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ego symphonic posted:It's going to be extremely difficult for them to compete against the Post in the DC market. that's what i thought, unlike most other newspapers they have money plus i heard they might already be planning their defense http://awfulannouncing.com/athletic...-d-c-punch.html
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Vertical Lime posted:i think they want to get all of the big teams up first, though i did see some demand for buffalo's pro women's hockey team I figure as much. I would happily pay some money for some higher quality University of Arizona coverage, but they're also probably super far down on the totem pole.
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Henchman of Santa posted:People only hate HamNo for reminding us that we live in Hell *Except for his columns on American cities. He literally cannot figure out why American cities do not look exactly like European cities even though Los Angeles were about 1/25th of the size they are now until 10-15 years after the car was invented. He'll get real close to figuring it out 3-4 times when he writes about urban areas but he never quite gets there.
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Crazy Ted posted:he's a white dude who went to a HBCU because he liked rap music. I keep forgetting this and it is always the most joyous feeling when I'm reminded of it
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Jul 18, 2018 14:49
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That's rad though
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White dudes who go to HBCUs clean up btw
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Crazy Ted posted:It's perfectly okay to think that Hamilton Nolan columns really aren't that bad* while also thinking it's hilarious that he's a white dude who went to a HBCU because he liked rap music. Are we really using the plural to refer to individual cities now?
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General Dog posted:Are we really using the plural to refer to individual cities now? Did you not watch the world cup? I don't know if they do this, but it seems like a thing soccer announcers would do.
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Grittybeard posted:Did you not watch the world cup? I know they refer to the teams that way, which drives me nuts when I see it creeping into American sports. A team is a discrete entity. A city is a discrete entity. Is this some sort of subtle backlash against the concept of coporate personhood or what? I hate it!!!
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you wouldn't do that to a city name unless it's a club name (like Milan or Newcastle) or are using a country name to refer to a national team (like they would do in the world cup) "Los Angeles were" is wrong because it's referring to the city itself, though it might be correct if you're using "Los Angeles" to refer to the populace of LA it's just a british/us grammar thing about collective nouns, same reason why they'd say "parliament are considering" while we'd say "congress is considering" ty everyone Feels Villeneuve fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Jul 18, 2018 |
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Jul 18, 2018 17:59
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Look, if it wasn't supposed to be plural it would be called El Angel
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Jul 18, 2018 18:57
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Co-opting British/European grammar for soccer is the worst, and extra special gently caress off to Americans who say "darby" or "treble"
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ElwoodCuse posted:Co-opting British/European grammar for soccer is the worst, and extra special gently caress off to Americans who say "darby" or "treble" I loving hate the cargo-cult mentality of so much of US soccer fandom, especially MLS. Real Salt Lake Sporting KC Even NYCFC and LAFC are dumb, the league has soccer in the loving name.
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Jul 18, 2018 20:25
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I mean he may just have made a typo
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Jul 18, 2018 20:33
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Guys Guys I made a typo
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Inspector_666 posted:Sporting KC I mean, they were once called "The Wiz" so I'm not sure if we should blame bad names on anything other than ownership.
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Grittybeard posted:I mean, they were once called "The Wiz" so I'm not sure if we should blame bad names on anything other than ownership. But Nobody Beats The Wiz!
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Inspector_666 posted:I loving hate the cargo-cult mentality of so much of US soccer fandom, especially MLS. Detroit City FC
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AsInHowe posted:Detroit City FC DC United should have gone with Athletic Club DC.
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AsInHowe posted:Detroit Rock City FC ftfy
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We actually did at one point have a soccer team called the Detroit Rockers, so this would split the difference.
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I don't know if Hofstra has a soccer team, but it better be called Pride FC 
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I don’t mind MLS conforming more to international leagues since everything they’ve ever done to make MLS more “American” or whatever has been absolutely terrible and is eventually undone anyways. It’s the fans pronouncing poo poo like darby that drives me nuts. They’re also jerseys/uniforms, not kits. And don’t say “pitch”.
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Henchman of Santa posted:We actually did at one point have a soccer team called the Detroit Rockers, so this would split the difference. Did the Rockers become the neon/safari or was metro Detroit blessed with two indoor soccer teams in mid 90s? Also I just realized that the vipers also probably got their name as a dodge tie in as well. All with better names then Detroit city fc. At least dcfc goes by le rouge which I think is a pretty good nickname.
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Fauxhawk Express posted:I don't know if Hofstra has a soccer team, but it better be called Pride FC bring back the flying dutchmen
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Henchman of Santa posted:Look, if it wasn't supposed to be plural it would be called El Angel Technically Los Angeles was founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula and now I'm waiting for a soccer team out there to be called "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula FC"
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https://twitter.com/richarddeitsch/status/1019712208308133889 he was too good to stay at yahoo
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Peanut President posted:Technically Los Angeles was founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula and now I'm waiting for a soccer team out there to be called "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula FC"
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Inspector_666 posted:I loving hate the cargo-cult mentality of so much of US soccer fandom, especially MLS. New York Red Bulls
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The MLS ripoff names aren’t necessarily bad, the worst part is that they didn’t get the city/name combos right. Like Real KC or LA would have at least had thematic tie-ins to the Royals and Kings. Or if one of the NY teams took the name and based everything except their logo around the English meaning it would become the funniest team name.
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tronc is laying off half of the New York Daily News editorial staff. Don’t know if that includes sports.
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Henchman of Santa posted:tronc is laying off half of the New York Daily News editorial staff. Don’t know if that includes sports. Fascinating how a company built entirely around journalism is going out of its way to destroy journalism. It's like McDonald's selling the McZika. Just go ahead and kill off all your customers, why not?
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yankeehomo posted:Fascinating how a company built entirely around journalism is going out of its way to destroy journalism. It's like McDonald's selling the McZika. Just go ahead and kill off all your customers, why not? Tronc is built on cutting costs and extracting the most profit possible, they don't give a gently caress about journalism.
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Inspector_666 posted:Tronc is built on cutting costs and extracting the most profit possible, they don't give a gently caress about journalism. 100% this
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Frank Isola seems to be one of the people who were cut from the NY Daily News
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FlamingLiberal posted:Frank Isola seems to be one of the people who were cut from the NY Daily News The sports department went from 35 to 9 in America's largest city
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They fired the entire social media and photography staffs.
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Inspector_666 posted:They fired the entire social media and photography staffs. for a paper that prides themselves so much in taking great pictures that they named their sister TV station "WPIX" that stings horribly
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Seems like a poor idea but what do I know? Unlike executives I actually work in a loving newspaper office. Doubly stupid to lay off photographers for a tabloid. Happened to the Sun-Times a few years ago and they had no one to shoot the Cubs winning the World Series.
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exploded mummy posted:for a paper that prides themselves so much in taking great pictures that they named their sister TV station "WPIX" that stings horribly The paper's logo is literally a camera.
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