Bad Baseball Journalism
According to the Boston Globe, David Ortiz has hit 37 homers and driven in 105 runs because he likes a good helping of rice and beans before every game and because he likes to play with children.
Could there be no other explanations?
Don't get me wrong, I think Ortiz is an astonishingly good player. But you have to wonder if this isn't one of those pieces of baseball journalism that's going to make you wince in a couple years. (And in all fairness, any questions asked of David Ortiz would also have to be asked of
Jason Giambi.)
Meanwhile, the New York Times continues its pro-Mets bias. Last night,
the Mets lost, 4-1, to the woeful Florida Marlins. The Yankees, who are in an exciting pennant race against a very good team—which the Mets are not—
beat the very credible Toronto Blue Jays, 8-1, and opened up a narrow one-game lead over the Sox. While the Mets are 5-4 in their last nine games, the Yankees are 8-1.
So, naturally, guess
which team dominates the front page of the NYT sports section?
I would love to know the reason why a Mets loss to the Marlins—the Marlins!—is considered more newsworthy than a Yankee victory that puts them in first place.....
