Posts Tagged Steve Lombardi

Projecting Much?

One of Pete’s charms is that, although he constantly claims to be busy with ‘newspaper work’ during games, he has no end of time to delete critical comments and to engage in spats with his commenters.

During today’s game against Texas, fans were making critical comments about Wang’s sub-par return to the starting rotation. And thus Pete vomited up this juicy morsel:

Peter Abraham's Self-Awareness: 0

Peter Abraham's Self-Awareness: 0

Peter Abraham has spent almost the entirety of his three-year tenure as Yankees beat writer for the Journal-News mocking, badmouthing, and advocating the trade of Alex Rodriguez. No one with a voice as influential as Pete’s (except for that tool at WasWatching, if you want to call him ‘influential’) has spit so much vitriol at the Yankees’ third baseman.

He delights in A-Rod slander. He ruts in it. He rolls in it and covers himself in it like a protective coating from the sun. For reasons I’m sure Freud would be overjoyed to analyze, Peter Abraham has centered his career around shrinking A-Rod. As Potato Chowder pointed out in the post below, he is still trying to make the discredited claims of Selena Roberts stick. This man is allegedly a professional, yet he continues to treat his blog as a venue for his personal vendettas.

“You must have a sad life when you take pleasure in the problems of other people.” So, true, Pete. So true.

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Fun with sample sizes

From the just as horrible WasWatching blog the day before.

It’s mid-May and Brett Gardner now has twice as many homers as Alex Rodrguez. Baseball is a funny game, huh?

Oh wait, look at that, not anymore.

Brett Gardner also has the benefit of nearly 3x as many plate appearances as A-Rod. He also has more Singles, Doubles, Triples, Strikeouts, Stolen Bases, Caught Stealings, Hits By Pitch, Sacrifices, Ground Outs, Fly Outs and GIDPs than ARod. Funny how that works. Since, you know, A-Rod had that hip thing and all.

But I’m sure Mr. Lombardi knew that. He just couldn’t help himself from getting a cheap shot in at A-Rod. Next time, Steve, at least try to use numbers outside of context that aren’t as stupid as number of HRs in an arbitrary point of time.

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