FanHouse Corky Simpson

It would be wrong to get angry at people of an elderly persuasion for not understanding the internet. We live in a world of backslashed sarcasm, "blogs" and message boards/comment sections that allow for, *gasp*, freedom of speech.

There's no need for them to embrace it unless they want to. But when an elderly man like Corky Simpson decides to all-out attack the interwebs, well, that's a whole different ballgame.

"It doesn't bother me," Simpson told me, "because, one, I'm too old, and my skin is too thick, and I'm a stubborn old mule from Missouri. I think of the literature on the Internet in the same way that I think of the literature on the walls of public bathrooms. With the exception that the literature on the walls of public bathrooms is a little higher class."

[...]"The Internet is like a sewer. It's very necessary, but you wouldn't want to spend a lot of time there."

Sigh. See, the thing is that Corky already "forgot" (read: purposely left off) Ricky Henderson when voting for the Hall of Fame. And his subsequent back-pedaling on the issue kind of tends to devalue the whole "stubborn old mule" persona.

I am not going to list Rickey Henderson's accomplishments here, because if you are the kind of person who reads a baseball blog, you are also the kind of person who realizes that Corky Simpson is a bad word on the Internet for leaving Henderson off of his Hall of Fame ballot. What else would you expect from a guy named Corky?