Sorry, Craig - but the rules of grammar are pretty clear: The “he” is preceded by C.C. Sabathia, not Jack Morris. We all know who you meant, since C.C. was barely even 200 lbs in 1991…

Have to agree with Wooden a little here. You have to use the pronoun after you introduce the subject it’s referring to (or to which it’s referring—which brings me to the question of why prepositions can’t end a sentence other than that grammar rules say so).

In other words, the sentence should have been—“even though Jack Morris beat my Braves in Game 7 of 1991 and was kind of a jerk the one time I met him in person, I have a soft spot in my heart for him because he was the ace of the team I loved when I was a little kid.”

It would have been a bit clearer, but all it would have taken from hop was to do a double-take and realize what you were saying. Dependent clauses are tricky things.

Your NBC readers are boners.  Seriously.  Thinking that you were referring to the person before the phrase off-set by commas, CC, could have pitched in 1991.  And it was a serious comment.  That’s what scares me. 

Though one guy did utter the obvious - if he knew how to win, why did he forget 186 times, and countless other times he had a no-decision?????  Would Girardi have said that if the Yankees had lost 4-2 or something???  It boggles my mind . . .

Bifcat: if you think they’re boners now, don’t even dare wade into the Pete Rose thread comments.  My lord.

Just finished reading that disaster.  Good lord are those people thick.  This might win for best comment of the year though (after the Strawberry HoF one):

Pete Rose is the Greatest Player in the history of MLB. Manny and A Rod should never be mentioned in the same article.Like many have said, ” give me 9 players like Pete and i’ll win 162 games”.

WOW

terry in the Wagner thread takes the cake. How can one hope to argue successfully against such incredible rebuttals?

*returning, not returned.  I hate that there’s no edit comment function here.

My personal favorite comment (so far) is Ken Cochran, who wrote that Stan Musial “would routinely spkie [sic] Jackie Robinson because they were biggits [sic] and he was black.”  Has anyone ever accused Stan the Man of anything like this before?  Isn’t he generally acknowledged one of the classiest guys to play the game?

I think Ken Cochran was thinking Enos Slaughter. Its an easy mistake to make, because they were both Cardinals, and they both have an s in their name. He then goes on to say that Rose was a better player than Musial “by a wide margin” and that no one would argue with that. I am quite sure there are many people who would argue with that, myself being one of them.

Craig, I swear I’m going to have to give up reading your NBC stuff, because the comments make me just crazy.  I want to start responding, and then I stop myself because I know there’s no real point, and then my blood starts boiling, and my wife starts muttering something like, “If the blog is going to upset you then you’re not going to be allowed to read it anymore,” and then…BAM!  I stroke out and die.

Happens every time.

Mike—you may or may not be right about bagels, but you’re dead wrong about corned beef. I’m not saying the stuff I had for lunch today was fantastic or anything, but I’ve had transcendant corned beef in Detroit, Chicago, and even Los Angeles.