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The WSJ baffled me yesterday when, in addition to Damon, they included Omar Vizquel in their photo collage as a "Contender". I love Omar to death and I know he's north of 2800, but does anyone at all see him getting to 3000? he's 44, for god's sake.
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As if the sports part of the article wasn't bad enough,Edwin Starr didn't even loving play at Woodstock. He didn't record War until almost a year afterward. This is clearly the biggest problem with that piece.
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Jul 13, 2011 16:42
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John Steigerwald with another gem:quote:From the 2005-2006 through 2009-2010 seasons, Alexander Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals averaged 55 goals per season. He scored 65 in 2007-2008. In his first 24 games this season, he had eight. That puts him on pace for about 28 goals. 
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Dec 5, 2011 16:13
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As a part-time Southerner, holy Jesus is that offensive in so many ways. Atlanta blows, sure, but for absolutely none of the reasons that were outlined in that piece of toilet paper. I hate Northeastern sportswriters so much. Well, I hate all sportswriters, but especially New York and Boston ones.
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Jan 11, 2012 23:49
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To scale, the hierarchy is absolutely something like: Philadelphia Boston Cubs fans New York fans. Boston undoubtedly has the worst sportswriters and radio stations, however.
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Feb 7, 2012 07:47
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The problem with Cubs fans is that most of them have a persecution complex and proclaim their team to be historically unlucky. This is not the case- they have had all the opportunities in the world to succeed and historically bad management has squandered each and every one of them. But, like the blithering morons they are, most* Cubs fans do not recognize this and continue to go to games and wear their merch and scream about their awful luck. They take a sick pride in it, and to hear 20 year olds bitch and moan about how it's been ONE HUNDRED AND THREE YEARS MAAAAN is just pathetic. There are ten franchises that have had worse luck than the Cubs in an average fan's lifetime. The difference is that Cubs fans, like sheep, do not recognize the real problem and continue to reward a bad ownership group and bad management with historically increasing ticket and television revenue while ignoring the fact that the people being given the money have been causing the problem in the first place. *SAS Cubs fans rule and seem to agree with my assessment, this argument is not directed at them and should hold no truck with them. Pat Clements fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Feb 7, 2012 |
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Feb 7, 2012 21:37
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Murray Chass. The man you are looking for is Murray Chass, noted blogger. If you haven't read that page, you should. It is hilarious.
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Feb 14, 2012 04:30
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hcreight posted:I would pay money to see clips of Norm at his computer drinking a glass of scotch and wrecking horrible people on twitter. But my god did he decimate Reilly.
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Mar 12, 2012 03:43
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:EDSBS linked to this piece on former Memphis football player Dasmine Cathey today. It's well worth your time. Here's the thing: This isn't a Memphis-specific problem about it being "some kind of third world shithole" because the guy wasn't even from Frayser or Orange Mound or one of the shittiest areas of the city if he went to Ridgeway High, which isn't a great school but certainly isn't one of the ones where stabbings take place and none of the kids learn a drat thing. I have friends who went there, white and black, who were successful at that school and went on to attend legitimately awesome colleges like Dartmouth and NYU. Cathey obviously came from adverse circumstances but was not necessarily surrounded by the kind of culture that fosters a lack of academic achievement being acceptable unless you were an athlete. The article is interesting as a cultural indictment on high school and college athletics nationwide, with Memphis standing as a shining example as succumbing to the culture. It's astonishing that the University of Memphis in particular could let this go on when they had the most successful regular season in college basketball history ripped away from them for utterly moronic academics violations. Thanks for posting it. Pat Clements fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Jun 4, 2012 |
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Jun 4, 2012 23:28
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The Goog posted:The Dinger Machine is the gaudiest part of an rear end-ugly stadium that cost the residents of Miami an ungodly amount of money to build and will only serve to fill the pockets of Jeffrey Loria, who is one of the worst people on this earth. Between you and me, I like the stadium just fine. And Miami is Miami. It is governed by morons. It is unfortunate and Loria is a swindler who probably shouldn't be owning a baseball team, but that doesn't mean you have to take it out on the Dinger Machine 
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Jul 26, 2012 21:22
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:Yeah, what the hell is wrong with the Miami Herald that they weren't publishing a story every day about how that stadium is a huge money pit?
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Jul 27, 2012 01:11
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In a more positive ESPN story, if any of you have Netflix and missed out on the 30 for 30 series all of them went up on streaming last night. Watch them. All of them. Well, except for maybe the Red Sox one, which added nothing new to the narrative.
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Jul 27, 2012 13:12
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Capt Murphy posted:Well this is a great way to start my Friday and ensures I'll be doing a lot of nothing this weekend. The Two Escobars is must-watch for anyone, it's brilliant. Really all of them are good, but that one in particular is exceptional. Other great ones: Pony Excess, Who Killed the USFL, and Run Ricky Run
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Jul 27, 2012 14:13
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As much as I dislike them I am pretty sure the Yankees are an exception to teams honoring too many of their players. The only baseball players honored in Monument Park who aren't in the Hall of Fame are Ron Guidry, Don Mattingly, Allie Reynolds, Roger Maris, Thurman Munson, and Elston Howard. And Billy Martin, I guess. Many of those guys have really solid cases for being in the BBHOF as it is. There's nothing wrong there.
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Aug 3, 2012 18:33
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Keep in mind the median household income is about $45k give or take a couple thousand bucks. So if a lot of the guys still around have 20 years of seniority, then yeah, the picture nasboat paints of guys getting very little for their experience/education is accurate.
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Aug 13, 2012 20:22
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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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leokitty posted:Pinstripe Alley is terrible do not read it ever. After reading about five randomly selected pages I gently set it back in its space on the bookshelf and walked away.
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Sep 8, 2012 07:45
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Fear the Fin is a great Sharks blog, and South Side Sox is really good too. I have no qualm with SBNation.
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Sep 9, 2012 01:09
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Bless Jeff Pearlman for trying to write a comprehensive book about the 1986 Mets, but drat him for turning it into a fellatio session of his boyhood idols. Basically, I feel bad for him but admire his efforts. The YouTube video he stupidly posted of him appearing on a local news station while he was in college proclaiming that he had voluntarily chosen virginity says a lot about him.
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Sep 25, 2012 04:28
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The Tigers weren't "led" to the AL Central crown as much as "lucked into it because the Chicago White Sox went 6-12 against the Kansas City Royals and had an abysmally bad collapse".
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Oct 3, 2012 06:09
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Yeah, I'm gonna agree with most people here and say that as much as Deadspin does lovely stuff, they're no worse than ESPN in many ways and occasionally the site showcases some fantastic writing. Honestly, loath as I am to say it, Yahoo Sports might top either in consistency.
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Oct 3, 2012 17:56
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hcreight posted:He literally thinks this is how WAR works.  Although the point stands that Ortiz had a pretty good year. But that's not the statistical measure of why.
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Oct 14, 2012 20:21
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calcio posted:Can we just all agree that baseball fans seem to care more about sperging over numbers than enjoying the game. The whole everything can be explained with our beloved sabermetrics is just as terrible as Joe Morgan and his everything can be explained by watching.
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Oct 15, 2012 07:21
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Well scratch my back with a hacksaw, that sure is some wild poo poo.
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Jan 16, 2013 22:38
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Has anyone posted the most recent Rick Reilly piece, wherein he presumes to judge for Colin Kaepernick in the most asinine and presumptuous manner possible? Reilly's been on my shitlist for a long, long time, but this is a new pinnacle. Why should anyone, let alone a guy who claims to be a journalist, give a flying gently caress what Colin Kaepernick does with this aspect of his personal life? Pat Clements fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Feb 2, 2013 |
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Feb 2, 2013 23:30
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Crion posted:Reilly predicted the Super Bowl to end 35-34 in OT today, btw (ESPN backtracked it after the fact to be 35-34 in regulation).
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Feb 3, 2013 09:21
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I've been pretty impressed with Sports on Earth as a whole since its launch. It's weird that they're already losing Posnanski to NBC but the guy's been a nomad over the last two years.
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Feb 11, 2013 22:53
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morestuff posted:My perspective might be a little skewed because I don't care about anything but basketball, but it doesn't seem like the editors at Grantland care about anything but basketball.
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Feb 12, 2013 04:29
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He's a hell of a lot more of a man of the people than Rick Reilly, and for that I will always cut him some slack. Rick Reilly is the worst.
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davecrazy posted:Janet Guthrie just doesn't count I guess.  I had no idea she ran 33 races. I knew she placed 6th at Bristol once, but 33 races is some serious poo poo. She's in the Smithsonian, which is great, but you'd think NASCAR and the like would do more to recognize her legacy now 
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Feb 25, 2013 19:03
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What ESPN ought to be doing is hiring people who are legitimately entertaining and likable to helm Sportscenter, as their subsidiary north of the border seems to have done. Many of my Canadian friends watch TSN's Sportscentre for Jay Onrait and Dan O'Toole antics as much as they do for the news and highlights. The distinction here is that Onrait and O'Toole are light-hearted and enjoyable guys who don't take themselves or their roles too seriously - which may or may not be inherent to TSN's less dominant position over Canadian sports media versus ESPN's over the US' combined with the fact their timeslot is later at night.
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Mar 2, 2013 05:00
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The day ESPN cancelled Stump the Schwab was the day they sealed their fate, frankly.
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Mar 8, 2013 23:29
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INSPECTAH DECK posted:MLS is not a properly managed league itself. It's really loving hard to grow a soccer league in the United States of America. There are lots of problems but I've been very impressed with how things have been handled over the last eight years or so.
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haljordan posted:Yeah you have to appreciate the way he's persevered through raping some woman. What a guy. gently caress Leueke and gently caress the author of that post for not even mentioning his crime. Goddamn.
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No Safe Word posted:Thus marking the first time in the history of the internet that comments on internet content restored faith in humanity instead of doing quite the opposite.
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Toffile posted:http://www.theonion.com/video/college-basketball-star-heroically-overcomes-tragi,19097/
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FuzzySkinner posted:Not to interrupt the rape conversation, but is ESPN apparently going all out on hyping the Miami Heat winning streak? It keeps showing up on my twitter feed from Cavs fans bitching about it. That said, at this point in the streak it's pretty understandable.
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Mar 21, 2013 03:57
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If you want to talk about ESPN not talking about the Blackhawks' streak (or SI overplaying it to a ludicrous proportion) then we're cookin' with gas.
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:I have to think this. I mean, not in a, "Haha, this is so ridiculous that it has to be a joke," way, it has to be a joke. If it's not, Jesus. I'd almost respect him more if he was alcoholic. Buzz is weird in that he can write pretty well at times but often deploys his resources in doing so...questionably. Yeah. Let's be generous and go with that.
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GQ's articles editor tweeted earlier this afternoon:@Devingo913 posted:Blanket tweet, since this is coming up a lot: No, this story is not an early April Fools joke. So, uh, combined with Buzz's own usual sense of self-importance and the fact he pierced his nipples and all kinds of stuff I'm going with no.
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