Spouting off sportswriters

[Makofan]

This from John Donovan at Sports Illustrated

• If I'm Joe Torre, I'm going against the grain and letting Bernie Williams play center. Kenny Lofton is brutal out there.

These toss offs by reporters bother me; this is just an example that struck me. I do not know if this is true, but what does he base this upon? Last year's fielding stats? Pre-conceived notions. How would YOU decide in Game 3 of a season that player A is a better CF than player B (I'm looking for some sort of semi-objective or stat-based reasoing)

[Crash Course]

It's very trendy these days for people to throw out words like "brutal" or "terrible" when describing the glove work of major league players without really thinking about what brutal or terrible what really means.

[LeGrandOrange]

The profiles I read on ESPN.com for Bernie and Kenny profile their defense as being very good, Kenny being rangier, Bernie being more conservative, and neither throw well. Just because a person doesn't throw well does not make them "terrible".

It's sickeningly trendy to throw out those words. Mostly, they want to get people talking about it, since it's apparently in vogue for sportswriters to rip on others. They believe that people eat this stuff up, so they keep using it.

There is no noticable difference between the two...the idiot just wants to spark up a controversy and that's all.

[gyb13]

what? that's BRUTAL analysis of sportswriters!

:p

[KCBOOMER]

All media types feel the need to use very heavily value loaded words in the articles and/or commentaries. They feel the need to call a "spade a spade" and to stand out from their colleagues/competitors. A lot of this is our fault as that is what we tend to respond to.