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Arctic Baldwin posted:It doesn't matter that Lightly is black. It's still a vaguely racist comment. More ethnocentric or minutely xenophobic or something. It's hard to believe that Weird Foreign People Names are still considered hilarious in 2011. The loving President has an African name.
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# ? Jun 29, 2011 16:24 |
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stuart scott irl posted:His book "How We Decide" was pretty good IMO, but if you didn't like his articles I'm not sure how much it would appeal to you. It took me until this post to remember that Jonah Lehrer is not Jonah Keri.
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# ? Jun 29, 2011 16:34 |
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I mix them up all the time.
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# ? Jun 29, 2011 16:53 |
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leokitty posted:Ugh don't give John Harper pageviews, traffic bumps are a good thing for him and the NYDN. That image is taken from HBT so it's just giving NBC Sports page views if anything.
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# ? Jun 29, 2011 17:04 |
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Having Prince as DH would be pretty amazing, and the Yankees have "gently caress you" money and it's not like he is a bad investment. I guess that guy probably had stupid reasons in mind though.
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# ? Jun 29, 2011 17:05 |
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stuart scott irl posted:Having Prince as DH would be pretty amazing, and the Yankees have "gently caress you" money and it's not like he is a bad investment. I guess that guy probably had stupid reasons in mind though. The worst columnists are trade speculators. "All the Mariners have to do is package Jack Wilson, Mike Carp and a box of fungo bats all for Albert Pujols. DO YOUR loving JOB JACK Z!"
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# ? Jun 29, 2011 17:12 |
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AlleyViper posted:That image is taken from HBT so it's just giving NBC Sports page views if anything. The link goes to the NYDN.com article.
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# ? Jun 29, 2011 17:26 |
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Captain Charisma posted:I'm laughing my rear end off at the concept of a "sinister Scrabble game" It's sinister because it has negroes. e: Also, I feel like Yankees FA speculation is even worse than trade speculation. "If I'm the Yankees, I sign [every good player]. Just think about how great they'd be with [every good player] on their roster!" Mornacale fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Jun 29, 2011 |
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Mornacale posted:It's sinister because it has negroes. quote:NEW YORK—With a week to go before pitchers and catchers report for spring training, the New York Yankees shored up their pitching, hitting, and defense Monday by signing every player in professional baseball.
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# ? Jun 29, 2011 17:53 |
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stuart scott irl posted:Having Prince as DH would be pretty amazing, and the Yankees have "gently caress you" money and it's not like he is a bad investment. I guess that guy probably had stupid reasons in mind though.
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# ? Jun 29, 2011 17:54 |
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The worst photoshop
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# ? Jun 29, 2011 18:13 |
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I wish they had taken a stab at photoshopping off the forbidden facial hair
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# ? Jun 29, 2011 18:26 |
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Which is more sinister: an athlete with clicking sound names, or the way Marcus Thames pronounces his last name? (I don't think the "clicking sound" thing is racist, though it's certainly stupid as hell. It seems most like people bitching about hockey drafts in the 90s because their team had a quota on people whose last name ended in "-ov".)
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# ? Jun 30, 2011 15:23 |
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FairGame posted:Which is more sinister: an athlete with clicking sound names, or the way Marcus Thames pronounces his last name? How does he pronounce it since I'm an idiot and can't remember hearing it? My first reaction would be like the river, second would be like it's spelled. What's the right way?
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# ? Jun 30, 2011 15:37 |
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Marcus Thames is like the river, but Eric Thames is apparently Thaymes which is stupid
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# ? Jun 30, 2011 15:38 |
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Grittybeard posted:How does he pronounce it since I'm an idiot and can't remember hearing it? My first reaction would be like the river, second would be like it's spelled. What's the right way? As Pickle said, it's like the river. Some crap writer (I think Leokitty posted it earlier in this thread) wrote a whole article bashing Thames, "if that is his real name"
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# ? Jun 30, 2011 16:23 |
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Don't know if Sportscenter really even counts as sports journalism anymore, but there was an absurd graphic on SC this morning comparing the Red Sox team BA, hits, runs, etc. in NL stadiums (5 games) versus the rest of their season (74 games). ESPN's conclusion: not having a DH accounts for a huge drop in numbers across the board! Nevermind the fact that we are comparing 5 games to 74 games, or that there is no mention of the quality of pitchers they were facing, or that they didn't even include home vs. away splits for AL teams. Not having a DH certainly doesn't help AL teams, but they made it seem like Big Papi alone was accountable for 3+ runs and .100 average per game.
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# ? Jun 30, 2011 16:34 |
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TJ Simers decided to write a hit piece on Marcus Thames of all people and one of the things that he decided was absolutely horrible about Marcus is how he pronounces his name. Which is stupid but also hilarious because it's like buuhhh the River Thames you idiot?? It was really bad and as limited a player as Thames is he is a wonderful dude with a great story, writing a hit piece about him was just to the nth degree.
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# ? Jun 30, 2011 16:35 |
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Deadspin actually did a good thing and wrote up a piece on how sports teams cook their books to look like they're losing money. http://deadspin.com/5816870/
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# ? Jun 30, 2011 18:43 |
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Groucho Marxist posted:Deadspin actually did a good thing and wrote up a piece on how sports teams cook their books to look like they're losing money.
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arkmedes posted:Don't know if Sportscenter really even counts as sports journalism anymore, but there was an absurd graphic on SC this morning comparing the Red Sox team BA, hits, runs, etc. in NL stadiums (5 games) versus the rest of their season (74 games). ESPN's conclusion: not having a DH accounts for a huge drop in numbers across the board! Nevermind the fact that we are comparing 5 games to 74 games, or that there is no mention of the quality of pitchers they were facing, or that they didn't even include home vs. away splits for AL teams. Not having a DH certainly doesn't help AL teams, but they made it seem like Big Papi alone was accountable for 3+ runs and .100 average per game. Three of those NL games were against the Pirates, so they weren't exactly facing top-level pitching (though James McDonald did pitch well against them, and he is capable of being p good).
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Crazy Ted posted:This loving beauty from the Indianapolis Star: got dang furriners in our en bee ay
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# ? Jul 1, 2011 02:11 |
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leokitty posted:TJ Simers decided to write a hit piece on Marcus Thames of all people and one of the things that he decided was absolutely horrible about Marcus is how he pronounces his name. Which is stupid but also hilarious because it's like buuhhh the River Thames you idiot?? that hit piece was probably one of the most specifically disgusting not-even-funny-in-an-over-the-top-way piece of "journalism" in this thread
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# ? Jul 1, 2011 02:13 |
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Rick Reilly is a mystery to me, guys. It says on ESPN.com that he is 11 times the National Sportswriter of the Year, but he is a terrible terrible columnist. I've read quite a few of his articles in my life, and never have I ever come away from one thinking that he is an intelligent, thoughtful human being. In fact, about 97% of the time, I come away convinced that he doesn't have a brain at all. His current column consists of witty retorts to incorrect answers to poorly written sports questions on WikiAnswers. It's the laziest pos "column" I've ever seen. Most posts in FYAD have more content than Rick Reilly's latest. How does this guy get paid?
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# ? Jul 1, 2011 07:10 |
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Reilly was a very good long-form feature writer back in the 80s for SI. Stuff like this makes you look at stuff he does now and just cringe. And he was creative and did stories like this. He was innovative before Bill Simmons innovated new sports writing, for better or for worse. Reilly inspired a lot of prose-ridden hacks like Plaschke, and Simmons inspired BleacherReport. BackInTheUSSR fucked around with this message at 07:25 on Jul 1, 2011 |
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He also wrote this which pretty much wrapped things up for Marge Schott.
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# ? Jul 1, 2011 07:40 |
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He still had that Rick Reilly Touch even back thenquote:Sending Schott to sensitivity training is like sending a pickpocket to a Rolex convention
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# ? Jul 1, 2011 12:20 |
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Yeah, Reilly used to write some great stuff. I've always liked his piece on Bryant Gumbel, it's a great profile where Gumbel comes off as both talented and an rear end in a top hat and he lets Gumbel say it for him.quote:The only problem with perfection is that when you get there, there's nobody to talk to. "I have high expectations of people," (Gumbel) says. "When they achieve something, I say, 'So what?' "
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# ? Jul 1, 2011 16:09 |
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I don't know, I've started those pieces and he gets into a bunch of his awful hackneyed similes and I can't get through them. Reilly is completely worthless. I think that Reilly benefited from a relative lack of decent writing about sports and his inspirational/shame on you/dad humor somehow convinced people that he was a good writer.
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R.D. Mangles posted:I don't know, I've started those pieces and he gets into a bunch of his awful hackneyed similes and I can't get through them. Reilly is completely worthless. I think that Reilly benefited from a relative lack of decent writing about sports and his inspirational/shame on you/dad humor somehow convinced people that he was a good writer. "He [Jimmer] committed six turnovers and wandered aimlessly through the lane on defense like Moses in the desert. I've seen dead people play better defense." Don't you get it? It's a religious reference! Because Jimmer's a Mormon! That hit piece on Jimmer really was in it's own stratosphere of atrocious sportswriting. Reading through it again...all of it is just terrible.
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# ? Jul 1, 2011 18:48 |
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Also, this mock Reilly column is pretty spot on.
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# ? Jul 1, 2011 19:07 |
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R.D. Mangles posted:I think that Reilly benefited from a relative lack of decent writing about sports and his inspirational/shame on you/dad humor somehow convinced people that he was a good writer. I don't really read much SI but my dad has a description and my memories of Reilly are mostly about how he wrote a bunch of hit pieces on Bonds. So gently caress Rick Reilly, basically.
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R.D. Mangles posted:Also, this mock Reilly column is pretty spot on. In a similar vein, the Fake Reilly Twitter was great while it lasted.
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R.D. Mangles posted:I don't know, I've started those pieces and he gets into a bunch of his awful hackneyed similes and I can't get through them. Reilly is completely worthless. I think that Reilly benefited from a relative lack of decent writing about sports and his inspirational/shame on you/dad humor somehow convinced people that he was a good writer. What's so bad about similes? He overuses them now and they're part of his schtick but in the pieces we linked to they're fine. I think you're getting too angry over nothing. That Marge Schott story - which I had no idea existed, holy poo poo she was nuts - was well researched, extremely well sourced and had good bookends. That simile about the Rolex convention was really enough to convince you he's worthless? It's a literary device. I don't mean to get all "GET OUT OF YOUR PARENTS BASEMENT, NERD," but a lot of people like their writers to include color in their stories, rather than fact - quote - fact - quote.
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I found a Tommy Craggs piece on former HS phenom and Mississippi State player Renardo Sidney from an old issue of New York Times' Play magazine. God, I wish that still existed.BackInTheUSSR posted:What's so bad about similes? He overuses them now and they're part of his schtick but in the pieces we linked to they're fine. I think you're getting too angry over nothing. Look at this true post.
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# ? Jul 2, 2011 06:50 |
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It's a pretty bad simile, but I've always liked that article anyway .
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# ? Jul 2, 2011 09:10 |
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BackInTheUSSR posted:What's so bad about similes? He overuses them now and they're part of his schtick but in the pieces we linked to they're fine. I think you're getting too angry over nothing. I admit, I can't stand Reilly, but I don't think I'm getting too angry over nothing. You see, we didn't have much in the village where I grew up, just a couple of rocks and maybe a turnip came out every now and then, and that's when Rick Reilly came by. He dazzled us with his similes and his metaphors and his references to teeth; like I said, we didn't have much, maybe a couple of mixed metaphors, and sometimes an assonance because we didn't always have all of our vowels. He did tricks with his top hat. My paw and the other old folk, they didn't trust that Reilly, only respected a man who could come to town with a strong back or maybe some fighting insects for us to bet on. But he sure took me in. He told us, the young folk, to take what we could and go with him, and we followed him like moths to a flame convention. And those first few days, I'd never seen nothing like it. There were likes and thans and wine and women and more wine in every hamlet to the county line, everywhere picking up more folks who threw down their plows and sold their donkeys and got on the train. But those days didn't last. The Reilly of the toothy grin, quick with the compliment for an old lady or to pull a coin from a youngster's ear became a taskmaster. We worked hard in those simile mines and the first few I presented were greeted with a backhand and the business end of a gruel bowl. Bobby was the first to go when he was crushed beneath a run-on sentence. Little Zeke fell off the precipice of a terse, one-sentence paragraph. And Reilly only smiled through clenched teeth when Frank Deford ran Gabby Joe through with a sword cane at a Sports Illustrated golf retreat. Reilly's heart, we learned, was like a Scandinavian gnome village-- small, and probably non-existent. I made my break the next full moon. Reilly was inspecting his National Sportswriter of the Year Awards to make sure they weren't scuffed-- it was Wednesday, so he was looking at numbers four through seven with a jeweler's eye, and we knew if he found a nick he'd be using the brass knuckles. Our tents were guarded by a man who was born with no arms who had learned to fire a rifle with his feet ("Who needs arms to be armed?" Reilly used to say), and a dozen of us and ran and ran as the rifle cracked and the slowest fell one by one. The town was deserted when I got back. The single turnip lay festering in the sun. The rest of the county had been hit hard, like it had been cleared by a biblical plague, but we all knew it was the work of Rick Reilly, who had taken us for everything we had. I made my way across the country, sleeping where I could in alleys or in someone's mother's basement, forever cursing the name Rick Reilly, forever enraged on the Internet by sportswriting.
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# ? Jul 2, 2011 17:54 |
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well then I guess there is that.
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# ? Jul 2, 2011 18:11 |
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needs more similes and metaphors
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# ? Jul 2, 2011 18:40 |
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Rick Reilly posted:Sending Schott to sensitivity training is like sending a pickpocket to a Rolex convention That simile is as bad as stepping on a stingray, but the rest of that article was decent. I'm not even sure what the purpose of that simile was. Is it that it was a bad idea to send Marge to sensitivity training? Because he could have done a lot better than that abortion of a sentence. I guess Rick Reilly was okay before my time. Presently, though, he's one of the worst columnists I can readily think of.
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