Comments on: Mitch Williams on 106.7 inre Strasburg Shutdown, Mechanics http://www.nationalsarmrace.com/?p=4384 "... the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.” -- Earl Weaver Sun, 19 May 2013 16:07:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Todd Boss http://www.nationalsarmrace.com/?p=4384&cpage=1#comment-5104 Todd Boss Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:14:23 +0000 http://www.nationalsarmrace.com/?p=4384#comment-5104 Inre television and (more likely) radio hosts, I wonder how much of their opinion stating is just to draw viewership and to spark interest? Maybe its more of a problem for radio, where you do a segment then do a series of phone calls, and the more ridiculous your stance the more phone calls you'll field. I feel especially that Steve Czabin is guilty of this; taking a ridiculous stance on something just to then have a fake argument about it with his co-hosts. Inre television and (more likely) radio hosts, I wonder how much of their opinion stating is just to draw viewership and to spark interest? Maybe its more of a problem for radio, where you do a segment then do a series of phone calls, and the more ridiculous your stance the more phone calls you’ll field. I feel especially that Steve Czabin is guilty of this; taking a ridiculous stance on something just to then have a fake argument about it with his co-hosts.

]]> By: clark17 http://www.nationalsarmrace.com/?p=4384&cpage=1#comment-5102 clark17 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:13:07 +0000 http://www.nationalsarmrace.com/?p=4384#comment-5102 My opinion is the same as yours on Strasburg. I'd love to have him keep pitching, but shutting him down is just a no-brainer. Meanwhile, my opinion of former players who become analysts couldn't be lower. Whether it's Curt Schilling or Mitch Williams or Harold Reynolds, these guys get on TV because of the absurd assumption that just because you had the physical talent to play a sport means you must have the mental talent to insightfully analyze it. This mistake isn't unique to baseball, of course. Just look at the awful parade of players who get hired and fired to co-host Monday Night Football every year or two. But especially with baseball, the analysts I most want to hear are the writers, the students of the game. Guys like Peter Gammons, Buster Olney, Tim Kurkjian, Tom Boswell, Richard Justice. Sure, they're often wrong, too, but they're far less inclined to be show-offs or to make controversial remarks just to draw attention to themselves (with some exceptions... I'm looking at you, Skip Bayliss). It's a generalization, of course, but I just find most former players to be insufferable analysts. My opinion is the same as yours on Strasburg. I’d love to have him keep pitching, but shutting him down is just a no-brainer.

Meanwhile, my opinion of former players who become analysts couldn’t be lower. Whether it’s Curt Schilling or Mitch Williams or Harold Reynolds, these guys get on TV because of the absurd assumption that just because you had the physical talent to play a sport means you must have the mental talent to insightfully analyze it. This mistake isn’t unique to baseball, of course. Just look at the awful parade of players who get hired and fired to co-host Monday Night Football every year or two. But especially with baseball, the analysts I most want to hear are the writers, the students of the game. Guys like Peter Gammons, Buster Olney, Tim Kurkjian, Tom Boswell, Richard Justice. Sure, they’re often wrong, too, but they’re far less inclined to be show-offs or to make controversial remarks just to draw attention to themselves (with some exceptions… I’m looking at you, Skip Bayliss). It’s a generalization, of course, but I just find most former players to be insufferable analysts.

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