Re: Peter Gammons: Good News


Jon Enslin wrote:
However, the last paragraph is pretty ironic.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2522023


Whatever you want to call it, I'm almost convinced Gammons' sunday
gossip/notes/rumors weekly column has become more famous 30 years after
the fact than it ever was when he was doing it. Sometimes just because
something is around today, doesn't mean one person was the dominant
force in bringing it about.......it's not at all clear to me that
gammons "revolutionized" baseball writing, as some have claimed.

What's even more skeptical is the idea that Gammons somehow paved the
way for columnists to make tv appearances as analysts. If anyone
thinks idiots like woody page wouldn't be on cold pizza everyday were
it not for gammons, they are crazy. With all the sports programming we
have now, it was going to come about with or withour peter the
great.......

What I'll best remember peter gammons for is his sort of wishy washy
bandwagon approach to the science of baseball. When sabermetrics was
starting up back in the early/mid 80's gammons wasn't talking about it
at all. Then by the mid 90's it kinda has a foothold amongst certain
circles and so gammons is kinda mentioning it in a limited scope. And
then by the turn of the century it is at the forefront and gammons is
all over it.........in that way, and that is really the most important
change in the analaysis/writing/reporting/scouting/everything of
baseball in his day, Gammons was as far from innovative as they
get......


Jon

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