Peter Gammons

[bob jenkins]

It seems to me that Gammons did his job -- he got you talking about it.

Personally, I give all of them all the credit they deserve. None.

[RogersUmp]

Originally Posted by mbyron

It seems to me that the argument could go the other way: the players feel that they can piss on the AAA guys and behave in ways they wouldn't with MLB umps. Then they cry when they're (properly) dumped.

I agree 100%. Why can't Peter see that? I don't think you need to be an umpire to see what happened if you were paying attention to the game.

[Kevin Finnerty]

The largest volume of wasted words in the entire world of baseball media are the descriptions of trades and signings proposed by Peter Gammons that never happened.

(The largest volume of wasted spoken words is by Joe Morgan, of course.)

[RogersUmp]

The largest volume of wasted words in the entire world of baseball media are the descriptions of trades and signings proposed by Peter Gammons that never happened.

(The largest volume of wasted spoken words is by Joe Morgan, of course.)

True!! But until someone stops paying them to do it will continue.

[Kevin Finnerty]

Gammons is a mystifying figure: An average writer and a poor broadcaster, who has parlayed it all into a multi-million-dollar career blathering about "inside" information that is nearly always wrong.

Morgan is the least productive first-ballot Hall-of-Famer in history, and baseball's most preposterous voice of information. He literally makes this b.s. up as he goes along, but says it like it's irrefutable! He's even more ridiculous than Tim McCarver!