Media Fight! Ornery Rob Dibble Takes to Twitter to Bash ESPN’s Keith Law and Rob Neyer
Baseball, ESPN, Media Gossip/Musings June 8th. 2009, 1:15pm
Last relevant in the early 90s as part of the heralded “Nasty Boys” (Norm Charlton had filthier stuff), Rob Dibble has pinged around as an “analyst” at various networks/outlets for the last decade. But for baseball insight, who’s listening to this guy? Dibble thought the Nationals (currently 15-40, worst record in the bigs) had 95-win potential. The man was serious. This puts him in Steve Phillips territory.
His penchant for outbursts was on display recently, and his target: Two ESPN writers who didn’t play the game.
It began with a Rob Neyer blog post. Then, Dibble ranted via twitter (since erased, but saved here):
Somehow, Keith Law got caught in the crossfire.
Social media fights. Man, these things are great.
Rob Dibble and Rob Neyer: TWITTER FIGHT!!! (Federal Baseball)
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June 8th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
so…howabout that roger federer guy? he had himself a lovely weekend actually playing a sport.
tiger too.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Seriously, Tiger Woods is good at golf. I’d love to talk about it, too. I’d love to talk about my status as a casual golf fan who tuned in, and was mesmerized.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
@spencer- that byrd guy choked
June 8th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
that he did.
so did ogilvy, who’s a world class player. furyk is the only guy who showed any balls (aside from tiger).
June 8th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Rob Dibble, at one point, also shit on the concept of pitch count relating to a reliever’s potential arm problems over time. He was a career reliever who blew his arm out by age 31. So clearly he needs to pay attention more to his own career. Even more clear is that Rob Dibble should only be consulted for his opinion when the subject is beer, crunchy snack foods, or Lou Piniella. Anything outside of that, is just noise coming out of his mouth.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
so…howabout that roger federer guy? he had himself a lovely weekend actually playing a sport.
there are too many other more interesting things to discuss like twi++er fights, plus we’ve now gone these two fantastic posts without discussing hoops.
/time to get train back on track’d
/see you later’d
June 8th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
i wish furyk would have won. always enjoyed watching him play.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
lebron > kobe
June 8th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
What’s with all the epithet’s lately? Ornery Rob Dibble, Jittery Vince Young, Petulant Brett Favre…it’s like a Greek tragedy in here.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
we’ve already gotten the favre post. what more do you people want.
/vomits.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
What’s with all the epithet’s lately? Ornery Rob Dibble, Jittery Vince Young, Petulant Brett Favre…it’s like a Greek tragedy in here.
And who, outside of 70 year old women and extras from the set of Dukes of Hazzard, uses the word “ornery”?
June 8th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
totally. he’s completely maxxed out his talent…i just wish sergio could do the same.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
What’s the deal with cancer?
June 8th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
I would have used cantankerous.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
I always figured Dibs was roided up during his career.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
That boy’s got a bee in his bonnet!
June 8th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
spencer: i think you meant if Sergio could have at least gotten to his minimum talent level. Hitting 250 yard 5 irons means nothing if you can’t win.
I used to hit a putter on a 176 yard par 3 for bets and never missed the green. Nobody cares about that either.
/about as good as sinking shots from behind backboards in pregame’d
/I gotta think Tiger wins at BPB by 5
June 8th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
I bet Rob Dibble is ornery because he has so many teeth but no toothbrush.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
i remember dibble — who like most in the electronic medium take advantage of daddy being in the business (are you reading this joe buck and erin andrews, et al?) when he worked with dull patrick was the only thing remotely interesting on that show.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
jpq…yea, yea, yea sergio is wasting his talent. im over it.
absolutely. if he brings what he had sunday, he’ll win by AT LEAST 5.
but am i delusional for thinking that phil’s gonna ride the wave of emotion and the NYC crowd to contention? who wouldn’t wanna see a phil/tiger showdown at the 2nd toughest course in america with the NYC crowd going wild for the us open trophy? dear god, that’d be a wet golf dream come true.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
jpq…you might find this worth a read.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
To go after a guy based on the tired old argument that he never played the game is pretty weak. Only current and former athletes are allowed to discuss the sport they’re participating in? Should we fans not even make snide comments or general observations while watching the games in the stands, or on television at home? When one of these musclehead jocks sounds off against “outsiders” like this, maybe we all should take their tirade as a cue to tune out for a while. After all, there’s no way we could ever comprehend the ins and outs of the game, anyways, right?
June 8th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Needle dick! Needle dick! Huuuurrrrrr!
June 8th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Rob Dibble should be added to the video game Rampage.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
charlton was cut from the same cloth as ‘johnny’ in karate kid.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
No Nascar post this morning, so this seems as good a place as any to point out that Dale Earnhardt Jr., new crew chief in tow, finished a disappointing 27th in yesterday’s Nascar Nextel Cup race in Pocono. New car, new owner, new crew chief…seems like the 88 car is all out of excuses. It’s time to take a good, hard look in the mirror, Junior. The man staring back at you is the new Kyle Petty. Like you, his father is one of the greatest drivers of all time. And, like you, he hasn’t amounted to squat on the race track. It’s time to put all the whining and excuses aside and take accountability for the fact that you are more D-List celebrity than stock car champion, and try to salvage something out of your disappointing career behind the wheel.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
dibble is absolutely hung up on writers controling the voting for the hall of fame. he’s always whining about that. but guess who started the hall? the writers.
and, like steve czaben, if someone is so obsessed with who is allowed to vote for a sports’ hall of fame, there is nothing at all stopping someone from starting their own hall of fame (like ted williams did with his “hitters hall of fame” in florida), and in the process writing it all off as a non-profit.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
I get so tired of the “so and so didn’t play the game” argument. By this metric, only like 3 dudes can talk about Obama doing poorly or succeeding…total bull shit argument. Dibble is such a tool.
June 8th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
spencer: well done…wrong…but well done nonetheless
We would have to submit term papers as to why each of us is right and refute why the other is wrong. I like Tiger a TON, but you give Jack absolutely NO love at all. You keep forgetting technology. Hell the fucking Burner commercial w/ Faldo showed him hitting it 25 YARDS farther than his ALREADY over-engineered clubs. You always say Jack wasn’t a good wedge player. You know why? They didn’t hit 340 yard drives and go wedge into a 485 yard hole! He was hitting it 285 and hitting a 5 iron.
Golf is SO much easier than it was in the past, thus the preponderance of good golfers. However, it has not produced “champion” golfers. Tiger is of another world. He would have been dominant 40 years ago, and would be in 2050. So would Jack. That’s my only point.
/unassailable moniker’d
June 8th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
No Nascar posts EVER
/fixed
June 8th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
It’s weird that Tiger and Federer aren’t getting more love on TBL today. I mean, Tiger wore a hat during yesterday’s round and Federer sported one during his post-match interview.
June 8th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
@jpq: That’s the point, though. Jack relative to his peers didn’t win like Tiger does.
I realize Tiger hasn’t begun his decline yet, so it’s skewed. But he also hasn’t hit his “prime” yet, if you believe Jack yesterday, who said his prime was 33-36.
June 8th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
i will admit that i do have a slight bias against jack when it comes to golf…i find his course design to be brutally repetitve, boring and set up only for the way HE likes to golf (every hole sets up for a fade, ridiculous penalties, high rough, insane greens etc.), but i believe him to be the 2nd best golfer ever.
but i don’t buy the equipment analogy because all these guys are playing against other guys with the same gear. golf is easier than it was in the past, but jack wasn’t playing his macgregor muirfield’s and persimmon woods against guys using today’s customized equipment, it was a level playing field.
and i don’t buy the “over-egineered” thign either when it comes to pro’s clubs. if you look at all the elite pros who contend on a weekly basis, they’re all still using bladed irons and forged wedges. i don’t really think new putter design has done that much for the sport, and even then, 90% of pros use anser style putters which aren’t that much of an improvement over what jack and hogan had. drivers/woods are one thing but…
if technology is an aid, then it’s counterbalanced by the slicker greens, tighter fairways and heavier rough seen in today’s course conditions not to mention the length.
im not saying jack wouldn’t be dominant, and that’s certainly not what i was trying to say in my MLJ post, but tiger and hogan level dominant is a different story altogether. i mean, between 1946 and 1956, the lowest hogan finished in a major that he entered was a tie for 8th. dear god, that’s insane.
June 8th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
I like Spencer. Nice work.
June 8th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
my problem with Neyer is that he only looks at numbers, and rarely takes into account how a player actually gets those numbers, he doesn’t have a very well rounded view of the game. but he doesn’t have a HOF vote, b/c he’s not an official BBWAA member, so it doesn’t matter.
as far as tennis goes, does anyone really care?
June 8th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
grazie, SC.
June 8th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
“No Nascar posts EVER”
But endless threads about guys smacktalking on twitter, or dudes in slacks hitting a ball into a hole? Come on, man.
June 8th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
hey, i have and idea lets bitch about what is on another person’s blog when we have our own blogs where we can write about whatever we want! sound like fun? lets do it!
we get it. you like golf,hockey,nascar,soccer and tennis. there are blogs that cover those sports so go there if you want to read about it and comment on it. in closing i would like to say.
hats > lebron > kobe > favre > twi+++er fights > everything else
/ducks and runs
June 8th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
fuck yea i do…i invested 4 aggregate hours watching various french open matches and i want a return on that investment god damnit.
June 8th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Nascar sucks. Period.
But if you are a fan, so be it. But you are definitely in the wrong place if you think there will ever any Nascar chatter on this site. Neva neva neva gonna happen.
June 8th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
But endless threads about guys smacktalking on twitter, or dudes in slacks hitting a ball into a hole
Welcome to TheBigLead
June 8th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
charlton was cut from the same cloth as ‘johnny’ in karate kid.
Sweep the Leg! Johnny
June 8th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Yeah he is. It just takes X years (think 7 or 8, but could be wrong) before you’re allowed to vote. That goes for any new member.
June 8th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
It seems like everyone both accepts and is annoyed with the fact that TBL doesn’t cover sports as much as he covers sports media people even if it’s just the hats they’re wearing and the pettiness of their T w i + + e r accounts.
June 8th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
@Spencer, good work on the Tiger piece…u ever have a chance to get that in the mail?
June 8th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
jay v…i dropped it in today at lunch. you should get it in a couple days or so.
thanks again dude.
June 8th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
This is a great take on Neyer. I’ve gone from hating what he writes to liking some of it, but mainly hating most of it. I’d say what you mentioned is the reason why.
June 8th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
nascar sucks
June 8th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Ah, so he’s actually int he BBWAA now? That sucks.
June 8th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Yes.