Comments on: More than just a typo…it makes no sense http://www.baseballdigest.com/2009/03/29/more-than-just-a-typoit-makes-no-sense/ America's longest-running baseball-only magazine Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:34:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Nino Colla http://www.baseballdigest.com/2009/03/29/more-than-just-a-typoit-makes-no-sense/#comment-603 Nino Colla Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:54:18 +0000 http://baseballdigest.com/?p=1941#comment-603 Why was I not surprised to see the name OCKER when I clicked the link? I barely even visit ABJ anymore.. It just doesn't offer up anything I can't get anywhere else on a consistent basis. Ocker is partially to blame for that. Why was I not surprised to see the name OCKER when I clicked the link?

I barely even visit ABJ anymore.. It just doesn’t offer up anything I can’t get anywhere else on a consistent basis. Ocker is partially to blame for that.

]]> By: Michael Taylor http://www.baseballdigest.com/2009/03/29/more-than-just-a-typoit-makes-no-sense/#comment-590 Michael Taylor Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:59:27 +0000 http://baseballdigest.com/?p=1941#comment-590 Thanks for the comments Peter. It is an interesting trend that we are witnessing. And it is not just in Cleveland, there are numerous sites all over the web for any team that go into greater detail about the sport than any beat writer could. People are creating careers out of it, but I do believe that each medium has its own purpose to the reader. So I'm not sure if their jobs would be on the line, but they at least have to step up a little bit and not base an argument on faulty math and statistics that makes them look bad. I guess that was it more than any typos, I for one am obviously no expert in my styling, so it was unfair for me to say anything about that. Thanks for the comments Peter. It is an interesting trend that we are witnessing. And it is not just in Cleveland, there are numerous sites all over the web for any team that go into greater detail about the sport than any beat writer could. People are creating careers out of it, but I do believe that each medium has its own purpose to the reader. So I’m not sure if their jobs would be on the line, but they at least have to step up a little bit and not base an argument on faulty math and statistics that makes them look bad. I guess that was it more than any typos, I for one am obviously no expert in my styling, so it was unfair for me to say anything about that.

]]> By: Peter Alexander http://www.baseballdigest.com/2009/03/29/more-than-just-a-typoit-makes-no-sense/#comment-577 Peter Alexander Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:32:13 +0000 http://baseballdigest.com/?p=1941#comment-577 These days major media sportswriters are being inveighed against by sports commentators almost daily. Terry Pluto usually gets a pass, but all the rest in Cleveland and Akron are getting ripped for their grammatical shortcomings as well as statistical miscarriage, as revealed in your blog. The criticisms are often quite valid. Meanwhile many bloggers, your peers, are somehow finding time to deeply analyze what I would call the physics of baseball. It's quite amazing, belying the much lamented low state of American education. I don't imagine this trend is only going on in the Cleveland area, but it's pretty cool, and should warn purveyors of sports information in Cleveland sports media that their days may be numbered. That said, however, as a big fan of novelist Comac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men), let me say that sports writing should be regarded as a 'creative' enterprise, not always requiring grammatically perfect sentences with subjects, verbs, objects and quotation marks. Peter These days major media sportswriters are being inveighed against by sports commentators almost daily. Terry Pluto usually gets a pass, but all the rest in Cleveland and Akron are getting ripped for their grammatical shortcomings as well as statistical miscarriage, as revealed in your blog. The criticisms are often quite valid. Meanwhile many bloggers, your peers, are somehow finding time to deeply analyze what I would call the physics of baseball. It’s quite amazing, belying the much lamented low state of American education.

I don’t imagine this trend is only going on in the Cleveland area, but it’s pretty cool, and should warn purveyors of sports information in Cleveland sports media that their days may be numbered. That said, however, as a big fan of novelist Comac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men), let me say that sports writing should be regarded as a ‘creative’ enterprise, not always requiring grammatically perfect sentences with subjects, verbs, objects and quotation marks.
Peter

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