Sunday, July 01, 2007

ESPN is Stupid Sometimes

OK, a lot of the time. But anyway, look at this screencap off the front page of ESPN, which was on as of Sunday night when I wrote this.


WHAT? "Despite a lackluster season?" Bonds is having a lackluster season? That's news to me.

OK, maybe Bonds' power numbers aren't quite what they were from 2000-2004, but he's bee extremely effective at the plate so far this year. Consider:

- He leads the MLB in OPS.
- He leads the MLB in OBP, which is currently at a ridiculous rate above .500.
- He is slugging over .600, which is 4th in the MLB.
- Oh yeah, HE LEADS THE MLB IN OPS.

Sure, he's not good defensively anymore. And his baserunning skills are not what they once were. But if that is lackluster, I'm not sure what's good. When he's playing, he's been easily the best hitter in the National League so far.

Also, I just love one of the other options there:

"Vote: Who deserves to be there?"

Um, ESPN, the fans just voted who they think deserves the be there. What are you trying to prove? Isn't that a bit redundant?

22 comments:

TJX said...

I don't watch baseball, but I know that if it's not the players from the Yankees or the Sawx, everyone else is not doing too well.]

Besides, ESPN hates Barry Bonds.

Anonymous said...

If you can't understand the reticence of ESPN (who I abhor) to let some cheating, abusing of drugs and the media, dipshit that uses his own son as a prop and terrible teamate (being as he is only playing for his own gratification and not the benefit of winning a championship) effing a-hole to being selected to START THE ALLSTAR GAME, then you should just quit blogging right now.

Get in touch with the people, for Christ's sake! (and yes, I know you will say, "Well, the FANS voted him in!" That doesn't make it right!

Stefan Ming said...

It seems like everyday I tend to hate ESPN more and more...

twins15 said...

dummy (this is the one time i can address someone like that or not have it be imflammatory),

I understand why ESPN doesn't like Bonds, and why a lot of people don't like Bonds. I get that. I couldn't care less about that. People can think what they will.

The thing I take issue with is [supposedly] the leading provider or sports entertainment and analysis in the world calling Bonds performance lackluster, when clearly, that has not been the case. I understand not all news is objective, but generally I prefer when a supposedly reputable source of information reports it without a personal vendetta, which is about the only explanation for that.

Now, is that taking things a little too seriously by making things bigger than they should be? Maybe.

And it's also strange that more of his teammates don't speak out about how terrible he is and how he doesn't care about winning. And I only wish my favorite teams had more players who cared so little about winning that they were the most effective hitters in the league.

Anonymous said...

I'm with dummy. Not.

Where would us sportsbloggers be if we couldn't pull the big guys up on their idiocrity. They get paid a very comfortable salary to do a job that most people can only dream of. This is not the kind of mistake they should be making.

TJX said...

And yet we let Jason Giambi virtually off the hook?

Dummy, you left yourself wide open with the name you put in.

sugarshane024 said...

This is good stuff.

By the way, Bonds also leads the universe in walks again this year with 84. The next closest? Todd Helton with 64!

thenumber24.blogspot.com

The Scrapper said...

Sosa should have made the All-star game

grittysquirrels said...

No Matt Holliday should be starting in the all-star game.

And yes ESPN is dumb. They abuse their monopoly and tend to have much of their stupidity go virtually unnoticed by the general public because they are ESPN!

Kevin Hayward said...

There are a lot of guys having lackluster seasons, but Bonds isn't one of them. Perhaps ESPN was referring to the Giants' season, which has actually been worse than lackluster.

As for the "vote", maybe they are recognizing the demographic of All-Star voters (little kids, people in other countries, casual fans that show up at one baseball game and punch the ballot because they're bored) probably varies quite a bit from ESPN's typical audience.

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