Matt Welch's Chin Music, or Bang the Bums Slowly

In yesterday's LA Times, Reason's own Matt Welch throws a couple of beanballs squarely at the heads of "two loud-mouthed, value-subtracting columnists, [Bill] Plaschke and T.J. Simers." Bonus points to Welch, as both are columnists for the very paper in which his Bronx cheer appeared.

Baseball fans, read on here.

For more about baseball from the pen o' Welch, go here.

Comments

[joe]

I like the cut of your jib, kid.

You got grit.

Spunk.

Moxie.

Picture me slapping a rolled up newspaper in my hand while I say that. That's pretty much what I'm going for here.

Great big huge stones.

[Dave Straub]

Quite the sportsfisking. As an A's fan who feels for DePo, I must say bravo, Matt.

[tyler durden]

ouch, that had to hurt

[Mo]

My only criticism is that you didn't rip Simers enough. A few jabs about the the glass house of someone who complains about the "Grocery Store Bagger" in his sports columns resides in should not be throwing stones.

Plaschke and Simers are awful

[Ken Shultz]

Go Matt!

[John]

I would love to have read this piece had it not been for the lousy ass LA Times registration requirement. That said, whatever lousy thing you said about Plaschke couldn't have too harsh. Sports writers used to be urban and intelligent. People like Ring Lardner and Frank DeFord. Now they are just loud mouth jerks who write things that if they ever had the balls to say to someone's face would get them the ass kicking they so richly deserve. Palaschke and his ilk have helped make the sports page unreadable.

[Mark Denovich]

Nice inadvertantly perverted headline x 2.

[Robby]

Gawd, I hate Simers. Where do I start? The snotty, patronizing tone. The lack of insight. The inaccuracies. The negativity. He doesn't get it that people don't want to read about *him*, they want to read about sports. Any other LA paper is better than the Times.

Thanks for the letter. It has to be said. Because, alas, my not buying the Times doesn't seem to be causing Plaschke and Simers to vanish in a puff of spite.

[matt]

"Plaschke and Simers are awful."

I'd have to add Skip Bayless to that list.

[Stretch]

Man, that was just beautiful. Since you lambasted them in their very own LATimes, can we look forward to a Plaschke rebuttal in Reason?

And for those who don't want to register with the LAT, just go to bugmenot.com.