Sunday, February 27
Angel Blogs and Right Wing Idiots
Well, it is baseball season (or will be as of Thursday, when the first spring training games begin), and, as many of you might know if you've visited my site in the past, I'm a huge Angels fan. This isn't an Angels blog, in part because I can't be bothered to delve through the RPI indexes and all the other really stupid statistical breakdown mechanisms that most baseball bloggers obsess over. I don't really care about those things, and I think talking about them makes the game less fun. I'll talk forever about what actually happened during a game or what I expect to see in the next game or how the team is doing over the course of the season, but I draw the line at predicting future performance or evaluating past performance based on numbers. Frankly, baseball is more interesting than numbers (though perhaps that's the English teacher in me coming out).
But I do talk about the Angels from time to time on this site, which leads me to real topic today: Angel blogs and the right-wing idiots who run some of them. It seems like half of the Angel blogs out there are written by guys who spend half their time bitching about liberals, propping up their obsession with Reagan, or apologizing for Bush's latest idiocies and the other half delving into the minutiae of the Angels. I like the stuff they have to say about the Angels--they're pretty insightful most of the time, especially Richard at The Pearly Gates--but it's embarrassing having these people throw out all this right-wing garbage alongside their Angels analysis. It suggests that being an Angels fan also makes a person Republican. That's something I can't stand, as I'm nowhere near Republican or right wing (though I'm probably nuts), and I'm guessing there are plenty of Angels fans out there like me. So, Angel bloggers, could you please stick to the topic you are good at--baseball--and leave the political commentary for someone else (or for another blog)?
But I do talk about the Angels from time to time on this site, which leads me to real topic today: Angel blogs and the right-wing idiots who run some of them. It seems like half of the Angel blogs out there are written by guys who spend half their time bitching about liberals, propping up their obsession with Reagan, or apologizing for Bush's latest idiocies and the other half delving into the minutiae of the Angels. I like the stuff they have to say about the Angels--they're pretty insightful most of the time, especially Richard at The Pearly Gates--but it's embarrassing having these people throw out all this right-wing garbage alongside their Angels analysis. It suggests that being an Angels fan also makes a person Republican. That's something I can't stand, as I'm nowhere near Republican or right wing (though I'm probably nuts), and I'm guessing there are plenty of Angels fans out there like me. So, Angel bloggers, could you please stick to the topic you are good at--baseball--and leave the political commentary for someone else (or for another blog)?
