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In case you are wondering, the reason why France has not produced a tennis champions since Noah is because of a bunch of lazy French stereotypes. Eh, these driven Americans, Spaniards, we prefer to, how you say, drink the wine, eat the cheeses. In France, we train with baguettes, not rackets. Now if you excuse me, I am late to an appointment getting invaded by Germany.
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# ? Jun 7, 2012 18:42 |
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"He said he's just such a douche on twitter all the time he just got fed up," Tim says in an email, "which I agree with." Glorious.
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# ? Jun 7, 2012 19:23 |
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Upon Maria Sharapova just clinching a career grand slam, I couldn't help but think about this article last year saying she was a bigger disappointment than Kournikova: http://bit.ly/LxavFB
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# ? Jun 9, 2012 15:58 |
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This'll be kind of random, but this recent wave of self-important "journalists" who seem to tweet the random stuff during their day is killing me, especially because they have something to bring to the table when it comes to news and insight. It's just so ... ugh. I don't even know what to call it. Worse yet, a lot of them, while they have decent writing skills and can break stories, are good at playing the politics game and it's pretty obvious that's how they got to where they are. They'll write stories (and occasionally books) on subjects that they covered for more than a year and there's something that's completely obviously missing from what they wrote, but it goes unaddressed and you wonder why they even wrote it. If you couldn't investigate, why did you write an investigative essay? That's the core principle of an investigation. It's a sandwich with no bread or meat. There's two that immediately come to mind and they have this stilted, flirtatious banter on twitter and it kills me a little inside every time I see it. If you follow both of them, you know who I mean.
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# ? Jun 10, 2012 20:04 |
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Why don't you just say who it is, because I have no idea
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# ? Jun 10, 2012 20:05 |
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They work for ESPN, it's all of them.
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# ? Jun 10, 2012 20:10 |
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The broken bones posted:There's two that immediately come to mind and they have this stilted, flirtatious banter on twitter and it kills me a little inside every time I see it. If you follow both of them, you know who I mean. The specific book in question was really disappointing.
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# ? Jun 10, 2012 20:14 |
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I assume this is baseball? Because I have no idea what you guys are talking about.
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# ? Jun 10, 2012 20:15 |
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Just an FYI, but talking about missing information and then being vague about the specific people may be a bit kin to the classic pot/kettle/black post. Unless it is supposed to be that way, the kudos I guess.
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# ? Jun 10, 2012 21:03 |
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If you're parodying their subtweeting then well done but seriously just say who the gently caress you're talking about
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# ? Jun 11, 2012 02:16 |
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Jonah Keri is the book dude.
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# ? Jun 11, 2012 03:22 |
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All I'm trying to say is that somewhere there's a man. And sometimes he writes about sports and sometimes he does not write about sports. I mean he can write about sports, but does not have to. When he does write about sports, he sometimes says interesting things. About sports. And sometimes he writes about these things on the internet on a certain social microblogging website. Sometimes he writes them to other people, sometimes he writes them to himself. But he is writing something, somewhere. GET IT?
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# ? Jun 11, 2012 05:25 |
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R.D. Mangles posted:All I'm trying to say is that somewhere there's a man. And sometimes he writes about sports and sometimes he does not write about sports. I mean he can write about sports, but does not have to. When he does write about sports, he sometimes says interesting things. About sports. And sometimes he writes about these things on the internet on a certain social microblogging website. Sometimes he writes them to other people, sometimes he writes them to himself. But he is writing something, somewhere.
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# ? Jun 11, 2012 06:16 |
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Jesus Christ guys, the two in particular are jonah Keri and Molly knight, but that was more about Espn and the like twitter personalities. There are plenty of like writers that fit the mold.
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# ? Jun 11, 2012 06:18 |
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Jonah Keri has fallen way too hard into Rays fandom to be taken seriously as a journalist but I guess it's good that the only journalism he does now is Power Rankings on Grantland.
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# ? Jun 11, 2012 07:19 |
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BackInTheUSSR posted:Jonah Keri has fallen way too hard into Rays fandom to be taken seriously as a journalist but I guess it's good that the only journalism he does now is Power Rankings on Grantland. I think this is because he's busy writing a comprehensive history of the Expos.
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# ? Jun 12, 2012 00:07 |
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This flew kind of under the radar, but Time Warner is looking to buy Bleacher Report for 200 million dollars http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304840904577426524031491042.html
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# ? Jun 13, 2012 18:24 |
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I can't think of a bigger waste of $200 million. Or a dumber company to spend it on BR, for that matter.
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# ? Jun 13, 2012 18:50 |
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I guess technically Jim Rome is a journalist. http://thebiglead.com/index.php/201...ting-your-wife/ quote:Undaunted, Jim Rome asked Stern about the lottery this afternoon. In a mocking tone, Stern shot back, “have you stopped beating your wife?” as if to say that’s how much credibility the question has
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# ? Jun 13, 2012 19:28 |
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Toffile posted:I guess technically Jim Rome is a journalist.
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# ? Jun 13, 2012 19:41 |
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Holy poo poo, David Stern is loving great. He should give all press conferences for every sport. Also, I've read estimates that say Rome makes $40 million a year off his radio show alone. Christ. haljordan fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Jun 13, 2012 |
# ? Jun 13, 2012 19:44 |
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Toffile posted:I guess technically Jim Rome is a journalist. The "have you stopped beating your wife?" is somewhat of a classical example of a yes or no question that cannot be answered with a yes or no (assuming you've never beaten your wife). The correct (nerdy) answer is "mu".
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# ? Jun 13, 2012 19:45 |
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Deadspin finally posted the audioDavid Stern's last words posted:I have to go call someone important now. Stephen A. Smith is up next."
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# ? Jun 13, 2012 19:46 |
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Groucho Marxist posted:This flew kind of under the radar, but Time Warner is looking to buy Bleacher Report for 200 million dollars
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# ? Jun 13, 2012 19:53 |
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FlamingLiberal posted:Well this IS the same company that bought AOL when the company was headed towards the toilet... And the Huffington Post.
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# ? Jun 13, 2012 19:55 |
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goddamn that owns
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# ? Jun 14, 2012 01:23 |
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Anytime Jim Rome gets his rear end humiliated is okay by me.
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# ? Jun 14, 2012 01:25 |
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ESPNHS is all but ceasing operation, laying off 75 writers and editors. Raise your hands if you actually read an ESPNHS article. I know I did, but I'm still a bit surprised.
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# ? Jun 14, 2012 06:39 |
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:ESPNHS is all but ceasing operation, laying off 75 writers and editors. This is literally the first time I've ever heard of it.
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# ? Jun 14, 2012 06:43 |
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I didn't even know that there was an ESPNHS.
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# ? Jun 14, 2012 06:43 |
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They needed 75 writers and editors?
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# ? Jun 14, 2012 06:57 |
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I'm assuming that ESPNHS covered high school sports (which is sort of weird to cover on a national level), but I'm going to prefer that it was ESPNHs which is a variant of ESPN that only covers H things including: -Hockey -Hackeysack -Hang Gliding -Home Runs -Home Depot Center -Hawk Harrelson -Hartford Whalers -Harold "Baby Jordan" Miner -Hippolyte Acoutrier -Hungry Hungry Hippos
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# ? Jun 14, 2012 07:08 |
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R.D. Mangles posted:I'm assuming that ESPNHS covered high school sports (which is sort of weird to cover on a national level), but I'm going to prefer that it was ESPNHs which is a variant of ESPN that only covers H things including: I think they did some crappy national sports mag that I would always take from my principal's office on the way to my planning period dumpski.
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# ? Jun 14, 2012 07:24 |
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That's kind of weird since it's the last really untapped market. I thought that ESPN the Magazine College Edition they used to make was going to be huge but that floundered too. I guess people who are into high school sports really only want to read about it on the hyperlocal level. "Texas Forever" and all that poo poo.
BackInTheUSSR fucked around with this message at 07:27 on Jun 14, 2012 |
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BackInTheUSSR posted:That's kind of weird since it's the last really untapped market. I thought that ESPN the Magazine College Edition they used to make was going to be huge but that floundered too. I guess people who are into high school sports really only want to read about it on the hyperlocal level. "Texas Forever" and all that poo poo. Basically. The local newspaper appears to have everyone beat on preps coverage.
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# ? Jun 14, 2012 07:33 |
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http://deadspin.com/5917795/how-to-...-atrocious-book How do you write an article about JAY MARIOTTI and somehow come across as the bigger rear end in a top hat. Or at least, an rear end in a top hat of approximately the same size. Copernic fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Jun 14, 2012 |
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Copernic posted:http://deadspin.com/5917795/how-to-...-atrocious-book I don't exactly see how that guy is as bad or worse than Jay Mariotti. But then again, gently caress Jay Mariotti.
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# ? Jun 14, 2012 21:16 |
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Copernic posted:http://deadspin.com/5917795/how-to-...-atrocious-book
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# ? Jun 14, 2012 21:19 |
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I couldn't finish that piece. There was no point to it. Other than learning about consistent communication between the two parties there was nothing to say.
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# ? Jun 14, 2012 21:46 |
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If Jay Mariotti is the sportsworld's biggest douchebag, AJ ain't that far behind.
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