Baseball pet peeves

Yeah, yeah, but I just hate Gary Sheffield!

The wide gulf between the statistical analysis guys who have proven that Wins/RBI/Saves are largely unimportant (and wholly non-predictive) statistics and the fact that everybody in the MSM continues to ignore that fact.  It's difficult for me to watch any baseball related programming with the sound on for this reason.  And I'm including Hammy :(

AMEN

I know that wasn't directed at me but for the record from April 2003: "Why doesn't the Cleveland media get what's going on here?  Indian's GM Mark Shapiro has planted the seeds for the next generation of winning teams using the decaying hulk of the previous generation.  He accomplished this, just before the 90's version hit the iceberg.  Rather than focusing on this positive story, all they want to talk about is the tearing down of a team that had run its course anyway.   Is the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Paul Hoynes too embittered from covering years of lousy teams to get excited about what is germinating under Shapiro's stewardship?  Does The Akron Beacon Journal's Sheldon Ocker think himself to be so all-knowing that he knows better than the Indians' brass as well as everyone else?"

Jeter has a distinct lead in Clear-Eyed Fist Pumps.

In a similar vein, any f'ing idiot commentator who muses about the "theory" that when the Yankees are dominant, it's good for baseball as a whole.  Not one shred of evidence to support that, but dreaming up crap like this is what jerkoff writers do instead of their jobs.

Just pretend ESPN doesn't exist. It makes life less frustrating.

Two words: Bill Fitch.

re: the Connie Mack look, I had the same thought.

Major league managers generally have logged time as minor league managers and/or major league coaches, often both and (in the last several decades) only very rarely neither.