BBWAA reverses course, admits Neyer and Law

In other news from the Bellagio, the BBWAA has voted to approve four new net-centric scribes, including Will Carroll and Christina Kahrl of Baseball Prospectus and Rob Neyer and Keith Law of ESPN.com. Last year, Neyer and Law weren't good enough, but they've been granted the keys to the ~~fluorescent green~~ chartreuse BBWAA washroom.

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Nice. We should start seeing more intelligent MVP and Cy Young votes. Grady may have a chance of winning in the next few years.

The best thing probably is to hit [Grady] 2nd -- Jay

by Buckeye Brad on Dec 10, 2008 2:38 PM EST reply actions

But have Neyer and Law accepted?

by xrickx on Dec 10, 2008 2:38 PM EST reply actions

I don’t think they have much of a choice. Last year, Law said he’d never ask to get in again. I’m assuming the 4 letter word wanted to be able to say they had more BBWAA members on staff, and threw their names into the hat for them.

by 7foot3 on Dec 10, 2008 5:22 PM EST up reply actions

Technically that color is Chartreuse

"It's hard to win when you don't score." Cliff Lee, 9/28/05.

by Harry Doyle on Dec 10, 2008 3:24 PM EST reply actions

Did you know that web chartreuse is a completely different color than real life chartreuse? I mean, they don’t just look different in different situations, they’re actually pretty different?

I learned this recently.

by Logodaedalus on Dec 10, 2008 11:02 PM EST up reply actions

Perhaps a few moments after I learned the very same thing (moments before I made the above post)

Before that, the only use of the word chartreuse I was aware of was in the C.W. McCall classic, “Convoy.” (It was the color of the microbus.)

"It's hard to win when you don't score." Cliff Lee, 9/28/05.

by Harry Doyle on Dec 11, 2008 4:30 AM EST up reply actions

I forget when I learned it exactly… I think it was amid a debate about what color puce was, of all things.

by Logodaedalus on Dec 11, 2008 11:26 AM EST up reply actions

This is extremely significant in that none of those four were ever a reporter, and none of them had any significant experience writing for a newspaper or magazine.

by Jay on Dec 10, 2008 5:37 PM EST reply actions