Comments on: Buster Olney, I really WANT to like you http://www.jeffjsnider.com/archives/buster-olney-i-really-want-to-like-you/ ...from a ranting rambler Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:51:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Jeff J. Snider http://www.jeffjsnider.com/archives/buster-olney-i-really-want-to-like-you/#comment-11601 Jeff J. Snider Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:40:30 +0000 http://www.jeffjsnider.com/archives/buster-olney-i-really-want-to-like-you/#comment-11601 Yes, he used to cover the Yankees as a beat writer, and that might be a factor. My biggest problem with Olney is that he will repeat the same tired lines over and over, but he never supports them. I've called him on his "75-80% of award winners since 1988 were on steroids" stuff, and he has never clarified despite it being an obvious exaggeration. I've called him on his insistence that A-Rod was lousy last year despite empirical evidence to the contrary, and he has never clarified. He just keeps saying the same things over and over, and it gets annoying. Whenever I want to repeat myself here on my site, I do my best to just quote what I said previously; Buster just restates it in slightly different words, and the effect is something like this argument: PERSON 1: I think apples and oranges are the same fruit. PERSON 2: I can prove to you that they aren't. PERSON 1: Like I've said before, apples and oranges are actually the same fruit. PERSON 2: They look different, taste different, have different seeds, and other than both being fruit, they have very few similarities. PERSON 1: I've said it before, and I'll say it again: if you give me an apple and an orange, you might as well give me two apples, because they're the same thing. Yes, he used to cover the Yankees as a beat writer, and that might be a factor. My biggest problem with Olney is that he will repeat the same tired lines over and over, but he never supports them. I’ve called him on his “75-80% of award winners since 1988 were on steroids” stuff, and he has never clarified despite it being an obvious exaggeration. I’ve called him on his insistence that A-Rod was lousy last year despite empirical evidence to the contrary, and he has never clarified. He just keeps saying the same things over and over, and it gets annoying.

Whenever I want to repeat myself here on my site, I do my best to just quote what I said previously; Buster just restates it in slightly different words, and the effect is something like this argument:

PERSON 1: I think apples and oranges are the same fruit.
PERSON 2: I can prove to you that they aren’t.
PERSON 1: Like I’ve said before, apples and oranges are actually the same fruit.
PERSON 2: They look different, taste different, have different seeds, and other than both being fruit, they have very few similarities.
PERSON 1: I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: if you give me an apple and an orange, you might as well give me two apples, because they’re the same thing.

]]> By: Richie http://www.jeffjsnider.com/archives/buster-olney-i-really-want-to-like-you/#comment-11521 Richie Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:06:30 +0000 http://www.jeffjsnider.com/archives/buster-olney-i-really-want-to-like-you/#comment-11521 Wasn't Olney a writer for a New York paper before he joined ESPN? Back in the good ol' Brosius-O'Neill-et.al days? That probably contributes to his irritating nostalgia for the True Yankees, the ones who won World Serieses. Wasn’t Olney a writer for a New York paper before he joined ESPN? Back in the good ol’ Brosius-O’Neill-et.al days? That probably contributes to his irritating nostalgia for the True Yankees, the ones who won World Serieses.

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