Bil_conlinSurprisingly, there are no hi-res images of Conlin online…

You can file this one under reasons why people don't read newspapers anymore.

As you likely know, readers will send me emails with tips, heads ups, pictures, poems (yep), and assorted who's its and what's it galore.

Yesterday, reader, let's call him TR, sent me a heads up about the NY Times drivel written by failed baseball player Pat Jordan.

I informed TR that I read PJ's piece and that we took care of it on site. It was at this point TR sent me two email exchanges he had with our favorite aging local sportswriter, Bill Conlin, who defended PJ's piece in today's Daily News.

Those exchanges… after the jump.

———- Forwarded message ———-

<[email protected]>Date: Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:52 AMSubject: Re: NYT Magazine Story about 4 AcesTo: TR

"Dude" happens to be a acclaimed baseball author who has written 13 books, including "A False Spring," regarded as the finest baseball book of its kind. Here's an excerpt from one of the hundreds of reviews. 


"A False Spring, by turns rueful, amused, nostalgic and disgusted, is just fascinating, probably the best book imaginable about baseball's underpinnings."-Boston Globe (Boston Globe )

Pat Jordan also wrote the magazine piece that outed Steve Carlton as a whacko who believes the World is run by nine Jewish Bankers and other tripe.

Temple apparently swung and missed with you.

—–Original Message—–From: TR To: William Conlin <[email protected]>Sent: Sun, Apr 3, 2011 11:53 pmSubject: Fwd: NYT Magazine Story about 4 Aces

Bill,

Did you read the story about the 4 Aces in yesterday's NYT Magazine?

If you didn't already, I would suggest you take a look. All I will say is, this dude must be a stinkin', loser Yankee fan.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/magazine/mag-03Phillies-t.html?_r=1&ref=sports

TR from Temple.

 

 

And the other…

 

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:33 AM
Subject: Re: NYT Magazine 4 Aces Story
To: TR

it's a brilliant piece of writing and pitching
analysis. Wish i had written it.
Sent via DROID on Verizon Wireless

—–Original message—–

From: TR
To: 
William Conlin <[email protected]>
Sent: 
Mon, Apr 4, 2011 07:54:08 GMT+00:00
Subject: 
NYT Magazine 4 Aces Story
Bill,

Did you read the story about the 4 Aces in yesterday's NYT Magazine?

If you didn't already, I would suggest you take a look. All I will say is, this dude must be a stinkin', loser Yankee fan.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/magazine/mag-03Phillies-t.html?_r=1&ref=sports

TR from Temple.

 

Why are we not surprised that Conlin defended the 69-year-old throw back writer from the NYT? 

Both in the emails and in today's Daily News Conlin praises PJ's work: [Philly.com]

WHEN I'M KING of the World . . .

 Pat Jordan's provocative view of the Phillies' Four Aces, which ran in Sunday's New York Times Magazine, will be required reading for every Phillies fan . . . It is not only a detailed breakdown of the Dubee Brothers' deliveries, "stuff," mind-sets and unique preparations, it is a compressed journey through the evolution of pitching from the iron men of yore to today's crop of pitch-count-restricted and less-accountable starters.

 

I generally stop reading any article at "iron men of yore." As if that wasn't enough, however,  Conlin manages to take an unnecessary jab at TR for what was an otherwise friendly email.

Ladies and gentlemen, your paper of record.