Is Jeff Kent really that stupid?

[RossLT]

Mizz had him on his roto team the year he pulled his motorcycle hijinks in Arizona, and he never got over it.

Wow, that's an odd reason to hate someone. Cause of Fantasy sports

 

[Singapore Slim]

And I wouldn't say people in the Giants clubhouse preferred Bonds.

Mizzou's been repeating it for years, on several websites, with no actual anecdotes or proof to back it up.

So it must be true. Because he keeps saying it.

For those of us who don't know, please tell us the story that Mizzou has been spouting.

There is no story, he just keeps saying it. Just one sentence throwdowns that we're just supposed to take because of a semblance of believability (everyone knows Kent is a tool), the idea that Mizzou is in the industry (he's worked the 2002 Western Conference Finals!), and repetition, repetition, repetition.

 

[Tom Petty]

And I wouldn't say people in the Giants clubhouse preferred Bonds.

Mizzou's been repeating it for years, on several websites, with no actual anecdotes or proof to back it up.

So it must be true. Because he keeps saying it.

For those of us who don't know, please tell us the story that Mizzou has been spouting.

mizzou was agreeing with someone else's view. go back and read the thread again, squirt.

 

[MileHigh]

Kent talks with Simers today.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-simers20-2008aug20,0,105810,full.column

"You wrote it as tongue in cheek, and I said it as tongue in cheek," said Mr. Chuckles, who was greeted by a smattering of boos when he came to the plate -- then turning them into cheers with an RBI double.

"You told me Scully was saying this and that about me hitting third, and I said, 'Vin talks too much,' and he does. But I say that in a respectful way."


"I said it to you -- because I knew you'd write it tongue in cheek," Kent said. "But as I've said, a lot of people don't get your humor. They take something you write and make it more serious and bigger than it really is.

"People think you and I hate each other," he said, a shock, I must say, to learn we don't. "As you get on me to make adjustments -- you're over the top for some people, too."

 

[Moose A. Moose]

I see that Jeff didn't get his wife a card. Does he still take her on road trips?

And, as for Vin not knowing Derek Lowe, I'm not sure that Derek has gotten around to knowing the male broadcasters there yet.

 

[The Granny]

As a fly-over state kind of gal, never read this Simer guy until now. Wow, he uses "I" and talks about himself a lot in his columns. (Though it appears I have stated the obvious.)

 

[cranberry]

Kent talks with Simers today.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-simers20-2008aug20,0,105810,full.column

"You wrote it as tongue in cheek, and I said it as tongue in cheek," said Mr. Chuckles, who was greeted by a smattering of boos when he came to the plate -- then turning them into cheers with an RBI double.

"You told me Scully was saying this and that about me hitting third, and I said, 'Vin talks too much,' and he does. But I say that in a respectful way."


"I said it to you -- because I knew you'd write it tongue in cheek," Kent said. "But as I've said, a lot of people don't get your humor. They take something you write and make it more serious and bigger than it really is.

"People think you and I hate each other," he said, a shock, I must say, to learn we don't. "As you get on me to make adjustments -- you're over the top for some people, too."

Jeff Kent isn't so bad and while he's a little different and opinionated, he's far from stupid. He's been playing along with Simers for a couple years now. Plus he detests BLOGGERS! as much as anyone on SportsJournalists.com. Shouldn't he get some points for that alone?


He started dusting off his shoulders as if brushing away dandruff, while saying, "bloggers," spitting out the word like it was some kind of infectious disease. The way things are going in the communications business, incurable might be a better word.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

I'm not going to miss this opportunity to bash Simers.

I was going through newspapers yesterday, and saw a column where he said he wore a Giants sweatshirt into the Dodgers clubhouse. Perhaps somebody can explain to me how that meets the highest professional standards.

I will concede that Simers probably does not a good deal about the NFL, which does a heckuva lot of good in Los Angeles, which doesn't have an NFL franchise. He doesn't know the first thing about hockey, really doesn't understand basketball, and would probably be in the lower 25 percent of reporters in a major league clubhouse when it comes to understanding baseball.

I can't see how anybody with that little knowledge is really worth reading. He is not a funny person, either. as my parents used to describe some people, he is a BS artist.

I'm not a fan of Simers, but he was a hell of a beat writer and he better serves readers covering the NFL in some day-to-day capacity than this childish brand of antagonism.

 

[Tom Petty]

Kent talks with Simers today.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-simers20-2008aug20,0,105810,full.column

"You wrote it as tongue in cheek, and I said it as tongue in cheek," said Mr. Chuckles, who was greeted by a smattering of boos when he came to the plate -- then turning them into cheers with an RBI double.

"You told me Scully was saying this and that about me hitting third, and I said, 'Vin talks too much,' and he does. But I say that in a respectful way."


"I said it to you -- because I knew you'd write it tongue in cheek," Kent said. "But as I've said, a lot of people don't get your humor. They take something you write and make it more serious and bigger than it really is.

"People think you and I hate each other," he said, a shock, I must say, to learn we don't. "As you get on me to make adjustments -- you're over the top for some people, too."

Plus he detests BLOGGERS! as much as anyone on SportsJournalists.com. Shouldn't he get some points for that alone?

yes.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

And the eulogies for Jeff Kent begin. Career over?

PHOENIX - Dodgers second baseman Jeff Kent, a five-time All-Star, former National League Most Valuable Player and almost-certain future Hall of Famer, might have played his last game in the major leagues.

Kent was sent back to Los Angeles for an MRI exam after leaving Friday night's game at Arizona with pain in his left knee. Although that exam hadn't taken place as of game time Saturday night, club officials had a strong suspicion as to what it likely would show.

Kent, 40, has been playing through pain from slightly torn cartilage in his knee for about a month, fully aware that the continued grind of playing baseball on an everyday basis meant there was a strong risk of additional, more painful tearing.

That additional tearing is believed to be what took place during Friday's game. Kent was said to be in "excruciating pain" after leaving the game, and club officials were holding out slim hope of getting him back in what is widely expected to be his final season.

http://www.dailynews.com/ci_10347355?source=rss

 

[Gold]

As a fly-over state kind of gal, never read this Simer guy until now. Wow, he uses "I" and talks about himself a lot in his columns. (Though it appears I have stated the obvious.)

Exactly...

 

[Tom Petty]

good to see you're back, chaz.