If you want to read it, here's the letter in its entirety. Plug in Orioles in place of Reds and...

If you want to read it, here's the letter in its entirety. Plug in Orioles in place of Reds and replace Ken Griffey and Adam Dunn with Miguel Tejada and Eric Bedard and you have basically the same letter Andy MacPhail sent to Orioles season ticket holders during the offseason...except the part about hiring Dusty Baker as manager.

Peter Schmuck doesn't know how to spell Erik

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Nice...

No reason to expect the Sun’s “top” Orioles blogger to spell Erik Bedard’s name right, I guess.

by Brotz13 on Aug 20, 2008 2:29 PM EDT reply actions

I basically posted this because it annoys the hell out of me. Peter Schmuck has been a sports writer in Baltimore for four hundred-sixty five years and Erik Bedard was only one of the biggest Orioles stories in this past year.

Now, I’m sure he knows his name is Erik, not Eric. It was probably just a typo. But he’s a sportswriter for crying out loud. PROOF READ. Maybe this is all part of the “bloggers are like cartoon characters and can do whatever they want” garbage he was spewing earlier.

Oh and by the way, he had been repeatedly called Brad Bergesen “Brian” until those who leave him comments clued him in.

It’s quite an operation they’re running over there.

[Guthrie's] president of my heart. ~PhilR8

by Stacey on Aug 20, 2008 2:32 PM EDT reply actions

Meanwhile, over at MASN

Roch is churning out updates like it’s nobody’s business. Now that he’s not stuck writing those pesky articles, he’s stepped up his game. I still hate the blog design, though. If nothing else, they could at least allow you to navigate from one post to the next without having to go back to his main archive.

by Brotz13 on Aug 20, 2008 3:09 PM EDT up reply actions

yeah...

still corny, but i give the man some props for keeping current. ms. stacey’s complaint notwithstanding, i also grudgingly give mr. schmuck credit for not being NEARLY as annoying as his columns.

if i’ve said that a million times now, it’s only b/c i’m amazed, myself.

here comes the wave and the turn, here come the crash and the burn.

--mathew ryan

by j.q. higgins on Aug 20, 2008 4:20 PM EDT up reply actions

What’s in the background of his logo? Pepperonis? I guess that would explain a few things. He was probably trying to recreate the cool out-of-focus circles of confusion seen here:

Instead, flowers. Yay!

by PhilR8 on Aug 20, 2008 3:18 PM EDT reply actions

I think hes going for a flower child/son of the 60's look

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words—"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey

by jobe on Aug 20, 2008 3:58 PM EDT up reply actions

Oh. Well, in that case

Epic Fail.

by PhilR8 on Aug 21, 2008 2:17 PM EDT up reply actions

i think they are terra chips

by zknower on Aug 22, 2008 10:35 AM EDT up reply actions

I'm not trying to pile on

But in his most recent blog he says

Most obvious, of course, is the actual geographic proximity of the minor league affiliates, which allowed for a variety of minor league machinations over the past 24 hours. Kam Mickolio was called up from Bowie (25 miles from Camden Yards). Chris Ray and Greg Aquino pitched an inning each at Frederick (40 miles), advancing their respective injury rehab programs. Garrett Olson was sent to Norfolk (250 miles) and Radhames Liz soon to be recalled to make Friday night’s start.

He’s making a point about the benefit to having close farm clubs, but Kam wasn’t called up from Bowie. He was called up from Norfolk. He just doesn’t know his facts and I think that he thinks that since it’s a blog he doesn’t have to double check.

A ton of people (including me) corrected him on his misspelling of Erik, and his response was he could get a copy editor but it would take longer to get his posts up and that he “knows how to spell Erik Bedard’s name.” I don’t think you need a copy editor for that, you just need re-read your two paragraphs before throwing them up there.

[Guthrie's] president of my heart. ~PhilR8

by Stacey on Aug 21, 2008 10:12 AM EDT reply actions