Haudricourt (the blogger) mixes it up with readers
October 16, 2007Far be it for the Journal Sentinel to allow comments on its print content, but kudos to the baseball staff there for exposing themselves in a (mostly) unmoderated blog.
I like it. It’s cute. They’ll figure out this “news has more than one publishing period per day” thing yet.
And Tom Haudricourt is not just posting team press releases and half-written teases of what’s going to be in tomorrow’s paper. I mean, he is, but he’s also slugging it out in the comments. Think what you will about his old-school approach to statistics and his tendencies to side with Ned and the front office, the prince of prose does not mind defending himself.
Well, if “sregdab1″ had bothered to do any research or look into the situation in any depth, rather than just trying to be flip and insulting, he would have seen that most of those blown saves came in the first half when Brian Fuentes was the closer.
So No. 1, his feelings are easily hurt. This is going to be awesome in coming posts.
But No. 2, when two guys are arguing about bullpens and both trying to use saves as a meaningful number, aren’t they both wrong?