Mediocy meets it match

If you're not reading Fire Joe Morgan, you should if you care about the sorry state of baseball media. As a good start, try this fisking of an article that displays several of the standard "mediot" (as we called them on rec.sports.baseball back in the '90s) tendencies. Among these are the strange compulsion of the sports media to blame team failure on individuals. "Ken Tremendous" states what should be obvious to the mediots, but unfortunately is not:

There are eight position players, five starting pitchers (usually) and several relievers on a baseball team. They play 162 games per year, then between one and three playoff series in an attempt to win the World Series. Teams have vastly different payroll thresholds, and every year they contend with injuries, fluctuations in performance, and the relative strength of the other teams in their division. One man, no matter how good, cannot single-handedly win a championship in a team sport.