Rob Neyer: My opinion only further reinforced
by MH252525 on Sep 28, 2008 12:08 PM PDT
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PrintRob Neyer is such a moron. I'm reading this live chat he's doing on ESPN and he says he's listening to one of the games on the radio while watching another one. So I respond.
Me: So a writer at ESPN hasn't graduated to the 21st Century? MLB.TV Mosaic rocks! I'm watching all 4 games at once right now.
He responds: Rob Neyer: I'm happy for you Mark, but I have just the one computer and I'm currently using it to talk to YOU.
I respond with the following although I know he won't respond.
"I'm talking to you and watching all 4. It's called Windows, what are you using DOS? Or you could just get another monitor, almost all computers have 2 outputs."
The guy is an internet journalist and I don't even think he has a better understanding of technology than my 5th grade niece.
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Oh, so you were that whiney bitch.
I read that in the chat and assumed it was an annoying east-coaster.
Your reading skills are obviously flawed
He posted ONE question from me and it was from Mark in California. I can really see how you thought it’d be an east-coaster.
Didn't read the name and location.
I guess I got the whiney from reading this post more so than the chat.
So you make an error... call me "whiney"
and I’m suppose to just not comment. Brilliant!
Any Angels fan wouldn't be cordial with Rob Neyer if you've followed his columns at all.
He’s a huge Royal’s/Mariner’s homer. A Royals fan when the Angels/Royals were battling in the 80’s, and he moved to Seattle when the Angels/M’s were doing the same in the 90’s.
Don’t exactly know how you get “whiney bitch” from ONE comment pointing out he’s doing a HORRIBLE job of covering the 4 games.
Seems like a silly complaint of Neyer.
Disagree with his columns/blogs, fine. But to fault him for not watching multiple games on his computer seems a bit whiney to me, in an irrational Yankee or Red Sux fan sort of way.
The question/comment I posed of him
Wasn’t a criticism of him. I was sarcastically pointing out that a MUCH better option was available than watching one game on TV and getting a radio feed on the internet.
I only got smart with him once he incorrectly got smart with me and said that him running the chat made him unable to do anything else on him computer even though it is very easily accomplished simply by resizing the MLB.TV window.
have some spaghetti
If GA wasn't so Lazy, I'd have something clever here.
by TheTypingFiend on Sep 28, 2008 4:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Yea stupid me for trying to increase his productivity by like 200%
w/o calling him a name. He’s living in 1995 and still writing “Chin Musak” if he thinks the best way to follow 4 games at once is w/ a tv and internet radio feed. If anything he was rude to me by writing that it was impossible for him to use MLB.TV and IE/Firefox at the same time when most 3rd graders could show him how to resize a full screen window.
he may
have been rude, but how was he wrong?
Lamest poster of all-time.
by ineptituderunsamok on Sep 29, 2008 12:03 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, it may be easy for you or I to browse the internet
while watching 4 games on the same screen. But we’re not speaking to thousands of people in a professional capacity while doing that. How Rob Neyer decides to do his work is his business, in my opinion. He had one game on TV, one on the radio, and was fielding dozens of questions at a time, trying to answer as many of them as he could as quickly as possible. Forgive him if he couldn’t take the time or the screen space to watch two more games.
Furthermore, why should Rob Neyer be expected to watch all four games? Is watching more games really better? You could watch twenty games but are you really watching any of them? You could argue that it’s his job to watch so many games but no one does that. ESPN’s lead baseball analyst, Joe Morgan, is known for pretty much watching the games he announces and that’s about it. But it’s true of most journalist, commentators, and analysts; they watch the games they’re expected to cover plus whatever else they can watch in their spare time, and that’s it. It’s not reasonable for them to watch every game, and even less so when they have a live chat to administrate.
I don’t really want to be Rob Neyer’s personal spokesman, but since you asked, that’s why I think MH is wrong.
He was doing a chat on the 4 games that had playoff implications
Yet he was relying on people posting him questions to tell him when something was happening in 2 of the games and the game he was listening to on the radio he was at least a minute or two behind the TV feed. He was not answering all that many questions either. It wasn’t like a lightning round or anything.
If you haven’t used MLB.TV Mosaic then I could see how’d you think it’s hard to follow 4 games. Personally I find it very easy because they are constantly updating a little diagram below each game which shows baserunners and outs. You just start paying more attention to games with runners on base and you can have that game be the biggest one or the one w/ sound.
“You could argue that it’s his job to watch so many games but no one does that.” Have you taken a poll and this or something????
“Joe Morgan, is known for pretty much watching the games he announces and that’s about it.” I wouldn’t be shocked at all if that was true but Morgan is also a horrible announcer when it comes to knowing players other than the top 2 or 3 on each team. Doesn’t he still call them the California Angels. Great job of bringing up someone else who is incompetent at his job to defend someone else doing a lousy job! That’s like saying Sean Rodriquez was hitting the cover off the ball because Jeff Mathis is hitting in the .180’s.
I think Rocktopus is still listening to his 8-Tracks
while talking on his Zach Morris cell-phone and thinking he’s “cool”.
Also
How come I never get congratulated when I’m being rude?
If GA wasn't so Lazy, I'd have something clever here.
by TheTypingFiend on Sep 29, 2008 1:19 AM PDT up reply actions
Even more to the point;
the guy makes a living watching baseball. Couldn’t he run down to Costco and buy like 15 62 inch plasmas and write it off on his taxes?
Lamest poster of all-time.
by ineptituderunsamok on Sep 28, 2008 6:35 PM PDT reply actions
Exact-O-mundo
Was thinking the same way, but more so.
Why isn’t he watching all the games all the time. Just because he can, and it pays for his rent.
What a duffus for not subscribing, or getting comped, MLB TV.
The Baseball Writers Assoc of Ameica won't grant Neyer membership
They say he does not attend enough games in peson – now we find out he doesn’t vene watch that many games.
MEANWHILE, with Neyer’s KNOWN ADMITTED use of pseudonyms on the internet to critique his critics, we all here have to wonder whether or not SNOWHOR is in fact ROB NEYER.
Sounds like the BWAA thinks
his opinions on baseball are about as valid as I think his opinions about computers are.
I'm still
trying to figure out exactly how he qualifies as an expert? There are people on this board who are both A) better informed and B) better writers.
Lamest poster of all-time.
by ineptituderunsamok on Sep 29, 2008 12:02 AM PDT up reply actions
Wow, now I'm an imposter?
I just thought it was a silly critique of Neyer. I understand taking issue with some of his columns and blogs, but to complain that he’s not watching 4 games at once on his computer? Really?
I support this thread 100%
Pseudonyms included.
"Hey Butch, the rigatoni's getting cold. Get Speier up."
This is a pointless, snippy discussion
Stop it.
Rob Neyer is an Angel hater who pretends to follow a mathematical creed — sabermetrics — that promises to reveal all to him. For the most part, he is pretty reasonable. Unfortunately, his blind hatred of the Halos shields him from the light; he is Plato’s cave dweller who mistakes shadows for substance.
Come into the light, Rob!
And dual monitors rock.
Dual Monitors do rock
but didn’t you know if you are on a computer chatting that’s all that can be accomplished.
Neyer more stubborn than right
Plucked from ESPN’s playoff blog today…
Stephen (Sacramento, CA): Congrats on making the post season chat roster. Keep up the good work. If the Angels win the world series will you admit they’re the best team?
SportsNation Rob Neyer: I will admit that they played the best in October. Probably.
What’s this guy’s problem?
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