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Is the sponge thing in that Jeter fanfic supposed to be an allusion to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ?
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Mornacale posted:Is the sponge thing in that Jeter fanfic supposed to be an allusion to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ? Derek Jeter was offered $45 million (that's forty-five million guaranteed dollars on top of the $200 million or so he's earned already) for our sins.
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euphronius posted:I was listening to Mike and Mike this morning. They were talking about tonight's Cavs Heat game and Mike Golic said "the actual game is the least interesting part of this story." he's right though
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Noel Murray of the AV Club wrote a pretty great article that came out today - Why does most modern sports broadcasting suck so hard? http://www.avclub.com/articles/why-does-most-modern-sports-broadcasting-suck-so-h,48708/ quote:One night this past summer, Bob Costas broadcast a baseball game on the MLB Network, with former Atlanta Braves all-star John Smoltz as his color commentator. Throughout the game, Smoltz used his iPad and his MLB At Bat app to keep tabs on the other games going on around the league, and at one point a confused Costas asked Smoltz what he was doing. Smoltz tried to explain that an iPad was like a big iPhone, so Costas picked up the iPad and held it up to his head like a phone, intending to illustrate how ridiculous modern technology is—and not, say, how a certain once-youthful and plugged-in sports broadcaster had become embarrassingly out-of-date.
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That is a very good article. I didn't know they had Smoltz following the games on At Bat during a broadcast. If he was actually keeping up that's very cool, because that's exactly how a lot of us on the forum are also following the games. TV on, laptop open to mlb.tv, twitter on the phone. Even if it's just a product placement for both At Bat and the iPad, I definitely got that connection the way the author described it.
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Smoltz just got a hell of a lot cooler in my eyes. Not that he wasn't cool or whatever to begin with.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Smoltz just got a hell of a lot cooler in my eyes. Not that he wasn't cool or whatever to begin with. He is really bad in the booth even if he's not a bad guy, but if he's trying like that it gives me hope he'll get better. David Cone wasn't good his first year and then he was awesome and then he was gone 
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http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/12/08/sports-illustrateds-tom-verducci-slams-a-blogger-but-i-heartily-approve/ I wanted to be clever and make this a funny post but im too excited! Tom Verducci destroys Murray Chass. Repeatedly refers to him as a blogger. Very funny.
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Politicalrancor posted:http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/12/08/sports-illustrateds-tom-verducci-slams-a-blogger-but-i-heartily-approve/ The best part is that a bunch of bloggers are now getting pissy about how Verducci dismissively calls Chass "the blogger" over and over because they don't get the joke.
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Larry Anderson was terrible his first like five years and the became great. Well. Good. Color analysis is a difficult gig. It is hard for me to criticize all that much. Edit Referring to him as the Blogger is hilarious, euphronius fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Dec 9, 2010 |
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Dec 9, 2010 02:11
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Joe Posnanski eviscerates Murray Chass: http://joeposnanski.si.com/2010/12/13/blogger-ethics/
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Zeeman posted:Joe Posnanski eviscerates Murray Chass: lmao, Joe Poz is so much fun
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Bill Simmons apparently went through his book for the paperback release and excised references to people who wrote negative reviews of his book. This includes writer Charles P Pierce and (apparently) the Free Darko bloggers. He also started a public twitter feud with Pierce. quote:Hey CPP: took you out of TBOB cuz you trashed it without ever mentioning that you used to email me all the time until I told you to eff off. quote:I just thought it was dishonest. You came off like a spurned lover in that piece. But seriously, good luck with your red-hot career. I'm not a person who rushes to talk poo poo on Simmons, but he comes off like a little baby here.
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the only person who's a bigger baby than Simmons is Heyman, who is hilariously thin-skinned when someone attacks him on twitter.
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Charles Pierce responds in a particularly terrible piece of writing. What a horrible shtick this guy has.
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Guess who wrote the ultimate in hyperbolic articles, claiming that Cliff Lee not signing with the Yankees is a bigger blow to New York than LeBron signing with Miami was for all his various suitors, presumably including Cleveland? Ian O'Connor, leokitty preemptively wins the prize for guessing right
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quote:Philadelphia pulled another Rocky Balboa and threw one of the most improbable punches in the history of the great American sport known as free agency. *Marquee free agent signs in large market city for huge cash* "WHAT AN IMPROBABLE PUNCH!" edit: Wait what quote:Of the three free agents who signed deals in excess of $100 million this winter, two signed with the Red Sox, and the other jilted the Yankees like they haven't been jilted since Marilyn Monroe divorced Joe D. Tender Bender fucked around with this message at 09:45 on Dec 14, 2010 |
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Someone stop Ian O'Connor before he similes again
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Ignoring the creepy 'Marilyn Monroe deserves to be boned by a True Yankee' subtext, 'jilted the Yankees like they haven't been jilted' is about the most awkward turn of phrase I've read in a while.
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toadee posted:Ignoring the creepy 'Marilyn Monroe deserves to be boned by a True Yankee' subtext, 'jilted the Yankees like they haven't been jilted' is about the most awkward turn of phrase I've read in a while. Ian O'Connor is a Bad Writer even as bad sportswriters go.
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Lee of course would have been a good signing for the Yankees but nonstop hyperbole is coming out of asses across the area today, he's just following the trend.
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leokitty posted:Also who's the second free agent Boston signed for 100million+ ...? I assume he's referring to Adrian Gonzalez, neither a free agent nor extended yet.
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jeffersonlives posted:I assume he's referring to Adrian Gonzalez, neither a free agent nor extended yet. That still makes his statement wrong because then there'd be four deals. God I hate him.
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Tender Bender posted:*Marquee free agent signs in large market city for huge cash* Every time a Philadelphia-related sports article references Rocky in some fashion, take a shot~~
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I wonder how Heyman is going to reconcile this tweet with his bragging about #mysteryteam.Jon Heyman posted:hearing from multiple sources there is indeed #mysteryteam in on cliff lee. hear its not the #phillies, always a threat
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phillies still not in on lee? not true, although they might try not to hesitate to enter the talks if signing him doesn't remain a possibility, which it's not. look for an announcement by before this weekday. #justinbieber mystery team may add a second year if seventh year option is too short to avoid an extension. texas? thoughts? #freddiemercury #liveaid
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how will lee signing affect AL east leverage w/canseco, who has lifetime .692 against francoeur? might affect #beltre deal if cashman budges. wrigley? #sweetarts
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In the grand scheme of things, the Cardinals trading Brendan Ryan is irrelevant. Doesn't stop columnists like Jeff Gordon from writing dumb things, though!Jeff Gordon posted:Last year’s Cards lacked grit, focus, perserverance and a variety of other attributes hard to quantify with a calculator. The team played fine against elite opponents, but struggled against lesser foes. I can quantify the missing attributes! Hint: 1.) A 3rd baseman that wasn't Pedro Feliz 2.) A 2nd baseman that wasn't Skip Schumaker 3.) A SS that OPSed above .600 4.) Colby Rasmus on the bench in favor of Jay-CF/Stavinoha or Winn-RF 5.) A suddenly porous bullpen 6.) With Rasmus on the bench, only 2 full-time players who had a SLG above the league median. This might've not been so bad if not for 7.) the fact the team was really loving slow and full of Thurstonesque baserunners Brendan Ryan being kind of silly had nothing to do with ANY of the above problems. Brendan Ryan being kind of bad only had to do with ONE of the above problems. Oh, but that's just a convenient excuse for statheads. poo poo, man; you don't need to be a stathead to see all the horrible flaws in the team last year.
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morestuff posted:Bill Simmons apparently went through his book for the paperback release and excised references to people who wrote negative reviews of his book. This includes writer Charles P Pierce and (apparently) the Free Darko bloggers. This is great because Simmons is so petty he'll take out a few words from one footnote in a 700 page book over a somewhat negative review. You'd think somebody friends with MALCOM GLADWELL or CHUCK KLOSTERMAN and hangs out on Sunday afternoons at KIMMEL'S HOUSE wouldn't care what one guy thinks.
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FairGame posted:In the grand scheme of things, the Cardinals trading Brendan Ryan is irrelevant. Doesn't stop columnists like Jeff Gordon from writing dumb things, though! Wrong. Here is why they were bad: Last year’s Cards lacked grit, focus, perserverance and a variety of other attributes hard to quantify with a calculator. The team played fine against elite opponents, but struggled against lesser foes.
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GODDAMN IT motherloving caluclators!!! Ruining my baseyball
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Does Cowherd believe any of the things he says? This is a honest question as I can't tell if he's loving with me, trying to make people mad, or if he actually thinks he's right.
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Drunkboxer posted:Does Cowherd believe any of the things he says? This is a honest question as I can't tell if he's loving with me, trying to make people mad, or if he actually thinks he's right. I'd bet on a combination of the three.
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Cowherd's a troll that fell for his own trolling at some point.
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For people who don't read the Baseball Hall thread, I thought this was a good insight into some of the bizarre bad thinking of baseball journalists. If you're lazy contrast the bolded paragraph with the finalists. quote:I'm going to mail out my Hall of Fame Ballot later this week and I would like to get some input from you, the reader. (Former beat writer for the Expos) http://www.athbaseball.com/2010-archives/december/2011-mlb-hall-of-fame-ballot-help.html
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what in the everloving christ is that list edit: that list is so loving bad i don't know where to begin edit2: i'm inclined to believe that he just selected that list by doing a P(Yes)=1/3 random selection KYOON GRIFFEY JR fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Dec 16, 2010 |
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Haha that list owns because it makes no sense to either of the two typical sides to the argument
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I'm sorry Visual C# Express but you have just never been dominant. You can never make the Hall of Fame. 
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I love when people with lovely reasoning have really strong convictions because they just go on and on trying to justify their arguments and they just talk themselves into corners and then do these bizarre hat tricks to pull more poo poo out of their asses and the entire article becomes word salad. Dominance is more than being an above-average, or even below-average player. It takes a certain level of play that goes beyond playing at that level and beyond the attitude it takes to make it without that level. 500 HRs used to be a thing of the past, but when players like Roberto Alomar are retiring with 2500 hits, that tells you that the game has changed and the standards for elite play are more than what we used to think they weren't. That's why I'm voting Carlos Baerga: Because not only does he exemplify those abilities, he dominates them.
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