Defensive Indifference

A story in the L.A. Times has been making the rounds today, and as someone who occupies an interesting place in this whole MSM-blogger blood feud (not that I’m influential in any way, but just that I come from a MSM background and have embraced the whole blog revolution), I felt the need to chime […]

As someone who straddles the line between MSM and blogger on a daily basis — yes it is possible to be a “privileged sportswriter” and enjoy the filthy stylings of “Big Daddy Balls” — I thought I’d weigh in on the whole Buzz Bissinger freakout situation, even if I’m a few days late to the […]

Seriously, announcers and analysts need to stop this whole comparing Japanese players to other Japanese players. Let me set the scene for you. It is a lovely Monday night and the Cubs are playing the Mets. Yigael is watching the game on ESPN and I am watching the game on MLB Extra Innings (SNY, the […]

So I’m cozying in for my last few hours of work tonight when I get a message on the GChat. “I think ESPN is about to rip you off with a trip down baseball facial hair memory lane.” What what what? Yes, I was the guy behind this piece, that got plenty of play across […]

I would just like to direct our handful of readers, especially those who may not read firejoemorgan.com regularly (and if you don’t, you really should), to FJM’s latest post on an atrocious article by Jim Armstrong that just so happened to be published by Andrew’s very own AOL. It’s a fine job of deconstruction, […]

ESPN’s Jayson Stark, who generally seems to be a relatively sane, rational human being, has picked the Atlanta Braves to win the World Series in 2008. Apparently this is the trendy ’sleeper’ pick for this season, and if you really want to go out on a limb, I guess the Braves are as good a […]