So it looks like some other folks had questions for me.
Deadspin: 1 p.m. MLB Insider Keith Law: How come no firestorm when David Wells opens his big yap?
Because no one can understand a guy who always has two hot dogs in his mouth.
David Hume: Keith, do you resent being overshadowed by your omnipresent, nearly omnipotent brother Johnny Law?
No, but the way my cousin Acie Law IV was getting all the love the spring was really getting under my skin.
David Hume: Also, is “the long arm of the Law” really that long?
Depends on which arm we’re discussing…
Stev D: Are you just Keith if you enter international waters?
And most people just assume I’m afraid of the ocean.
Zlax45: Ask Keith what he thinks about College Baseball and how teams always screw up bunting. He says it happens every time he goes to a college game that someone hits a bunt back to the pitcher.
Bah, a serious question – no fun. But the big problem I have with college teams bunting is that it’s a high-scoring environment with horrendous relief pitching. What the hell are you doing having your #3 hitter bunt in the first inning? OK, enough seriousness.
Phony Gwynn: Keith, If I fought you, would you win?
No, you know how the song ends.
Spaceman Spiff: Keith, are you going to answer baseball related questions or is this chat only for pretentious assholes to discuss their favourite foreign language books and sushi?
PS. what’s your favourite Manuel Altolaguirre poem?
Hey, watch your mouth – there’s nothing pretentious about us. Fin de un amor.
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did you ever listen to the stretch armstrong and bobbito while growing up in NY?
I think both those artists are after my time. I started college in 1990 and haven’t lived in NY since.
That’s some funny, stuff. Related to the chats: those times when you cant answer on ESPN but you answer only directly to a person, is it because of foul language, personal attacks on those in the baseball industry, or just various different reasons that prevent you from posting and answering the questions directly? I have just always been curious, because you do it farily frequently.
Fran – all of the above. Sometimes it’s a content issue – I can’t post anything too offensive, and while I can edit a little bit of foul language, I won’t rewrite an entire question. Sometimes it’s a personal attack on those in the baseball industry; I get a lot of fairly pointed questions about Toronto and J.P. Ricciardi, and I’m mindful of the fact that some people will always assume I’m predisposed against them (which I’m not, but I can’t stop people from thinking it). Sometimes I hide the question for the questioner’s own good – it looks to me like someone involved in the game who might not want his question aired if folks can figure out who wrote it. And so on. But it always bothers me that I can’t get to all the good questions, so if I can find little tricks to answer a few more, I use them.
I just wanted to add that although Spaceman Spiff was a jerk, that is an amazing reference to arguably the best comic of all time, along with Far Side and Doonesbury.