are comparable.
If Moyer, for some reason, goes in and Blyleven and Kaat don't it would be a farce.
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