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Doesn't Jeter basically just suffer from having no old player skills to fall back on? Even at his peak he wasn't a power monster and he seemed to have good but not great ability to take a walk.
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You know what I loving hate? Keys to the Game that are never, ever actual keys and sometimes aren't even about that game. Keys to the Game: Win the Series! Keep the Momentum going! gently caress. It is not journalism, but I don't have any long form place to bitch about this.
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Badfinger posted:You know what I loving hate? Keys to the Game that are never, ever actual keys and sometimes aren't even about that game. Flashback to late 1991. I'm in Omaha, visiting a friend who was attending Iowa State. We go to a bar to watch an ISU basketball game. The broadcast team finishes the intro and gives us ISU's KEYS to the GAME! They are: 1. Score. 2. Defend. Yes, this actually happened.
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There are a few other sports journalists here, right? Has this profession made you hate sports as much as it has to me? When I started college I was this huge superfan homer and then I realized that everyone who goes to college for journalism is just doing it so they can watch their favorite teams in a press box and eat free food. Totally turned me off. I had some coworkers who got ejected from the press box for yelling at UCF's own players in anger. I enjoy writing about sports, but it's really hard for me to muster up any passion for sports anymore.
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Dr_Strangelove posted:Flashback to late 1991. I'm in Omaha, visiting a friend who was attending Iowa State. We go to a bar to watch an ISU basketball game. The broadcast team finishes the intro and gives us ISU's KEYS to the GAME! They are: Ironically, those are the most accurate keys to every game of practically every sport that has an offense and defense.
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seiferguy posted:Ironically, those are the most accurate keys to every game of practically every sport that has an offense and defense. Indeed. But we were hoping for something, you know, a little less obvious. A little more incisive.
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Im pretty sure I've heard Joe Morgan claiming keys to a game were 'making good outs' and 'consistency', so, it's not obvious to everyone!
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toadee posted:Im pretty sure I've heard Joe Morgan claiming keys to a game were 'making good outs' and 'consistency', so, it's not obvious to everyone! I believe you mean "cosistency"
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BackInTheUSSR posted:There are a few other sports journalists here, right? Has this profession made you hate sports as much as it has to me? When I started college I was this huge superfan homer and then I realized that everyone who goes to college for journalism is just doing it so they can watch their favorite teams in a press box and eat free food. Totally turned me off. I had some coworkers who got ejected from the press box for yelling at UCF's own players in anger. I enjoy writing about sports, but it's really hard for me to muster up any passion for sports anymore. I used to work as an assistant sports editor at a couple of places. I definitely got tired of working on, and talking about, the same poo poo day in and day out. Are you still in school? Most professional sportswriters I've worked with have some level of detachment. morestuff fucked around with this message at 23:01 on May 11, 2011 |
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BackInTheUSSR posted:There are a few other sports journalists here, right? Has this profession made you hate sports as much as it has to me? When I started college I was this huge superfan homer and then I realized that everyone who goes to college for journalism is just doing it so they can watch their favorite teams in a press box and eat free food. Totally turned me off. I had some coworkers who got ejected from the press box for yelling at UCF's own players in anger. I enjoy writing about sports, but it's really hard for me to muster up any passion for sports anymore. Do they offer courses on how to write articles dripping with  ?
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BackInTheUSSR posted:There are a few other sports journalists here, right? Has this profession made you hate sports as much as it has to me? When I started college I was this huge superfan homer and then I realized that everyone who goes to college for journalism is just doing it so they can watch their favorite teams in a press box and eat free food. Totally turned me off. I had some coworkers who got ejected from the press box for yelling at UCF's own players in anger. I enjoy writing about sports, but it's really hard for me to muster up any passion for sports anymore. It didn't make me hate sports but I sure hated other journalists which sounds like your experience Dick Williams fucked around with this message at 23:14 on May 11, 2011 |
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Dr_Strangelove posted:Flashback to late 1991. I'm in Omaha, visiting a friend who was attending Iowa State. We go to a bar to watch an ISU basketball game. The broadcast team finishes the intro and gives us ISU's KEYS to the GAME! They are: That is pretty awesome. Without spoken word, they are already better than 80% of current GAME KEYS. If someone elaborates on them in an insightful way, it immediately shoots to the top of the chart. With barely any paraphrasing, the Keys to the Game for a Phillies game earlier this season were: Roy Halladay Get the Sweep And the elaboration for the keys to WINNING the game were: Roy Halladay is pitching. Boy isn't he good, let's all enjoy watching him pitch, and; Get the sweep on a getaway day for the road trip. GREAT
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The biggest Key to the Game tonight is: score runs. You don't have to be a Tony LaRussa caliber genius to know that Roy Halladay and the Phillies offense are not to be trifled with. So the Marlins are gonna have to focus on scoring some runs to make sure they can put tonight in the W column.
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Tender Bender posted:The biggest Key to the Game tonight is: score runs. You don't have to be a Tony LaRussa caliber genius to know that Roy Halladay and the Phillies offense are not to be trifled with. So the Marlins are gonna have to focus on scoring some runs to make sure they can put tonight in the W column. The best thing that the Marlins can do to assure a victory is to wind up with a total number of runs equal to or greater than the Phillies. That is the key to everything. After that, its in God's hands.
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haljordan posted:The best thing that the Marlins can do to assure a victory is to wind up with a total number of runs equal to or greater than the Phillies. That is the key to everything. After that, its in God's hands. God can't change the results of baseball games, didn't you learn anything from Armando Galarraga's one-hitter?
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A drat FOG posted:God can't change the results of baseball games, didn't you learn anything from Armando Galarraga's one-hitter? Please. God was in deep to some Columbian bookies and made Jim Joyce blow that call. THEY WERE GONNA TAKE HIS THUMBS.
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Jay!LA Times posted:Former ESPN sports personality Jay Mariotti has been charged with three felonies -– stalking, domestic violence and assault -– after he confronted his ex-girlfriend the same day a court ordered him to stay away from her, prosecutors said.
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Good to confirm that Jay Mariotti was another of the people who can't forgive others because he himself is unable to control himself.
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BackInTheUSSR posted:There are a few other sports journalists here, right? Has this profession made you hate sports as much as it has to me? When I started college I was this huge superfan homer and then I realized that everyone who goes to college for journalism is just doing it so they can watch their favorite teams in a press box and eat free food. Totally turned me off. I had some coworkers who got ejected from the press box for yelling at UCF's own players in anger. I enjoy writing about sports, but it's really hard for me to muster up any passion for sports anymore. I wouldn't say it's ruined my passion for sports; I'm fortunate enough to have a pretty good group of co-workers. But I definitely have a lot of sports fatigue now. I used to always be watching games or reading forums or otherwise consuming sports media, but now I really don't give a poo poo unless one of my teams is on, and SAS is the only forum I care to read/post in. It's shown me that even something you love can be turned into tedium when you're forced to be plugged into it day in and day out. RumbleFish fucked around with this message at 00:55 on May 12, 2011 |
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I hate when things like that Mariotti jazz surface, it makes guys less fun to hate and more plain old sad and disturbing.
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Nothing makes me smile more than seeing that arrogant prick in trouble. I really do hope he goes to jail for a while.
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morestuff posted:I used to work as an assistant sports editor at a couple of places. I definitely got tired of working on, and talking about, the same poo poo day in and day out. I'm in grad school, but yeah I've interned at a few places and the sports writers (Mike Bianchi aside) are usually fairly normal and aren't big fans. College-level newspaper writers are just terrible, though. It's bad enough that my school produced 10th-grade caliber writers, but every single writer was just there so they could meet their favorite athlete and tell them how awesome they are and fellate then via text.
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I think JoePos is awesome in part because he still clearly loves sports like crazy. Hell, even people with terrible opinions are palatable if they bring joy to it.
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I know this was in another thread but I think it applies better here. Why do people hate Dan LeBatard? He always comes across as a laid back guy, who is mildly funny. Never comes across like a skip bayless blowhard.
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Weebly posted:I know this was in another thread but I think it applies better here. Why do people hate Dan LeBatard? He always comes across as a laid back guy, who is mildly funny. Never comes across like a skip bayless blowhard. I agree. He says his share of stupid poo poo, but he comes across as so much less arrogant about it. Kornheiser and Wilbon are so ridiculously dismissive and sure of themselves no matter how often they are wrong. LeBatard seems to understand that he's a doofus who is just guessing like everyone else.
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Weebly posted:I know this was in another thread but I think it applies better here. Why do people hate Dan LeBatard? He always comes across as a laid back guy, who is mildly funny. Never comes across like a skip bayless blowhard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZr2qOXQJ4w how can you hate this man.
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Copernic posted:Jay!
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Copernic posted:Jay! goddamn, dude needs to attend some al-anon meetings or something BITCH I SELL CAINE posted:At the end of the arraignment, the Judge assigned Marriotti negative points, slammed his gavel down and shouted, "NEXT CONVICT!" hahaha
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BITCH I SELL CAINE posted:At the end of the arraignment, the Judge assigned Marriotti negative points, slammed his gavel down and shouted, "NEXT CONVICT!" Oh my god
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You know those times when a journalistic outfit has their priorities out of order? Enter the NCAA Football section of ESPN Insider...
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Graceful. And seamless.
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Crazy Ted posted:You know those times when a journalistic outfit has their priorities out of order? Enter the NCAA Football section of ESPN Insider... I was wondering about that. At least they realized it (if a little too late): 
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Funny how it met editorial standards to be posted in the first place.
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Bigass Moth posted:Funny how it met editorial standards to be posted in the first place. I'm sure Albert Lin (and his editor, if he has one for blog posts) got chewed out about it.
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 See item six. Can we please eliminate "nips" as a sports term if people aren't responsible enough to use it?
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Looks like he won by a narrow margin in a playoff. Seems like correct usage to me.
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