Stock Rocks said:
Disagree.
Scouts are in a business of emotions. If they see players who lack passion, drive and character- essentially wasting their tremendous physical gifts, then why not get fired up over it?
The problem is- too many fans get their little panties in a bunch when Red Line goes off on their favorite wittle players. Oh, boo hoo! Cry me a river.
At least Red Line takes a stand...McKeen's and ISS tend to spend more time writing positive, generic reports that don't really hammer the underachievers.
Disagree.
While it is a free country, with free speech and well within thier rights to publish whatever opinion they find neccesary, RLR takes it way to the extreme. I don't think scouting (especially when it is done for the purpose of a publication) should be emotional. It should be cerebral.
To suggest that a professional service should use emotion (and i dont think that is what it is) when determining a players value, skillset and potential is off. There is no place for emotion in a professional scouting service that has no affiliation with a team.
RLR has no stake in a given player so it shouldn't bother them in the least if a player is uninspiring.Why should they care if a player is wasting thier gifts? Why should they get emotional about it as if they had a stake in the players future? Why get emotional about it at all in fact? Why get personal to the point of being emotional? That isn't thier job as a scouting service.
If they have a problem with a players desire then fine. Say so.
Don't waste 8 paragraphs of a 10 paragraph story ripping into a 17 year old kid with an obviously biased opinion?
Just scout the players weaknesses and strengths. There is no need for petty childish thoughts to be thrown around the way RLR does.
They also get juvinile in thier criticisms of certain players, to the point where they come across as extremely unprofessional.
Thier self congratulatory phrases also get annoying.
They have a good scouting service mind you, but an immature and somewhat unprofessional one.
Taking a stand is one thing (even though that isnt thier job...thiers is to scout and report the facts as they see them). Showing pettiness and childlike behavior is another. I dont see it as taking a stand. I see it as a personal vendetta at times.
And for the record, I could care less about his current whipping boy (Schremp). But the way he has gone off on him, coupled with his self loving articles at times keeps me from respecting thier work and opinions more than I would otherwise.
A scout, or scouting service should remain objective. When you bring emotion into the equation, objectivity is difficult to retain.
I would much rather take the word of a good scout who is objective than the equally talented scout who is emotional. Emotion is not a redeeming quality in a scout simply because emotion could cloud an objective and un biased judgement.
And that is what scouting is. Judgement.
You will get a much more accurate, objective opinion if you go by what your brain tells you rather than what your heart tells you when it comes to talent evaluation.
I am not sure why you would think it is a good quality for a scout to take a players evaluation to heart when it should be about objectivity.
That said, I DO like RLR and think Woodleif and co have alot of good insight. It is just hard to take them seriously when there is a perception of going overboard with a bias.
It makes it look like thier evaluation may not be entirely accurate. To see the way they attack someone personally, makes you wonder if it is accurate. When I see a bias remark (especially to the point and degree that they go to) I am wondering how accurate the scouting is simply because there is an obvious personal dislike for the subject.
It DEFINATLEY appears to cloud thier report when they go off on a highly skilled kid and hardly mention his positives, instead choosing to focus almost solely on the negatives.
