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Speaking of ignorance in the media. I caught a nice gem from one of Boston's "well respected" mediots, Ted Sarandis this past week when I was driving home from my buddy's house at night.
Ted was waxing idiotic about how he'd take Jim Rice over Manny Ramirez any day of the week and twice on Sunday. When a caller with some sense called in questioning him on this, Ted was like, "look at the numbers!" and started rambling about total bases, RBI, and several other raw numbers.
He also stated that Jim's 1978 was the best season ever had by a Red Sox hitter other than Yaz's triple crown 1967 season. I'm sure a couple guys named Ted and Wade would have several things to say about that.
That's just an example of the things that I hear/read on a weekly basis other than votes, awards, and the like that make me call the writers ignorant. They may be a very, very smart group people. However, they are very, very ignorant group of smart people when it comes to measuring performance in baseball.
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