What a nice guy.

definitely my favorite guy on baseball tonight

recently when he placed us in the cellar, but what a nice thing to say

...is a GOD.

might be the only guy at ESPN that actually follows and reports on other teams in baseball other than the Red Sox, Yankees, and Mets.

Although he is a Red Sox homer through and through he at least he gives props to teams like the Cards when they deserve it.

Gammons has always had great things to say about Cardinal fans and the team’s rich tradition.

He’s an old schooler who has experienced so much in covering baseball, and nearly defining the modern “sports opinion columnist” role that so many other hacks have tried to fill. To him, the job is simple – spend countless hours making observations, weigh them against what you know and what you think. Then deliver judgement. His observations that the Cardinals could or would be one of the worst teams in the NL in early Spring were pretty well justified, given the amount of chaos going on. In fact, there were more than a few similar opinions expressed here at that time.

However, and here is what separates him from the pack, he does not set his pride and reputation against his original opinion, or his original observations, come hell or high water. He continues to watch and weigh new evidence. He doesn’t have to admit that he was “Wrong,” because it isn’t his job to be “Right.” It is simply his job to deliver a reasoned, cultured opinion when asked. And his opinions appear dead-on more often than not because he is such a keen observer, and because he is so open to change.

If the Cards go down the tubes in August, and Gammons comes on and narrates his views on the matter, he’ll likely catch flack on this board and others in Cardinal Nation. But more than likely, his take will have more than a few grains of truth in them, then as now.