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Padres News: Padres Fans among the Most Literate in Baseball

The interwebs are filled with people with varying degrees of skill in expressing themselves. While on one hand you can find the brilliant writing of Noam Chomsky and Robert Anton Wilson, on the other you can find the practically illiterate rantings of, well, I don’t suppose you need any help finding examples of those writers. The web is littered with the rantings of the illiterati.

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Sports writing, as a microcosm of the web, also spans the spectrum of erudition. While baseball fans have access to the brilliance of Jonah Keri, Peter Gammons, and Jayson Stark, we are also quite likely to stumble across any of the myriad wannabes (myself included) who butcher grammar as they stumble through awkward phrases in their quest to share their often not-so-original opinions.