Keith Law doesn't understand baseball

by Jordan of Boise on Feb 14, 2008 10:34 AM PST

Andrew (San Diego): Let's just play ball already. How does the Bedard trade change the AL West? Do you see the Angels still as the front runners or does the trade put the M's out front?

SportsNation Keith Law: (1:10 PM ET ) Angels are still the front runners. I see Bedard as two steps forward, but one step back with the loss of Jones' bat, glove, and arm in RF. Sherrill I think they can replace, but Jones is a bigger loss than they realize. Plus they just weren't an 88-win team last year - they had to improve the roster 7-8 wins just to be steady.

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Define: "doesn't."

...and now I'm here

by CapSea on Feb 14, 2008 10:44 AM PST reply actions

See that's the problem with you stathead bloggeeks

You want 'definitions!' Well, let me tell you something, definitions belong in dictionaries, and dictionaries are books! And we all know that there aren't any books in baseball. The game is an oral tradition, passed down at the seat of a mustachio'd master as one pays their dues paying AA ball in Southern Indiana. If one has not undergone the secretive rites of passage that turn a Ball Boy into a Baseball Man, you can never understand that Adam Jones was just a prospect or that if the Mariners won 88 games, they are an 88 win team and that is that. Trying to determine otherwise based on the 'rules' in a 'book' just makes you look stupid, and wimpy.

by Jordan of Boise on Feb 14, 2008 10:56 AM PST up reply actions

I admit I missed the joke.

Didn't know who Keith law was. I take back my original comment.

...and now I'm here

by CapSea on Feb 14, 2008 11:33 AM PST up reply actions

I don't get it.

by patsfan on Feb 14, 2008 10:50 AM PST reply actions

Keith Law understands baseball OK

Jordan Of Boise doesn't understand Keith Law.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Feb 14, 2008 10:52 AM PST reply actions

You're being facetious, right?

by Liebkartoffel on Feb 14, 2008 10:52 AM PST reply actions

...what?

Yesterday's Pants
A blog-thingy about the Mariners and stuff.

by BrettJMiller on Feb 14, 2008 10:53 AM PST reply actions

It's satire guys

People are always ripping on Keith Law for being stupid.

by Jeff Sullivan on Feb 14, 2008 10:54 AM PST reply actions

As well they should.

With a name like "Keith Law," he should be bayoneting commies instead of writing nancy little sports pieces.

by Liebkartoffel on Feb 14, 2008 10:58 AM PST up reply actions

It is obvious from Keith Law's 'analysis'

why he doesn't deserve to be in the BBWAA. That grand perch of journalism is reserved for lords of the parchment such as Woody Paige.

by Jordan of Boise on Feb 14, 2008 10:59 AM PST up reply actions

This diary

makes so much more sense now. Damn I am getting slow.

You scratch our backs, we'll scratch yours. Well Jules, the funny thing about my back is that it's located on my $#%&.

by AZSEAfan on Feb 14, 2008 11:12 AM PST up reply actions

Paige Break

There's no Law preventing Keith from joining.
He'll have to fish for that perch in the cool waters of tradition, however.

Law loves mathematical assumptions. So courant. Law failed Chemistry. So telling.

Your assumptions aren't Law if you can't see that a pair of aces beat a squadron of squalor.

/wp

by marc w on Feb 14, 2008 11:23 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs

You can be frightening sometimes

by Jeff Sullivan on Feb 14, 2008 11:31 AM PST up reply actions

Wow...

I don't see a point in the future where this stops being funny to me. Nevertheless, your aptitude for this sort of awful wordplay borders on the scary.

"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." -- Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/milb-mariners/

by JY on Feb 15, 2008 12:22 AM PST up reply actions

I guess I'd have to follow Keith Law's work

to understand the satire here.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Feb 14, 2008 11:01 AM PST up reply actions

Keith Law is awesome

But he is shunned by the larger baseball-writing community, most likely for making them look bad. When the Baseball Writers Association of America finally opened their ranks to internet writers, Keith Law and Rob Neyer were the only two nominees that were turned down.

http://baseballanalysts.com/archives/2007/12/bbwaa_opens_up.php

by Jordan of Boise on Feb 14, 2008 11:09 AM PST up reply actions

I like him already

just from your description. Sorry I didn't get the satire.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Feb 14, 2008 11:14 AM PST up reply actions

He also makes really stupid comments

often though

by Matthew on Feb 14, 2008 11:16 AM PST up reply actions

I'm surprised people missed this

I'm Gomez and I write about many things.

by Gomez on Feb 14, 2008 8:03 PM PST up reply actions

I was searching for more info on Keith

and this was like the 4th item on my google search of "keith law":

http://www.halosheaven.com/story/2007/9/12/211728/981

pretty telling of the difference in ideologies between our blogs...

by thenatural on Feb 14, 2008 11:30 AM PST reply actions

Also relative intelligence.

Visiting A's Fan

by salb918 on Feb 14, 2008 8:28 PM PST up reply actions

Keith Law is reported to be a bit of a prick

He was an author at BP (he wrote the regular economic column The Imbalance Sheet) until he was hired by J.P. Ricciardi to be a special advisor to the GM in Toronto. He made it as far as Assistant GM before he left to go write for ESPN.

by Llewdor on Feb 14, 2008 12:01 PM PST reply actions

I think I have more faith in Wlad

than anyone in the rest of the universe. I just shake my head when I read things like this.

by chaney on Feb 14, 2008 12:04 PM PST reply actions

I have lots of faith in Wlad

I also have lots of faith that he will be sitting his ass in Tacoma while Wilkerson sucks and Ibanez waves his dick at the train.

by Jordan of Boise on Feb 14, 2008 12:22 PM PST up reply actions

Oh shit that is funny.

by Wilder83 on Feb 14, 2008 4:44 PM PST up reply actions

You nearly made me laugh out loud in class

Damn you.

I'm Gomez and I write about many things.

by Gomez on Feb 14, 2008 8:04 PM PST up reply actions

Abuse of Pythag:

"Plus they just weren't an 88-win team last year - they had to improve the roster 7-8 wins just to be steady."

Dammit, Keith, read my diaries.

by Graham MacAree on Feb 14, 2008 12:08 PM PST reply actions

If I've learned one thing...

It's that the internet has virtually no tone. Sarcasm and satire are often lost when done in a subtle manner.

by SethGrandpa on Feb 14, 2008 12:08 PM PST reply actions

We win!

Worst free-agent signings

1. Carlos Silva, Mariners (4 years, $48 million)
2. Scott Linebrink, White Sox (4 years, $19 million)
3. Aaron Rowand, Giants (5 years, $60 million)

It's a great country when a guy like Silva -- who hasn't had a winning record since 2005 and has struck out fewer hitters over the past three years than Jake Peavy struck out last year -- can rake in 48 million bucks.

WE'RE NUMBER ONE!!

by seattlebruin on Feb 14, 2008 1:48 PM PST reply actions