To feed one’s feel of intellectual superiority to others.

Ever heard of that MGL guy?

Intellectual superiority to all players, all managers, all fans, just everybody in baseball.

Endless calling most everybody idiots, stupid …

Feel free to think what you want and talk whatever you think in your kitchen

But persist by publishing it online day in and day out?

Unfortunatelly, that way of thinking has been too familiar to me as well ((

But at least I kind of realized it at some point, and try to fight within myself.

Not sure that very successfully …

Patrick,

Remember I said I didn’t very much enjoyed baseball posts about money, economics, “too professional”?, etc.

But I hasn’t finished my point then.

The expression I sometimes get, that the main underlying reason for such kind of blogs, posts, sites is to SELL HIMSELF.

Most often, sell himself to a major league organization.

Often people go as far as provide insane amounts of data, graphs, numbers, whatever … just to showcase themselves.

Actually, one does need to showcase himself sometimes, but not at the expense of quality of his material.

Too often, all these data, graphs, numbers, whatever are completely USELESS by itself.

And here’s just another example – Brandon Siefken and his “Video Scout – Pitch-by-pitch Yu Darvish vs. Yakult Swallows May 23, 2009″

Check out his bio – LOL
http://baseball81.com/bio.html

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Brandon is the author of … “Video Scout – Yu Darvish Pitch-Plot of Three 2009 Games, 315 Pitches.”

Brandon has developed Pitch-Plot, a tool used to project a 3D strike zone on a computer screen to allow accurate video scouting and pitch-plotting of pitch velocity and location.
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Jeez, “author of Video Scout – Yu Darvish Pitch-Plot of Three 2009 Games, 315 Pitches.”

Ouch, author of this useless XYZ?

Three games? Scouting?

Citation:
“Intangibles: After every pitch,he makes overly animated facial expressions in reaction to the pitch.Good or bad,each time a pitch is called or hit,Darvish will make a strange face to show his pleasure or displeasure.Usually when making these faces he is half laughing or sticking out his toungue.”

Come on!