Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 12:13 pm Post subject: BBWAA takes in 4 Net writers
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Yahoo's Kevin Kaduk reports that the Baseball Writers Association of America added four Internet writers today: Will Carroll, Christina Kahrl, Rob Neyer, and Keith Law. Congratulations to four fine writers.
I actually didn’t ask ESPN to submit my name, and would not have done so, but once it was in, I couldn’t retract it without getting the OK from my editor. So here I am. Yay.
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 1:58 pm Post subject: Re: BBWAA takes in 4 Net writers
Dre wrote:
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Yahoo's Kevin Kaduk reports that the Baseball Writers Association of America added four Internet writers today: Will Carroll, Christina Kahrl, Rob Neyer, and Keith Law. Congratulations to four fine writers.
This has long been a talking point, with guys like KLaw chastising the BBWAA for internet writers' exclusions.
A warm congratulations to this registered DBBP member.
_________________ "You wait for a strike, then you knock the sh*t out of it."
- Stan Musial, with his easy to understand definition of OPS
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 4:07 pm Post subject: Re: BBWAA takes in 4 Net writers
TAP wrote:
Dre wrote:
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Yahoo's Kevin Kaduk reports that the Baseball Writers Association of America added four Internet writers today: Will Carroll, Christina Kahrl, Rob Neyer, and Keith Law. Congratulations to four fine writers.
This is the sort of entrenched mindset Keith's up against with many print journalists...
Bruce Jenkins / San Francisco Chronicle this morning wrote:
In a glowing tribute to the recently retired Greg Maddux, Sports Illustrated's Tom Verducci noted that his comments, "not by accident, made no mention of any career statistic - no more than you would cite records sold to describe the voice of Sinatra."
That's a fine summation of the stance I've tried to take with my Hall of Fame vote over the past 18 years. If you require a set of numbers to make a case for someone, you're probably trying too hard. More often than not, players strike a Hall of Fame look by their fifth or sixth year in the league. You see them play, watch how they carry themselves, hear tributes of respect from other players, and you just know.
So it's a stream-of-consciousness process for this voter, not a trip through the Baseball Encyclopedia. It's the summation of memories and moments.
_________________ "You wait for a strike, then you knock the sh*t out of it."
- Stan Musial, with his easy to understand definition of OPS
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