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Rory Angry, Rory Smash ThingsSmizik wrote this... (I don't know what it is. I wouldn't call it an article since it isn't a good representation of modern journalism) thing Monday listing a bunch of opinions he has about the various sports around town.It wasn't exactly riddled with fact or you know, informative. So I emailed him to call him out on it. I mentioned that the .391 the Pirates are hitting on the first pitch he quoted is meaningless out of the context of the rest of the league and it didn't matter as long as their OBP was 12th. He didn't bother to respond to that. He said in his article that "harsh criticisms of Pirates general manager Dave Littlefield for the trades he made last week are way off the mark." I said that the criticism I heard about the trades (mainly here, here, and here) seem pretty well merited to me. Now, I won't repeat verbatim what Bob responded to me with since I didn't ask for his permission to republish the email, and I hear this upsets some people. But he basically told me that most people know what criticism he's talking about and that because I live in Seattle I'm probably not aware. ... I'm mad. I'm not aware because I don't live in town. I probably read more about the Pirates then 95% of the people in Pittsburgh and I'm not aware? Maybe I'm not aware because I have to read the drivel from reporters like you who don't actually say what they're commenting on. And when someone actually emailed you about it you were so inclined to defend yourself that not only did you not explain what you were writing about, but you didn't even comment on the points that someone was trying to make. I'm unaware. This makes me want to go FJM style on his crappy columns. I never insulted you Mr. Smizik, in fact I went out of your way to bring points to your attention that you may or may not have considered. You went out of your way to tell me I'm ignorant. Thanks. I also provided evidence disputing his assertation that David Ross would have been a better talent to retain then Cota or Doumit - which he claimed he didn't do? - however, with his walk off homerun yesterday I genuinely loose some of my argument there. posted by Rory at 6:02 PM | |
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