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.

The only positive thing I can think of about Hitler’s time on earth–I’m sure he would have eliminated all bloggers. In Colonial times, bloggers were called “Pamphleteers.” They hung on street corners handing them out to passersby. Now, they hang out on electronic street corners, hoping somebody mouses on to their pretentious sites. Different medium, same MO. Shakespeare accidentally summed up the genre best with these words from a MacBeth soliloquy: “. . .a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. . .”

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.