Dumbbutt media 2010

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.