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Saturday, June 02, 2007
Thanks to Buster Olney the Lonely for coming across this major audio take down of Buzz Bissinger y La Russa by Boog Sciambi.
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Posted: June 02, 2007 at 08:40 AM | 14 comment(s)
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buzz bissinger comes off as a blabbering idiot. first he states something...then he says "well, i think"...then it's studies? no time to look at studies because "for every study that says one thing, there's 14 that say...",
then "i talked to jim riggleman, and he's been in baseball a long time, and he said.." "how many innings did mark prior throw in the minors? 51" and starts getting all huffy.
finally, bissinger starts going off on sid rosenberg (who i guess follows boog, and sid IS a moron) like that should matter to boog? and boog cuts him off and ends the call.
boog: "that's the epitomy of the kind of stuff i love about the game today".
buzz is cut off about 8:20 in. and boog's sabr comments (which boils down to: i love getting bat speed, etc. from players but if they state something which can be researched easily, he won't let athletes / managers get away with spewing wrong info.) the final thing: baseball ppl are smart people, but when they say they can eyeball something like that, it's time to call b.s. on them. buzz clearly isn't smart enough to do that.
Not brothers; one and the same.
Jon Sciambi was one of the hot-shot announcers that ESPN brought onboard when they expanded their TV coverage a few years back...I think he was being too Saber-friendly and confuding the color dudes, so it was bye-bye time.
Having read the pap of "Three Nights in August", it doesn't surprise me that Bissinger's unable to come up with anything vaguely rigorous.
You're a good writer, Buzz, or at least you sometimes are, but good analysis requires verifiable facts, not people's memories of the good old days.
Happy Base Ball
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