OBVIOUS: JAYSON STARK SUCKS
In this deeply researched piece, Jayson Stark names those who he considers the ten most overrated in the game today.
His list isn't so bad, but read through his explanations. It's incredibly sad how he has to kiss the ass of everyone of the guys he puts on there. As he begins:
"I never set out to be The Ultimate Czar of Overratedness and Underratedness. It just happened. One minute, I was merely an ordinary guy, typing his Rumblings and Grumblings. The next, I was pounding on a keyboard, bound for authorhood. Overrated-underrated authorhood."
Jayson, one word: You're an ass.
Check out what he says about the players:
Barry Zito: "Not that it's some kind of disgrace for any team to say it employs this guy. Never misses a start. Logs those innings. Snaps off those picturesque curveballs. Leads the league in likability. And we admire him for all of those qualities."
JD Drew: "Nobody denies that Drew has massive talent oozing out of his eyebrows. You can tell because he entered this season as one of only 13 active players with a career slugging percentage over .500 and an on-base percentage over .390."
Andruw Jones: "For the record, I like Andruw. He could play for my team any time. And he's one of the best center fielders I've ever laid eyeballs on."
Juan Pierre: "And that brings us to Pierre, a fellow so likable, it pains me to put him on this list. How can you not like a guy who loves baseball so much, he beats the grounds crew to the ballpark?"
I nominate Jayson Stark as the most overrated sports journalist in history. And I have nothing even half nice to say about him, except that he looked a lot better with a mustache.
His list isn't so bad, but read through his explanations. It's incredibly sad how he has to kiss the ass of everyone of the guys he puts on there. As he begins:
"I never set out to be The Ultimate Czar of Overratedness and Underratedness. It just happened. One minute, I was merely an ordinary guy, typing his Rumblings and Grumblings. The next, I was pounding on a keyboard, bound for authorhood. Overrated-underrated authorhood."
Jayson, one word: You're an ass.
Check out what he says about the players:
Barry Zito: "Not that it's some kind of disgrace for any team to say it employs this guy. Never misses a start. Logs those innings. Snaps off those picturesque curveballs. Leads the league in likability. And we admire him for all of those qualities."
JD Drew: "Nobody denies that Drew has massive talent oozing out of his eyebrows. You can tell because he entered this season as one of only 13 active players with a career slugging percentage over .500 and an on-base percentage over .390."
Andruw Jones: "For the record, I like Andruw. He could play for my team any time. And he's one of the best center fielders I've ever laid eyeballs on."
Juan Pierre: "And that brings us to Pierre, a fellow so likable, it pains me to put him on this list. How can you not like a guy who loves baseball so much, he beats the grounds crew to the ballpark?"
I nominate Jayson Stark as the most overrated sports journalist in history. And I have nothing even half nice to say about him, except that he looked a lot better with a mustache.
posted by Anthony at 9:34 AM
7 Comments:
Thanks for posting the link. Now I know why I no longer read Stark's articles. They don't change. I haven't read him in months and it's the same nonsense all the time.
How about Andruw Jones' numbers? I wouldn't mind seeing him play for the Yankees. Too bad Johnny 'Can Barely Reach The Cutoff Man On A Routine Grounder' Damon is playing there.
Abreu went downhill after winning the Ruin Your Swing Derby a few years ago. Maybe it's not from that. I'm just putting 1 & 1 together.
Haha! I read that article last night and actually commented on the espn blog. Take a look, there were a ton of outraged fans. Stark sucks, no question. I think we knew that when he defended Barry Bonds.
Cradling Barry's fat chin in his arms. Barry looking up at him, sucking on Jayson's teet. The whole thing is madness. At one point he even mentiond Joe Dimaggio in that article. But he quickly brushed that under the rug. He might have been murdered if Joe D. was on that "overrated list."
We should start a blog solely dedicated to how badly Jayson Stark relies on worthless stats that nobody heard of.
My best memory of Jayson Stark is one that many are probably unaware of. It's the memory of the day Jayson Stark saved my life. And that one's for me.
Hey speaking of memories. Check out the Carl Pavano post just below this one. It details his Tommy John Surgery, and other juicy nuggets.
Nuggets like the brand of underwear he wore when he was a boy. And the size of his penis.
-OG
Stark is a no-talent, know-nothing. What kills me is that he courts controversy and people actually pay him attention. Stay away from him... hopefully he'll go awway after a while.
Does Stark ever get inside info? Or does he just write articles about why this or that?
Peter Gammons, Buster Olney, Ken Rosenthal all get insider info. I'm not sure if Stark does. Can anyone confirm or deny? Or is he just a nonsense article every week?
Little help please.
Stark was a moron in philly when he wrote for the inquirer (as does the legendary screamin a smith)and he's a moron now. The free subway paper in philly called the metro even called stark out on his bullshit, specifically the zito quote. He's right about who is the most overrated; just don't be such a coward about calling them out.
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