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leokitty posted: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. What the hell would anybody attack Vonn over? Never mind, I assume it's this. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/11/sports/la-sp-olympics-plaschke11-2010feb11
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e: ^^ Yes it is that thing and goddammit it still pisses me offYodaTFK posted:What the hell would anybody attack Vonn over? Because she's pretty and did some ads/etc that showed off how pretty she is, the horror
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# ? Aug 29, 2012 06:32 |
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God, Plaschke's writing is terrible.
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# ? Aug 29, 2012 13:53 |
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I loving hate Bill Plaschke, he is dreadful. This is only partially fueled by the fact that he's a Louisville native and UL fan. Mostly it's because he writes poo poo like that Vonn piece (and numerous other terrible articles of various levels of reprehensibility). Simers is basically a gimmick or bordering on parody, kind of like a Skip Bayless in print. At least that's how I look at him.
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# ? Aug 29, 2012 14:30 |
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God dammit, Bill Plaschke's writing is SO BAD. Even if you could ignore the content of the articles, the presentation is just loving atrocious. It makes me mad. Why did someone not edit that loving garbage out of him when he was 22?
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# ? Aug 29, 2012 14:52 |
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Perhaps the most horrifying thing about this thread is that the writers who are most obviously horrible and get lots of mentions here are frequently perpetual award winners. Plaschke has won several writer or columnist of the year awards in a row. Peter King just won some honor.
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# ? Aug 29, 2012 14:54 |
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Groucho Marxist posted:Deadspin is trying to crowdsource funding to buy a picture of Ryan Lochte's penis. Internet, listen, we need to talk. His penis will not actually be that interesting. It will probably look like every other penis. Penises are easy to find online! In like five seconds you could easily find a picture of a big ole penis that someone intentionally decided to share with the internet. Your digital cup overflowth with dong. Please save your money and leave Ryan Lochte alone. MourningView fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Aug 29, 2012 |
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:Perhaps the most horrifying thing about this thread is that the writers who are most obviously horrible and get lots of mentions here are frequently perpetual award winners. Plaschke has won several writer or columnist of the year awards in a row. Peter King just won some honor. The difference between Plaschke and someone like King is that King has chosen to turn his columns into 1500 word rambles about slop and garbage, but is fundamentally and technically a sound writer. In the past, he has written things that were worth reading. Bill Plaschke struggles to write coherent thoughts. "Or is it cover girl?" IS NOT A SENTENCE.
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Badfinger posted:King has chosen to turn his columns into 1500 word rambles about slop and garbage, but is fundamentally and technically a sound writer. I don't know, a good chunk of the poo poo that Kissing Suzy Kolber dumps on him every Monday is his mangling of the written word. Unless you mean he has chosen to turn his columns into slop in every area, including grammar.
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Badfinger posted:The difference between Plaschke and someone like King is that King has chosen to turn his columns into 1500 word rambles about slop and garbage, but is fundamentally and technically a sound writer. In the past, he has written things that were worth reading. Yeah, he also seems like a decent guy and a hardworking writer that occasionally has interesting insights. I haven't read his column regularly in a while, but the format makes it pretty easy to avoid his uber-Baby Boomer diary sections. MourningView posted:Internet, listen, we need to talk. His penis will not actually be that interesting. It will probably look like every other penis. Penises are easy to find online! In like five seconds you could easily find a picture of a big ole penis that someone intentionally decided to share with the internet. Your digital cup overflowth with dong. Please save your money and leave Ryan Lochte alone. No to mention that Ryan Lochte is a person that spends 90% of his public appearances in a Speedo. You can probably imagine what he looks like naked relatively easily. morestuff fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Aug 29, 2012 |
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Groucho Marxist posted:Deadspin is trying to crowdsource funding to buy a picture of Ryan Lochte's penis. I'm mainly annoyed by this because Gawker/deadspin has plenty of money to throw around already without having to take loving donations on their website.
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# ? Aug 29, 2012 15:48 |
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The indiegogo page is under "flexible funding" which means they get to keep the money even if they don't reach the goal. So they could very easily just take people's money without producing a dong.
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Groucho Marxist posted:The indiegogo page is under "flexible funding" which means they get to keep the money even if they don't reach the goal. So they could very easily just take people's money without producing a dong. That would actually be an acceptable outcome to me for anyone dumb enough to hand over money for this garbage.
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Groucho Marxist posted:The indiegogo page is under "flexible funding" which means they get to keep the money even if they don't reach the goal. So they could very easily just take people's money without producing a dong. I kind of wonder if it violates the no porn crowdsourcing restriction that indiegogo has.
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Toffile posted:I kind of wonder if it violates the no porn crowdsourcing restriction that indiegogo has. Want to see a Very Serious Post arguing that Lochtedongs are art and so they should keep the money
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# ? Aug 29, 2012 17:43 |
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RICK. REILLY.quote:I'm wearing something yellow Friday for Lance Armstrong. Not because I think he's innocent. He just gave up his chance to prove his innocence, so I suppose he isn't.
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:I don't know, a good chunk of the poo poo that Kissing Suzy Kolber dumps on him every Monday is his mangling of the written word. Unless you mean he has chosen to turn his columns into slop in every area, including grammar. Most of the stuff that KSK gives King for are stylistic issues, not technical problems. It's clear that he's actually aware of how to construct readable sentences and paragraphs (there's no hope for him at lists, though). Plaschke's poo poo doesn't even require reading to see that it's garbage.
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# ? Aug 29, 2012 17:46 |
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In my mind, that makes King worse because he has the capability to not be a garbage spewer but has made the conscious choice that he can get away with it so by god he will. Bill Plaschke is horrible, but someone never teaching him how to write, no one editing him properly, and him being permitted to have this prominent platform he has no business being on isn't his fault. It just turns out we all suffer for it.
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# ? Aug 29, 2012 18:00 |
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I wonder if there's some underlying reason that Reilly is apologizing for Armstrong doping but happily wrote numerous hackjobs about Barry Bonds over the years. It seems like there's a key difference between those two men but I can't quite put my finger on it...
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# ? Aug 29, 2012 18:17 |
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Grozz Nuy posted:I wonder if there's some underlying reason that Reilly is apologizing for Armstrong doping but happily wrote numerous hackjobs about Barry Bonds over the years. Number of testicles?
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Grozz Nuy posted:I wonder if there's some underlying reason that Reilly is apologizing for Armstrong doping but happily wrote numerous hackjobs about Barry Bonds over the years. That seems like quite a stretch.
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Number of testicles = number of dangly earrings + 1
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# ? Aug 29, 2012 18:27 |
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Grozz Nuy posted:It seems like there's a key difference between those two men but I can't quite put my finger on it... I'd go with the fact that cheater or not (har), Barry Bond's is an unqualified rear end in a top hat, one of monumental proportions. Doesn't mean it's fair, but that's how it goes.
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:I'd go with the fact that cheater or not (har), Barry Bond's is an unqualified rear end in a top hat, one of monumental proportions. Doesn't mean it's fair, but that's how it goes.
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Moe_Rahn posted:So is Lance Armstrong. You know what I mean.
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# ? Aug 29, 2012 19:19 |
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Armstrong is a bigger cheater and a bigger rear end in a top hat than Barry Bonds could ever hope to be. He just doesn't play America's sport, so more people are easily dismissive.
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# ? Aug 29, 2012 19:20 |
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Barry Bonds made the mistake of playing a sport Americans know about and feel they can tut tut over his transgressions. Lance Armstrong gets the benefit of the doubt from people because 99% of his fan base are flag waving Archie Bunker slobs who only care that an American won something.
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:Armstrong is a bigger cheater and a bigger rear end in a top hat than Barry Bonds could ever hope to be. He just doesn't play America's sport, so more people are easily dismissive.
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# ? Aug 29, 2012 19:33 |
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I know it's fun to accuse Rick Riley of being a racist but yeah it's probably just that Lance Armstrong was a lot nicer to reporters and had cancer.
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:You know what I mean. From many non-interviewer observer reports, Mr. Armstrong is a tremendous jerk in a lot of ways.
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Badfinger posted:From many non-interviewer observer reports, Mr. Armstrong is a tremendous jerk in a lot of ways. I understand that. But on a day-to-day, interaction with the press and most fans basis, he's not. That that might be an act is believable, but with Bonds, you never had to guess, the guy was a prick to just about everyone just about all the time. Some of the stuff about him in Game of Shadows is cartoonish.
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# ? Aug 29, 2012 21:12 |
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Zach Lowe from Sports Illustrated will be joining Grantland on October 1. They have a really talented staff covering the NBA there.
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MourningView posted:I know it's fun to accuse Rick Riley of being a racist but yeah it's probably just that Lance Armstrong was a lot nicer to reporters and had cancer. And started a pretty large cancer foundation. Liar or not, his foundation has raised over half a billion dollars. He's personally donated significant money to it. It by all accounts does a lot of good in the world. morestuff posted:Zach Lowe from Sports Illustrated will be joining Grantland on October 1. They have a really talented staff covering the NBA there. That's a good pickup. Although there will be no shortage of Boston articles.
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Niwrad posted:And started a pretty large cancer foundation. Liar or not, his foundation has raised over half a billion dollars. He's personally donated significant money to it. It by all accounts does a lot of good in the world. Not when the money stops being put to research like it has been since 2010.
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Groucho Marxist posted:Deadspin is trying to crowdsource funding to buy a picture of Ryan Lochte's penis. Toffile posted:I kind of wonder if it violates the no porn crowdsourcing restriction that indiegogo has. Deadspin posted:Thank You For Donating $141 Toward Ryan Lochte’s Alleged Cock Shot. We Will Not Be Purchasing Ryan Lochte’s Alleged Cock Shot. http://deadspin.com/5939062/thank-y...leged-cock-shot
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# ? Aug 31, 2012 03:18 |
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Most cancer survivors are human garbage.
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# ? Aug 31, 2012 04:43 |
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Frot Lesnar posted:Not when the money stops being put to research like it has been since 2010. Exactly. Y'all should read this for some context. Livestrong basically is a sponsorship and bracelet-selling vehicle that makes Lance Armstrong money and makes Americans feel good about cancer. General Dog posted:Most cancer survivors are human garbage. Haha what
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:Exactly. Y'all should read this for some context. Livestrong basically is a sponsorship and bracelet-selling vehicle that makes Lance Armstrong money and makes Americans feel good about cancer. I was gonna post that. Good article. Mr. Funny Pants posted:I understand that. But on a day-to-day, interaction with the press and most fans basis, he's not. That that might be an act is believable, but with Bonds, you never had to guess, the guy was a prick to just about everyone just about all the time. Some of the stuff about him in Game of Shadows is cartoonish. He rubbed and took the precious roids, His muscles grew robust; He knew no more that he was ignored, Nor that his legacy dust. He glanced along the awful prose, And this request of words With but a look. What Plaschke Writes is a piece of poo poo!
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# ? Aug 31, 2012 20:40 |
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The NY Post is great sometimes.
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morestuff posted:The NY Post is great sometimes. That looks cool.
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