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Let's Hit Rewind on Buzz Bissinger's Play Article
"Maybe you've heard -- Buzz Bissinger is in the bloggy sports news ether today. Several people sent us Buzz's piece on Kerry Wood in the New York Times magazine Play from about a year ago. I read the article from start to finish. It's artfully written, evocative, unPlaschkely poetic -- and deliberately, wrongheadedly misleading. Buzz Bissinger, such a gifted wordsmith and storyteller, weaves a..."
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Making the world dumber (more dumb-erer?), one post at a time.
Plain Soccer — ... Not only did it not take long for it to be demonstrated that facts are not something which Bissinger values, but the idea that I am causing society to become less intelligent is troublesome. I shall now include a post I linked to via. fjm, which includes several quotations from Bissinger's ...

Sports Blogs and Ignorance Collide -- Fallout Continues
Boiled Sports — ... It's truly amazing -- if you're reading this post, you're part of the problem, according to Buzz. But if you read a scathing, uninformed article that Buzz writes (and FJM deconstructs some of Buzz's work here) then you're a good soldier. ...

Cubs Lose; Lou Piniella Gets Cranky
FanHouse — ... -- hi Buzz! -- let up three runs in the ninth to blow the game for the Cubbies this afternoon. First, Piniella whacked a water cooler in the dugout in said ninth inning. Then ...

Clearing the Bases -- Late Friday Dead Horse Flog Edition
The Futility Infielder — ... other people in the press box ... I get a lot of benefit from having that distance." But let's not let facts get in the way, right, Buzz? "It seems to me," Bissinger continued, "what you're saying is, 'I don't want facts to inhibit me. Facts get in my way, so I'm going to sit in my little room and I'm going to give this nebulous fan's voice.'" Pretty rich coming from a guy who sometimes -- for instance, in this very comment -- takes only a nodding interest in facts. Here, courtesy of FireJoeMorgan.com, are ...

Buzz Bissinger on the Cubs vs. Cardinals -- May 3, 2008 - 2:45pm CDT
A League of Her Own — ...  What the hell is VORP anyway? You think your research means something, particularly when you are using it to prove me wrong. ...

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And Will Leitch’s take on the Costas/Bissinger disaster.... For what I hope is the last time, but is clearly not: the level of discourse on Athletics Nation, and Baseball Prospectus, and SoSH, and Joe Posnanski’s blog, is every bit as high (if not higher) than what you can read in the best newspapers in the country. Bissinger’s hare-brained attempt to prove Leitch an uneducated oaf by asking ...