Today we take on the single most ignorant member of the baseball media, a person who doesn't seem to know the difference between the MVP and the Gold Glove and who is so singularly focused on the shortcomings of other scribes and gabbers that he lashes out at them willy-nilly.
That would be your humble reporter.
Two posts ago Braindrizzling lambasted the mainstream baseball media for crapping the bed on the AL shortstop Gold Glove vote. Sportswriters and broadcasters certainly play a daily Super Bowl of Stupidity and Willful Ignorance, but they cannot be blamed for the Gold Glove stinkbug.
It's the managers and players who vote for the Gold Glove. D'Oh! No wonder the vote is so lame-brained. If you don't believe that ballplayers generally know less about the game than educated fans, consider the analytic portfolio of John Kruk. And then consider that he beat out less knowledgeable former ballers. There's nothing about the ability to hit a speed ball or snap off Uncle Charlie that equips one to assess the nuances of the game, its performers or its strategies.
Fine, you say, but don't try to change the subject. This blog laid a Sabathia-sized egg on that post and deserves to be excoriated for it. So go ahead, excoriate.
Baseball writers and broadcasters did not kidnap the Lindbergh baby, cause global warming, kill off the dinosaurs or create Snooki. People who cast stones should make sure their houses aren't made of glass.
Duly noted. You deserve better.
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