No Maas: Bill Conlin responds to reader with virtual crotch grab

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This morning, a NoMaas reader named Matt Williams sent us an email exchange he had Wednesday with longtime Philadelphia Daily News sports columnist, Bill Conlin. Bill caused a bit of a stir when he penned an article proclaiming the Phillies have the best infield of baseball’s modern era. The point of this post isn’t to debate Conlin’s findings or evaluate Matt’s counter-argument. Rather, we’d like to show you Bill Conlin’s standards of professionalism.

...Nothing disrespectful from Matt, right? Tone of the email isn’t inflammatory. Well, Bill Conlin responded to this email with one word and one word only:

STEROIDS

Upon receiving this, Matt became a bit agitiated and replied:

I’m sorry that you can’t admit that Ryan Howard sucks vs LHP and saying Polanco is better than A-Rod because of steriods is just LOL. What’s sad is that you probably have a Hall of Fame vote. Like I said earlier, what does taking steroids in 2003 and earlier have to do w/ playing 3rd base in 2010? Just out of curiousity, if someone on Philly get’s caught w/ PED or steroids, are you going to retract that statement?

Bill Conlin quickly fired back:

Had a HOF vote for 44 years, ace. Retract this.