Out of all the so-called baseball “experts” on ESPN, probably the only ones that have any idea what they are talking about are Buster Olney and Rob Neyer. So imagine my surprise when I read this quote in Neyer’s article questioning why the Dodgers got Jim Thome:

I read somewhere that Colletti thinks of Thome as the Dodgers' version of the 2008 version of Matt Stairs ... but Matt Stairs collected exactly one hit last October…


Wow! Talk about downplaying someone’s hit. That “1 hit” that Neyer casually mentions was the backbreaking HR against Broxton in the 8th in game 4 of the NLCS that turned a potential 2-2 series tie into a 3-1 Phillies lead. We all know what happened after that and that is why I will hate Matt Stairs forever. But if Jim Thome would contribute 1 hit like that in the playoffs leads to a Dodgers World Series title, he should have his number retired.

However, the next day, Neyer completely redeems himself by calling out Bill Plaschke on yet another stupid article complaining about the lack of an ace. I wont go into detail about it since both Plaschke, Thy Sweater Is Argyle and MSTI have already torn Plaschke a new asshole about it, but I’m just glad that someone from the mainstream media made fun of Plaschke as well. You don’t see mainstream media calling each other out very often, so that Neyer actually did is awesome. All is forgiven, Rob!