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Ugh, I hate that Joe Pos wrote the book that way if it's really the way it's being presented. Obviously he didn't know what he was getting himself into, but I expected better of him. He's probably still my favorite sportswriter.
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For his penance Joe Posnanski should write a book about Dick Allen. Him or Jane Leavy. Someone needs to save Dick Allen's reputation because so many loving journalists hate him and it's very upsetting.
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Aug 24, 2012 00:11
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http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/more_sports/color_of_money_b8aBxH641G1ecMlrYFiIfJPhil Mushnick posted:As the streets continue to fill with blood, the sports world eagerly pursues its cut. Sports. What a sad joke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G1h_5T1PU8
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Aug 26, 2012 22:25
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Did the Post install a special tall desk for Mushnik so he never has to get off of his high horse?
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Aug 26, 2012 23:06
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Jesus, did this guy just walk out of a time machine from 1955? Let me grab my decoder ring: Phil Mushnick posted:Nike, sports teams, star athletes market menacing apparel to menacing niggers. Have they no shame?
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Aug 26, 2012 23:30
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Isn't that basically the same column Mushnick wrote when the new Brooklyn Nets stuff came out?
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Aug 27, 2012 04:58
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Why didn't Cory Lidle crash his plane into the Post?
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ElwoodCuse posted:Isn't that basically the same column Mushnick wrote when the new Brooklyn Nets stuff came out? Basically. His column needs to be put out to pasture.
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Aug 27, 2012 06:34
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How can anyone take a person named Mushnick seriously? It sounds like a word my grandparents would use to disparage a deadbeat relative (Ira's son? Feh, what a mushnick).
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Aug 27, 2012 08:53
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Sports on Earth launched today, and it has some relatively big names behind it. That design is pretty ugly, though.
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Used to be I would be drawn to a project with Posnanski's name on it :\
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Aug 27, 2012 15:33
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I'm sure they'll iron out the kinks, but again, a lot of the site just looks kind of slapdash:
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Aug 27, 2012 15:35
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"We want to do something creative with the head shots. Make 'em really stand out. Can you do that, Josh?" "Sure thing." *presses Live Trace in Illustrator*
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Aug 27, 2012 16:10
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Was the goal to make them look as much like the player portraits in Tecmo Super Bowl III as possible?
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Aug 27, 2012 16:31
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Even beyond the portraits, having "KNAPP MORE FROM KNAPP POWELL MORE FROM POWELL" is just a waste of space. It looks like placeholder copy.
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Aug 27, 2012 16:33
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It looks like they bought a pre-made template.
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Aug 27, 2012 17:26
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 KEANU REEVES MORE FROM REEVES
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Aug 27, 2012 17:31
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What, was there not enough space for their first names?
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Aug 27, 2012 19:15
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I'm halfway through Paterno. It's not that it's bad because it portrays Paterno in the same glorified air that he had a couple years ago, but it's just a bad book. There appears to be no narrative at all with it. I keep waiting for things to tie into the bigger picture, to go down a path. But it's a mishmash of stories and anecdotes by people you could get in any fluff piece. There isn't a lot of investigating being done by the author. For instance, there's a bunch of stories about people he touched, but he never interviews or talks to those people. Just sort of takes everyone's word for it. It's also really lovely historically. Now I'm not a college football expert, but I know a lot of the smoke he's blowing about the 70's and early 80's is simply not true. It's like he just asked some people with a vested interest in a story about it and didn't do any research on his own to confirm. I'll finish it up this week. I know people are saying he was in a tough spot and it's tough to go back and change things. But even if none of it happened, it's a terrible biography. And this from someone who can get into a biography on just about anyone.
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Pos doesn't really write full biographies, he writes biographical narrative stories, usually very well. He wasn't the right guy to try and do the definitive Joe Paterno life story, even before all this had happened, and I wonder if he even intended to.
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gendo posted:It looks like they bought a pre-made template. According to this: http://builtwith.com/sportsonearth.com It might be boostrap.
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jeffersonlives posted:Pos doesn't really write full biographies, he writes biographical narrative stories, usually very well. He wasn't the right guy to try and do the definitive Joe Paterno life story, even before all this had happened, and I wonder if he even intended to. He absolutely did not. What he has now published is a complete 180 from what he set out to write. I'm not going to buy or read the book because I'm not sure what I'll gain from it.
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Just so we're clear, do people think Mushnick is completely off-base or just partially right and taking his argument too far?
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Ace Jameson posted:Just so we're clear, do people think Mushnick is completely off-base or just partially right and taking his argument too far? He's completely off base. He basically says that that by marketing expensive jerseys and caps to an "urban" demographic, they're responsible for promoting "gangster culture" and that the wearer of a $300 pair of shoes is actually in danger in the wrong areas. I think both of these assertions are pretty ridiculous. Let me know when Nike is selling team branded guns, and maybe then I'll be outraged.
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Here's a transcript of TJ Simers picking up where the Boston sports media left off with Josh Beckett. http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/08/28/josh-beckett-engages-in-odd-exchange-with-reporter-following-loss/ Why in the gently caress do sportswriters think they're entitled to friendly, courteous answers from athletes even when they deliberately try to piss them off?
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hcreight posted:Here's a transcript of TJ Simers picking up where the Boston sports media left off with Josh Beckett. I guess trying to provoke a response is a type of journalism, but TJ Simers is such an idiot.
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hcreight posted:Here's a transcript of TJ Simers picking up where the Boston sports media left off with Josh Beckett. It's the same sense entitlement that allows me, once I have purchased a ticket to a live sporting event, to yell racial/homophobic slurs at players and/or throw things at them!
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Aug 28, 2012 20:36
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hcreight posted:Here's a transcript of TJ Simers picking up where the Boston sports media left off with Josh Beckett. God that's terrible. It's like he was trying to get a Brett Myers "Boom; outta here" exchange only the interviewer is clearly baiting the poo poo out of the athlete and just being a real prick.
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hcreight posted:Here's a transcript of TJ Simers picking up where the Boston sports media left off with Josh Beckett. Sportswriters are looking for something to yell about, so if they can't provoke an actually controversial remark they need to invent a problem.
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hcreight posted:Here's a transcript of TJ Simers picking up where the Boston sports media left off with Josh Beckett. Was Simers the guy who wrote a really lovely column about Marcus Thames or somebody where he just threw in couple gratuitous insults about his last name?
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Bizob posted:Was Simers the guy who wrote a really lovely column about Marcus Thames or somebody where he just threw in couple gratuitous insults about his last name? I think so but he also told ESPN to go to hell over some issue I can't recall and that's why he's not on TV anymore. e: found your article http://bottom-of-the-barrel.blogspot.com/2012/03/tj-simers-decides-to-attack-his.html Rousimar Pauladeen fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Aug 28, 2012 |
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Deadspin is trying to crowdsource funding to buy a picture of Ryan Lochte's penis. http://deadspin.com/5938560/how-much-would-you-pay-to-see-a-photo-of-ryan-lochtes-alleged-penis
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Bizob posted:Was Simers the guy who wrote a really lovely column about Marcus Thames or somebody where he just threw in couple gratuitous insults about his last name? You bet he is. quote:Now you would think anyone ranked 27th in baseball history in anything would be a household name, but in his own clubhouse no one seems quite sure how to pronounce his name. He continues to refer to Thames as "Tims/Tems" throughout this garbage pile of an article. It's irritating that the LA Times continues to cut a paycheck for two of the biggest morons in sportswriting today (the other being Bill "Dramatic Chipmunk" Plaschke}.
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Ugh, what an rear end in a top hat.
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Groucho Marxist posted:Deadspin is trying to crowdsource funding to buy a picture of Ryan Lochte's penis. Ryan Lochte's alleged penis, you mean.
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"I have literally never heard of a body of water with the same spelling and pronunciation as this petulant non-star of a dilettante."
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FairGame posted:"I have literally never heard of a body of water with the same spelling and pronunciation as this petulant non-star of a dilettante." I'm positive that Simers thinks it's pronounced "tames".
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SporkOfTruth posted:He continues to refer to Thames as "Tims/Tems" throughout this garbage pile of an article. It's irritating that the LA Times continues to cut a paycheck for two of the biggest morons in sportswriting today (the other being Bill "Dramatic Chipmunk" Plaschke}. Hurts my brain that Plaschke is still a featured guy after his horrible personal attacks on Lindsey Vonn who is pretty much the greatest (woman) downhill skier ever.
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Mornacale posted:I'm positive that Simers thinks it's pronounced "tames".
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Speaking of Brett Myers, someone really ought to ask him if he still beats his wife after every blown save.
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