Open Letter to Kawakami

Best game ever.

Now 4 games back, the boys have Cainer going in the afternoon rubber match against the worst people in the world.

Is the Zito Renaissance really happening?  (For that matter - Chan Ho Park Renaissance?  Seriously?)

Tim Kawakami doesn't think so.  I linked to him, so I'll drive up his traffic, but all of you should read his steaming pile of pseudo-journalism so you can share in my vitriol for the hack.

Here's a message for you, Tim: you were never a good basketball writer and you're a piss-poor baseball man.  I'm sure you're perfectly aware that you're from the Skip Bayless School of Writing (contrarian views based less on fact and more on, well, nothing).  So good luck to you on attaining that goal of being a second alternate mid-morning talking head on The Ocho.

Your Bayless still needs some work, though.  (Yeah, the gloves are off).

I make no bones about being a total hack myself.  But at least I believe in some of the BS I spew.  I don't have to convince anyone I've hated on Zito as much the next fan, but show some integrity there, guy.  Your failure to acknowledge Barry's recent starts as a legitimate baseball story completely undermines your ability to speak with any authority on the subject.

As far as I'm concerned, you're the Going Overboard of sportswriters.

Maybe you could pick up a thing or two to from your far superior colleague Andrew Baggarly, who reports that Tyler Walker is getting an MRI on his knee.  At least he hurt it doing the Lord's work/beaning Jeff Kent, which drew cheers from the greatest fans on earth.