Everywhere – Front Page LOL

I don’t actually know how editorially significant this is, but I thought it was a LOL.

On BleacherReport.com today:

I am all for a diversity of ideas, but certainly I can’t be the only guy who thinks that the headlines “Grant Is Doing a Fantastic Job as Cavs’ GM” and “Cavaliers Need to Fire GM Chris Grant to Win” sharing a day’s front page on a popular site like Bleacher Report is a bit of (the height of?) irony.

Chris Grant is the current General Manager of my Cleveland Cavaliers. I am under no illusions that Grant is the equal to R.C. Buford (General Manager of the San Antonio Spurs, aka the best-run organization in professional sports), but I think he has made some good moves. Bleacher Report contributor Leo Florkowski seems to disagree (i.e. above and beyond the article title, “… he has proven to be the worst GM of any Cleveland professional sports team… “). Like I said, I am all for a diversity of ideas, but — and remember this is ME talking — I don’t know how seriously you can take a writer (commenting on a professional) who says things like “I have more basketball knowledge in my little finger than Chris Grant does in his entire body[,]” and “Facts are good” IN THE SAME PARAGRAPH OF THE SAME POST.

Florkowski seems to know something, though, because at the time of this writing he is running on 159 comments. Well played, etc.

And while I have that deep respect for a diversity of ideas, and different people’s different and personal models of the universe, that doesn’t mean that they all have equal merits. To wit:

Anyone with an eye for talent such as myself scoffs at sabermetrics as the end all be all. When I see a talented player, I do not need some stat geek to confirm what I already know. When a player is not that good, I will roll my eyes when the stat geek tries to tell me otherwise. Poking holes in the sabermetrics argument is easy.

Ah, the “eye” test! Never change, Leo Florkowski.

LOVE
MIKE