Re: Peter Gammons: Good News


Bill Lang wrote:
mianderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, What came first, the music or the
misery?

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......


Dude, you're just a walking wet dishrag.

since I'll assume you have more experience working with wet dishrags
than me, I'll just have to take your word for it......



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