I would have been impressed if he listed all the players and had something meaningful to say, but listing that many guys with comment like 'doubt the sox move him' or 'might bring cheaper talent in return' I mean whats the point? Why not pick 5 pitchers and 5 hitters that could impact the Red Sox in some way and provide some relevant information not generalities on them. Like Gammons when he had his fastball, he would do a narrative version of this but it was MLB specific, and he would drop the facts into the column as if they were common knowledge.
This isn't a truncated clip from a larger body of analysis. It's all he offered on Gordon Beckham.
You dont say! The agents for a FA are at the GM meeetings? Wow!
He really loves Apropos of nothing and random questions.
Really? It's not surprising if true. Massarotti was bitching about tweeting the other day, and I'm not sure why. All it is is a tool to stay in touch with readers and remain in their consciousness.
Not sure if I didnt realize it before, or his attitude has changed since starting at TSH, but Mazz clearly doesnt enjoy everything that his job entails. On a consistent basis he admits he doesnt watch certain games which are bound to be discussed the next day on TSH. So I wonder if this is one more thing swaying his work/life balance in a direction he doesnt enjoy. But as a reporter and radio personality he should be smart enough to realize how important this tool is to his career.
When it comes to Twitter, I think the opposite is true. Twitter exists to give ultra-short bites to a segment of society that rarely bothers to read anything longer than a paragraph.
Untrue. When used successfully, Twitter is an immensely useful tool driving traffic to your site. People can pine and wish for the "good old days" as much as they want, but you can make a very, very strong argument that America has never been more literate than it is now. More people are reading more, writing more, exchanging ideas more these are all good things. The days when only a select few were allowed to express opinions are over and one needs to stand out from the crowd. An author or anyone in the public eye who has their hand in creative things (such as writing, music, comedy, etc) who doesn't use Twitter because it only allows them to write 140 characters is an ignorant fool.
There are, of course, people who don't read much and who like to follow John Mayer on Twitter so they can learn about his newest haircut, but I don't think that's the majority of Twitter's loyal users. Most people I find on Twitter are using it as a personalized RSS feed, relying on the people in their network to deliver great links and pieces of information to them. They then often follow those links and read them quite thoroughly. The 140 characters is largely beside the point - it's an alert that there's something out there worth paying attention to.
I am assuming those stats are specific to last year, and its some interesting analysis, kind of the stuff we want from Nick that he doesnt always deliver. Maybe if his workload was decreased and he didnt do the Notes column he could do a better job?
I honestly read that last sentence as: "Maybe if he was deceased and didn't do the Notes column he could do a better job."
It was Nick.
So basically the Sox' number one and two starters and their closer. Yeah, nice job Farrell. And we think that Cafardo steals money from his employer. Enjoy Toronto, asshole.
Never, ever, ever put Nick Cafardo's name in the same sentence as Peter Gammons when it comes to Sunday Baseball Notes columns.
Can you imagine being that scout?
There's a big thread in the main forum about it?
I'm not sure I see your point. The Red Sox have been rumored as being interested in both players. It would take some of their high-level prospects to get either. They only have so many high-level prospects. So I think Cafardo is right in asking the scout this question.
I think his point is that this is typical lazy Cafardo. He takes someone else's scoops, get a scout to talk to him about them and then says absolutely nothing.
No, the point was that Upton shouldn't even be discussed in the same light as Adrian Gonzalez, which is patently ridiculous given Upton's upside, contract status, ability to play a position that's a greater need long term to the team than first base, et cetera.
What's lazier, Nick discussing something that has garnered many pages on the main board, or mocking Nick by denigrating Upton as a ballplayer and asking where he got such an idea?
I dunno. Maybe laziest is not reading the two other posts in the thread. As in:
Main board discussion or no main board discussion, I continue to maintain, for the reasons previously outlined, that this is an absurd scenario to set up:
SoSH disagrees, pretty decidedly.
A source close to Panera has informed me that the Bacon Turkey Bravo is a fantastic selection, and that teams needing an outfielder this offseason will look into Crawford, Werth, and several other names out there as options.
You left out "Deceived Local Government and Voters in order to force them into paying for his new stadium"
