Idiots Write About Sports

Since I spend a lot of time here — too much time, really — ripping apart stories that offend my sense of journalistic propriety, it’s only right that I call attention to a reporter who doing a really good job. Susan Slusser, who normally turns in superlative work as the A’s beat writer for the less-than-superlative San Francisco Chronicle*, has a dynamite series on the Dominican winter league this week. Today’s installment covered the storied rivalry between Licey and Aguilas as well as a profile on Jose Guillen, who can’t seem to grasp why people might conclude he’s a hot-headed nitwit. In Tuesday’s funny papers, Slusser will profile Oakland and San Francisco’s baseball efforts in the Dominican Republic. And she kicked off the series with a look at how unbelievably popular Spazzy Spazerton is among Licey fans.
Guess he never cost Licey a playoff win with a bonehead play.
* If I give unqualified praise, people might suspect I’ve gone soft in my old age.
(ETA: Incidentally, if the headline is a wee bit off, the fault lies with me and Babelfish, and not with my junior-high Spanish teachers.)