Complainer Complaining About Culture Of Complaint

Richard Sandomir's got a problem with you, twitter blogger tweety guy who spends a lot of time complaining about how broadcasters are biased against your team. And he's got a complaint about the culture:

Fox's Joe Buck and Tim McCarver are in their 12th World Series together -- time enough to become Exhibits A and B in the culture of complaint, postseason edition. No announcer goes unscathed, not with myriad outlets existing to help fans vent their belief in the biases and mistakes of those who call the games.

One can only imagine how Howard Cosell would react to being an object of derision by Tweeters.

Howard Cosell would react like he reacted to everything: sighing wearily and wishing he had more scotch.

Setting aside the idea that Richard Sandomir is surprised that large sections of the population motivated enough to post anonymous notes about sports teams happen to be dumb conspiracy theorists, I have a complaint about Richard Sandomir's complaint about the culture of complaint. Richard Sandomir is part of it.

Sandomir spent a thousand words just a month ago ripping Chip "Fisted" Caray a new orifice via which to bumble out incorrect reports of base hits:

No one in the production truck could rescue him from his 10th-inning classic faux pas during the Twins-Tigers tie breaker Tuesday night. Caray called the Twins' Nick Punto's sharply hit liner to left field this way: "Line drive. Base hit. Caught out there. The runner tags. Throw to the plate. On target. And in time! A double play."

My ears quivered in amazement at hearing a very obvious lineout called a single as smoothly as Caray did.

It's baseball, as never taught by Prof. Vin Scully.

There's more and more and more; I like to envision the piece as a raving lunatic's take on Chip Caray (FISTED!) burnished to a smooth New York Times polish by a harried editor. The piece doesn't just linger on Caray's (FISTED!) ineptness, it delves into truly trivial complaints about how many passed balls Jorge Posada has allowed and unwise production decisions. Richard Sandomir is seriously angry, you guys, and is going to use his bully pulpit to complain about it.

This is not logging onto Facebook to lob accusations of Tim McCarver's anti-Yankees bias*, but neither is it zen-like acceptance of the things you cannot change. As always, the lesson is: the internet remembers everything.

*(Tim McCarver's bias is not against the Yankees but logic and, more generally, the future of humanity. This has been amply demonstrated by the late, great Fire Joe Morgan.)

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