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The Schmuck Stops Here

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It looks like the Sun has traded in corny jokes and creepy comments about Anita Marks for reviews of Red Lobster and discussions on newly acquired Hawaiian shirts. Roch's blog is no longer on the front page of the sun.com's sports page. It's been replaced the the even worse Peter Schmuck, with the crazy play on words blog titled, "The Schmuck Stops Here."

Say what you want about Roch, but I'll take him any day of the week over this clown.

We do get this awesome picture of him, though.

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via www.baltimoresun.com


 

 

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that pic...

only shows two of his eight chins.

foghat goes with everything--birdman, 5/16/08

by j.q. higgins on Jul 30, 2008 9:59 AM EDT reply reply   0 recs

I'll never forget

Joe Angel’s great line in a game broadcast a couple years ago: “There is no bigger Orioles fan than Peter Schmuck.”

Has there ever been a cooler Oriole than Eddie Murray? I mean, just straight up cool. Like a bad, suave dude. You know what I'm sayin'. COOL. SC 7/24/08

by 33 on Jul 30, 2008 10:15 AM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

i always chuckle...

when joe angel turns things over to manfra and calls him “big boy.”

foghat goes with everything--birdman, 5/16/08

by j.q. higgins on Jul 30, 2008 10:23 AM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

+1. Thank God for Joe Angel, whose ways of reminding eveyone that he's seated next to a functional idiot

are sufficiently subtle that neither the idiot nor his owner can detect and act upon them.

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.

by Titov on Jul 30, 2008 11:56 AM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

i think of manfra...

as a computer-generated voice.

“hey! heck of a play!” “how about that?!”

ugh. what a mutt.

foghat goes with everything--birdman, 5/16/08

by j.q. higgins on Jul 30, 2008 12:03 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

It always pissed me off when manfra calls an OPPONENT'S home run

it sounds just like he’s calling an O’s home run: peppy, happy, etc. I want my announcers to be realistically critical homers.

Like Joe Angel, who sounded REALLY pissed off when DCabs was ejected last night. You could hear it in his voice: he was fucking pissed. I liked it.

by PhilR8 on Jul 30, 2008 12:46 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

All of which reminds me...

I don’t know if anyone keeps tabs on The Loss Column, but they’ve been doing Baltimore Media Approval Ratings once a week. Schmuck is this week’s candidate, and he’s at 67% approval. This cannot stand.

by Brotz13 on Jul 30, 2008 10:18 AM EDT reply reply   0 recs

Great, just great

We’ll get ONE update a day if we’re lucky, it probably won’t even include the lineup, and will be more reviews of restaurants than actual news. Name the last news story Peter broke. Really, I’ll wait….

We’ll be better served with just posting links to the Press Pass articles from orioles.com. They will have infinitely more info than we will get out of the lazy and unproductive Peter Schmuck.

Seriously, how does this guy have a job? He write bad columns. He doesn’t do game stories. I’m betting he doesn’t even go into the lockerroom, a la Jay Marriottii. And THIS is our new fountain of information on the O’s?

Forget ever learning about a roster move or injury diagnosis again. But you sure will now what the tablecloths at every Red Lobster in the American League look like…

You watch, we’re gonna be missing Roch within 2 weeks when someone leaves a game and there’s an MRI the next day and Peter’s posting about his dessert in Little Italy the night before.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 30, 2008 10:33 AM EDT reply reply   0 recs

hopefully...

zrbiec will take a more active role in nuts and bolts blogging. i mean, roch did seem sort of redundant.

foghat goes with everything--birdman, 5/16/08

by j.q. higgins on Jul 30, 2008 10:43 AM EDT reply reply   0 recs

Roch was often

the first source of info involving roster moves and injuries and updates from the minors. God knows he was no Earnest Hemingway, but if I had to wait for Zrbiec to tell us about a change in the rotation or a roster move, well, we might as well be living in 1991 – we’ll read it in the agate two days later.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 30, 2008 11:17 AM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

and isn't that the editor's job?

i.e. if he says, “zrbiec, get your shit in gear and post some raw stuff in blog format,” he’ll do it, no?

foghat goes with everything--birdman, 5/16/08

by j.q. higgins on Jul 30, 2008 11:23 AM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

You're so cute

It doesn’t work that way. Sure, his editor COULD tell him that, then Jeff says, “No, not in my union contract,” and then there’s arbitration and negotiations over pay, and then his blog conists of posting the lineup sometime during the 2nd inning each game and that’s it….

and I’m a union guy through and through. I’ve always gotten the feeling Jeff wants to file his ONE game story a day and be done. Maybe I’m wrong, but the amount of feature or non-game stories you get out of him is MINIMAL and his online presence is almost non-existent. I can’t imagine this is an oversight or an accident.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 30, 2008 11:30 AM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

now, now...

i’d like to see THAT contract…

but, yeah, i kind of doubt it. maybe you’re rightm though.

foghat goes with everything--birdman, 5/16/08

by j.q. higgins on Jul 30, 2008 11:56 AM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

Web stuff

has been a big area of contention for newspapers, especially the Washington Post.

One example.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 30, 2008 12:10 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

schmucky

the introduction of schmuck’s blog was/is really weird. why does he/the sun feel the need to cultivate some sort of hipster old guy image complete with glamour shots? does he think a year or so of blogging is gonna get him a spot on pti?

by brooksflow on Jul 30, 2008 11:34 AM EDT reply reply   0 recs

I'm sure that's EXACTLY what he's thinking

You won’t find too many businesses with more ego-driven individuals than media. It’s one of the reasons I got out.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 30, 2008 11:36 AM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

Roch's Final Post

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/sports/roch/blog/2008/07/final_post-farewell.html

There’s the link if you care to read it. I hope he pops up with another blog because it was one of the very few things worth reading in the Sun. I checked it everyday for line-ups, information, and just general entertainment. The naysayers will always be there, but they will miss it when the Sun can’t give us the information we’d like to here.

by PWubbs on Jul 30, 2008 11:54 AM EDT reply reply   0 recs

Funny..

Notice that the posting was actually put up by some guy named Tim Wheatley.

Did the Sun take away Roch’s posting privileges a few days early?

by dkdc on Jul 30, 2008 12:07 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

It appears that way

I’m guessing he had some sick days left and decided to check out early. I don’t blame him.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 30, 2008 12:12 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

July 31st

Is a bad time for a Baseball rumorologist to be between jobs…

by dkdc on Jul 30, 2008 12:32 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

That, too

although Trembley seems to say it’s an open secret Roch is going to MASN during a recent presser.

And I’m reading stuff that Diamond Dave and MASN don’t get along too well these days and it may bode ill for his continued employment. He hates Wired Wednesday specifically and many of MASN’s intrusions in general.

The O’s haven’t picked up his 2009 option, and PGA’s son is in charge of MASN. This could end badly.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 30, 2008 12:35 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

Wired Wednseday is awful

Trembley’s completely right about that.

by dkdc on Jul 30, 2008 12:52 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

I know sometimes people bash DD here

and sometimes it is completely deserved, but is there anyone out there who doesn’t LOVE Trembley? I’d take a bullet for the guy, personally. If they fire him (don’t extend his contract) just because he objects to the instrusive tv bullshit that I also hate – well, that would righteously piss me off.

by PhilR8 on Jul 30, 2008 12:56 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

Apparently a LOT of people at MASN don't love DD

Me? I love the guy. I’d by him dinner and a beer, and just say thank you as I left him in peace to eat his meal.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 30, 2008 1:46 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

Do a Google News search

on Trembley and MASN

Or just check out WNST’s blog rundown. And just listen to his post-game pressers for a week. Or the tone of his voice when Rick Dempsey attempts to ask a stupid question.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 30, 2008 4:39 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

I still don’t see much of anything that says a lot of people at MASN dislike Trembley. I’m not saying it’s false, just I’ve never read much about it. As far as I know, MASN is full of a bunch of jokers. Perhaps these were the people DD went off about when they were yucking it up in the clubhouse after a crummy loss.

Actually, I would think the guy who counts the most is MacPhail. If some of DD’s bluntness rubs MacPhail the wrong way, that’s not good for DD’s long term employment prospects (even though I love hearing it).

by drj on Jul 30, 2008 5:11 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

Piss off the owner's son

and see how far you get, I don’t care WHO is GM.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 30, 2008 5:39 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

I forgot about John-John running MASN

DAAAAAD! He won’t stop telling it like it is. Make him stop.

Yeah, others could be leaning on MacPhail.

For the O’s sake, I hope those apples rolled far from the tree.

by drj on Jul 31, 2008 8:17 AM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

I like DD

He tells the truth. Someone is dogging it? He says so. The starting pitching stinks? He says so.

Lord knows we’ve spent years listening to pure bullshit from the Peter Angelos front office. MacPhail is more straightforward, but DD is probably the most blunt. That kind of stuff can be hazardous for your career.

Only thing I haven’t heard him say is “I screwed up”.

by drj on Jul 30, 2008 2:43 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

Hm, that's a good point

I wonder if he has ever taken the blame for anything? Or should he? SC’s signature used to be a good quote by Leyland (which I’ll paraphrase): “I don’t want any credit if we’re good, but I don’t want the blame if we’re horseshit, either.”

by PhilR8 on Jul 30, 2008 3:37 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

You'll also never hear him say

“That was a great move I made.”

He gives the players credit, by name. And he calls them out individually, too.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 30, 2008 4:40 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

The Sun is setting

Letting Roch accept a buyout was shows that the Sun doesnt really understand how to respond to the web. Roch doesn’t write the best blog I read, but I do read it.

Roch was doing the things that make a blog interesting. He was going to places like spring training, minor league games, the warehouse, etc. and giving us a look at what he’s seeing. Dial back the off-topic riffs and the dumb jokes and he’s got a good blog.

Not everyone can do what he was doing. I doubt the Sun realizes they lost something valuable that will be hard to replace.

Writing is God's way of showing you how sloppy your thinking is.

by typozzz on Jul 30, 2008 12:21 PM EDT reply reply   0 recs

They think Peter Schmuck will fill in just fine

which tells you just how clueless they are. We’re back to the days of reading roster moves in the agate two days after they happen.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 30, 2008 12:38 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

G of E

Okay, now that Roch’s blog is done somebody needs to step up and reveal the true identity of The Ghost of Earl.

by brooksflow on Jul 30, 2008 12:22 PM EDT reply reply   0 recs

One more thing

They should’ve posted Roch’s last entry under “Roster Move.” That would’ve been funny.

by brooksflow on Jul 30, 2008 12:26 PM EDT reply reply   0 recs

He didn't even get to post it

He had to e-mail it in and someone else posted it.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 30, 2008 12:36 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

Schmuck again

How long do you think this was in the works? Roch evidently knew for a while that The Sun offered him a buyout and The Sun seemed to have Pete’s new blog ready to go. I actually kind of like Schmuck, though. He’s responded personally to every email I sent him. Well, each of the two or three I’ve sent. One of which was making fun of his picture. I did, however, resist asking him if Ray Frager was his illegitimate lovechild.

by brooksflow on Jul 30, 2008 1:01 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

Probably

He responded because no one else sends him anything.

by PWubbs on Jul 30, 2008 1:09 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

thanks

for making me feel like a loser. so what, the webs was new and exciting and i sent ol’ pete an email. it was years ago. i promise.

by brooksflow on Jul 30, 2008 1:20 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

Apparently...

(according to the MASN pre-game) Roch Around the Clock will be somewhere on MASNsports.com in August… 3rd? or something.

Kevbo: [to George Sherrill] George, you look a lot like Vin Diesel...

Flatbill: Let's get somethin' straight... Vin Diesel looks like me.

-From "The Making of Orioles Magic"

by dayzd toe on Jul 30, 2008 1:50 PM EDT reply reply   0 recs

Are you fucking kidding me?

Oh my God these fucking people don’t know their ass from their elbow. I opened up this fanpost about to burst with joy in the hopes that your title meant The Sun had canned Schmuck along with Roch. Somebody please put The Sun out of its misery. This is getting really pathetic to watch.

by Jonny Pops on Jul 30, 2008 3:15 PM EDT reply reply   0 recs

agreed

pretty sad state the Sun is in right now.

by UMterp08 on Jul 30, 2008 4:39 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

Lead crime reporter took the buyout, too

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 30, 2008 4:42 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

The lead crime reporter...

...in Baltimore took the buyout? That’s like an entertainment reporter deciding LA just really isn’t for him after all.

by Jonny Pops on Jul 30, 2008 9:49 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

Yup, Donovan's out

the main Sun reporter that’s been all over the mayor. He took the buyout. Said he would take it so someone else didn’t get laid off.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 30, 2008 10:38 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

Schmuck's ridiculous bio
Peter Schmuck wants you to know that, contrary to popular belief, he is more than just a bon vivant, raconteur and collector of blousy flowered shirts. He is a semi-respected journalist who has covered virtually every sport—except luge, of course – and tackled issues that transcend the mere games people play. If that isn’t enough to qualify him to provide witty, wide-ranging commentary on the sports world … and the rest of the world, for that matter … he is an avid reader of history, biography and the classics, as well as a charming blowhard who pops off on both sports and politics on WBAL Radio. That means you can expect a little of everything in The Schmuck Stops Here, but the major focus will be keeping you up to the minute on Baltimore’s major sports teams and themes, whether it’s throwing up the Orioles lineup the minute it’s announced or updating you on the latest sprained ankle in Owings Mills. Oh, and by the way, that’s Mr. Schmuck to you.

Well. Things certainly aren’t starting well, are they?

Hint to “Mr. Schmuck”: Adoring yourself in your own column smacks of vanity and self-aggrandizement. It’s not likely to win you any fans.

by zknower on Jul 30, 2008 10:36 PM EDT reply reply   0 recs

This bio and the half-wit Q&A he posted today are enough for me. I’m going to skip the Sun website from now on and spend the time playing Scrabble on Facebook.

Oops, they fucked that up too.

Writing is God's way of showing you how sloppy your thinking is.

by typozzz on Jul 31, 2008 12:29 AM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

Quote from Schmuck about blogging
Being a blogger is sort of like being a cartoon character. You can do just about anything you want.

"There is a value to breaking the string of losing seasons as an organization or as a franchise. But breaking that streak can’t come at the expense of doing what you need to do to get your franchise to the point where it can reach the postseason." ~Andy MacPhail

by Stacey on Jul 31, 2008 9:15 AM EDT reply reply   0 recs

Isn't this the same motherfucker...

...who was writing loopy articles about eating at the Ft. Lauderdale Red Lobster on the company dime during Spring Training? Looks to me like he was doing whatever the hell he wanted already.

by Jonny Pops on Jul 31, 2008 11:53 AM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

Yup

I’m tellin’ ya, in 2 weeks, you’ll be wishing Roch was back, bad puns and all.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 31, 2008 12:21 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

This is like saying...

...I wish my pee would come back up the toilet because my poo just did.

by Jonny Pops on Jul 31, 2008 5:15 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

You lost me there...

and I’m not sure I want an explanation….

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 31, 2008 5:19 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

you're getting one regardless...

...Roch = pee.
Schmuck = poo.

They’re both bad, but poo is generally considered worse. Rather than wish for one in lieu of the other, I’d rather flush both and be done with it.

by Jonny Pops on Jul 31, 2008 5:21 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

Enjoy reading the agate....

2 days late….

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 31, 2008 6:21 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

oh...

...I just read you guys. there’s plenty of people relaying the info around here. I did it for a while – now it’s time to kick back and get it from somebody else, considering most people around here are decidedly more readable than the product The Sun’s or now MASN’s putting out.

by Jonny Pops on Jul 31, 2008 8:06 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

I'm not sure if I should be flattered....

or worried about your choices of news sources…. :)

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 31, 2008 9:15 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

actually, i must say...

it’s not too bad so far. reads a MILLION times better than his columns.

foghat goes with everything--birdman, 5/16/08

by j.q. higgins on Jul 31, 2008 1:29 PM EDT reply reply   0 recs

Agreed

I think the Roch-Schmuck competition will be a good thing. A blog rivalry means more news faster for O’s fans.

by dkdc on Aug 2, 2008 9:41 AM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

I'm pleasently surprised

Besides the ridiculous picture and the obnoxious intro on the left side, so far the blog has been quite good. He’s not trying to be corny or hilarious, he’s just reporting facts. It’s much better than I anticipated.

"There is a value to breaking the string of losing seasons as an organization or as a franchise. But breaking that streak can’t come at the expense of doing what you need to do to get your franchise to the point where it can reach the postseason." ~Andy MacPhail

by Stacey on Aug 6, 2008 12:30 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

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