Pirates fire GM Dave Littlefield

[UK1679666180]

What he has done is a big deal to me, I respect his work.

[Banedon]

i give the credit to the 80 year old scout who saw something special in andre ethier

 

Such a great read:

 

http://www.firejoemorgan.com/2006/08/best-ever.html

 

 

What a [expletive] douche that writer is, trying to discredit the work LaMacchia does.

 

LaMacchia has forgotten more baseball in a week than the writer, I, or anyone on this board will ever know about the game.

 

Wow...that wasn't the way I read that...not at all. I think the point wasn't whether Lamacchia knew what he was talking about...he clearly does. The point was that Andre Ethier wasn't exactly this obscure prospect hiding in a cornfield somewhere. I really didn't see anywhere that he was criticizing Lamacchia...it was all about the false drama that Bill Plaschke interjected into the article.

[VVMattVV]

I don't think -- NO ONE THINKS -- that scouts are worthless. EVERYONE who watches baseball and knows about baseball knows the value of scouting. It has value. Okay? It has value. It can tell you things about a player's constitution, and hustle, and all that stuff, which is definitely important.

 

But what has as much, if not more, value -- in nearly every single possible scenario -- is the analysis of statistical information.

 

This is what KenTremendous wrote at the end, and he's right.

 

Plaschke is an idiot and a horrible writer.

[jersey cubs fan]

What he has done is a big deal to me, I respect his work.

 

Good for you. It doesn't mean anybody else has to buy this fluff nonsense about giving his life. You're hurt because somebody who runs a website dedicated to poking holes in the terrible baseball media poked holes in a crap article that happened to mythologize a guy you happen to mythologize as well. Sorry, but that doesn't make the guy a pinhead.

[jersey cubs fan]

I don't think -- NO ONE THINKS -- that scouts are worthless. EVERYONE who watches baseball and knows about baseball knows the value of scouting. It has value. Okay? It has value. It can tell you things about a player's constitution, and hustle, and all that stuff, which is definitely important.

 

But what has as much, if not more, value -- in nearly every single possible scenario -- is the analysis of statistical information.

 

This is what KenTremendous wrote at the end, and he's right.

 

Plaschke is an idiot and a horrible writer.

 

It was clear throughout this was about ripping on the overly dramatic crap Plaschke was putting out there.

[UK1679666180]

I don't think -- NO ONE THINKS -- that scouts are worthless. EVERYONE who watches baseball and knows about baseball knows the value of scouting. It has value. Okay? It has value. It can tell you things about a player's constitution, and hustle, and all that stuff, which is definitely important.

 

But what has as much, if not more, value -- in nearly every single possible scenario -- is the analysis of statistical information.

 

This is what KenTremendous wrote at the end, and he's right.

 

Plaschke is an idiot and a horrible writer.

 

Let me how that statistical value helps LaMacchia when he's scouting HS kids?

 

I don't like most of Plaschke's work either, some of it's real good as far as how he paints a picture, I don't think this article was any good nor was how he treated DePodesta.

[UK1679666180]

What he has done is a big deal to me, I respect his work.

 

Good for you. It doesn't mean anybody else has to buy this fluff nonsense about giving his life. You're hurt because somebody who runs a website dedicated to poking holes in the terrible baseball media poked holes in a crap article that happened to mythologize a guy you happen to mythologize as well. Sorry, but that doesn't make the guy a pinhead.

 

I don't think I put him on a pedestal, if respecting and defending what he has done against someone who knows nothing about him makes him a mythological creature, then I guess there are plenty of occupied pedestals around.

[CubinNY]

I don't think -- NO ONE THINKS -- that scouts are worthless. EVERYONE who watches baseball and knows about baseball knows the value of scouting. It has value. Okay? It has value. It can tell you things about a player's constitution, and hustle, and all that stuff, which is definitely important.

 

But what has as much, if not more, value -- in nearly every single possible scenario -- is the analysis of statistical information.

 

This is what KenTremendous wrote at the end, and he's right.

 

Plaschke is an idiot and a horrible writer.

 

Let me how that statistical value helps LaMacchia when he's scouting HS kids?

 

I don't like most of Plaschke's work either, some of it's real good as far as how he paints a picture, I don't think this article was any good nor was how he treated DePodesta.

 

Statistcis are numbers. Numbers give validity to judgment. Stopwatches can be used to measure things at high school games. Those things (numbers) can be put into data bases and used to aid judgment.

 

I get what you are saying and am sympathetic to your positon. However, I think your personal experiences are clouding your judgment here.

[UK1679666180]

I don't take offense to how he is critical of the writer/article, but when he starts ripping on LaMacchia's scouting techniques, that's what gets on my nerves.

[UK1679666180]

I know the writer (KenTremendous) is an intelligent person and a gifted writer but if he was trying to cont. or comment on a stats/scout debate in his article, I think he came off as a narrowminded ass.

[GoCubsGo1679625768]

i give the credit to the 80 year old scout who saw something special in andre ethier

 

Such a great read:

 

http://www.firejoemorgan.com/2006/08/best-ever.html

 

 

What a [expletive] douche that writer is, trying to discredit the work LaMacchia does.

 

LaMacchia has forgotten more baseball in a week than the writer, I, or anyone on this board will ever know about the game.

 

Hey Al, is that you! Relax buddy, that article was more of a shot at Plachske.settle town tiger.

[USSoccer]

I know the writer (KenTremendous) is an intelligent person and a gifted writer but if he was trying to cont. or comment on a stats/scout debate in his article, I think he came off as a narrowminded ass.

 

If anything he was taking Plaschke's article-which was a blatant shot at the stats/scouts thing in it's own right, btw-and ridiculing the way Plaschke makes LaMacchia look like Yoda for figuring out that the A's minor league POY was a prospect worth trading for. Just because he takes stupid, overdramatic sentences and highlights their ridiculousness doesn't make it an attack on the scout.

 

He qualifies himself enough on that article and others for him to be able to take shots at the dramatized, heavy handed way Plaschke wrote about the scout.

[GoCubsGo1679625768]

I'd also like to add that Either is getting to be overrated as hell.