Comments on: It’s That Time of Year

By: Saturday Bits

Saturday Bits — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:23:45 +0000

[...] reason, thinks he should he should argue. Crashburn Alley takes a look at the 'debate' here. It is very funny read. Personally as soon as someone takes uses the 'bloggers in their [...]

By: Ernie

Ernie — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:40:43 +0000

One of the arguments that he had was that Mauer played 1/5 of his games at DH. Isnt there a reason behind that, like, you know, because hes a catcher and playing every game behind the plate probably would not be very good for his lower body? I cant think of one team that does not give their catcher at least one day off out of every 5. Also, didnt Ken himself say that Mauer plays a more demanding defensive position AND he still has better hitting statistics? So, again, what was the point of the article?

By: EH

EH — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:59:50 +0000

Jeter and company are bad alternatives, because there should be none.

Mauer. Case closed.

By: T

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:25:54 +0000

I would like to see who, exactly, Rosenthal is reading from the Sabermetric community that is cyber-shutting him down.
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A Sabermetric blogger in his mom’s basement really shouldn’t be able to so easily out-reason someone from the MSM, but it’s a common occurrence.

why is Kenny complaining about people disagreeing with him? A very childish way for a professional journalist to go about this “debate”.

Ken doesn’t want a two-sided debate. He wants you to shut up and listen to him.

Why even write this article?

The super-important Ken Rosenthal, with his press pass, makeup crew, and microphone, either thought too highly of himself or too little of his readers to clean this up. When he then writes articles insulting followers of Sabermetrics for being too rigid about facts, this stuff sticks in the collective craw.

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We have — mostly — been having nice, civil discussions for years.

By: James K.

James K. — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:44:58 +0000

Excellent rebuttal