In what could be considered clickbait, The Athletic did a piece about what other MLB players think of Shohei Ohtani. You can say “well, don’t be on social media, then,” but many newspapers require their writers to generate a certain number of social media posts per day. Marcos Bretón of The Sacramento Bee angrily describes how he got slammed on social media for his HOF ballot (he voted for Adrián Beltré and Carlos Beltrán). As "Tommy John" Gorsegner put it, "I don’t agree with this fanpost, but it’s well researched, and I believe all opinions should be heard." LeCroy’s now managing the Red Wings in Rochester, FYI.įrom the dusty digital archives, here's an older TwinkieTown FanPost by then-community member dwintheiser arguing against Mauer being in the HOF. One of the funnier Twins I remember, Matt LeCroy, once pilfered a Joe Mauer game jersey, and he tells Byung-Ho Park he's glad he did. Reusse notes that some Star-Tribune commenters might consider Mauer “soft” or “overpaid.” Reusse fails to mention that some of his colleagues did the same. Patrick Reusse, who can be good when doing Minnesota sports history, wrote this appreciative piece remembering Mauer’s fairly humble roots his family was pretty blue-collar. They blinked, they surrendered, they choked, they conceded.” Just a reminder how bad most paid sports columnists are. He quotes the Star-Tribune’s Dan Barreiro, who believed the Twins were being cheap by not drafting Mark Prior: “The Twins passed on the best player in the amateur draft. The clip has some adult themes, the language is PG.)Ī famous SI writer Pantuosco mentioned, Tom Verducci, shared his thoughts on the HOF inductees. (Usually this show’s at its best with “ Corrections” and “ Jokes Seth Can’t Tell,” so this was a nice surprise. Seth Myers (!) breaks down the weird financial maneuvers that helped torpedo SI: The Pantuosco article notes that SI has moved to using basically unpaid writers like SB Nation does, calling them “typo-ridden listicle factories specializing in mindless clickbait.” Most SB writers I’m familiar with aren’t doing clickbait for little/no money, they’re writing what they want to because they like writing. Thoughtful author Dave Zirin did here, and Awful Announcing’s Jesse Pantuosco did here. Several people wrote about the death of Sports Illustrated. It wasn’t hard to see coming, once ESPN canceled Outside The Lines. Phillips (at what’s left of Deadspin) is frustrated by the ending of HBO’s Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel, and the near-total absence of serious sports journalism on TV. Naturally, the gambling companies would prefer to pay no taxes at all.Ĭarron J. Two members of Congress have proposed a law which would mandate that some of the taxes collected on sports gambling must be devoted to gambling addiction treatment. Since plantar fasciitis is easier to recover from than knee surgery, I’d give Correa better odds, but we all hope the best for them both. At the recent TwinsFest, both Byron Buxton and Carlos Correa said that they feel physically fantastic.
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