The bad writer and I....and Roy

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SO...yesterday I sit down in the break room eating a delicious iced ginger cookie with some intense chocolate milk and start to take a peek that the local newspaper. Page 2a, as always, is well-known Rochester columnist Bob Matthews' article. Matthews is one of those good-ole boys, a big fish in a little pond, (insert other cliche's). He's known in Rochester, but no where else and for good reason.

First of all, the headline read, "All-Star Game a Joke Minus Howard." Obviously, editing is a lost art.

But moving on, Matthews went on to describe why Ryan Howard should be an all-star. Simply, because he hits a lot of dingers. Thats it. Matthews mentioned the knocks on Howard like they didn't really matter. No BOB 125 K's at the all-star break, 10 fielding errors (both lead the league) and an awful .241 batting avg...they just dont matter.

Matthews also went on to say that Jose Guillen was a top 10 candidate for AL MVP. This put me over the edge, I signed up for an account on the D&C website and wrote Matthews a little comment.

Here is an excerp:
"I'd suggest not putting Jose Guillen in the top 10 for MVP. His .298 OBP is not only embarassing, but its the lowest on the Royals, who are awful. The lowest OBP by an MVP ever was Zoilo Versalles in 1965 at .319. In that same 65 season, the league only averaged a .311 OBP as opposed to .332 here in 08."

Come on, how can he, as a professional sports writer, sit in such a drunken stuper to think that Jose Guillen, hitting .274 with 13 hr and 65 RBI and only 10 walks could possibly be in the MVP race?

As I was running out of room on my comment box, I at least was able to fit in the much more obvious candidate for MVP Joe Mauer. His .328 avg, .420 obp both lead the league among catchers, He's thrown out 17 runners (6th best in MLB) and allowed just one passed ball. More importantly he's the leader of that young Twins squad that is far overachieving. But....he doesnt hit home runs.....ooooohhhhhh nooooooo. There are more important things in baseball than home runs, ask the 95 Seattle Mariners or Cecil Fielder...both hit alot of bomb shots, none was ever all that successful.