MSM vs. the Nats Blogosphere
It's funny. If you read the Blogs, including this one, about the Castilla/Guzman pickups, you must conclude that this move was absolutely horrible. But here's what Tom Boswell has to say about these two new Nats :
Will General Manager Jim Bowden make another flashy offseason free agent acquisition? He's already added Vinny Castilla, who led the National League in RBI last season with 131, and Jose Guillen, who had 104 RBI for Anaheim. That's a heart of the order right there. He got a fine young shortstop in Cristian Guzman, too.
So, is Boswell just beginning his PR job for the Nats, or are the blogs overreacting? I believe Dexys has some issues with Boswell, so I think I know where he'll come out on this.
posted by DM @ 9:41 AM
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7 Comments:
Excellent points, Randolph, esp. about the RBI thing. When I read that, I thought Boswell might as well have said "Vinny Castilla led the National League at being in the right place at the right time." or "Vinny Castilla is great because of circumstances in Colorado that don't come with him."
Randolph, I find your suggestion that Tom Boswell is interested in writing articles that will generate excitement in a team that the Post will cover and to whose fans it will then sell additional newspapers scurrilous and unworthy. Everyone knows that the Post is trying to put itself out of business with this free Internet thingy.
Jose Guillen is a very good pickup. He's a genuine nutjob but a hell of a player everywhere he goes. He also has one of the best throwing arms for a LF in baseball.
Anonymous, you rascal, don't taunt us! Come out of the shadows and you might see that we generally agree with your assessment of the Guillen trade. It is the Guzman and Castilla moves that have cause so much consternation.
Different Anonymous here.. I can't be bothered to get a blogger account, chalk it up to laziness.
Tom Boswell is one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet: smart, funny, intelligent, very knowledgable. His articles always maintain the strictest internal logic, and come to rational, well-supported conclusions.
Thus making it all the more baffling when they invariably turn out to be dead wrong.
I can't figure it out for the life of me, but he ends up being right less often than stopped clocks.. a very peculiar phenomenon. Poor Tom. Often wrong, never in doubt. :)
Boswell is still a greater writer - that is, his ability to string words together in an articulate and pleasing manner. Once or twice a year, I show one of Boz's columns to my wife who appreciates good writing. It usually turns out to be a personal profile of a specific player.
As far as analysis or prediction, he hasn't been more than half right in the 20 years I've been reading him.
Thanks for sharing that. It was fun reading it. :-)
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