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stuart scott irl posted:Seriously though, the way Philly fandom latches on to replacement level players and becomes obsessed with their "contributions" is loving maddening. Everyone loving LOVES Valdez right now. I think every fanbase does this, though. It took months of sub-replacement hitting and my constant bitching to convince my dad that Francisco Cervelli has no business being on a major league team.
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Captain Charisma posted:I think every fanbase does this, though. It took months of sub-replacement hitting and my constant bitching to convince my dad that Francisco Cervelli has no business being on a major league team. Pretty sure that right at the moment, Wilson Valdez is more popular among the media than Chase Utley. Chase "Permanent Reverse Racism" Utley.
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Ryan loving Theriot. Thank God they got Blake DeW-AW gently caress.
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Chris Getz aaaaagh. Also Yuni but he's been a not-awful shortstop this year.
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Deathlove posted:Ryan loving Theriot. Thank God they got Blake DeW-AW gently caress. hehe  Theriot's range is impressive, at least. Too bad he's a piece of poo poo hitter.
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Bob Shabazz posted:Chris Getz aaaaagh. Also Yuni but he's been a not-awful shortstop this year. To be fair, Getz can't stay healthy for more than a week anyway.
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This is older (1991) than a bunch of people in this thread, but I just learned of its existence today. 1991 doesn't seem like that long ago, but goddamn is it kind of creepy. http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/14/sports/sports-of-the-times-sorry-but-magic-isn-t-a-hero.html Gotta love those undertones of "who does deserve to get AIDS". On a lighter note, here is an awesome quote from TLR which I 100% agree with! TLR, on Adam Wainwright winning his 20th game posted:"This is a real achievement. The level of wins for a starter is like RBIs for a position player."
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Who want some godawful Mets fan fiction? http://nybaseballdigest.com/?p=29437 quote:The wind whipped through the near empty seats of Citi Field on Thursday night. A storm was on its way. They’d get the game in though. Nothing like a 9-2 drubbing from the Brewers with our former manager and pitching coach sitting in their dugout to finally bring the curtain down on what’s been a season of inevitable failure and frustration. When they fired Willie Randolph and Rick Peterson in June ’08, there was instant hope and relief. Sure, they way they did it was ugly, but who cares? There’s no karma in baseball, right? The Mets caught fire. They won 10 straight into the All-Star break. A short two months or so later, Collapse II was complete.
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FairGame posted:This is older (1991) than a bunch of people in this thread, but I just learned of its existence today. 1991 doesn't seem like that long ago, but goddamn is it kind of creepy. I liked this: quote:If one definition of "hero" is model or ideal, as Webster's Third New International Dictionary attests, Magic Johnson is hardly a model or ideal to anyone with a sense of sexual morality. I'm sure he's happy he wrote this before FJM happened
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zakharov posted:Everyone leaves the field but Wally…he starts to trot in towards Howie… YESSSS THE METS' HEEL TURN
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Here's a fun column where a guy repeats a sentence about the 2009 Yankees 50 times. I'm not kidding: it's the same sentence, repeated 50 times, on purpose.
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barkingclam posted:Here's a fun column where a guy repeats a sentence about the 2009 Yankees 50 times. I'm not kidding: it's the same sentence, repeated 50 times, on purpose. He literally got paid for ctrl-c ctrl-v. I hate everything.
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FairGame posted:This is older (1991) than a bunch of people in this thread, but I just learned of its existence today. 1991 doesn't seem like that long ago, but goddamn is it kind of creepy. "There were just some bachelors that almost every woman in Los Angeles wanted to be with: Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall and Magic Johnson." Really? Every woman in LA wanted to gently caress Arsenio Hall?
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barkingclam posted:Here's a fun column where a guy repeats a sentence about the 2009 Yankees 50 times. I'm not kidding: it's the same sentence, repeated 50 times, on purpose. That is by far the laziest thing I've ever read.
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Curl_like_smoke posted:"There were just some bachelors that almost every woman in Los Angeles wanted to be with: Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall and Magic Johnson." Relatively famous actor/comedian who hosted his own TV show that was pretty popular with a young, urban audience. Yeah, that kind of stuff must be kryptonite to a woman.
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For some reason Mad Dog Radio on XM hired Steve Phillips (the awful former Mets GM who seems to know nothing useful about anything) to co-host their morning show. Needless to say they're getting flooded with calls asking why they're hiring this loser.
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The broken bones posted:I liked this: I'm more offended he used loving "Webster's defines..."
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Steve Phillips also likes interns. He really likes interns Alternatively...
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That person is literally suggesting that if Jose Bautista's going to take steroids, then at least he ought to also throw baseball games.
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YodaTFK posted:I'm not saying that Bautista is a cheater, but hes a loving cheater. See, but it'd be okay if he cheated a little in the negative direction to balance it out.
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Shadow Ninja 64 posted:See, but it'd be okay if he cheated a little in the negative direction to balance it out. The bastard could have chosen to hit fewer HR's but he got greedy. Greedy bastard choosing to hit HR's when he could have chosen to maybe hit a single instead.
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Bigass Moth posted:I assume all baseballers are cheating in one way or another. Even if he's not, why would he ever intentionally do worse than he is able to? Terrible writing as usual from sportz media. I'd ratchet my expectations back a little bit, considering it's a blog post on the site of an alt weekly in Houston. Edit: A guy I used to work with writes for their sports section. He was a good guy, but a little unhinged. The kind of person who cares way too much about sports and is constantly posting off-kilter rants on his Facebook page about teams he covers. morestuff fucked around with this message at 15:21 on Oct 5, 2010 |
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To continue awful baseball journalism:Steve Simmons, Toronto Sun posted:A lot of people are touting Seattle's Felix Hernandez for the Cy Young Award in the American League, just not me. You can't have a 13-game winner on a last-place team as a Cy Young winner. Because the Cy Young is reflective of not just of how he pitched, but how his teammates batted when he was sitting in the dugout. quote:It means he put up all those numbers never pitching a game of importance. This is because Seattle's games mean literally nothing. That's what never means, Steve - literally nothing they did at any point throughout the season meant anything. quote:My vote, if I had one, would go to CC Sabathia of the Yankees, the 21-game winner. WINS ARE WHAT COUNTS BABY! COUNT 'EM!
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barkingclam posted:To continue awful baseball journalism: Steve Simmons is the worst sports writer and I refuse to believe otherwise. Just a blubbering beelzebub baby. His articles leading up to the 2009 NHL draft were incredible. One day Tavares was an egomaniac who would bust the next day he was Toronto's prodigal son and Burke needed to do whatever it takes to get him.
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College journalism, baby!quote:Connor Arendell has been a winner wherever he has gone whether its playing in national tournaments or for his school teams he just seems to succeed wherever he goes. (that's the lede)
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Okposolypse posted:Steve Simmons is the worst sports writer and I refuse to believe otherwise. Just a blubbering beelzebub baby. His articles leading up to the 2009 NHL draft were incredible. One day Tavares was an egomaniac who would bust the next day he was Toronto's prodigal son and Burke needed to do whatever it takes to get him. Between him and Damien "ya gotta ask, except I didn't" Cox, Toronto has probably the worst sports columnists per capita in Canada. Also, I love "if I had a vote, but I don't" part. There's a pretty good reason you don't, Steve!
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BackInTheUSSR posted:College journalism, baby! Some ledes deserve to be buried.
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A few years back, ESPN's TrueHoop started a network that brought together a number of fan blogs under one roof. Today, the blog that covers the Heat was kicked out in order to promote ESPN's new Heat microsite that includes two full-time beat writers filing daily stories. It's entirely within their right to do so, but I don't understand the logic. The Truehoop Network was mostly made up of small-fry bloggers doing their own thing - how was anyone going to confuse it for ESPN's product? How much of a draw is the TrueHoop Network that they felt like the old blog was going to detract from their new coverage?
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