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Murray Chass Still Arguing for Ryan Howard to Win the NL MVP

Albert Pujols rightfully won the National League MVP this past season, but there is still a raging debate and many people think Ryan Howard deserved the award. The overwhelming majority of those people are Phillies fans, who think their team is entitled to every single award due to their World Series victory (Howard is the...

Murray Chass, Now a Blogger, Still Passionately Hates Bloggers

Hey, all you whippersnapping bloggers. Surely you remember this one old guy that worked for the New York Times. No? His name was Murray Chass, he was a baseball writer, and he really, really hated bloggers. Then he lost his job. Perhaps you had forgotten. But guess what? Murray now has a web site, where he will be...

Murray Chass Bought Out; Hates Bloggers

The Big Lead reported today that longtime New York Times baseball columnist Murray Chass is taking an involuntary buyout, which is almost entirely sad. It's a tough dawn in the newspaper industry; buyouts for older staffers are a regrettable, if suddenly inevitable, fact of life, but that doesn't make them any more...

The World Anti-Doping Agency Has a Weird Thing for Major League Baseball

Somewhere in the last year, it became some sort of unwritten baseball-blogger rule that one agrees with Murray Chass at one's own peril. Columns decrying the use of statistics to measure performance, well, that'll get you blacklisted by blogs for life, or at the very least will get a few pixelated darts thrown your way....

Murray Chass Digs Dane Cook

Do you love Dane Cook yet? Are you buying Tourgasm DVD's by the dozen? Lining your closets with t-shirts adorning that weird shocker symbol he always does? Did you take major umbrage at Saturday Night Live's overdue spoof? Fear not, lover of Dane and lover of baseball. Murray Chass what the kids want: More Dane...