Musical Injustice!

Today on Salon there's a tongue-in-cheek article by the New Republic's Spencer Ackerman about the possible hidden indicator in this weekend's Yankees-Red Sox series, the relative musical stylings of Boston pitcher Bronson Arroyo and New York outfielder Bernie Williams.

While I have no problem with anything that makes fun of the Yankees and/or Red Sox, there were two big problems.

1) Ackerman gets Arroyo's name correct every time. Frankly, this is unprecedented. During last year's playoffs, my roommate and I started calling him "Billy-Bob Arrobo" in honor of the fact that, try as he might, Tim McCarver was NEVER able to get his name right.

2) It's an outrage that there could be a whole article about ballplayer/musicians vis-a-vis October baseball without any mention at all of the paramount importance of former Angels' infielder Scott Spiezio's band, Sandfrog!, to Anaheim's 2002 Word Series win.

For shame, Ackerman...