He will read it and block your email address from being able to reach his.

“worst sports column”

If he keeps up like this he will be.

Like the Times knows that it shows a Dodgers bias and this article was tongue-in-cheek.

I especially find it funny that LA sports media (not just Simers) discount the Angels as boring because they win an easy division and lose to the Sox in the playoffs. However, prior to Manny, no one spent a minute thinking about the Dodgers outside of Chavez Ravine and East LA. Media craze stems from Manny (for his stupidity and talent), not from the Dodgers on the whole.

Whicker’s has all the repression of a Born Again Child Rapist percolating under the surface of each tense sentence.

“TJ Simers can kiss my ass”

at least he can hide behind the fact that his writing is schtick. Wicker, not so much. in fact, Wicker couldn’t really hide behind much of anything. except maybe the biggest big daddy alpha male elephant Ringling Bros brought to the Honda Center a short while back.

“No sense listening to what he (Scioscia) had to say, so I did what he’d do if given the chance. I opted to eat.”

I chuckled.

Any reference to a rapid badger and duct tape gets a rec from me!

Is that part of your art critic life? What magazines do you publish?

I am going to have a word with Whicker and also with Tim Mead. This is horseshit with a capital H.

a) the fact that Whicker remains ignorant of the culture of the Internet and the dangerous liability of exposing oneself to the near-limitless assaults possible by electronic tools is a choice that Whicker has made for himself. His personal exposure came earlier than the Internet, and was protected by the snail pace of the U.S. Postal system. Now that his exposure has been dragged into the New Media, his response is crude and rude and loaded with self-arrogance.

b) you, on the other hand, are very easily identified. You make very little effort to protect your true identity. That Whicker is unwilling to take the few simple steps to identify you in person does NOT mean that you, yourself, are some chicken-hearted cheap shot artist unwilling to climb out from under some rock. It merely means that Whicker is lazy. His laziness is not your liability.

c) you chose to protest using your ACTUAL pseudonym. You did NOT make up some other identity with which to cast your stones. You had the cajones to put your hard-earned SB Nation reputation at stake. Such a thing can cost you money. Maybe not a furtune, yet, but tangible assets were put at risk.

No. You certainly do not grant him point #1.

is all about belittling, and really nothing else. I’d say 95% of his comments on the ocr angels blog are belittling or attacking another opinion. They have never erased my comments back to him, so at least they play fair there.

But to be fair, many people were breaking rule #2 in their comments.

Not that I completely disagree with that.

Leave the jokes about tragedies to trained experts!

CHUCK RICHTER LOVES RAPE JOKES HE JUST DELETED A THREAD AT HIS ASSHOLESWIM BLOG THAT WAS BASHING MARKWICHTER. STICKING TOGETHER WITH GARRIDO

I didn’t realize they had more than 4 employees left over there in the Sports dept to do that kind of work. and that includes the head toilet scrubber.

I don’t think it’s futile at all. Nor is this a “feud.”

We need to pile on public scorn so this bottom-feeder (and future ones too) gets the message that what he said in his column was beyond wrong. We are enforcing societal norms here. The more people express outrage at this, the more we make clear that it is not OK to make light of a little girl being kidnapped and raped for years.

The minute vile trash like this is rebutted with merely a “snarky comment” is the moment this world has gone off the deep end.

I get what you’re saying about that

But we cannot ignore or blow off what Whicker wrote. I say lay it on thick.

…the guy was coming off his perch to their Angels blog specifically to take me to task – he entered MY ring, and suddenly he was in the middle of a forum where his mighty opinion was revealed to be just another ordinary opinion.

This was a clear misjudgment on Whicker’s part, a complete swing and a miss.

I am quite surprised by the angry tone of the reaction. Some have asked me why I didn’t make light of the 9/11 attack or the Holocaust while I was at it, ignoring the fact that this woman is alive. For 18 years the family didn’t know if she was or not. Obviously I mis-read the emotional component of this story because the reaction really has been quite extreme. I think the intent of the column was still valid. I could have changed some ways of expressing it to make it more palatable, I suppose.

What a FUCKING douchebag.

“War of the Worlds” was just a radio show!