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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Tuesday, January 10, 2012Don Malcolm: PERSPECTIVIZING POSADAOr as Rob Neyer just tweeted…“Good news! Still early January, and Don Malcolm’s already gotten in a gratuitous insult. With that out of the way…”
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Posted: January 10, 2012 at 08:32 PM | 18 comment(s)
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1. Bob Evans Posted: January 10, 2012 at 09:44 PM (#4033779)A) the allusion to the sword of Damocles is woefully inapt, B) daily newspaper columnists and any sport's beat reporters would make few deadlines if they were prevented from offering "empty content", and C) "empty content"? Is that like "boneless ribs" or "working vacation"?
Goes back quite awhile. Silly of Rob to tweet about it, don't you think, all it does is create more traffic to Malcolm's blog.
The truth is that Rob has been writing some pretty meh stuff of late. Colin Wyers just took after him, and the article about creating a "recall" capability for Hall of Famers is probably a better example of what Malcolm was snarking about. It's just a nutty idea.
Insult? Sure. Gratuitous? Maybe, maybe not. He's taken after him before in earlier blog entries...so maybe that means that he (Rob) had just had enough of getting dumped on and Malcolm was "the last straw."
I found his criticism gratuitous because it didn't seem that he actually read what I wrote. Or if he did, he chose to misinterpret because he enjoys ripping me. Always has. Not that I take it personally; he enjoys ripping nearly everyone. Always has, probably always will.
Which is fine. That's his thing and I wouldn't propose to take it away from him. Thanks!
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hmph, how much do you think she charges?
And yes, in my haste to sprinkle in some snark I did misrepresent the source of Rob's rambling ruminations on Posada...I should have pointed out that it stemmed from an email he'd received. In my mind, it's still an idea that, once examined, wouldn't rise to the level of being significant enough to post, but obviously YMMV. I'm sure that some of you will feel the same way about the "other content" in my own post. That's the Damoclean sword of writing for public consumption...
But I do appreciate Rob giving me carte blanche to operate heavy machinery...thanks!
I should note that Don does have a very high tolerance for flame wars, if he's convinced he's right on the idea involved. That is, he will get into arguments that go ad hominem, as long as he's convinced he's right on the issue, rather than the ad hominem. I have no such tolerance. If an argument with me goes ad hominem, I just run away from the argument as fast as I can. That's why you don't see me defending Don very often; by the time it's gotten that bad, I want no part of the argument.
Disclosure: When I say that I am Don's friend, I mean that heavily. He's one of my two or three best friends in the world. I don't know if I'd rate that high on his list, but he does on mine. There's a reason that we were able to collaborate for a decade on putting out the books now collectively known as "Big Bad Baseball Annuals." And that, when I burnt out on being the editor/publisher, he was able to take those jobs over with no personal difficulties on either of our parts. We just get along. Always have. He never goes personal on me, no matter how far I have my head up my butt, because he knows I don't deal well with that, and eventually, I'll have to pull my head out to breathe.
- Brock Hanke
I liked the column. That being said, I don't think my internet definitions are off when I say that what you wrote is not snark, but a real insult. There is a difference, IMO.
Not that I'm an authority on anything, but I have to agree. The field is certainly a hell of a lot more crowded now than it was back in his ESPN days of 10 years ago, when I used to read all of his posts, so there's that, but since the move to SB Nation I haven't really found him worth following.
This makes me remember a question I've long thought about: Why doesn't BB-Reference break down a player's stat lines vs. each team by home and road? Right now they've got overall home / road numbers, and overall stats vs. each team and in each ballpark, but why not take it to the next logical step? What did Posada hit against the Royals in the two Yankee Stadiums?
Well, it is hardly the first time the idea has been bruited about, and it will probably come up again. It would not support a lengthy piece, but for a blog post that helps to point out that it is wrong, or at least starts the discussion, sure.
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