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Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Verducci v “Blogger Murray Chass”
Face it Murray, you are now one of us, as Verducci says:
The blogger, Murray Chass, wrote, “Miller said some people told him they heard or believed” that I did not vote for Miller. The blogger followed the hearsay with three paragraphs of speculation about why I might have voted no on Miller, writing, “that’s what the belief is, and Miller missed by that margin of one vote.”
Because Miller gave erroneous hearsay to the blogger that was published, and especially with Miller falling one vote short of induction, the Hall of Fame took the unusual step of allowing me to reveal my vote. Committee members are asked not to reveal their votes.
This is what Murray said yesterday:
I’m not sure what Verducci, the Sports Illustrated writer, thought of Miller, but I know he didn’t think much of the job Miller had. When Verducci covered baseball for Newsday, the Long Island daily, he hated covering baseball labor. And when he did cover it, he wasn’t very good at it.
During the 1990 lockout, there was a Saturday afternoon bargaining session, before which the retired Miller met with members of the union’s negotiating committee and, in effect, gave them a pep talk. The bargaining session turned out to be critical and led to the settlement of the dispute, but Verducci missed the development, writing instead that the situation was growing worse.
Could Verducci’s view of labor negotiations translate into a no vote 20 years later? Only he knows, but that’s what the belief is, and Miller missed by that margin of one vote.
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