Chass gets off to a rousing start by predictably whining about the HFA rule to the All-Star game, and notes that the home team has won the last eight seventh games of the World Series.

Those of us with a slightly longer range view of things will note that prior to that, the ROAD team had won 13 of the previous 16.

And while I'm cool with his no-profanity rule, he ought to at least make an exception for the word that a leading philosopher once called "the most poetic twelve letter word in the English language."

you mean, ############?

Will Carroll welcomes Chass to the blog world. Kind of.

you mean, ############?

I can see that great minds think alike.

Damnit, you can't leave comments on his site. That sucks, I wanted to leave comments like the ones Bissinger ranted about.

I predict the ####### blog sucks ####.

I read the column and e-mailed him a non-bissingerized comment and got this in response:

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

< murraychass@murraychass.com >:
67.28.113.136 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 550 relaying denied for < murraychass@murraychass.com >
Giving up on 67.28.113.136.

Maybe Yahoo just doesn't like Murray Chass. Has he taken a position on the Microsoft buyout?

DO NOT WANT

FJM welcomes Chass to the blog world. Kind of.

stuck post?

“They will remain in the dark here as well. It will be a good test for bloggers and Red Sox fans to see if they can control themselves.”

Did I miss something in my journalism elective where you're allowed to go out of your way to stir #### up and enrage a portion of the populace? Is Chass so old that Yellow journalism is looked back on with some kind of wistful nostalgia? Does he not realize that this attitude might be a reason that he no longer writes for a major newspaper?

Or, what Kevin said.

Did I miss something in my journalism elective where you're allowed to go out of your way to stir #### up and enrage a portion of the populace?

Is he a journalist or a blogger? Should we apply standards of the former if he's really the latter?

I welcome the snark. The mantle of "journalist" and the standards it (supposedly) holds allows a blatantly biased individual to hide their bias behind a veneer of objectivity. In a blog environment, all bets - and veneers - are off.

So go ahead, Murray, make my day. Become the Rush Limbaugh of Yankeeland. Oh, wait, we're supposed to call it the inferiority-complex-generated "Yankees Universe", right?

I'm leaning towards Tango's theory that this is a hoax. I'm not naturally skeptic like he is, so I wouldn't have caught it myself.