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LARGE THE HEAD: Sep 1, 2009; "Competitive greatness is when you play your best against the best."

"Learn as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow."

--John Wooden

Remember kids, photojournalism is journalism too! Check out this spread from the Tri-City Herald (Richland, Kennewick and Pasco, Wash.) for their HS football preview. Simply awesome.

# ? Sep 6, 2012 22:21

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# ? Apr 20, 2024 02:31

morestuff: Aug 2, 2008; You can't stop what's coming

LARGE THE HEAD posted:

Remember kids, photojournalism is journalism too! Check out this spread from the Tri-City Herald (Richland, Kennewick and Pasco, Wash.) for their HS football preview. Simply awesome.

That's a great concept. I'm sure the kids had a lot of fun, too.

# ? Sep 6, 2012 22:56

seiferguy: Jun 9, 2005; FLAWED
INTUITION; Toilet Rascal

SB Nation is redoing all of their logos for their "united" campaign: you can check em out here: http://www.sbnation.com/united

I love that LL still kept the Richie Sexson failure theme.

# ? Sep 7, 2012 19:40

Groucho Marxist: Dec 9, 2005; Do you smell what The Mauk is cooking?

Those look fine for the most part, but man is that Cubs one hideous. Also the Bears and Raptors ones look like goatse.

# ? Sep 7, 2012 20:15

MourningView: Sep 2, 2006; Is this Heaven?

ISU having the best named blog by far (Wide Right and Natty Lite) is eternally upsetting to me.

# ? Sep 7, 2012 20:32

Dick Williams: Aug 25, 2005

Just in case you wondered if fangraphs writers could embarrass themselves any more

http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/index.php/roto-riteup-september-7-2012/

"I don't know if I'll ever be known at all, but if I am, being called "that baseball writer guy who loves ponies" isn't so bad, really.�

# ? Sep 7, 2012 20:45

Benne: Sep 2, 2011; STOP DOING HEROIN

seiferguy posted:

SB Nation is redoing all of their logos for their "united" campaign: you can check em out here: http://www.sbnation.com/united

I love that LL still kept the Richie Sexson failure theme.

Why does the Space Needle look like it's about to collapse? :ohdear:

E: the Red Sox having pennants in its logo is the most Red Sox thing ever.

# ? Sep 7, 2012 23:39

Moe_Rahn: Jun 1, 2006; I got a question
why they hatin' on me?
I ain't did nothin' to 'em
but count this money
and put my team on
got my whole clique stunnin'
boy wassup
yeeeeeaaaaaahhhh

the new Viva El Birdos logo is pissed off

# ? Sep 8, 2012 00:12

Crion: Sep 30, 2004; baseball.

Demerits to the new O's logo for not using the cartoon bird, but that's a fairly faithful reproduction of Camden Chat's previous logo so maybe they just didn't want to switch up too much

# ? Sep 8, 2012 01:25

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK: Sep 11, 2008; Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola
-Cheap Trick; Nap Ghost

What the hell is with the Knicks one?

# ? Sep 8, 2012 01:32

Reformed Pissboy: Nov 6, 2003

Benne posted:

E: the Red Sox having pennants in its logo is the most Red Sox thing ever.

Good call on having the logo for "Over the Monster" not feature the monster in any way :I

As far as stylistic consistency goes though a lot of these are just fine, kind of impressive considering the sheer volume of 'em

# ? Sep 8, 2012 02:17

Deadbeat Dad: Jun 3, 2005; the trad games jinho

I've always thought SAS could rival SBNation writing wise. We should all pool together and defeat the forces of something decent and make it even more decent!

# ? Sep 8, 2012 02:51

tinstaach: Aug 3, 2010; MAGNetic AttITUDE

I CHALLENGE THEE posted:

Just in case you wondered if fangraphs writers could embarrass themselves any more

http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/index.php/roto-riteup-september-7-2012/

"I don't know if I'll ever be known at all, but if I am, being called "that baseball writer guy who loves ponies" isn't so bad, really.�

In the last few weeks, I've read three or four Fangraphs articles and thought, "Wow, this is actually decent. You don't see that much on FG. Who wrote this?"

Turns out it was Jeff Sullivan. Every single time.

# ? Sep 8, 2012 02:57

Jota: May 6, 2003; uga-booga uga-booga

Deadbeat Dad posted:

I've always thought SAS could rival SBNation writing wise. We should all pool together and defeat the forces of something decent and make it even more decent!

Goon project will go great

# ? Sep 8, 2012 03:01

Jota: May 6, 2003; uga-booga uga-booga

Let's buy an island

# ? Sep 8, 2012 03:02

Gorman Thomas: Jul 24, 2007

Jota posted:

Goon project will go great

The last SAS goon project turned out pretty great tbh

# ? Sep 8, 2012 03:03

Deadbeat Dad: Jun 3, 2005; the trad games jinho

THE RED MENACE posted:

The last SAS goon project turned out pretty great tbh

Also aren't the top youtube dudes goons (FreddieW/YOGScast)

# ? Sep 8, 2012 03:05

stuart scott: Mar 9, 2007

there is a goon sports blog it's called Your Prospect Sucks

# ? Sep 8, 2012 03:05

seiferguy: Jun 9, 2005; FLAWED
INTUITION; Toilet Rascal

There's a wide variety of goons that blog for their favorite teams - successfully or not. Additionally, I do like some of the SBNation blogs not named Halos Heaven.

# ? Sep 8, 2012 03:07

Jota: May 6, 2003; uga-booga uga-booga

I promise I'll put out an article a week

# ? Sep 8, 2012 03:07

Moe_Rahn: Jun 1, 2006; I got a question
why they hatin' on me?
I ain't did nothin' to 'em
but count this money
and put my team on
got my whole clique stunnin'
boy wassup
yeeeeeaaaaaahhhh

I tried to set a deadline for myself to write a thing for the internet once and then I got sick and died and didn't write it until like two weeks after I said I would so I am the perfect internet writer man.

# ? Sep 8, 2012 03:18

leokitty: Apr 5, 2005; I live. I die. I live again.

Pinstripe Alley is terrible do not read it ever.

# ? Sep 8, 2012 07:22

Pat Clements: Feb 10, 2008

leokitty posted:

Pinstripe Alley is terrible do not read it ever.

I was thumbing through it at the library today, as a matter of fact.

After reading about five randomly selected pages I gently set it back in its space on the bookshelf and walked away.

# ? Sep 8, 2012 07:45

LARGE THE HEAD: Sep 1, 2009; "Competitive greatness is when you play your best against the best."

"Learn as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow."

--John Wooden

Lookout Landing is the second-best site SBNation has by a good margin, even with EDSBS running laps around the field.

# ? Sep 8, 2012 08:19

Crion: Sep 30, 2004; baseball.

Grant Brisbee and Jon Bois do great work for SBN even if they are a bit biased towards the animated gif files

# ? Sep 8, 2012 10:31

Groucho Marxist: Dec 9, 2005; Do you smell what The Mauk is cooking?

Viva El Birdos is a million times better than stupid Lookout Landing

http://www.vivaelbirdos.com/2012/5/25/3042758/the-st-louis-cardinals-pitching-meltdown-faq-version-1-3a
http://www.vivaelbirdos.com/2012/5/1/2991009/skip-schumaker-st-louis-cardinals

# ? Sep 8, 2012 14:25

Rousimar Pauladeen: Feb 27, 2007; I hate the mods I hate the mods I hate the mods! I HATE THE MODS I HATE THE MODS I HATE THE MODS! Hey wait a minute why do the mods hate me I'm contributing to the conversation I HATE THE MODS I HATE THE MODS I HA

Crion posted:

Grant Brisbee and Jon Bois do great work for SBN even if they are a bit biased towards the animated gif files

Dental Plan

# ? Sep 8, 2012 14:30

FairGame: Jul 24, 2001; Der Kommander

Groucho Marxist posted:

Viva El Birdos is a million times better than stupid Lookout Landing

http://www.vivaelbirdos.com/2012/5/25/3042758/the-st-louis-cardinals-pitching-meltdown-faq-version-1-3a
http://www.vivaelbirdos.com/2012/5/1/2991009/skip-schumaker-st-louis-cardinals

In fairness, you're cherry picking. These are literally the two best veb posts of the 2012 season.

# ? Sep 8, 2012 15:17

stuart scott: Mar 9, 2007

The Good Phight is a great SBN blog but only if you like the Philadelphia Phightin Philliesph

# ? Sep 9, 2012 00:07

Pat Clements: Feb 10, 2008

Fear the Fin is a great Sharks blog, and South Side Sox is really good too.

I have no qualm with SBNation.

# ? Sep 9, 2012 01:09

swizz: Oct 10, 2004; I can recall being broke with some friends in Tennessee and deciding to have a party and being able to afford only two-fifths of a $1.75 bourbon called Two Natural, whose label showed dice coming up 5 and 2. Its taste was memorable. The psychological effect was also notable.

The two best UNC bloggers just merged their sites into one blog (with two writers) on SB Nation this past week. I thought it was pretty interesting development that one of the writers would so willingly give up his blog of six years to essentially write for the other. SB Nation must be deploying some capital

# ? Sep 9, 2012 01:16

MourningView: Sep 2, 2006; Is this Heaven?

swizz posted:

The two best UNC bloggers just merged their sites into one blog (with two writers) on SB Nation this past week. I thought it was pretty interesting development that one of the writers would so willingly give up his blog of six years to essentially write for the other. SB Nation must be deploying some capital

The main site guys get paid but I'm pretty sure the blog guys don't make much of anything. Or at least I know the BHGP guys don't and that's a pretty popular and well regarded blog.

# ? Sep 9, 2012 04:30

Heaf: Jan 15, 2008; People say we suck at sports but they don't understand
It's hard to catch with holes right through your hands

MourningView posted:

The main site guys get paid but I'm pretty sure the blog guys don't make much of anything. Or at least I know the BHGP guys don't and that's a pretty popular and well regarded blog.

The editors and columnists like Spencer Hall get paid, yes. The blogs all started organically and were then acquired by SBNation where they get larger exposure. Since the blogs are written for free by fans, there's a wide disparity of quality. For example, the Virginia Tech one started out okay and then switched hands and got terrible. The Key Play, an independent site, does a much better job (even while including terrible macros).

# ? Sep 9, 2012 06:01

The broken bones: Jan 3, 2008; Out beyond winning and losing, there is a field.

I will meet you there.

TJ Simers coming out of retirement basically to poo poo on the dodgers has been fun. here's his latest hatchet job on Adrian Gonzalez. I'm not even gonna link it because gently caress TJ Simers and gently caress the LA Times for running this garbage.

TJ Simers posted:

So I'm blown away by the incredible feats, the Choking Dogs winning a game and one of the miserable failures acquired in a trade finally coming through.

Up until now, Adrian Gonzalez has been James Loney � and we know what that means: good glove, no hit and no sign of life.

Gonzalez goes 0 for 4 in the team's biggest game of the season as they lose to the Giants in Game 1 of this series, then opens Game 2 by grounding into a double play.

In doing so, he shows all the emotion of a mercenary paid to do a job, and oh well if it doesn't go well.

By the time he comes up in the ninth inning, he's 0 for 3 and hitting .228 for the Dogs. He's every bit the flat liner the folks in Boston said he was there, melting when called on to deliver in a key situation.

But here he is tripling to lead off the ninth inning in a 2-2 game, going on to score, the Dogs going on to win and the team 6-8 since the trade with Boston.

Later, he goes serious in the clubhouse and tells reporters, "You should be happy when [the players] agree" to talk to the media.

Too bad we can't ask for their autographs as well, or maybe pull their cars around to the front for them.

The guy gets a big hit, the Dogs collapsing under the weight of his nonperformance the last two weeks, and now he wants to take a bow.

I'm teasing him with the truth, of course, saying nothing a frustrated Dogs fan wouldn't tell him right now: What have you guys shown us to think you have any shot of winning a division title?

In short, I'm challenging him: "You have no shot," I say.

"We're getting there," Gonzalez says. "I don't know about winning the division; I just know we're getting in the playoffs one way or the other."

How? I want to know. Matt Kemp is hurting, the Dodgers aren't getting much from their ballyhooed lineup and pitching has been a problem.

He says he's not going to give anyone a story, and this is after a euphoric win and everyone slobbering over him. Gonzalez gets testy when it's suggested he's a baseball player and might know how the Dogs can turn it on.

"That's right, I'm a baseball player and not a question and answer," he says. "It's not in my contract [to talk to the media].

"Anything else?" he says, turning away. "Let everyone else ask questions."

But no one does, and this was his reputation in Boston, shutting down after games when the moment seemed to be too much.

He's played the game the same way since joining the Dogs.

His rep is that he could not take the pressure of big-time Boston baseball, fans souring on him quickly. But he comes here and fans once again are eager to embrace him.

But how do you root for a statue?

J.D. Drew comes to mind, and how did that go while he was in L.A.?

Has the belly-flop of the last two weeks been the adjustment that comes with a change, or did the people in Boston have Gonzalez pegged correctly?

He has the ability to be self-deprecating, saying after the game he told hitting coach Dave Hansen earlier, "I was going to get a hit before the season ended."

He claps when he triples, saying he is capable of showing emotion.

"In big situations in games I will," he says, and so much for the Show Time Dodgers. "That's as much as you are going to see out of me; that's like someone else jumping up and down for 30 seconds."

How about a sign he's as upset as fans when failing to deliver as a hitter?

"You guys don't go down in the tunnel after at-bats," he says. "Helmets are being slammed and chairs are being thrown around."

Is that an exaggeration or actually true?

"That's actually true," he says, and good to know because it would be hard to know otherwise.

He says he doesn't like to show emotion on the field because "it's showing a weakness to the other team."

But right now the Dogs need an emotional boot to the keister � so often we've seen a fired-up team playing better than it might if just going about its business.

Kemp is very good at pumping everyone up, but right now he's dealing with shoulder pain, MRI machines and the disappointment of not being able to play.

And yet he takes question after question about his injury, still very much the team leader, while a locker away Gonzalez wilts.

Manager Don Mattingly talks about these guys getting on a roll, but how do you gain momentum with a bunch of sleepwalkers? As gloomy as the Dogs' prospects seem to be right now for making the playoffs, it cannot be the grind as usual.

Gonzalez is the guy, supposedly the best player on the field when Kemp isn't playing. So where's the fire, or a hint that it's burning deep inside? We never did get it from Drew.

Gonzalez was the reason everyone in L.A. was so excited two weeks ago following the deal with Boston.

Maybe that's all there is and you should just be happy to have the chance to have him on your team.

I'D LIKE to think he had a good seat for Saturday's UCLA game.

Steve Claman, one of the Bruins' best all-time fans, cheering for years from the 45-yard line, passed away on Aug. 23.

His son, Doug, emailed to say, "Every UCLA football win, no matter how they achieve it, brings comfort to our family."

What a great reason to root Saturday for UCLA.

# ? Sep 9, 2012 18:00

morestuff: Aug 2, 2008; You can't stop what's coming

Heaf posted:

The editors and columnists like Spencer Hall get paid, yes. The blogs all started organically and were then acquired by SBNation where they get larger exposure. Since the blogs are written for free by fans, there's a wide disparity of quality. For example, the Virginia Tech one started out okay and then switched hands and got terrible. The Key Play, an independent site, does a much better job (even while including terrible macros).

The newsdesk writers and copy editors on the main site and the regional hubs are also paid (as freelancers). I'm not sure how the team sites are handled, but I wouldn't be surprised if the site editors get some small compensation.

# ? Sep 9, 2012 18:26

morestuff: Aug 2, 2008; You can't stop what's coming

http://www.theonion.com/articles/stephen-a-smith-thinking-son-is-finally-ready-for,29589/

# ? Sep 17, 2012 22:22

The broken bones: Jan 3, 2008; Out beyond winning and losing, there is a field.

I will meet you there.

no way. please tell me he's found out.

# ? Sep 17, 2012 22:23

Crazy Ted: Jul 29, 2003

morestuff posted:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/stephen-a-smith-thinking-son-is-finally-ready-for,29589/

I would pay good money to attend a Stephen A. Smith lecture on Sexual Education.

# ? Sep 17, 2012 22:23

morestuff: Aug 2, 2008; You can't stop what's coming

The broken bones posted:

no way. please tell me he's found out.

This couldn't have ended better:

# ? Sep 17, 2012 22:38

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# ? Apr 20, 2024 02:31

The broken bones: Jan 3, 2008; Out beyond winning and losing, there is a field.

I will meet you there.

namechange me to Peeps got jokes

# ? Sep 18, 2012 00:38

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