Scott Miller must be desperate for a job at ESPN

Scott races out of the box today--surprise--instead of saying smaller market teams will have millions more of the hard-working Yankee fan's money to spend--he bashes the Yankee team in a torrent of hate. Scott, you won. The Yankees have to pay 40% of the cost of the additional salaries in luxury tax to MLB--and God knows where that goes. Then, the Yankee fan has to pay another chunk of millions to revenue sharing--all of which goes in the pocket of lower payroll teams! You should be happy, Scott! But, his company shares this insightful blurb about Scott:

• "A wayward Midwesterner transplanted dangerously close to several In-N-Out burger locations in Southern California, Scott Miller has covered baseball for a variety of publications during the past 13 years before becoming the national baseball writer for CBS SportsLine.com in October 1999.

  A native of Monroe, Mich., Miller graduated from Hillsdale (Mich.) College in 1985 and soon thereafter began covering sports for the Los Angeles Times, San Diego edition. After covering the San Diego Padres and the then-California Angels, Miller returned to the Midwest as the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press beat man covering the Minnesota Twins from 1994-1999. There, he chronicled six consecutive losing seasons, listening to tales of the Twins' glory days of 1987 and 1991 all the while.

  Miller is a past chairman of the Twin Cities' chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America, and he also served on the BBWAA's national board of directors in 1998."

So, Miller has covered the Padres and Twins & has been immersed in BBWAA bureaucracy for many years. As I documented on this blog, his lifelong goal was to become a voter for post-season baseball awards--kind of a strange thing, wanting to exist just to judge others. Anyhow, after his years with the Padres, then getting lots of Yankee hate from Minnesota, what are the chances he's voted for Mariano Rivera on any of his supposedly unbiased ballots?

• An excellent critique of Miller's latest column appears on highandtight.blogspot.com.

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