On a side note, I think Carol Slezak might be worse then Mariotti

While the premise that someone may be worse than Mariotti seems beyond belief on its face, I’d have to agree. Slezak has gone from hackish-but-harmless to shield-your-brain awful in recent years.

I abhor the stupid frat-boy mentality that prevails in most locker rooms as much as the next educated person, but Slezak’s recent voice-of-the-offended column on the recent White Sox sex-doll “scandal” was just mind-numbingly idiotic. It was a totally low-rent move by the Sox, and they deserved to be mocked for it (I’ve always found that mockery is far more effective than scolding), but Slezak’s over-the-top, poorly-reasoned, hyperventilating piece ended up making the team look like the victims in the whole to-do…

benji is correct. The ESPN fantasy baseball podcast analysts (Nate Ravitz & Matthew Berry) host a league in which the producer of the podcast is a team owner. Most weeks, they have the producer’s opponent on to talk about the match-up, their team, etc., and this week was my week.

The selection process was fun to get in the league. Basically, answer some podcast-specific questions to show you listen on a regular basis and then talk smack to the producer. Best smack talk gets in the league.

Kevin Love is a 20/20 machine waiting to happen

bold. but i should ask – in what league?

Bread and butter Mariotti tactic: Write full column blasting decisions/players. Down the road, when he is horribly wrong, reference in a slightly topic-related column that things have worked out differently than “he and many others” thought they would (make sure this is NOT the main theme of the column though. Proceed to reference in multiple columns thereafter that “he and others” were wrong but he has changed his tune, all while never all-out writing an “I WAS WRONG” article.

Case in point — latest article on the Sox’s Latin America scandal, where he slips in randomly that the Danks/Floyd moves have worked out differently than thought “from here and beyond” and says that he has changed his tune. He never wrote a column directly expressing that though, unlike when he did to express his opposition to those moves.

tremendous.