MLB employee doesn't think Mike Trout gets enough attention

Who?

 

Trout is better than the next best player by a margin greater than that of any other athlete in any major sport.

I guess Verducci didn't watch the NBA playoffs. But is Trout really that much better than Altuve (2016) or Harper (2015) or Cabrera before that?

 

East Coast bias DOES exist and it has bothered me for decades. And this story is a prime example. An East Coast media guy comes to Anaheim and writes about the star player who is "going unappreciated ..." By whom? By you, the East Coast media guy!
It is just a fact of life. The games are on late, but as a media rep, it is your job to be aware, regardless of what time the games are on. It's East Coast bias, plain and simple.
I see just about all of the Angels games and, to their credit, the broadcast crews usually makes a point to find fans with Angels jerseys at the road games ... and there are a bunch ... and most are wearing Trout gear.

 

Trout is the 73rd most famous athlete worldwide, says ESPN -- and second most famous in baseball. Too bad Verducci doesn't work for them. He might know that.

http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/15685581/espn-world-fame-100

 

Especially to watch Kaepernick on the AnthemCam.

 

Maybe Mike's mom emailed the author.

 

I can't believe it took 3 pages for this rant. I had you for a lot earlier than that.

 

The New York Times should hire Katrina Pierson as its lead writer covering the Trump campaign and have her write pieces about how Mike Pence doesn't get enough attention even though he's as American as apple pie, not like those Democrats and libertarian scumbags.

 

Can we talk about the fact that Mike Trout, while a brilliant player, has the personality of an avocado?

Barry Bonds was the best player on earth for a long ass time, and he played in the same time zone as Trout, and he sure as shit wasn't under-appreciated. He might have been unloved, even loathed, but for about a five year period, he was unbelievable and everyone in America knew it. Way before Twitter, people would be buzzing about his at bats every time he came to the plate. And his sass and his penchant for theatrics and for giving a middle finger to the world while ripping bombs into the Cove was incredible.

Mike Trout is just really good, and about as intellectually interesting as a door. And not even in a withholding Jeter kind of way. He's just a boring-ass jock. He doesn't even say controversial stuff, like women shouldn't be in the locker room, gays shouldn't marry, BlackLivesMatter, etc. If he did say that kind of stuff, even boneheaded things, if he banged models or singers and broke up with them in a public way where they wrote mean songs about him, more people would buzz about him.

Instead, he just mashes baseballs and gets on base all the time. He's one of those guys who you talk to for 15 minutes, you feel like you've had a good conversation, you go back and listen to the tape and there is almost nothing you can use. He seems like a super nice guy, maybe just too polite for the purposes Verduccui talks about.

If he played in New York, there would be all kinds of hosanas written about what a stoic leader he is, how he's reminiscent of Mantle's polite awe shucks brilliance (minus the crippling alcoholism), but it wouldn't make him more interesting.

 

It seems like it would fall on Verducci and others who are paid marketers for Major a League Baseball to work with him on that.

 

How much money did you lose in the East Coast Bias pool?
I slept in today. But I read that story yesterday, so there was some time for it to stew. I wasn't going to bring it up until the other dude, DeskGrunt, said he didn't buy it, which shows how out of touch he is, too.
Here's an example from hockey, which is more up your alley. Ask most media in the east about the Ducks and what will their comment be? Oh, they have Getzlaf and Perry, who are really good players. Period. If they spent a few minutes watching, they would know that Kesler was their best player last season and Lindholm and Vatanen are budding stars. But that would take a little effort.