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Where bad sports journalism comes to die. FJM is a closed forum, but we welcome reader feedback. We're especially interested in corrections of our work, and research (usually number-crunching) that we may not be able to do ourselves. Please check the comments section as well, where we often post rea...
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Okay, so Buster Olney wrote a piece called "Yankees lack mystique of dynasty years." Nothing shocking there; I wrote about it a little bit a couple of posts down.Something struck me, though, as I walked away from my computer. Did Olney really write that you could tell the difference between the dynasty Yankees and the current Yankees based on two close games in late June/early July against the Texa...
Posted on Wednesday July 2, 2008 at 03:07 PM
Several people have now written in to suggest that the reason Rick Reilly clumsily metaphor-ized "bad spending habits" with "the Taco Bell Chihuahua" is because of a massive Chihuahua-related conspiracy that reaches the upper levels of Disney HQ.The theory goes: Disney has forced all of its employees to start casually mentioning Chihuahuas in their everyday conversations and scribblings, in order t...
Posted on Wednesday July 2, 2008 at 02:29 PM
The New York Yankees are 44-40. They are 12th in baseball in runs scored. That is bad. It is especially bad for a team with a $960 million payroll. What's wrong with the Yankees, and in particular, the Yankees' offense? If you're Buster Olney, the answer is simple: the Yankees have no "edge." They lack "mystique and aura." You know, Baseball's Occam's Razor: when you're bad, the explanation is alwa...
Posted on Wednesday July 2, 2008 at 01:56 PM
Rick Reilly recently signed a 20-year, $480m contract to write articles for ESPN. This is the kind of excellent humor they're getting for their money:In a droll article about athletes going bankrupt, he muses:It's not just NBA players who have the fiscal sense of the Taco Bell Chihuahua.Some questions.1. Why the Taco Bell Chihuahua? Did the Taco Bell Chihuahua famously live large? Did he make it ra...
Posted on Wednesday July 2, 2008 at 12:08 PM
For some reason, Mark Zuckerman's inclusion of Adam Dunn on his all-overpaid list (see post sub) really set your collective teeth a-rattlin'. Let's go to the phones.Mark sez:As a Nats fan, just wanted to let you know that Zuckerman is not the only beat reporter in town that is wrong on Dunn. It's unfortunate since I don't like to read the Times for anything, but I think the Post beat writer made an...
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