Schilling takes it on the chin
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In case you missed it, the ever-popular Curt Schilling has a blog called 38 Pitches.
Check out this hilarious column from Dan Shaughnessy of the Boston Globe, who skewers Schilling.
Shaughnessy is the most powerful columnist in Boston and has engaged in a running feud with Schilling for several years. This is the latest salvo.
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Shaughnessy is just as big of a windbag as Schilling is, but i did get a kick of the fact that the last “question” was from “CHB38″. well done.
still, they should fight to the death. everyone wins.
That was freaking hilarious. I hate Schilling so much.
Classic.
“I have blood stains on all my white socks”
Isn’t “powerful columnist” an oxymoron?
When two idiots argue on the net, does anyone care?
Its funny because its Schilling being mocked, but he’s just barely ahead of Shaughnessey in the Most Insipid Character in the Boston Sports Scene category. In perfect world, they’d beat each other senseless with Larry Lucchino’s severed head.
Dave Pinto at Baseball Musings linked to a Daniel Drezner response to Shaughnessy that I thought was pretty accurate.
http://www.danieldrezner.com/archives/003234.html
“I’ve read enough of Shaughnessy’s baseball analysis to know that’s not his strength (Rob Bradford demonstrates more baseball knowledge in a single story than Shaughnessy does in an entire season). He’s an OK writer, but there are plenty of Red Sox beat writers and bloggers who are better (note to Globe sports editor: give Amalie Benjamin her own full-time Sox blog). No, Shaughnessy’s specialty is using his acid pen to ignite public feuds with Shaughnessy.”
Pete,This is really really funny.I was laughing so loudly when I was reading this.Ha…Ha…Oh!My God!!
Schilling responds.
http://38pitches.com/2007/03/2.....short-one/
As commentators on a blog, I take it all of us live in our parents’ basement?
FireJoeMorgan has a pretty good quote about this –
“Unfortunately, Shaughnessy, it appears to me, has now seen the writing on the wall for muck-raking journalists like himself, who have careers mostly because they get access to athletes beyond that of the general public and thus get to poke and prod them for quotes and then write articles detailing their every move. If the athletes get to talk right to their public, what use is there for middlemen like ol’ Danny?”
http://www.firejoemorgan.com/2.....nerdy.html
Maybe if Kei Igawa turns his website (http://www.k-igawa.com/) bilingual, Murry Chass can rip him a new one.
Shaughnessy is such a hack. I don’t like Shilling, but if I could get one of them to shut up, I’d go with the “Curly Haired Boyfriend.”
Shaughnessy is neither funny nor clever. His comments are meaningless drivel from a rather stupid old-liner with a vendetta in the tradition of the malicious Dave Egan. Shaughnessy’s total misrepresentation of bloggers and progressive-minded baseball fans may amuse the silly but entirely miss the point.
Friends, you don’t have to worry about A-Rod going to Boston after he opts out.
If A Rod thinks people “hate on him” in NYC, can you imagine what his life would be like playing in the same town as Shaughnessy? Drawing and Quartering would sound like a night of relaxing family fun after a few Shaughnessy columns slicing and dicing Senor Phony Pants. Cripes, A Rod would have been throwing up between innings if he had an error fest in Beantown like the one he had here last year if The Dan was looking over his shoulder.
It seems Bob Rittner is the only person here that understands that Shaughnessy is mocking bloggers just as much, if not more, than he is mocking Curt Schilling with this absurd piece of rubbish. I can’t believe you would even call this a “hilarious column” seeing that Shaugnessy is insulting and sterotyping each and every person that is a part of the blogging community. FireJoeMorgan.com has caught on very quickly. Here’s hoping the message spreads.
It seems Bob Rittner is the only person here that understands that Shaughnessy is mocking bloggers just as much, if not more, than he is mocking Curt Schilling with this absurd piece of rubbish.
Bingo. How many different ways did Shaughnessy think he could milk the whole tired “Bloggers and their readers are just a bunch of dysfunctional losers hanging out in their parents’ basements” cliche? Given the success of this blog, Pete, and the pride you clearly take in the community, I’d have thought you’d see Shaughnessy’s column for the elitist media garbage that it is. Sure, Schilling’s a clown, but there’s really nothing wrong with a pro athlete having a blog and interacting with his fans.
Wow:
I thought Shaughnessy was only mocking the loser, baseball-ignorant, suck up, sycophantic bloggers who seem to populate Schill’s blog. Thankfully, this blog isn’t like Schill’s. So, I don’t take it so personally.
Shaughnessy is a no talent hack who tries and make HIMSELF bigger than any story he covers. He also routinely rips bloggers and “stat geeks” and starts useless feuds in the media, and built a career by perpetuating a “curse” that never existed.
Shaughnessy’s response to Schilling’s blog is totally, totally puerile. Is he concerned that Curt is taking the middleman out of the process? Well, he should be. I can’t stand Schilling, but his blog, and the questions to which he responds, are much more insightful than Dan’s bloviating.
Shaughnessy should really be embarrassed, as his puling, pathetic column just reflects poorly on sportswriters.
I hate to get too over the top, particularly on the site of a sportswriter for whom I actually have respect, but Shaughnessy’s latest just reinforces why his is a dying breed.
“A Rod would have been throwing up between innings if he had an error fest in Beantown like the one he had here last year if The Dan was looking over his shoulder.”
I’M DOING THE BEST I CAN!!
I happen to like Shaughnessy’s columns, not only for his style, but because he’ll point out in no uncertain terms when the Red Sox suck, and he is often quite funny.
Now, Mike Lupica on the other hand, is neither funny nor insightful. But he sure thinks he is. Actually, he’s just a little chihuahua yapping at the heels of anybody or anything he perceives as less than his version of perfect. And he figures, in a most irritating and self-righteous way, that he’s the guy to put people in their place.
The problem with most sportswriters is that they are absolutely embittered by this simple reality: athletes will always achieve far more adoration for physical talent than sports scribes will ever earn for even excellent writing. It’s basic jock envy. Even in that article, one arrives at the feeling, that, deep down, CHB wants Schilling’s fan boys to be his. The bitter jealously is starkly evident, with his narrow-minded characterization of fans as “losers.� I wonder: Are these fans losers, in one writer’s eyes, because they love Schilling, or because most of them probably hate Shaughnessy?
Being a writer now, removed from a failed playing “career” flat lined by High School caliber curveballs, I realize that a perfectly executed, deliciously subtle pun, despite inherent merit, isn’t jamming 50,000 people into Yankee stadium. It’s better to accept this, instead of being an angry troll about it.
Pete, I’m a little disappointed by your endorsement of an article that is so plainly vicious toward fans. Yeah, anyone who posts on Schilling’s blog is a loser who lives in a basement. Right.
All the cool people must be reading Shaughnessy.
I prefer firejoemorgan.com’s take on CHB.
Shaughnessy is a moron. And while Schilling might be a blowhard he’s done something potentially game changing. He’s interacting with his fans without some gate-keeping middleman like Shaughnessy in the way.
I give Schilling a lot of credit for having the balls to do what he’s doing. It’s pioneering, and anyone who can’t take one second to give him his due for that, is beyond reasoning with.
Schilling’s first attempt to go straight to the fans was his oft-mentioned calling of sports talk radio stations. Although he probably wasn’t kept on hold too long, having his own blog saves time from having to call all the stations. Now that I think about it, he deserves credit for that too.
Let’s recap: Shaughnessy does not like Schill. He thinks Schill is a self-absorbed blowhard. He also does not like the suck ups who write in to Schill’s blog. Does he hate all people who post on blogs? I didn’t read it that way but maybe he does. Do I give a rat’s A? Not at all.
You guys contend that if you found Shaughnessy’s column funny, you are a hypocrite who hates all people who post on blogs. Who cares about Shaughnessy? He took a shot at Schilling, and Pete and others found it funny – - primarily because Dan is relentless about hating Schilling, Schilling is a big blowhard and because Shaughnessy captured the style and thoughts of the sycophants who populate Schill’s blog.
Hey, it’s just my opinion but you Pro-Schiling, Anti-Shaughnessy people are just proving Shaughnessy right about the kinds of thinking you see expressed on blogs by the people who post.
Get over it and stop clogging up this space with your Red Sox garbage.
anyone ever noticed most people in Boston look like Shaughnessy? What up with that yo?
Just to be clear, I am most emphatically not a Red Sox fan, and while I generally do not think I know enough about ballplayers to either like or dislike them-except for what they do on the field-I make an exception in Schilling’s case. I really cannot stand him. None of that is the point. Shaughnessy’s comments are puerile and stupid. I have not read Schilling’s blog (I do not have the stomach for it), but I doubt that his posters are generally sychophants. I have not seen blogs where that is the case. What is clear is that Shaughnessy is purveying moronic nonsense about bloggers and fans who try to understand baseball beyond the traditional reporters’ stress on character and Batting Average. Finding his comments funny is akin to thinking that “Your mama wears combat boots” is a witty rejoinder.
Is that really what passes for humor for the Curly Haired Boyfriend? It only becomes funny in light of an FHM skewering of its godawfulness. Christ, Dan, way to take on the challenging strawmen of internet nerds and Curt Schilling. Will you handle hanging chads next? Perhaps Michael Jackson?
Pete, be sure to take Dan Shaughnessy as a bloated example of everything that is wrong with sports journalism. Shitty writing, poor humor, jock envy, everything that has been elucidated above. He is terrible. The only one worse is that moralizing shit Bill Plaschke, who singlehandedly drove De Podesta out of Los Angeles. Oh, and Marrioti, who barely qualifies as a human.
Err, FJM, not FHM. Though FHM is hot too.
murphydog, it is very clear from Shaugnessy’s comments that he is not just specifically ripping the people who populate Schill’s blog. He’s ripping bloggers in general. If you even just browse quickly through the comments on Schill’s blog, you will see mostly intelligent, well-written responses just as you see on this blog, or many other blogs for that matter. And so there is no reason to think that those specific bloggers are more of the loser, Star-Trek addicted, mom’s basement type of people that Shaugnessy describes.
You seem to agree whole-heartedly with Dan that Schilling’s blog is made up of these kinds of people. And so I must conclude that you are just ignorant. Have you even looked at Schill’s blog for more than a few minutes?? I hate Schilling just like any other Yankee fan does, but you are simply wrong on this one.
And it’s ok to find Shaugnessy’s article funny from a “I hate Schilling” standpoint. But you are really missing half of his point if you don’t understand that he is also making fun of bloggers in general.