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Bill Conlin Feels Same Way About Bloggers As I Do
Apparently Bill Conlin’s column about Jimmy Rollins’ MVP made people on the Internet angry. You see, Conlin made a lot of stupid jokes about how, ha ha, people who care about baseball stats are idiots. (If you’re counting at home, that makes a major columnist and last year’s Phillies beat writer who believe looking at baseball stats is wrong or something.) Anyway, a sports blogger emailed Bill Conlin to disagree with his column — and, yeah, stat-wise, there’s no way you can make the case for Rollins as MVP, even though Conlin compared him to Ernie Freaking Banks — and Conlin eventually responded angrily.
Hey, I wish somebody would put all the bloggers in concentration camps, too! And, while we’re at it, let’s throw in major daily sports sections that are shadows of their former selves. |
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Pay no attention to the talking dinosaur. Fortunately, guys like him will make themselves extinct soon enough.
it’s called a web log or blog and the worst part about it is that anyone with an opinion can just post whatever they want, as if they are some authority!
The humor of Conlin aside, I don’t know why SABR dudes can’t take a player’s defensive position and the skills required to play it into consideration while they’re using waaaaaaay too much math to judge a game that’s beauty is seen with the eyes, not a calculator.
But I guess that makes me a SABR-bashing dickhead, too … it’s sort of the Ron Paul wing of baseball
When I’m Fuehrer of the World…
“But I guess that makes me a SABR-bashing dickhead, too … it’s sort of the Ron Paul wing of baseball”
No, it just likely makes you wrong in a lot of your baseball opinions.
Alycia Lane in a bikini.
“No, it just likely makes you wrong in a lot of your baseball opinions.”
There’s the SABR community at work!
And could you create a SABR stat that calculates the probability of my being wrong when it comes to baseball? Thank you.
“I don’t know why SABR dudes can’t take a player’s defensive position and the skills required to play it into consideration”
Um…they do. Still doesn’t make Rollins the rightful MVP.