It’s really too easy to piss on Steve Simmons of the Toronto
Sun, and I’m slightly reluctant to pile on after his entry
Friday into the Book of Moron, but his column in Sunday’s
edition of the paper is just too chock full of insanity to let
pass without comment.  And I’m not even referring to his
celebration of Matt Kemp’s chase of the triple crown.  Yes,
batting average gives a horribly incomplete measure of a
player’s worth as a hitter. And the RBI is an even more useless
stat. Aaaand, as good as Kemp has been this year, Albert Pujols
has had like four seasons with better triple crown stats, he
just hasn’t happened to lead the league in all three categories
those years.  But I get it. The Triple Crown is an old-timey
thing and if someone wants to think it’s cool, that’s fine. Give
a shit– I don’t.  It’s later on the the piece, though, where
things get infinitely more fucking dumb. Like when Simmons says
that if he had an AL MVP vote, “Jose Bautista would be no better
than fourth,” behind Ellsbury, Granderso