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MourningView posted:Brian Phillips' first Wimbledon piece for Grantland is really great: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8097092/a-visit-all-england-club-wimbledon-kickoff-2012-tournament I absolutely loved this article, especially the references to "The Machine Stops" (http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html) peppered in.
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Unsurprisingly Jon Heyman managed to cram several bad opinions into one articlequote:To summarize, Cueto has won no World Series and caused one Cardinals concussion. What should he expect? It's like the worst incarnation of the "lol rings" argument ever, in use to decide who plays in a largely pointless game anyway.
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# ? Jul 3, 2012 00:47 |
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Bill Simmons Releases 2,000-Page Book Exploring How loving Clever He Is
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# ? Jul 3, 2012 17:27 |
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jeffersonlives posted:Erin Andrews is leaving ESPN for FOX, which means after years of the Andrews vs. Beadle stuff they ended up both leaving. I'm still wondering if the network exec who co-opted Deadspin to do a hitpiece on her was FOX trying to drive down the market for her or not
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# ? Jul 3, 2012 17:30 |
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Crion posted:I'm still wondering if the network exec who co-opted Deadspin to do a hitpiece on her was FOX trying to drive down the market for her or not I'm sure it took a lot of arm wringing for Deadspin to do something misogynist.
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# ? Jul 3, 2012 17:57 |
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Frot Lesnar posted:I'm sure it took a lot of arm wringing for Deadspin to do something misogynist. I haven't read the piece since it came out but I don't remember anything especially misogynist about it outside of the site allowing itself to be used as a negotiating flack because of something they did previously which was
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# ? Jul 3, 2012 23:17 |
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Chris Broussard had a good day. He sent out this tweet just minutes after Deron Williams publicly declared via Twitter that he would re-sign with Brooklyn:quote:source: Deron Williams tells Nets he's staying in Brooklyn Not a huge deal; maybe he got some wires crossed and couldn't post until a few minutes after he contacted his source. Then he sent out these tweets about Eric Gordon tonight: quote:Gordon told me his desire is to play in Phoenix, not New Orleans. quote:Eric Gordon told me this: "I strongly feel (the Suns) are the right franchise for me. Phoenix is just where my heart is.'' Again, that news had already broken, but a little personal context is fine. Except that quote comes directly from a prepared statement: quote:"After visiting the Suns, the impression the organization made on me was incredible," Gordon said in a prepared statement. "Mr. Sarver, Lon Babby, Lance Blanks, the front office staff and Coach Gentry run a first-class organization, and I strongly feel they are the right franchise for me. Phoenix is just where my heart is now." Sources! morestuff fucked around with this message at 04:10 on Jul 4, 2012 |
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I talked to Abraham Lincoln and he told me "a house divided against itself cannot stand." #exclusive
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# ? Jul 4, 2012 04:15 |
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No one should ever go to ESPN for breaking news of any variety.
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# ? Jul 4, 2012 04:44 |
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:No one should ever go to ESPN. Shockingly still true!
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# ? Jul 4, 2012 04:51 |
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Crion posted:I haven't read the piece since it came out but I don't remember anything especially misogynist about it outside of the site allowing itself to be used as a negotiating flack because of something they did previously which was I think maybe he is referring to the slut-shaming of when Daulerio posted the video of the girl being raped in the stadium bathroom stall.
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# ? Jul 4, 2012 05:15 |
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BackInTheUSSR posted:I think maybe he is referring to the slut-shaming of when Daulerio posted the video of the girl being raped in the stadium bathroom stall. Oh, that'll do it
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# ? Jul 4, 2012 05:21 |
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BackInTheUSSR posted:I think maybe he is referring to the slut-shaming of when Daulerio posted the video of the girl being raped in the stadium bathroom stall. wait, what the hell?
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# ? Jul 4, 2012 05:27 |
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from GQ.quote:Perhaps Daulerio's darkest moment came last spring, when he posted a video of an obviously drunk college girl having sex in a bathroom stall at a sports bar in Bloomington, Indiana. At the time, he was thinking of it as part of a series on fans having sex in bathrooms. (In the fall of 2009, he'd posted a clip of a couple getting it on in a stall at the new Cowboys Stadium.) On May 11, a few days after the video went up, Daulerio received an e-mail from a woman imploring him to take it down. "I know the people in it and it is extreemly [sic] hurtful. please, this is completely unfair," she wrote. In separate responses, both Daulerio and Darbyshire, the Gawker lawyer, refused to comply. "Best advice I can give you right now: do not make a big deal out of this because, as you can tell, the footage is blurry and you are not identified by name," Daulerio wrote, assuming the e-mailer was the girl herself. someone later stated that she was passed out and being raped so essentially Daulerio excused being raped as "a dumb mistake" BackInTheUSSR fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Jul 4, 2012 |
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morestuff posted:Chris Broussard had a good day. The thing I remember most about Broussard was his ridiculous hedging during the LeBron free agency saga. He kept saying things like, "I'm hearing it could be Miami or Chicago, but I think he stays in Cleveland." Then, of course, the ESPN talking heads praised him afterwards for "getting it right." Sources!
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BackInTheUSSR posted:from GQ. Alright, yeah, done even remotely defending that dude
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# ? Jul 4, 2012 05:54 |
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IIRC he took it down after the father wrote him an email because it's a whole big different thing when it's a man's daughter etc. etc.
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# ? Jul 4, 2012 06:36 |
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stuart scott irl posted:IIRC he took it down after the father wrote him an email because it's a whole big different thing when it's a man's daughter etc. etc.
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# ? Jul 4, 2012 06:47 |
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If she was being raped then the dude in the video should've been arrested for rape, which obviously did not happen.
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# ? Jul 4, 2012 06:51 |
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quote:At the time, he was thinking of it as part of a series on fans having sex in bathrooms.
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# ? Jul 4, 2012 06:52 |
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:If she was being raped then the dude in the video should've been arrested for rape, which obviously did not happen. i def didn't watch the video but i can't imagine he'd be that easily identifiable
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# ? Jul 4, 2012 07:03 |
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:If she was being raped then the dude in the video should've been arrested for rape, which obviously did not happen. I might be reading you wrong here but this is almost never how it happens
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Yeah the whole "let's have a series on people loving in bathrooms. How cutting edge!" thing is pretty reprehensible.
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# ? Jul 4, 2012 20:29 |
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:If she was being raped then the dude in the video should've been arrested for rape, which obviously did not happen. ergo she wasn't being raped?
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# ? Jul 5, 2012 01:37 |
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:If she was being raped then the dude in the video should've been arrested for rape, which obviously did not happen. Literally kill yourself
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# ? Jul 5, 2012 04:00 |
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That guy needs to take some pointers from Josh Lueke.
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# ? Jul 5, 2012 06:42 |
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I meant that, quite literally, the dude should've been arrested for rape, as he was raping a girl in the video. Get the gently caress over yourselves.
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# ? Jul 5, 2012 07:23 |
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:I meant that, quite literally, the dude should've been arrested for rape, as he was raping a girl in the video. Get the gently caress over yourselves. You meant the arrest obviously didn't happen instead of the rape? Okay but you can see where people got confused.
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# ? Jul 5, 2012 07:51 |
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I read it as the kind of thing the site might say to defend the content VV Makes sense given that it follows the email exchange info etc.
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# ? Jul 5, 2012 09:15 |
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That is why I said "maybe I'm misreading you" because I had a hunch that was what he was trying to say but yeah lovely people say lovely poo poo like that all the time so you never know
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# ? Jul 5, 2012 13:41 |
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Yeah I've read too many lovely people defending things like that in a very similar manner and over-reacted, my apologies.
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# ? Jul 5, 2012 15:24 |
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Frot Lesnar posted:You meant the arrest obviously didn't happen instead of the rape? Okay but you can see where people got confused. I do see now. I'll draw a clearer line between realposting and sarcasm in the future.
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# ? Jul 5, 2012 18:38 |
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Just read it...read the whole loving thing:Tom Hoffarth of the Los Angeles Daily News posted:
And the pictures and videos he attached to his article make it even classier. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWaewg0TrU8 Crazy Ted fucked around with this message at 09:53 on Jul 8, 2012 |
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Crazy Ted posted:Just read it...read the whole loving thing: Someone's angling for a job at Gawker!
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# ? Jul 8, 2012 12:57 |
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The sad part is that underneath all of the resentment and innuendo there's a really good point to be made. If he stepped back and stopped taking her success so personally, it would be much easier to be on his side.
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# ? Jul 8, 2012 13:25 |
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He's literally ranting and raving about a woman being attractive and successful dude I'm not sure on what level I'm supposed to "be on his side"
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Medical Sword posted:He's literally ranting and raving about a woman being attractive and successful dude I'm not sure on what level I'm supposed to "be on his side" Yeah but to me it's interesting, the idea of hiring reporters based heavily on looks. I don't know if it says more about the network or the actual job itself, that it could even become a factor. Then--and I'm not saying this is necessarily the case with Andrews--if a given reporter fails horribly at their job, whose fault is it, and where do they go from there? It kinda reminds me of the mid-90s, when NBA teams started drafting tons of high school players who had more raw athleticism than actual skill. Also, how would you measure Andrews' success? ESPN seemed pretty intent on putting her in the forefront as much as possible, and the fact that she's gone now is interesting. It is possible that they were just following their own unwritten rule of not letting one person overshadow the network. Either way, this move to FOX seems mostly lateral. Beyond that, I did think her quotes about not understanding all the attention as gets seemed a bit disingenuous. By now she has to understand it, although maybe there is some context to them that I'm missing. Regardless, you don't have to be on his side at all. It would just be easier for people to align with his viewpoint if he left out the, you know, oppressive language.
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# ? Jul 8, 2012 15:08 |
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Some may hate this, but I think it's awesome:quote:Brief History of the Career of LeBron James http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/magazine/lebron-james-is-a-sack-of-melons.html
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# ? Jul 8, 2012 15:24 |
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Erin Andrews is good at her job and generally handles all the gross poo poo she has to deal with really well. I will never understand all the weird vitriol she generates. Is she supposed to be ashamed of being pretty or what?
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MourningView posted:Is she supposed to be ashamed of being pretty or what? I know I am.
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