Monday, May 23, 2005

Gammons

In his most recent article, I think Gammons misses the point a bit with his comment:

"And for those who whined in Boston -- would you rather see a team that once played a mile away from Fenway and has 13 consecutive first-place finishes or three games with the Royals."

While I agree with him on the excitement created by playing a good team, I think what was being "whined" about was that our natural rival was Braves (of the 13 consecutive first-place finishes) while the Yankees beat up the last place Mets.

And while I believe Gammons when he says he accidently lifted his Bradley story, I am a bit suspicious of his quote in this article:

Hansen has closer stuff, no doubt about it," says one scouting director, "and you can be almost certain the Mets will take him with the ninth pick. Is he Huston Street? No one's Huston Street, but Hansen's really good."

That sounds exactly like Gammons speaks. "No doubt about it" is a classic Gammons phrase. As well as asking a question in a sentance and replying like that. At this point in his career and with his univeral acceptance as THE baseball guru, would anyone put it past him to make up a quote and attribute it to a Scouting Director?

4 comments:

  1. Do not doubt the Gammons. The Gammons is never wrong.

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  2. Gammo... it is sad to see him insuch steep decline, but at this point every column is just waiting to get picked apart. I'm not even sure he as opinions of his own anymore, he just regurgitates those of whoever is bending his ear at the present moment. He's a GM's tool, a commissioner's tool, occasionally an agent's tool... but that's as far as he oes these days, and it's sad. Sad.

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  3. "would you rather see a team that once played a mile away from Fenway and has 13 consecutive first-place finishes or three games with the Royals."

    Taking that argument one step further, what about the Giants, Dodgers, Rockies and Arizona that have to play the Royals? I'm sure SD wishes they played KC this year.

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  4. Andrew -- I agree about his steep decline being really sad, though I'd argue he's more of a player's tool than anything else. If the media or fans say or do anything that portrays the players in even a slightly negative light, he jumps to the players' defense and attacks the media (which someone needs to remind him he's part of) or, worse, the fans. He's become a grumpy old man who's just coasting on his reputation.

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