Grotewold wrote:

phdave wrote:

There's no math involved in understanding WAR. If anything, what you need to understand is philosophy and psychology.

Not taxidermy?

The point is, Yuniesky Betancourt is a Huxleyan Epsilon among ballplayers.

Young will wind up on the All-Star team for the same reason he wound up on the Phillies: third base nowadays is a yawning bunghole of irredeemable detritus from which there is neither escape nor redemption. Playing third base full-time is like being loved by Barbara Hershey in a movie. If baseball’s positions were the novels of Robert Heinlein, third base would be I Will Fear No Evil, an unpolished mess conceived and written in a fever.

kruker wrote:Who the fuck has given him positive reinforcement on his writing style? Or personality?

joe table wrote:Feel like that's one of his better ones

kruker wrote:I've only read excerpts, but there was a part in "Those Guys Have All the Fun," the ESPN expose, about Olbermann and Brian Kenny (I think). Olbermann basically told him he wasn't a good anchor because he was always trying to be funny. Keith's advice was to go a highlight without making a quip. Then try to go an entire segment then an entire show so that he would eventually not feel forced to make comments and let them come naturally. Mr. Baumann, take this advice. Go a sentence without an inane reference. Then a paragraph then an article.

Rich Eisen
Anchor
When I got there, I was obviously very much influenced by Keith's style, and everything I did, I tried to make a joke. So I walked by Keith one day in the hallway, and he goes to me, "Nope, not yet," and kept walking. About three days later, I walked past him again and he goes, "Nope, not yet." So I finally asked him, "Keith, what do you mean?" He goes, "You're not even close to doing this show the way you should be doing it or can do it." So one day I get an interoffice envelope, and it's a cover letter from Keith basically saying, "I got this letter from a fan." It was a three-page letter to Keith essentially saying, "Who is this new guy on SportsCenter? Why has he hijacked my program?" And Keith's cover letter said, "Don't take this personally, but he has a point." I was absolutely crestfallen. So I went to Keith and said, "I don't know how to respond to this." He said, "Listen, just do one highlight without a joke. Just one. Then try to do one segment without a joke. Then do an entire show where you go home and say, ‘That was the most boring show I've ever done.' And do that for an entire week." He essentially gave me the long-standing concept of less is more. Hands down the best advice I've ever been given.

This is probably one of those things that only I’m going to think is funny, but I’ve got to get it out of my system. Feel free to ignore it.

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Napalm wrote:thats an awesome article.

i dont know who this baumann guy is or why there are 34 pages dedicated to him, i assume because he sucks, but that was well written and humorous. We've all liked mediocre to below mediocre players, like Pete Orr, Bruntlett, Valdez, or a player we have some bias for, like Loblaw does for zagurski or mathieson or whatever scrub pitcher he was friends with. Anyway, that article was bsg-funny, whether you wanna hear that or not.

mcare89 wrote:

Napalm wrote:thats an awesome article.

i dont know who this baumann guy is or why there are 34 pages dedicated to him, i assume because he sucks, but that was well written and humorous. We've all liked mediocre to below mediocre players, like Pete Orr, Bruntlett, Valdez, or a player we have some bias for, like Loblaw does for zagurski or mathieson or whatever scrub pitcher he was friends with. Anyway, that article was bsg-funny, whether you wanna hear that or not.

Then you missed the point of why I posted the article.