View Full Version : Best Baseball/Yankee Columnist
Dr. Gonzo
02-14-06, 03:54 PM
Since many here lambast anyone who judges the yankees in a harsch way calls them the worst writer, and then will also say they write well when the praise the yanks. I figured a thread about who the best baseball writer is.
I appreciate that Olney gets off his ass everyday to do those summary things for espn.
Gammons can get annoying and does kiss Boston ass but his weekly article is one of the best I think. He defiantley seems to have the most connections into baseball.
I also prefer the Post for yankee articles.
BillBuckner
02-14-06, 04:28 PM
I like Harold Reynolds and John Kruk. They're not really biased at all. They also havr great chemistry and are very entertaining.
brosiusbuddy
02-14-06, 04:32 PM
I like Harold Reynolds and John Kruk. They're not really biased at all. They also havr great chemistry and are very entertaining.
I also enjoy these guys. Both had nice careers playing the game too. Reynolds for the Mariners and Kruk for the US Competetive Eating team.
Kevin Kennedy is the best.
just my opinion.i feel newspaper sportswriters are the dumbest people on earth.the dumbest out of them are the baseball writers.99% of them have ever played the game or for that matter involved in any sport.you had to have been an athlete to know and feel what goes on with the game.what goes on in their heart and mind.
yankeebot
02-15-06, 11:09 AM
Kevin Kennedy is the best.I love him with Rob Dibble on XM.
costanza35
02-15-06, 11:35 AM
i've always enjoyed buster olney's writing. I like Rob Neyer's work too, especially the books he has written, but i usually dont get a chance to read a lot of his stuff cuz i dont have an espn insider membership.
THEBOSS84
02-15-06, 11:46 AM
I happen to love Joel Sherman @ the Post. I used to think he was a Yankee basher, but I then realized he just tells it as it is.
Although most of you guys can't stand Gammons, I always enjoy watching him on Baseball Tonight, or reading his articles on ESPN.COM
jimmyclark
02-15-06, 11:49 AM
Best writer at ESPN? Talk about trying to find a needle in a haystack. Olney's Productive Out stat was the stupidest idea in history. Spend 30 seconds studying it and you know it the more POs you have, the more losses you have. Gammons can be fair to the Yankees, especially for a Red Sox fan, but when have any of his predicted trades come off? Jayson Stark is pretty good..weird wonderful trivia. Some bad analysis (Shannon Stewart for MVP 2 years ago?Please. Gooodmidseason pickup but not MVP). Neyer's stuff is good but I don't get NESN2 insider.
Best national writer could be Ken Rosenthal of TSN. Murray Chass of NY Times is best on labor issues but his analysis of "Moneyball" last week was very poor.
Worst sportswriter ever: Mike Lupica.
fredgmuggs
02-15-06, 11:58 AM
I think Ken Rosenthal of the Sorting News and Foxsports.com is excellent. Gordon Edes' baseball notes column in the Sunday Boston Globe is a must read for me, as well.
27IsNext
02-15-06, 12:20 PM
It'll be me one day.
Arod for President
02-15-06, 12:30 PM
I like Harold Reynolds and John Kruk. They're not really biased at all. They also havr great chemistry and are very entertaining.
I think your the first person Ive heard say they Like Kruk! But hey everyones gotta have some fans right? I do agree though that they arnt very biased. Kruk though does tend to favor the NL a little more, but we all know hes in Denial :)
Kulish29
02-15-06, 12:38 PM
Ken Rosenthal and Steve Goldman.
AndThenThereWasTino
02-15-06, 01:58 PM
just my opinion.i feel newspaper sportswriters are the dumbest people on earth.the dumbest out of them are the baseball writers.99% of them have ever played the game or for that matter involved in any sport.you had to have been an athlete to know and feel what goes on with the game.what goes on in their heart and mind.
A-men
Sheff_Rod
02-15-06, 02:55 PM
I like Mike Vaccaro.
hellonewman
02-15-06, 04:15 PM
Rosenthal and Verducci. I like Stark's trivia, but I'm still having trouble getting past the way he bungled the Chacon-trade column.
Rosenthal and Verducci. I like Stark's trivia, but I'm still having trouble getting past the way he bungled the Chacon-trade column.I gotta second this. Rosenthal's done a great job covering this offseason and Verducci always writes solid articles for SI.
Alan Schwartz is a good writer who does tremendous research for his articles. I've always enjoyed his work.
I used to love BA's writers- Gammons, Ringolsby, Stark, et al. They all wrote for their locals, yet paved the national landscape as well. Gammons old Sunday pieces in the Globe were generally fabulous. Say what you want, but the man could write, loved the game, and knew the game.
I grew up with Moss Klein at the Newark Star Ledger, and they haven't had anyone of substance since. Graziano is more concerned with his own pulpit and letting the world know of his thoughts, rather than reporting on the game.
Chass was once a very good writer, but has lost his way. Some of his Red Sox articles over the past year or two have been downright putrid. He has not masked his dislike for the Sox, and it's been blatantly unprofessional in some respects.
I don't mind the Joel Sherman's of the world, as long as you take those two papers with a grain of salt and realize they get paid to develop stories and sell copies- not report everything dead accurate.
I never liked Olney as a Yankee beat writer, but he's developed a nice "go-to" column on ESPN. Neyer is interesting, though he tends to be a little too black and white.
THEBOSS84
02-15-06, 08:11 PM
I think Ken Rosenthal of the Sorting News and Foxsports.com is excellent. Gordon Edes' baseball notes column in the Sunday Boston Globe is a must read for me, as well.
Not only is Rosenthal an excellent writer, he'll also answer your emails.
In September of 04, I emailed him asking him to predict the WS - he correctly predicted to me that the Red Sox would beat the Cards.
jimmyclark
02-15-06, 09:30 PM
Alan Schwartz is a good writer who does tremendous research for his articles. I've always enjoyed his work.
I used to love BA's writers- Gammons, Ringolsby, Stark, et al. They all wrote for their locals, yet paved the national landscape as well. Gammons old Sunday pieces in the Globe were generally fabulous. Say what you want, but the man could write, loved the game, and knew the game.
I grew up with Moss Klein at the Newark Star Ledger, and they haven't had anyone of substance since. Graziano is more concerned with his own pulpit and letting the world know of his thoughts, rather than reporting on the game.
Chass was once a very good writer, but has lost his way. Some of his Red Sox articles over the past year or two have been downright putrid. He has not masked his dislike for the Sox, and it's been blatantly unprofessional in some respects.
I don't mind the Joel Sherman's of the world, as long as you take those two papers with a grain of salt and realize they get paid to develop stories and sell copies- not report everything dead accurate.
I never liked Olney as a Yankee beat writer, but he's developed a nice "go-to" column on ESPN. Neyer is interesting, though he tends to be a little too black and white.
I know Chass had some major health problems before and didn't write for a long time. I do hope they didn't permanently affect him.
Joel Sherman is decent but most of the Post writers..Vaccaro, Greenberg, King are too consumed by hate and stupidity (Pedro Martinez in 1999 was not worth one of George King's ten votes for MVP? Pathetic). Mushnick will see things from a different perspective but quite frankly I wonder if he is bigoted agaisnt Asian players like Ichiro and Danny Graves.
Ken Rosenthal, Steve Goldman and Tom Verducci.
Dooley Womack
02-16-06, 12:36 AM
Ken Rosenthal
apolansk
02-16-06, 12:48 AM
Rosenthal and Verducci.
PaulieIsAwesome
02-16-06, 01:36 AM
Rosenthal and Verducci.
Oh yeah. Verducci is my favorite, because when you watch him, he's so calm, rational, and intelligent. Rosenthal comes off a little more annoying, but I like him a lot.
Dr. Gonzo
02-16-06, 09:54 AM
This may shock many here, but everyone's enemy Gammons had this to say.
"This is like the obsessive Red Sox fans who still cry about Jason Giambi hitting two home runs in Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS, as if no Red Sox player possibly could have used any substance (cue the laugh track)."
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