Dumbbutt media 2010

It's October, so everybody line up and give blowjobs to Derek Jeter:

http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/columns/story?columnist=matthews_wallace&id=5645405

broken wrist (right arm): Typing this lefty (but not as well as Clif Lee!) -- Do you see the Mariners going after Jorge De La Rosa this offseason, they need another good pitcher even with the putrid offense.

Steven Goldman: Man, I did a similar thing when I was 16, broke my left thumb playing baseball and had a cast on up to my elbow for forever. There was one upside, which is that I got very good at unsnapping bras with one hand, a skill that has not deserted me to this day. Is that TMI?

uh, FUCK YES. Why am I reading about this in a baseball chat?

that's a joke son

TMI police (TMIville): So you've been cross-dressing for 20+ years?

Steven Goldman: Un-dressing. Others. Not cross-dressing. Not that there's anything wrong with that. If you've seen me, though, you know that the only possible upside to me in a dress is a potential career as the mother in the national touring company of "Hairspray."

Not 100% sure it's a joke, all of the BP guys try to channel Gammons and talk about music/gaming/books during their chats. A comment here and there, sure, but sometimes half of the questions in these chats are about some video game or crappy indie band these guys are listening to. Anyway, the point stands: I don't want to read this crap in a chat.

Maybe I'm coming across as an asshole here, and obv there is a section of BP's fanbase who enjoy mixing in a little gaming talk with their baseball. Plus it's not like I'm paying money to read these chats. But usually these diversions are obnoxious. Use Twitter if you want to make gaming recommendations.

No I find it kind of irritating too, but it depends on the % to me. Kevin Goldstein answers a billion questions so I care less when he has one or two questions about Naked Raygun or whomever (he's probably desperate for a diversion at that point.) Other guys it seems like every other question is about gaming or what to read and that's usually when I just give up and read something else.

i like steven goldman, don't think there's really anything to see here

he's not a klaw type who's going to go on about his shitty taste in music afaik

Yeah I can't read Law chats any more. The few insights about prospects are sprinkled with so much nonsense about shitty bands, books, cooking, and snark about Yankees/Red Sox's fans (who admittedly totally deserve it) that it's like "I just wanted to know what scouts think about Mike Trout! Why are you talking about Dostoyevsky??!?!"

Baseball journalists -- the ones on Twitter, at least --- could probably band together to publish a Paste-type magazine. The only time I've seen chatter about anything other than MOR indie rock was when Amy Nelson and Howard Bryant discussed Cameo and Funkadelic.

And I suppose we have Derek Jeter to thank for that.

(Not like I've expected someone like Jon Paul Morosi to tweet about a shipment from Hardwarx, but...)

Hardwax, even.

fakejonahkeri
This Raime 12" is dope.

klaw's big find of the year was fucking mumford and sons

Goldman likes to work in Star Wars and Preston Sturges

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/yankees/2010/11/scout-jeter-deserved-gold-glov.html

"Before, he was above average range-wise, and now he’s just average. I don’t think his defense is going to become a negative for him for quite some time," the scout said. "They say that great outfielders never have to dive, I think that applies to Jeter, too.

"Because he’s older, a little more wise and he knows opposing hitters, how infields play, his catcher, his pitcher - all those factors. Good shortstops have instincts, and I put an 80 on his instincts this year.

"If you were going to create a baseball player, you’d want him to have Derek Jeter’s brain. That’s part of who he is and that’s never going to change, even if he’s a tick slower. He’s smarter than he was when he was younger."

there's a lot of dumb scouts out there y'know

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/510665-derek-jeter-the-ridiculous-stupid-clueless-speculation-continues

<3

god where do they dig up the people who write on bleacher report, that site is seriously the worst.

He led the league in plate appearances.
He was 10th in the league in times on base.

John Jaso goes through life to a little different beat.

Take his iPod for starters. Rather than filling his ears with rap music that's so popular with most of his teammates, he's listening to classic rock, including a lot of stuff from the 1960s and early '70s -- like The Beatles, Neil Young and Led Zeppelin.

what a lede

jon heyman's yearly "why i am a moron" column

and this thread has come full circle

hold on, that really says "December 20, 2010"???????????????????????????????????????

he does it every single year, right?

The list is even worse than the article.

somehow, Alomar, Raines and Larkin slipped through

19. Marquis Grissom. He is one of only seven players with 2,000 hits, 200 home runs and 400 stolen bases. He has four Golf Gloves, not to mention a .390 career World Series average, fourth best ever for those with at least 50 at-bats. His career was better than you probably remember, but it was not quite good enough.

Clubhouse chemistry matters!!!

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2015/08/24/field-front-office-many-believe-chemistry-still-matters-baseball/32271291/

There's a reason why the Blue Jays traded for LaTroy Hawkins instead of Papelbon! That's what winning is all about!!

i think it does matter! just not as much as talent.

If the answer is LaTroy Hawkins or David Ross I don't like the question

Papelbon is a clubhouse cancer obviously (WITH TWO MORE RINGS THAN ANYONE ON THE FUCKING BLUE JAYS)

latroy is a lot cheaper than papelbon (and has actually been better with his new team thus far)

from what i understand, papelbon is actually pretty popular with his teammates -- although i suspect he'd throw quite a tantrum if asked to pitch the eighth instead of the ninth. fortunately matt williams would never ask him to do that

I watched Latroy a lot the last few years. He's not good. Also he's 42.

dan shaughnessy is so far and away the worst sportswriter in america that he makes mitch albom & bill plaschke look like gary smith

icymi honey

http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2015/12/08/dan-shaughnessy-of-the-boston-globe-wins-the-j-g-taylor-spink-award/

CHHoF

"meritous"

https://www.fanragsports.com/inside-baseball-jon-heymans-top-60-heroes-of-2017/

weird article that alternates between interpreting "hero" as "someone who is good at baseball" and "someone who was charitable"

Herman's piece from the beginning of the thread is still hard to top, love his revisionist history.

Jack Morris, a bulldog who was considered the best pitcher of the '80s

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/so-what-do-we-think-about-bullpenning-now/

I don't have a problem with the article itself but he uses "nails" as an adjective three times in the same article, a usage I've never seen before. Is that a common baseball phrase? Or a Cameron-ism?

it's a baseball phrase, if not so common as to use three times

Not that I read minor-league baseball stories off the wire (or from anywhere, for that matter), but still.

http://www.sporttechie.com/a-computer-will-now-write-minor-league-baseball-stories-for-the-associated-press/

yeah that's been going on for almost two years; it's not very good but will no doubt get there eventually

Oops. Turned up on my FB wall yesterday--I ought to check dates.