Publishing Truth About Barry Bonds
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1| umpbump.com found this 5/14/2008 on www.baseballprospectus.com [flag] |
One of my refrains over the past five years is that at Baseball Prospectus, we write about baseball and we let other people write about writers and what they’re writing. Not that the coverage of the game doesn’t come up in what we do, but things that passed for content in the prehistory of our existence, breakdowns of things published by others, picked apart for their flaws and ...
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Published 5/14/2008 by Sarah Green at umpbump.com
[image] Joe Sheehan at Baseball Prospectus Unfiltered thinks people (or at least, Peter Schmuck) aren’t publishing The Truth about Barry Bonds. Some of his points are duly noted—Bonds is not the slow, broken player Schmuck casts him as. But with other points, you get the feeling that Schmuck just got deeply under Sheehan’s skin and then couldn’t get out again—such as when Schmuck claims that Bonds would create “a chronic public relations problem” and Sheehan responds, “Barry Bonds doesn’t create a public relations problem…Barry Bonds has a media relations problem.” ...
