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The broken bones posted:nice. A Sports Night movie with a lot of goddamn inappropriate work space behavior. Dear God let Sorkin bake me a Social Network II.
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Crazy Ted posted:I don't know where else to put this but FOX has apparently bought the movie rights to Those Guys Have All the Fun. I hope there's some weird technicality like in the moneyball movie that leads to jonah hill playing a generic dan patrick equivalent.
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R.D. Mangles posted:I hope there's some weird technicality like in the moneyball movie that leads to jonah hill playing a generic dan patrick equivalent. I can't wait for the scene of Chris Berman banging an Applebees waitress.
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Rick Reilly sucks now lol and everything but his recent column had some great stuff.quote:9:44 a.m. Big crisis.
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Peter King has been going bonkers on twitter saying that John Beck is the answer for the Redskins for such reasons as: RT @gamecocksfhb: You can't be buying into the Beck nonsense from Shanahan ... Brady. Warner. Hasselbeck. Romo. You never know is all I say. RT @GonnaPhlyNow: None of those 30 when they became starters. John Beck will be ... None missed 3 NCAA seasons on Mormon mission. Beck did. RT @wynnde13: All those QBs succeeded w/a shot. What did Beck do in Miami? ... Lord. He started 4 games when Mia was 0-10. In came Chad. RT @JLevin28: Why is it not obvious to more people that the Redskins are tanking the season for Andrew Luck? ... Smoke reefer much? So because Beck played limited time for one of the worst teams ever, and missed several years of college to be a missionary, he is clearly in the same class as Brady, Warner, Hasselbeck and Romo.
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http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/6846531/tim-tebow-not-ready-prime-time First goddamn paragraph, guess who quote:The irony is not lost on the city of Denver that John Elway is judging a QB controversy between Kyle Orton and Tim Tebow. This is like Heidi Klum judging a bikini contest at a fat farm.
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Dumb simile aside, Orton is pretty decent!
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BackInTheUSSR posted:http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/6846531/tim-tebow-not-ready-prime-time That sounds like a Whitlock line
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I like that ESPN's editors seem just as burned out on Chad Johnson's antics as everyone else, but feel obligated to report on them:
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I don't know if this giant iPad advertisement counts as "journalism" but it probably fits in this thread http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/mlb-tech-savvy-baseball-players-use-ipads-to-track-opponents-bloomberg-mlb-player-tool-081011
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A bunch of interesting writers (and Tom Scharpling, for some reason) are trying to get a sports site in the vein of The Awl off the ground. There's a Kickstarter page here, if that's your thing. The roster: quote:PETE BEATTY: Who is registered to vote in Brooklyn, NY, and edits books during the daytime hours, including Craig Robinson’s Flip Flop Fly Ball. He has written for GQ.com, the Chicago Tribune, Pitchfork.com, Time Out Chicago, and the Internet. He is the only Cleveland Indians fan you have ever met and has stated that he plans to have a string quartet play Double Nickels on the Dime at his wedding (he is single).
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morestuff posted:(and Tom Scharpling, for some reason) Because he owns and The Best Show is the greatest thing ever
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morestuff posted:A bunch of interesting writers (and Tom Scharpling, for some reason) are trying to get a sports site in the vein of The Awl off the ground. they're going to post lists and random links they found online?
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I kicked in a couple of bucks to that this morning. I've always enjoyed reading Freeman and Shoals, so I'm looking forward to something they're behind.
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So Rick Reilly has hit creative rock bottom.
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quote:You've heard of hanging chads? This was a Chad that wouldn't stop hanging. I can just see Reilly smiling after he types this, right before explaining to a 20-year old intern that it's a reference to something that happened 11 years ago
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More Reilly: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/6866409/rick-reilly-bengals I'm Rick Reilly writing this story: "How can I shoehorn more awful metaphors into this story? THERE MUST BE A WAY." Choice quote: "Brown has made such a vomitorium out of this team..." I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Twitter should not exist: SI_PeterKing Peter King I'll give you a bizarre Stat of the Afternoon. RBI: Ellsbury 75, Pujols 75.
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Yahoo! Sports just published a story on NCAA violations within Miami (FL) football that is pretty much an early front-runner for the sports story of the 2010s. Discussion here
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Bigass Moth posted:Twitter should not exist: thats a pretty good nugget
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Politicalrancor posted:thats a pretty good nugget The Red Sox 7-8-9 hitters have a higher OPS than the Cardinals 9-1-2 (non-pither) hitters do, and Ellsbury has had more RISP than Albert. They're also at almost the same OPS. It's not that bizarre.
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Politicalrancor posted:thats a pretty good nugget Lofty nugget.
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Badfinger posted:The Red Sox 7-8-9 hitters have a higher OPS than the Cardinals 9-1-2 (non-pither) hitters do, and Ellsbury has had more RISP than Albert. They're also at almost the same OPS. It's not that bizarre. the part that's bizarre is right there in your post i have made it all superscripty
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:the part that's bizarre is right there in your post i have made it all superscripty Understood. And yet he has only the 4th highest OPS among CF this season. In a down year overall, it is a pretty good year for CF! Plus, while I would not be that surprised for Ellsbury to maintain this OPS, I'd also not be surprised to see Pujols' OPS continue to rise. Ellsbury OPS+ 136 Pujols OPS+ 148
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:Yahoo! Sports just published a story on NCAA violations within Miami (FL) football that is pretty much an early front-runner for the sports story of the 2010s. This is some amazing reporting.
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Crossposting from NHL N/V:The Star posted:An Aug. 16 article about the death of former Vancouver Canuck Rick Rypien misquoted Canucks general manager Mike Gillis as having referred to Rypien as “crazy” in an interview with the Vancouver Sun last November when Rypien took a personal leave from the Canucks. In fact, Gillis never said that. What he said in an interview with Vancouver Sun columnist Iain MacIntyre was: “When you come to know somebody and realize they’re a really good person, who has their heart in the right place and wants to do the right thing not only for themselves but for others, you have to support them. You don’t only support them when they’re at the top of their game and doing everything you want. You support them when they’re not feeling good about things or have other issues they have to deal with.” The Star apologizes for this error. That's the full text but I got it from here: http://www.thestar.com/opinion/corrections/article/1040334--apology That's a hell of a mistake and/or revisionist history.
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I don't know if this counts as journalism but I really enjoyed this article. It's the David Foster Wallace NYT bit on Federer. I only link it because it keeps popping into my head as I've been reading Grantland, then unfairly compare those guys to DFW and they fall so far short.
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Badfinger posted:Understood. And yet he has only the 4th highest OPS among CF this season. In a down year overall, it is a pretty good year for CF! Plus, while I would not be that surprised for Ellsbury to maintain this OPS, I'd also not be surprised to see Pujols' OPS continue to rise. Also Albert missed a good nugget of the season with an injury and RBI is a mostly meaningless stat anyway.
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CLAMBO! posted:I don't know if this counts as journalism but I really enjoyed this article. It's the David Foster Wallace NYT bit on Federer. I only link it because it keeps popping into my head as I've been reading Grantland, then unfairly compare those guys to DFW and they fall so far short. I kind of miss Play Magazine, there was some great writing there. Michael Lewis wrote a really good piece on Texas Tech football for them a few years ago. And yeah, Yahoo is doing a tremendous job on the Miami story, that's some amazing reporting. I read the other day that Yahoo Sports is pulling in more numbers than ESPN. I'm not surprised, they've been doing a great job as of late.
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barkingclam posted:I kind of miss Play Magazine, there was some great writing there. Michael Lewis wrote a really good piece on Texas Tech football for them a few years ago. It probably also has to do with how clean and simple their site is. People (especially those at work) don't want to deal with giant flash ads for Gatorade taking over the screen and videos playing automatically.
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I think ESPN catches more flak than they sometimes deserve, but this is seriously goddamn ridiculous placement for what is probably the biggest sports story of the year:
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morestuff posted:I think ESPN catches more flak than they sometimes deserve, but this is seriously goddamn ridiculous placement for what is probably the biggest sports story of the year:
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Bigass Moth posted:Twitter should not exist: I hope he posted that as a "wow RBIs don't actually matter" epiphany.
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Nerokerubina posted:I hope he posted that as a "wow RBIs don't actually matter" epiphany. Think it was more of a "very good Boston player has [same meaningless stat] as one of the best active players in baseball"
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CLAMBO! posted:I don't know if this counts as journalism but I really enjoyed this article. It's the David Foster Wallace NYT bit on Federer. I only link it because it keeps popping into my head as I've been reading Grantland, then unfairly compare those guys to DFW and they fall so far short.
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I think ESPN doesn't want to give too much attention to the story at this point because Yahoo completely scooped them in every regard. Once the violations are given, ESPN will go back into "run this poo poo into the ground" mode because Yahoo's reporting will no longer be the biggest part of the story.
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BITCH I SELL CAINE posted:What are you talking about? They have footnotes and solipsism and everything! who needs meticulous note taking when you can just ramble for 3000 words
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The broken bones posted:who needs meticulous note taking when you can just ramble for 3000 words [writes 5,000-word article about an American All-Stars vs. Boston Red Sox best-of-seven series of "RBI Baseball" from a stoner's living room in Milpitas in 1990.] ________________________________________________________________ * - By "greatest," of course I mean† that, [250 more words]. † - What is "meaning," anyway?
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