Wally Matthews - What a Tool

If you asked most sports fans who Wally Matthews was - the general response would probably be to ask if he played one of the kids in Leave it to Beaver. He's a writing nobody. It boggles the mind how this single A talent ended up with a major league writing gig with Newsday.

Wally Matthews is probably best known for getting fired / quitting his job at his then employer New York Post because a co-worker printed a rumor that one of the New York Mets was gay. Matthews threw a fit and was bye-bye. That was his idea of integrity.

Now Matthews gets a few more minutes of attention by writing a smear-job on Tim Wakefield. The article lays bare the fact that Matthews knows nothing at all about baseball. Matthews questions how Tim Wakefield has a job in baseball and basically rips him as a bad influence on the game. Matthews attempt at controversy was rightly ripped by the folks at Fire Joe Morgan.

Wally Matthews is a clown who knows nothing about baseball. He's exhibit A of why baseball fans have increasingly turned to web sites and blogs to get their information instead of the traditional print media. Newsday should be embarrassed to carry his byline.

HT - Large Bill