Ken Rosenthal googled himself at some point and did not like what he found.
Maybe Ken Rosenthal googled himself after the fake bloggers-and-steroids controversy. Maybe he did so before. No matter when he did so, it's pretty obvious that he didn't like what he saw.The odd thing is that prior to this summer, Rosenthal didn't seem to be an especially controversial figure: he did harmless in-game reporting on FOX games and he broke trade rumors and... that was it. I can't remember anything he wrote ever being controversial from an analytical perspective. Still, it is evident that he's upset about something, and now the internet must pay.
Increasingly, he just seems like another (subconsciously perhaps) threatened guy with an axe to grind. He's on TV constantly. He writes for a big website. He has a cell phone contact list that looks like a MLB directory, and yet he feels silenced somehow by (of course) people in their basements. This is the reaction of a man who somewhere deep inside is beginning to realize that other people out there, people who don't even get paid to do so, actually know a lot about baseball too.
My position of extreme prominence is not prominent enough!! My peers having 95% of the audience is not enough!!
The extremely ironic thing about all of this is that the MVP Award is not decided by a popular vote or even some kind of mega-debate. The AL MVP will be decided by a group, BBWAA members in AL cities, which is about one quarter the size of the United States Senate. Which is why I tend not to get involved in the endless MVP wars.
Devil Fingers and Poz are both good on this.
- Joe Posnanski " Blog Archive " A Free Country
- Ken Rosenthal, "Sabermetric Group Think," and the 2009 American League MVP Debate - Driveline Mechanics
- 10 reasons to ignore all reason and keep watching the Royals " KC Monarchy
- Royals sign first-round pick Crow - Kansas City Star
- Royals' Bullpen Defines Awful - Royals Authority
- The Pipeline: Royals on the Farm 9/16 -- TLCS tied, Bees against the proverbial wall
- Zack Greinke Could Join Clemens, Pedro, Maddux, and Others | Kings of Kauffman | A Kansas City Royals Blog
- A small market comparison " KC Monarchy
Grab Bag:
- Thinking about the '10 Red Sox - SweetSpot by Rob Neyer - ESPN
- Nick Sloan's Official Web Site: Top 10 Kansas City Athletes Of Decade
- Alex Rios Folds Under Pressure | FanGraphs Baseball
- Derek Jeter Honored For Having Fewer Hits Than Harold Baines | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
- The Office's New Girl Is "Totally Different" from Pam
- Tia Jackson "Put On Notice" by the "Socialist" Washington Huskies - Swish Appeal
- Brow Beat : Bill Simmons, Brought to You by Miller Lite
- YouTube - The Buggles - The plastic age