ESPN: "Are ejections getting out of hand?"

[mattmets]

Originally Posted by Rich Fronheiser

I like Kruk. And what's his being fat have to do with anything? I mean, he once told a lady that he wasn't an athlete, merely a baseball player. Of course, he was one of my favorite players when he was with the Phillies.

Kruk plays a role, just like the umpires.

OK, his being fat has nothing to do with it. But he's fairly incompetent when it comes to analyzing baseball. Some of the things he says make absolutely no sense, like when he said a 40-year old Randy Johnson would win 30 games with the Yankees in 2005.

It's a shame that ESPN, the "Worldwide Leader in Sports", offers such awful coverage of baseball. It leads to a lot of the problems we see with coaches & players' behavior, not understanding the basics of the game, and such a stubborn refusal to look at anything other than 'intangibles'.