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My favourite is: "PAUL I'M AS SOUTHERN AS YOU ARE" "Yeah right..."
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Crion posted:I don't really know if this counts as sports journalism because I don't give anyone a blowjob for playing the right way, but: 
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FairGame posted:The best part: "Darius Rucker is a black man. YOU know that, Bomani." "...and I am sick of people everywhere, be they in Charlotte [North Carolina] [The South] or anywhere, making fun of people down here." this segment is a masterpiece
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Crion posted:I don't really know if this counts as sports journalism because I don't give anyone a blowjob for playing the right way, but: I enjoyed that, it was a good read (even though I can't stand Baltimore). Good job!
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Dr_Strangelove posted:I thought this was hilarious until I listened to the clip. That's about the appropriate reaction.
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Crion posted:I don't really know if this counts as sports journalism because I don't give anyone a blowjob for playing the right way, but: And now, an even better read. Great job.
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I think we have the Philly version of the 2011 Red Sox are the 1927 Yankees http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/michael_rosenberg/12/20/philly/index.html
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Vertical Lime posted:I think we have the Philly version of the 2011 Red Sox are the 1927 Yankees That column was written the same week the Phillies signed Cliff Lee last year, when the Eagles and Flyers were both in 1st place and the Sixers were pushing for a playoff spot.
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Joel Sherman thinks the Yankees should sign Carlos Beltran. The Yankees do not have holes at any of the positions he can play. Let's see how this would work.quote:Here is a question: Can the Yankees have Beltran and Swisher? Forget about the finances for a moment. Simply, could manager Joe Girardi find the at-bats for everyone?
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Whoever the editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports section is needs to get kicked in the junk repeatedly. In Game 4 of the NLDS, a squirrel ran across home plate after a pitch was delivered. Now "BUSCH SQUIRREL" is some sort of loving celebrity, someone created a Twitter account for it, and there is literally an article in today's P-D (a week after the incident, mind you) with "Busch Squirrel's Best Tweets" Ugh.
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just watched that otl clip i could watch bomani jones make faces for DAYS ahaha loving lol dave zirin is on fire in that poo poo KYOON GRIFFEY JR fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Oct 12, 2011 |
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FairGame posted:Whoever the editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports section is needs to get kicked in the junk repeatedly. People are going to bring stuffed squirrel dolls to your games for the next 15 years. Sorry.
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FairGame posted:Whoever the editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports section is needs to get kicked in the junk repeatedly. To be fair, it's definitely the most exciting thing to happen in St. Louis in at least four years.
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Captain Charisma posted:Joel Sherman thinks the Yankees should sign Carlos Beltran. The Yankees do not have holes at any of the positions he can play. Let's see how this would work. They'd probably just trade Swisher in this scenario. I don't know why he had to contort around that.
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Welcome back, Michael Schur. Love the killer 'letter' in the footnotes. nasboat fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Oct 13, 2011 |
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While we're on the comedy train, I enjoyed this piece on Tebow by Spencer Hall.
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Grantland is reviewing anime video games now. Take that for what it's worth.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Grantland is reviewing anime video games now. Take that for what it's worth. Tom Bissell's writing has been some of the best stuff on the site, though.
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Check out @engeljen and Brandon McCarthy's feed if you want to see a writer being dumb as gently caress and getting owned
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Wow, I actually can't believe that Michael Schur wrote an article that bad.
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Schur's article itself was kind of "eh" for me until I read the footnotes
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It kind of fizzled out at the end, but I don't think it was bad at all. If anything, it was pretty accurate. Would've liked more length (and maybe I just miss FJM so I was dying to see one of the guys just rip the poo poo out of the Boston media) but compared to what's truly bad -- i.e. almost everything else in this thread -- it doesn't even hold a candle.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Grantland is reviewing anime video games now. Take that for what it's worth. They have done a few pieces before. I remember the one on LA Noire being really long.
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Writing a "woe is me" article about the Red Sox based on some kind of ridiculous mythic "culture of losing" is pretty bad, no matter how well it calls out some people who need to be called out. They've been one of the best franchises in MLB for a decade or so, there's more than one fanbase who's seen just as many ridiculous meltdowns without any of the preceding success.
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Mornacale posted:Writing a "woe is me" article about the Red Sox based on some kind of ridiculous mythic "culture of losing" is pretty bad, no matter how well it calls out some people who need to be called out. They've been one of the best franchises in MLB for a decade or so, there's more than one fanbase who's seen just as many ridiculous meltdowns without any of the preceding success. I didn't really see it as "woe is me," and I thought the point was valid. Really did not view it like this in the slightest. Are you saying that there wasn't an old, idiotic, curse-based narrative that people seemed to latch onto prior to 2002? Or that (thankfully) that narrative had been buried, and that was good? I'm just kind of confused, like you're attacking this piece based as if it was some blog written by a downtrodden Boston fan or terrible member of the national media. note: not a Red Sox fan (downside of getting rid of my Montero av, I guess!) nasboat fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Oct 13, 2011 |
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nasboat posted:I didn't really see it as "woe is me," and I thought the point was valid. Really did not view it like this in the slightest. I'm saying that this piece reads to me exactly as if it were a blog written by a downtrodden Boston fan or terrible member of the national media. Given Schur's stellar record, I found it disappointing. I guess what I'm saying is that I don't see too much difference between someone writing "this shows that the Red Sox are Losers with a Culture of Losing, a bad franchise!" and writing "this is going to make people talk about the Red Sox being Losers with a Culture of Losing, which will make them a bad franchise!" Either one is essentially claiming that missing the playoffs by one game and then having front office drama is going to automatically return the team to the Bad Old Days, which is reactionary and dumb whether you're blaming a curse or the FO/media. e: To be fair, I think we all know that I have a hate-on for people complaining about the franchise woes of successful big-market teams, so I'm surely not going to claim to be unbiased. This whole thing has really been a mess for the Sox, and obviously their fans should be upset. I just didn't feel like this article was particularly insightful beyond "here's [a more correct reason] why we should be so upset." Mornacale fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Oct 13, 2011 |
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I think it was basically saying its loving stupid to freak out and trash your manager and players and do a whole bunch of silly soap opera bullshit because of one 'bad' (92 loving win!) season. Which is exactly whats happening. Sure its duh but what else is there to say about it, it's loving pathetic.
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GoutPatrol posted:They have done a few pieces before. I remember the one on LA Noire being really long. The guy did a Dead Island review that was dumb, had some factual issues and it was clear he came in with negative feelings before he started up the game at all. Catherine is a great game but he's like two months late on writing about it. The timing on the piece is very, very off. Also I should note that I've liked some Bissell's stuff, I think he often has good points. I'm just not a fan overall, I guess. leokitty fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Oct 14, 2011 |
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stuart scott irl posted:Check out @engeljen and Brandon McCarthy's feed if you want to see a writer being dumb as gently caress and getting owned Can we get a screen cap or something?
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Please, for the love of god, tell me that woman is not a professional writer. I don't want to believe that someone who gets paid to write words unironically and repeatedly uses "epic fail".
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That is truly the most Epic Fail. God, she used it twice consecutively!
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stuart scott irl posted:Well, sorry One might say it slapped its Epic Fail on her. Destroy the loving Earth.
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"what i do know is loyalty is very undervalued in Am society right now" lolll get a day job lady
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Loyalty is the next market inefficiency.
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Mornacale posted:Please, for the love of god, tell me that woman is not a professional writer. I don't want to believe that someone who gets paid to write words unironically and repeatedly uses "epic fail".
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Mornacale posted:I'm saying that this piece reads to me exactly as if it were a blog written by a downtrodden Boston fan or terrible member of the national media. Given Schur's stellar record, I found it disappointing.
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