FOX MLB broadcaster John Smoltz is often the subject of social media ire for a perceived lack of passion for the game. The former Cy Young winner doesn’t care if people like or dislike the job he’s been doing on the air.
He told Jomboy Media in a recent appearance on the company’s podcast Toeing the Slab that he doesn’t give a rip about social media.
“There’s a reason I don’t have any Twitter. Because it’s a waste of time,” Smoltz said. “Those people who claim that they have a lot of answers or know things? They never played the game.”
Smoltz also has a problem with other baseball analysts leaning so heavily on stats and analytics when they’ve probably never been on a ball field as a player.
“When I do a game, I’m doing a game bringing the insights that most people wouldn’t know because I played the game,” he said. “And anybody who can pull stuff out of a computer, there’s value there, but they don’t understand the insights. They don’t understand the feel, they don’t understand what goes on between the lines.”
