Sports: A Game Of Inches

We are four humble men who love sports, but hate sports commentary. Peter Gammons is our hero and John Madden is our enemy. If you were to ask us our purpose, our answer would be simple: "We are forever locked in Mortal Kombat for the souls of sports fans everywhere. Statistics are our science and 'the immeasurable character of men' is the obsolete religion of blind faith. Our job is to prove that God doesn't exist and that athletes are merely cold, metal machines with no hearts or souls."

Matthew Berry Is Consistent

For all you fans out there who have read "Fantasyland"- mainly MVP Ecketein, here's something I thought was funny when reading Matthew Berry's post "Love It/ Hate It" for the 2009 season. Under "Hate It":

Big Fat Bartolo Colon, P, White Sox: Because I am a slave to tradition.

I thought that was pretty funny. He's a funny and knowledge guy too. Some of his reasoning is pretty stupid but it's mainly for entertainment value and if you asked him I'm sure he'd give you a better one. You can read his column here

3 comments:

The 'Bright' One said...: i showed eckstein a podcast berry was on and he made so many mistakes that it was sad. i wish i could remember then all. mainly, he thought gathwright still played on the royal. he didnt know teahen was moving to 2nd. and other bonehead things i didnt expect from him. heres a link to the podcast. it'sprety entertaining all around

http://sports.espn.go.com/stations/player?context=podcast&id=3948845; March 9, 2009 at 10:42 PM
David "MVP" Eckstein said...: hahahaha. I love that book.
Matthew Berry's irrational (now rational) hatred of Bartolo Colon is both classic and epic; March 10, 2009 at 9:00 AM
David "MVP" Eckstein said...: I just read an article by Murray Chass that extols Jim Bowden as a GM because he was a "great guy"; March 10, 2009 at 9:01 AM