Comments on: Baseball Has Become a Joke; Attack the MLB, not Bloggers http://www.midwestsportsfans.com/2009/06/baseball-has-become-a-joke-attack-the-mlb-not-bloggers/ A sports blog by and for Midwest Sports Fans Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Barkenn Luvia http://www.midwestsportsfans.com/2009/06/baseball-has-become-a-joke-attack-the-mlb-not-bloggers/#comment-8576 Barkenn Luvia Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:06:25 +0000 http://www.midwestsportsfans.com/?p=2479#comment-8576 One thing about baseball. It has got to be one of the most boring things on the face of the earth. Watching a bear hibernate is more exiting. Or, watching paint dry. 9 innings of yawning and it's 1 to nothing. WOW! The pitcher throws it to the catcher; he throws it back; back to the catcher; he throws it back....etc....etc...YAWN! One thing about baseball. It has got to be one of the most boring things on the face of the earth. Watching a bear hibernate is more exiting. Or, watching paint dry. 9 innings of yawning and it’s 1 to nothing. WOW! The pitcher throws it to the catcher; he throws it back; back to the catcher; he throws it back….etc….etc…YAWN!

]]> By: KVB http://www.midwestsportsfans.com/2009/06/baseball-has-become-a-joke-attack-the-mlb-not-bloggers/#comment-8440 KVB Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:52:29 +0000 http://www.midwestsportsfans.com/?p=2479#comment-8440 Nice to see so many defend Jerod here. If you really know him, he is the anti-thesis of any negative blogger assumptions; like 42 yearold in mothers basement, trawling the message boards, angry, all opinion no fact writing hack. He's smart, he does think before he hits enter. (He's the site's editor and the best to do that job), good looking (Let's debate that, some called him freaky looking, i just think the guy lighting in the studio might not have been a local high school tech geek. Easy on the 4k HMI light a foot from the lense kid. Your lighting an interview for a guy doesn't sit around outside or hit the tanning bed for a bronze. but i digress. more on the production later. What Ken was saying in the OTL debate made it seem he never read the article. He kept blabbing like Jerod's article was about steroids and Ibanez's name was dropped in it. False. If feel bad for Ibanez having to respond to this Philly article. Wait, how did it we get to this again Ken? Ken's shock value role was well played and as I said in other comments this is TV and ESPN mostly wanted an entertaining debate. Done. Ken served an annoying purpose more than I thought he was personally attacking Jerod. A well thought out look back on it was John Gonzalez's comment that this is a very good case study if you look objectively at the path this came from (starting with others before JRod). And even more reason why "main stream media" wanted to jump all over this because it was more steroids in baseball talk which they simply cannot stop. Addiction? At this point yes. We're still waiting to get the most exciting HR hitter back weeks after he got smacked with 50 by the MLB. Does he care he failed a drug test? No, he has an excuse, while not admitting guilt. This just shouldn't be looked at as shoddy journalism on any level. Nice to see so many defend Jerod here. If you really know him, he is the anti-thesis of any negative blogger assumptions; like 42 yearold in mothers basement, trawling the message boards, angry, all opinion no fact writing hack. He’s smart, he does think before he hits enter. (He’s the site’s editor and the best to do that job), good looking (Let’s debate that, some called him freaky looking, i just think the guy lighting in the studio might not have been a local high school tech geek. Easy on the 4k HMI light a foot from the lense kid. Your lighting an interview for a guy doesn’t sit around outside or hit the tanning bed for a bronze. but i digress. more on the production later.

What Ken was saying in the OTL debate made it seem he never read the article. He kept blabbing like Jerod’s article was about steroids and Ibanez’s name was dropped in it. False. If feel bad for Ibanez having to respond to this Philly article. Wait, how did it we get to this again Ken? Ken’s shock value role was well played and as I said in other comments this is TV and ESPN mostly wanted an entertaining debate. Done. Ken served an annoying purpose more than I thought he was personally attacking Jerod.

A well thought out look back on it was John Gonzalez’s comment that this is a very good case study if you look objectively at the path this came from (starting with others before JRod). And even more reason why “main stream media” wanted to jump all over this because it was more steroids in baseball talk which they simply cannot stop. Addiction? At this point yes. We’re still waiting to get the most exciting HR hitter back weeks after he got smacked with 50 by the MLB. Does he care he failed a drug test? No, he has an excuse, while not admitting guilt.

This just shouldn’t be looked at as shoddy journalism on any level.

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