Introducing Saberboy!

[RickD]

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He was born out of controversy.

A lone nerd, fighting back against the machine.

Saberboy, hero of stat lovers everywhere.

The true backstory:

Randy Miller (@randyjmiller) is a writer for the South Jersey Courier-Post. He has covered the Philadelphia Phillies for the past 16 seasons and was one of nine writers who returned a blank Hall ballot this year.

Bill Parker (@Bill_TPA) is a blogger for The Platoon Advantage, which sparked some online controversy in December with the satirical article equating "suspected" PED users among baseball players with "suspected" plagiarists among baseball writers.


A back and forth developed when Miller was taken to task for turning in a blank ballot. The back-and-forth between Miller, Parker, ESPN's Keith Law and others then devolved into the difference between batting average and on-base percentage and led to this post from Miller to Parker:

Ah, I think after being a baseball beat writer for 16 years that I know what OBP is, Saberboy

And so, at 7:32 p.m. ET ... Saberboy was born.

[Old Sweater]

Randy Miller: Why my Baseball Hall of Fame ballot remained blank

http://www.courierpostonline.com/art...yssey=nav|head

This guy reminds me of someone who roots against your team for the sole purpose of ticking you off and to gain attention. Also a great peak is more impressive to him then a great career. Schilling vs Biggio, but he bounces around on this with a vote for Concepcion.

IMO, he very well could point the same finger at Thome(his hero stance) that he has pointed at Bagwell.