Reusse 1500 column: Liking the coach and not the message

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That column barely makes sense.

"Minnesota is worse than Indiana. Maturi is a dolt. Minnesota is worse than Indiana. I like Jerry Kill because of his accent. The end."
 

The coach is the message. Indiana hired an assistant coach from a "name" program. We hired one with a winning record as a head coach. Time will show who made the better hire.
 

When the most compelling point is made by a guy who has a speaking voice that sounds like he just changed Sid's diaper with his mouth; well, I'm going to look elsewhere (yet again) for informed opinion about this team.
 

There's a reason these guys are local media instead of national media. The national media doesn't stop at "He was the coach at NIU". They will look at his resume, and talk to people who have played for him and coached with and against him to see what they think. In short, they give us more than we could have easily gotten ourselves.
 


Not Patrick's finest work. It's like he takes his rough draft of his Strib columns and throws them up as am1500 blogs. I hope to read an edited more coherent version in the Star Tribune tomorrow.
 

Correction: The national media will be just like the local media, but they will consider how their message will be received (cared about) in New York.
 

Gopher07 said:
That column barely makes sense.

"Minnesota is worse than Indiana. Maturi is a dolt. Minnesota is worse than Indiana. I like Jerry Kill because of his accent. The end."
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Pretty much. It's an attempt to be as negative as possible without much evidence to go on. Therefore, we get rambling nonsense. Why am I not surprised.
 

Reusse Only Knows Baseball

MRJ said:
Pretty much. It's an attempt to be as negative as possible without much evidence to go on. Therefore, we get rambling nonsense. Why am I not surprised.
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Reusse only knows about baseball. I give him credit for his knowledge most of the time. One prediction he made in the spring this year was that Jesse Crain was going to get released because he lost his stuff.

Reusse is lazy and never researches the subjects before he makes his critical writings. He has never written positive columns -- only negative ones. I don't read him anymore.
 



Reusse doesn't know anything about baseball. Ask him what wOBA, xFIP and VORP are and watch his eyes glaze over.
 



Khaliq said:
Reusse doesn't know anything about baseball. Ask him what wOBA, xFIP and VORP are and watch his eyes glaze over.
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I strongly disagree with him 85 percent of the time but this statement is not accurate, in my opinion. If he knows anything, its baseball. Yes, he doesn't subscribe to a lot of new age stats that you name, but that's more of his personal opinon about what is valuable rather than a lack of knowledge. He knows more about baseball than any other writer in town and most of the time I wish he'd confine himself to it.

God I just defended him. Need to take a shower now.
 



Khaliq said:
Reusse doesn't know anything about baseball. Ask him what wOBA, xFIP and VORP are and watch his eyes glaze over.
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I think most people's eyes glaze over when people talk about this crap.
 

The only baseball stats that really matter are those that you might actually hear about in a baseball game. Very few readers would know or care about such stats.
 

Whether or not readers care about them is immaterial. Having a basic grasp of the tools modern franchises use to evaluate players is pretty important.
 

The only stats that matter are 'grit', 'battlin', and 'playing the game the right way'.
 


These stats are irrelevant to readers, that's what matters.
 

Educating your readers is part of his role. He doesn't need to go to stuff like xFIP but he could at least use OPS instead of BA/RBI/dingerzzzz.
 

Is the rest of the baseball media taking your advice?
 


I can't even stomach the thought of giving that station more web hits, so I'll pass.
 

RodentRampage said:
Is the rest of the baseball media taking your advice?
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Slowly but surely yes! King Felix's Cy Young was a watershed moment when it comes to new thinking versus old in the sports media.
 

Khaliq said:
Whether or not readers care about them is immaterial. Having a basic grasp of the tools modern franchises use to evaluate players is pretty important.
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Not if the team you cover is the Twins.
 

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