adios, harold
in case you’ve missed it, baseball tonight has fired “analyst” harold reynolds for unnamed reasons.
i catch BT occasionally, and always found harold to be the least obnoxious of the former players providing insight. (this is not a difficult achievement, given his competition includes the likes of john kruk and jeff brantley.) deadspin commenters have a myriad of theories as to why harold got fired, but i’m not concerned about that as much as i am about who will replace Reynolds on the BT panel. My votes:
- Felix Fermin
- Rico Brogna
- Gregg Jefferies
- Tripp Cromer
- Ed Sprague
anyone else have guesses?
July 25th, 2006
Stubby Clapp
Tim Spooneybarger
Mark Lemke
Claudell Washington
I of course could go on and on…
July 25th, 2006
“…have myriad theories…”
It’s an adjective. And don’t let the dictionary tell you otherwise. Sorry — pet peeve.
July 25th, 2006
…and maybe Harold called Eisner dirty names…
July 26th, 2006
> “…have myriad theories…”
> It’s an adjective. And don’t let the dictionary tell you > otherwise. Sorry — pet peeve.
really? wow, that’s never used correctly. and no worries on the correction, i tend to be a big stickler on grammar usage.
July 26th, 2006
Not to be a jerk, but that damn lying dictionary says myriad is both an adjective and noun, derived from the ancient Greek word which meant a hundred thousand. I know you said not to let it tell me otherwise, but it did. What can I say, I’m weak.
July 26th, 2006
update: an inappropriate… hug?
http://thebiglead.com/?p=714
July 26th, 2006
Wade didn’t that guy Larry give you an inappropriate hug on last year’s bar crawl? You could totally get that guy canned… from… his job as… local… drunkard. Nevermind.
July 26th, 2006
Yeah, I’m aware of the dictionary. Does anybody (Al, I’m looking at you and your school library) have access to an Oxford English Dictionary? I’m curious what they say. Seems they’re pretty immune to the contamination of ‘modern usage’…
Oh, and since this is a Harold post, um… yeah. My new über-corporate ethics and conduct training actually hasn’t touched on sexual harassment yet. Must be yet to come…
July 26th, 2006
At the risk of outing myself as a total grammar nerd, I will confess that I begged for and received an OED as a high school graduation gift. And:
A n 1 Chiefly Class. Hist. A unit of ten thousand. M16 2a In pl. Countless numbers, hosts, (of). M16. b A countless number, a host (of). E18
B adj. 1a With pl. n.: existing in myriads of indefinitely great number; countless, innumerable. Chiefly literary. L18 b With sing. n.: consisting of myriads; having countless aspects or phases. Chiefly literary.
Etc.
Oh, no real thoughts on the Harold thing. Sorry.
July 26th, 2006
Well, sparklegirl, you’re in good company. Grammar-obsessed company, that is. And as soon as I see a copy of the OED in a used bookstore, it’ll be on my shelf. By the way, you have the compact, two-volume version, right? Not the twenty-some volume one right? Right?
July 27th, 2006
One more correction, Eisner stepped down (read: was forced out) from Disney last year… rumor has it that he’s going to have a talk show or something… MSNBC maybe?
so Monkey, would you have prefered “a myriad of…” ?
July 27th, 2006
Hey, monkey. Yes, it’s “The New Shorter Oxford.” I covet the other (which a prof of mine found at a garage sale for like $100 or something–amazing).