The Peter Abraham appreciation thread
ByPeter Abraham is leaving the Journal News for the Boston Globe. Everyone already knows; no reason to pussyfoot around it. After nearly three years of dedicated service on the LoHud Yankees Blog, Pete’s headed to a gig at a much bigger paper. It’s an excellent opportunity, and it couldn’t go to anyone more deserving. While I’ll miss Pete covering the Yanks and providing multiple daily updates on the blog, I wish him only the best of luck as he transitions to the rival beat.
Mike and I met Pete at the Winter Meetings last year. We introduced ourselves, expecting we’d have a quick exchange and then be on our way. But Pete chatted with us for a while, talking Yanks, newspapers, coverage, and anything else that might have come up. We were first timers and didn’t want to look out of place. Pete helped us with any procedural questions we had. He didn’t have to do any of that. But not only did he, but it seemed to please him. He also seems happy to answer all of my annoying emails asking for information. There are so many people who wouldn’t do that, wouldn’t go out of their way to help just some blog, but Pete always did. And I’ll always appreciate that.
People have varying opinions of the man, but there are two things no one can deny. First, Pete is a good reporter who gathers and disseminates information in a timely and professional manner. Second, he gets it. He proposed the idea of the blog to his bosses at a time when blog was still a dirty word. He slogged through it when only die-hards were reading. I remember someone pointing me there during those Winter Meetings, and I wondered why the hell everyone wasn’t doing that. Since then, the industry has wised up and learned that a blog is a good medium for journalism. Pete was ahead of his time.
It’s always hard to lose someone like Pete, who has been with us for so long. All the beat writers have blogs now, but none of them are quite Pete’s. Someone will eventually fill the void he’ll leave in two weeks, but it still won’t be quite the same. I hope that some of the people who don’t think of Pete as highly as I do can at least appreciate his contribution to journalism.
Take care in Boston, Pete, and good luck.
I’ll wish him well in his future endeavors, and hope that whoever the Journal News puts on the Yankees beat updates the blog at a similar pace!
Can we start a Chad Jennings for the LoHud Yankees Blog thred?
+200
Can we start a Chad Jennings for the LoHud Yankees Blog thred?
I’ve got a better idea of who could replace Peter Abraham as Yankees Beat Blogger: Me.
I could do it remotely from Washington, while I serve my first term as Senator from Massachusetts.
Sincerely,
Curt Schilling (R-MA)
don’t get any mustard on that keyboard big boy.
But will blogging take too much time away from playing Everquest on the Senate floor? That’s the most important question in this.
He’ll gut his way through it.
Or, pussyfoot his way through it. Either way.
As an analyst, i found him to be frustratingly stagnant in his biases and opinions, but as a sports reporter, he may be the best there is. The Globe has reeled in a true catch, and I would not be surprised at all to see him rise to sports-writing superstardom in the next few years. Good luck!
I agree totally. I check his blog several times a day for his excellent reporting, and while his analysis isn’t awful, it’s just not his forte. For reporting Pete’s blog is my first stop, for analysis I go to RAB. Pete will be missed.
His reporting was very good. His analysis leaves something to be desired.
But he had an opinion. At least he shared it. He has let his Girardi and A-Rod hate drive him tho
I have two sites I go to for Yankee information, RAB and Pete, it will leave my work time reading a whole lot shorter, good luck to Pete, and good luck to RAB helping to fill his void.
You and me both!
he is great at what he does. hopefully the red sox can sign angel berroa so they can get the daily bad old age joke
Pete Abraham is nothing more than a kiss-ass. Anybody who he thinks can advance his career(see: Kim Jones and Suzyn Waldman)will get gratitously positive comments. He is also holier than thou and highly insincere. He does disseminate info better than any other blog but good riddance Pete. Go back to Mass with the other jerks and good luck on your quest to kiss a girl u fat tub o lard.
-Infinity
That’s unnecessary.
YOU ARE THE ONES WHO ARE THE BALL-LICKERS!!!!!
MAMAHUEVO!!!!
/Melky’d
Did you once say that…quote “Jay and Silent Bob are fucking clown shoes?”
What a testicle.
Should be interesting to have Pete coming up here to MA. I’ll certainly follow him along; might be nice to get Red Sox info from someone I used to get Yanks info from.
oaktag
(see: Kim Jones and Suzyn Waldman)
I cannot recall even one comment about either one of these two that was positive in nature.
Have you read all the imaginary Peter Abraham blog posts that are in Wayno2424’s head?
Nothing but constant stroke-jobs for Waldman and Jones. (Yes, I know I just made a mixed-gender metaphor. Deal with it.)
I call bullshit. It seems more likely that Pete is nice to the people who are nice to him and tries to hook them up. He has no reason to plug RAB or anyone else, but he does because he knows that people want more information.
Leave the guy alone, as he has gone above and beyond to provide as much access and insight into the team as possible.
Mospeed, Pete.
P.S.: I’m buying stock in any publicly traded Boston area catering company I can. Think about it.
ICWUDT
Pussyfoot…what a great word! Nice job Joe!
I wonder where the hell that one originated?
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_U2Gp.....y-sock.jpg (safe)
Ketchup!
IETC!! VM!!
IETC !! VM!!
God damn double poster, what an asshole!
pete abraham was a pioneer in the industry. he is one of the reasons the yankees blog popularity has increased so much over the years. he always knew how to report a story and keep the fans more connected with what was happening with the players. he never was afraid to tell the ugly truth, especially on the issues of arod. i will miss him as he goes to report for the enemy. i will probably have to read him to see what his perspective is in boston.
he never was afraid to tell the ugly truth, especially on the issues of arod.
Peter Abraham is respected across the industry as a great beat reporter and blogger, and yet all of his biggest supporters will freely admit that the his single greatest failure is his somewhat irrational hatred of ARod that is the greatest blackmark on his journalistic creds.
So, as always, you FAIL, ag.
how did you edit your post? it went from being all in bold to only some of it in bold.
I did it.
Step 1: Be so interesting and witty (rather than insipid, tedious, and shallow) that the authors of the blog are willing to pitch in and autofix your single formatting typo.
Being liked goes a long way. See also: Derek Jeter.
Dude, you think way to highly of yourself. Time to take a look in the mirror and access your way of life. It worked for A-rod, It can work for you. I can help start you off.
Repeat after me: I am at home with the me. I am rooted in the me who is on this adventure.
Okay, I’ll give it a shot.
[stands directly in front of mirror, close enough to touch]
I am one sexy bastard. Modammnit, I’m hot. I’d totally do me.
Am I doing it right?
No, that’s a picture of me you’re looking at…
…the mirror is on the other side of the wall
(no longer aroused DO NOT WANT)
hahahahaha
couldn’t help that one…it was just dangling there…
couldn’t help that one…it was just dangling there…
That’s what SHE said! No, wait…
You left out, “It rubs the lotion on its skin.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x81F28kPXuo
Kinda like your HTML fail?
SPOKE TOO SOON, MOTHAF$%#KA!
You are performing favors for the webmasters again, aren’t you.
The Great Pawlikowski owes me.
We go way back, I knew him when he was just The Pretty Good Pawlikowski. We served in the war together. I threw myself on top of an 18 year old Vietnamese girl and saved his live.
(I’ve got a dollar for anyone who knows what movie that’s from. NO LOOKING IT UP!!!)
She touched my leg…
Okayyy Kill himmmm
NOPE, WRONG, INCORRECT.
Thanks for playing, enjoy the RAB Home Game.
All?
AG’s thought process:
PeteAbe hates A-rod… FUCK YEAH! He is the man! A-rod is a piece of shit.
wait wait wait, since when does AG think?
all my posts are thought out. im not going to just go posting all over the place if the info in each post isnt carefully crafted to fit in with the topic of conversation. each of my posts are like a child to me that i care for and will defend no matter what.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_question
See? No one can be this obtuse. He’s just pulling our legs.
how am i obtuse. i know not everyone agrees with me, but that hardly makes me obtuse.
People don’t agree with you because the things you type are not based in reality. They are based only in your own head. Everything is a “feeling” to you. Feelings are great bub, but when you’re arguing feelings don’t give you a leg to stand on.
But I’m done. I did my best to ignore the idiot with a bad hair cut all week while the rest of the country talked about him. I’ll try to do the same with you, as one of your comments spawns an enormous thread. It’s what you want, and I refuse to play into it any longer.
+1 for use of bub
Yeah, for some reason I have the Vern Roscoe character from Upton Sinclair’s Oil! stuck in my head.
so its bad when one of my comments sparks some good discussion? i thought the point of a blog was to have a good community where someone says something and people respond and share there feelings. im sorry that you had to add yourself to the list of people who refuse to respond to me for no good reason.
I did my best to ignore the idiot with a bad hair cut all week while the rest of the country talked about him.
Are you talking about Kayne “P Diddy” West?
so its bad when one of my comments sparks some good discussion? i thought the point of a blog was to have a good community where someone says something and people respond and share there feelings. im sorry that you had to add yourself to the list of people who refuse to respond to me for no good reason.
More words alex gonzalez does not understand:
good discussion
spark
community
no good reason
comments
blog
respond
share
list
A word that alex gonzalez thinks he understands, but does not:
feelings
Alex Gonzalez,
I’ll actually agree with the point of your last post there. That is seemingly the purpose of a blog…but you’re pouring personal feelings and understandings on the board in which nobody really can relate too. I’ve done it before in some ways (albeit, not to the extent that you have taken some of these). Also, the discussion isn’t related to the blog…it’s basically just back-and-forth talk on who is right and who is wrong…which has nothing to do with baseball what-so-ever. Just pretend that nobody knows you what-so-ever and nobody can depict exactly how you mean for things to come out. Hopefully that will help a little bit.
Nice try, Makavelli, but he’s gonna need way more than that. I applaud your effort, though. You’re a humanitarian.
Think I used “what-so-ever” in back to back sentences without noticing? You bet…
Makavelli = Stephen A. Smith
Yeah? Does he say “what-so-ever” a lot too?
Nah, not really. Just “HOW-EVAH”, but it was close enough.
mr gonzalez, are you in fact, a triangle?
I am a banana.
you say potato and i say 3
Tuesday’s coming… did you bring your coat?
uhm…..what?
Peter Abraham is, and always was, a blowhard. His contempt for his readers was easily discernible. In fact, his attitude led me, and I assume, others, to this fantastic blog. Good riddance, Pete.
I guess a sports writer cant please everyone.
+1
PeteAbe held his readers in contempt and it disgusted me enough to stop reading his blog even though he is a good reporter. As an analyst, he’s horrible. He’s also unnecessarily sarcastic pretty much all of the time. If you look up “beat a dead horse” in the dictionary, there is a picture of PeteAbe.
I think Joe’s line that “he gets it” perfectly describes Abraham’s contribution to the NYC media. I always thought he was an excellent read and very good at his job. He’ll be missed.
Check out nomass’s tribute.
Two hearts…
TWO HEARTS THAT BEAT, AS ONE…
♪♪I never said I wasn’t gonna…tell nobody…no baby…But desperate lover, I can’t keep it to myself…oh noooo♪♪
Going after NoMaas the way he did will unfortunately be remembered along with his irrational dislike of A-Rod and his decisions to remove posts that disagreed with his analysis as the big negatives of Pete Abe’s tenure in New York.
what’s this? i am unaware of such things…
Short version:
I believe it was last year’s NoMaas draft blog, Pete Abe went on and bad mouthed the writer (the quotes are part of today’s intro at their site). He did it under some screen name, but later admitted to it.
Yup, the SN was Interested Reader. He made a bunch of snarky remarks and when they traced the IP it was the same one he used to make a few posts in their message boards.
Oops.
Did he admit to it? I thought he claimed it was a hacker or something.
Hacker??
I hope he didnt go there. The dog ate his homework
Wish him the best, never been a huge fan of him but i can respect what hes done for Yankee fans.
100% agreed.
Pete was great at keeping you up on what “just happened” in the Yankee realm. I’ll miss that. It will take longer for us to find out the goings ons. Good luck to him. His family must be happy to have him closer to home. Hopefully RS fans will take to him like most Yankee fans have, or maybe the don’t and he comes back. hmmm.
As far as I know, pete is the only beat writer who blogs from the park many times a day. the other beat writer blogs seem to put up a newspaper style pieces once a day. I hope somebody fills this void
Pete will be missed. Lucky for us, we now know we have an excellent source for Red Sox news.
http://www.espnboston.com
Isn’t that a bit redundant?
I mean, you can get the exact same info at http://www.espn.com
Touché.
While I appreciated Pete’s efforts, his pompous attitude will certainly not be missed.
Replace him with Chad Jennings and that blog probably gets even better.
At one point, Pete Abe was the go-to guy for recent Yankee news. You used to have to refresh his blog if you wanted any breaking Yankee news. Before him, there was no easy way to get instant Yankee updates and we should all thank him for that.
I know I disagree with a lot of his analysis, but that doesn’t stop me from respecting the job he has done over the years. If this was a year or two ago, it would have been a much tougher loss. With Twitter’s popularity, though, all of the beat writers are breaking the same news at the same time, so Pete’s blog had lost some of its uniqueness and usefulness. Still, I’d like to thank Pete for basically changing the way beat writers disseminate news to the fans.
Wes Mantooth said it best for me:
“From deep down in my stomach, with every inch of me, I pure, straight hate you. But goddammit, do I respect you!”
Veronica Corningstone: [in bear pit] In case we die here today, there’s something that you should know. That dirty trick with the Teleprompter. It wasn’t…
Ron Burgundy: Sweet Eli Whitney’s nose. It wasn’t you, was it? It was Wes Mantooth. Oh, I should have known.
Veronica Corningstone: No, no. No, I did it.
Ron Burgundy: [screams] YOU BITCH!
[bears wake up]
Ron Burgundy: You woke up the bears. Why did you do that?
Im gonna make this quick. I’m gonna remember one phrase pete used to post all the time about Matsui. “we’re gonna miss him when he’s gone”. Well today I will say the same to all thoe blog readers Yankees Fan.
He said that about Abreu last year.
[thinks for a second]
Nope, I don’t miss Bobby.
What about John Sterling’s call…
“Bobby Abreu…As Sweet As Candy!”
You obviously miss that quite a bit…
not. one. bit.
Man, I wish we could borrow Milton Bradley for a day to go threaten John Sterling in the press box.
I wish I could have that dude around to sick on people whenever it’s handy.
sleeping off a bad hangover when the middle school down the street gets out?
send ol’ milty out there to scare em into taking a new route home from school and rest easy.
Cabbie trying to drive up your fare?
“hey milton, I think this driver might be a racist”
the possibilities are endless.
I wouldnt go crazy saying he was ahead of his time. Blogs had their big media spotlight back in the 2004 presidential election.
Pete was just ahead of the other dinosaurs in the BBWAA
>> With Twitter’s popularity, though, all of the beat writers are breaking the same news at the same time, so Pete’s blog had lost some of its uniqueness and usefulness. Still, I’d like to thank Pete for basically changing the way beat writers disseminate news to the fans. >>
Agreed, although I would always default to him for the ‘official/unofficial’ Yankees news.
I wish him luck in Boston, but I’m not completely sure why one would choose that hornet’s nest over New York.
Money probably.
I wish him luck in Boston, but I’m not completely sure why one would choose that hornet’s nest over New York.
Maybe he’s a big fan of not having to bathe daily and dating your first cousin. Shot in the dark.
nicely done.
Gee tommie, it appears I’m the Johnny Damon and/or Derek Jeter to your Mark Teixeira today…
Good luck in the 9th gate Pete. No offense, I for one, hope you are done doing your in-game blogging in the earliest of October!
Boston won at something this year.
Whose you your new A-rod over there?
How can you peolple trust a man that openly routes for the Patriots?
The only place Pete was a pioneer was at five guys and krispy kreme. As the months went on and his blog’s popularity grew, so did his contempt for his readers. Reminds me of another overweight NY sports personality.
A) My fat joke was funnier.
B) Mike Francesa makes Peter Abraham look like Steven Hawking.
B) Mike Francesa makes Peter Abraham look like Steven Hawking.
Steven Hawking is a brilliant man…but why would anybody want to LOOK like Steven Hawking?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom
Nyuck Nyuck Nyuck
Say what you will about Pete, but I’m pretty sure he’s neither a renowned astrophysicist/British/a sufferer of Lou Gehrig’s disease
/deliberately obtuse
Thanks to Joe for all the kind words. Much appreciated. The same to those who also said nice things.
I didn’t really understand some of the replies here, which is probably just as well.
Enjoy the rest of the season, the Yankees have a hell of a team.
how can we know if this is lejit?
It is.
How do we know that was lejit?…lol
It’s turtles all the way down.
And: L-E-G-I-T
Lejit?
It’s French for “The Jit?”
Is the “t” silent?
Like, “leh-ghee”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRFp3hCWa20
I haven’t seen this video in ages…and I can’t watch it at work…but I think I remember Jose Canseco and Mark McGuire being in the video…
/Jim the Jew’d
Thanks, bro. We had some agreements and disagreements, and ribbed you from time to time, but your blog was important and you’re a good reporter.
Have fun in Boston.
Oh, and… Hey Peter: Watch your cornhole, buddy.
Good luck, Pete – and thanks for the tons of info you provided over the last few years.
(And good luck keeping the knuckleheads off the new blog. Listen to WEEI for a few minutes and you’ll get the idea)
The morning show is brutal…even the fans of Boston can’t stand them. All they do is talk about politics and how horrible democrats are and how every republican makes complete sense…and when the fans call in to give their two cents…they harrass them and put them down. And this is in Massachusetts…
I’m not a Democrat OR a Republican…it’s kind of entertaining to listen to…just for the mere fact that the Boston fans get incredibly angry…
Dennis and Callahan = Awful
Dale and Holley = Much better
please just don’t fall prey to the gammons hype machine. i dont ever want to go to your blog and read that the sox won’t trade tim wakefield unless they can get an albert pujols like impact player back.
I seriously still can’t believe Gammons wrote what he did about Penny/Smoak.
Well, technically he didn’t. We just conflated it a bit, like how Tina Fey made it seem like Sarah Palin actually said “I can see Russia from my house”.
But whatevs, keep rollin with the goofs.
Write a piece on how the Red Sox being cheap and not spending as much money on their players (when they certainly can) doesn’t benefit the fans personally by any means like they pretend it does…
Best of luck, Pete–you’ll be missed and thanks for your wonderful contribution these past few years. And congratulations on taking the next step in what I hope will be a long and memorable career.
Welcome to the good side Mr. Abraham, may your next blog be as good for Red Sox fans as this one is for Yankees fans!
Pete Abe Is the Man.. Plain and Simple. He’s a really cool guy in person and IMO the best sports writer in the Country.
I remember meeting him in Baltimore and he was really cool to my brother and I. We chatted for a moment about baseball and I just thought that was really cool of him.
He also is very Candid, which is rare in sports media. I wish him nothing but the best in Boston, The only thing I worry about for him is that the Boston fans don’t like it one bit when the media is candid about there boys….
I hope the first time he calls out Papleboner for being a jack@$$ or that JD Drew Is soft, Or that David Ortiz is a steroid user that the fans in Boston don’t turn on him… and stop reading… They Hate Candidness is Boston… They don’t want to hear the negative.. they only want to hear there news from Peter Gammons…
Good Luck Pete, Again I hope the Boston Fans Realize who and what they are getting and Appreciate it
Well Said. I Agree with Your comment.
where is your snarky sarcastic comment?
ver unlike you…im kinda dissapointed
You didn’t look hard enough. Try again.
ahhhhh now i see it…
If this continues…and TSJC slides into the “enemy” role…will this mean that you’re sleeping with him?
lol
Thanks, I was in Boston, The Day the Ortiz story broke… and No one…. No one in Fenway that wanted to accept it… they refused to believe… They totally have the blinders and dont want to hear anything bad about there red sox…
That was a Crazy Day Indeed. Those Fans in Boston refuse to Believe Anything… they like to Delude Themselves.
Yes, Unless of course.. it is peter gammons talking about his man love for Dustin Pedroia, or how the red sox have “too much pitching”
IETSC
(I Enjoyed This Sneaky Comment)
And when you add the 10 day break so he could talk it over with his lawyers, the players association coming immediately to his aid, and ESPN along with all major websites barely giving it half the coverage Arod’s story got…you get the head scratches and conspiracy theorists coming out wondering what’s going on…
Such a Joke… I dont even get irritated anymore.. I actually laugh at espns coverage
Give ADam a break, he’s German.
(golf clap)
So true about Boston reporters…it’s like the exact opposite in New York lol
I’m an avid LoHug Yankees Blog reader of Pete’s and was upset to hear the news. I’m interested in seeing who will replace him but I have a feeling that they will not be able to be as good as he was. I’ve been searching around for new blogs, almost like looking for a new girlfriend, and found this one. Enjoy reading it so far and might make it my 1 stop Yankees blog in a few weeks.
I’ve been searching around for new blogs, almost like looking for a new girlfriend, and found this one.
Welcome aboard.
(P.S. We are totally gonna cheat on you with your best friend and break your heart. You’ve been warned.)
At least here he won’t have to scroll down 836 pages to read a reply to his comment.
I use another SN on Pete’s blog and never mention this site or the other two or three I go to regularly, because nothing could be worse for a blog with a reasonably intelligent set of regulars than to be cursed with an onslaught from Pete’s Moronic Millions.
Please be discreet and don’t go talking up the good spots over there, or we’ll wake up the week after Pete leaves and find ourselves inundated with pointless blather — and not always about the Yankees, or even baseball — about Springsteen and favorite sitcoms.
S-h-h-h…
Speaking of Springsteen…;-)
I’m a little late to the party but just wanted to add my well-wishes for Pete Abe. There’s no denying that his blog was a great source of information for all of us. I’m sure that no matter how some might feel about him personally, we all wish him the best luck in his future endeavors.
Never liked Pete but wish him the best. RAB is and has always been better.
He’s a good beat writer who does let his personal bias get in the way.
But what MSM member is objective? And what beat writer is? Hes a guy who grew up a Sox fan here.
So he hates Girardi, A-Rod, Melky, etc. Doesnt mean he didnt get the job done.
People are always greatly praised when they’re dead or gone, but Pete Abraham doesn’t deserve it. Pete would constantly bash players who he didn’t believe were Red Sox caliber. Players such as Robbie Cano, Joba Chamberlain, Nick Swisher, and of course Alex Rodriguez.
If they aren’t “gritty and gutty” enough for Pete, he always went out of his way to bash them. Everytime Cano makes an out with RISP, Pete posts how terrible Cano is, but never mentions a word of how he has had one hell of a season. Never mentions how A-Rod came back early from hip surgery and is a big part of the team’s turnaround. Pete Abraham is trash.
You are insane. He’s posted Cano’s stats with RISP/bases loaded, which are not good. He’s been singing Swisher’s praises all year and making fun of KW for giving him away. He’s criticized Joba after lousy starts like everyone else. A-Rod you might have a point, but the rest of this is nonsense.