Mike Celizic - HatGuy

Once upon a time I used to read a wonderful blog called firejoemorgan. That blog is the reason I write what you are reading now. They haven't updated that site for years but this glorious day they have returned on Deadspin
Firstly I implore you to click the link and also to read their original blog which should be on your screen somewhere to the right of this post. Secondly a word about a sports journalist that they used to write about.

Mike Celizic, known as HatGuy wrote some absolute rubbish about baseball for a long time, and FJM rightly destroyed him for it. He was recently diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma and sadly today he died. His last blog post was beautifully written and felt to me like a farewell from a warm old friend. A man whose ideas on baseball I couldn't have agreed less with, but a witty and intelligent writer who will leave the world a less interesting and fun place.
Perspective is a wonderful thing. Mike Celizic wrote the kind of stuff I regularly abuse people for on this blog, but as a man he was deserving of nothing but praise. So remember that some crappy sports journalism does not mean I hate the person, just I think what they wrote was garbage.

So raise a hot fudge sundae and say farewell to HatGuy, proof that a person and their work are not the same. Except for Piers Morgan, the twat.

Alan Shearer is the worst pundit floating in a sea of crap

Last night on MOTD Alan Shearer said the following about Hatem Ben Arfa: "no one knows much about him"

This is the Hatem Ben Arfa who has played several times and scored twice for France and won about 5 Ligue One titles so far in his career.
Add the fact that he has just signed for the club Shearer supports and was manager of only 2 years ago and you get a perfect example of why Alan Shearer is the worst pundit in the history of MOTD. He has managed the incredible feat of talking for what I suppose must add up to days of BBC broadcast time and not once say anything interesting or insightful.

That is all.