{"id":195,"date":"2008-02-24T10:17:43","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T14:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=195"},"modified":"2008-02-24T10:17:43","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T14:17:43","slug":"the-facts-will-bend-to-the-will-of-my-premise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/24\/the-facts-will-bend-to-the-will-of-my-premise\/","title":{"rendered":"The facts will bend to the will of my premise!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From reader Eric L. comes <a href=http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2008\/writers\/don_banks\/02\/23\/combine.snaps\/index.html>this bit of sloppy journalism<\/a> from <i>Sports Illustrated<\/i> football writer Don Banks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But Long isn&#8217;t taking a backseat to anyone these days. Not even his dad, the square-jawed and crew-cutted Howie, or his younger brother Kyle, who is a highly regarded left-handed high school pitcher who might go first overall in baseball&#8217;s June draft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kyle Long is, in fact, a left-handed pitcher who graduates from high school this year. He didn&#8217;t make <a href=http:\/\/insider.espn.go.com\/espn\/blog\/index?entryID=3108649&#038;searchName=law_keith>my ranking of the top 60 amateurs<\/a> back in November. But don&#8217;t take my word for it &#8211; <i>Baseball America<\/i> placed him 58th in its <a href=http:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/online\/draft\/rankings\/?rank=highschool&#038;year=2008>preseason ranking of the top 100 HS prospects<\/a> for this draft, which would place him somewhere in the fourth round, third at best.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really expect Don Banks to know a lot of specifics about prospects for the upcoming baseball draft, but would it be so hard for him to reach out to someone &#8211; like Kevin Goldstein, who has contributed some pieces to <i>SI<\/i> &#8211; to check a fact? Or is this, as Eric put it in his email, &#8220;just a case of a football writer talking about something about he doesn&#8217;t really know that much about and then stretching the truth to make a cute parallel?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From reader Eric L. comes this bit of sloppy journalism from Sports Illustrated football writer Don Banks: But Long isn&#8217;t taking a backseat to anyone these days. Not even his dad, the square-jawed and crew-cutted Howie, or his younger brother Kyle, who is a highly regarded left-handed high school pitcher who might go first overall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,20],"tags":[45,855],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-sports","tag-bad-writing","tag-sports","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}