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Zeeman posted:Joe Posnanski eviscerates Murray Chass: lmao, Joe Poz is so much fun
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R.D. Mangles posted:I got a subscription to SI as a gift, but I can't really stand the magazine since their editors ignore or possibly even encourage awful tortured over-written crap in all of their features in an attempt to gussy them up. Here's one cringe-inducing example from the recent article on Roddy White by Ben Reiter: There was a demon that lived on the field. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their control would freeze up. Their delivery would buffet wildly, and it would disintegrate. The demon lived at #1 on the all-time list, seven hundred and sixty-two career home runs, where the ball could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a zone through which they said no strike could ever pass. They called him Barry Bonds.
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Primo Poster!!!! posted:Those portentous and tortured introductions always get about 100x better if you imagine them being said in Ridley's voice from the intro to "The Right Stuff." Then they built a small man, a DA, who said he could break Barry Bonds. And sportswriters came to the high-desert of California to write it. They were called assholes. And no one remembered their names.
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A drat FOG posted:Enlighten me, what characteristic of being a woman could make it harder to write a sports column? Is it the clit?
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:varitek is actually the cause of this
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Johnny Damon used to come to bat to Folk Implosion's "Nothing's Gonna Stop the Flow" after his palpable male charisma made Jackie MacMullen get uncontrollable "pussy stigmata."
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Mornacale posted:I don't know, I pretty much agree that voting Republican is the moral equivalent of setting someone on fire.
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Copernic posted:Jay!
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The problem is it's a slippery slope from one to the other.
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Fisticuffs posted:Off-topic but I really need to know what the quote in your avatar is from
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stuart scott irl posted:this made me sad Bigass Moth posted:So I guess we can add "attitude" and "stuff" to a checklist of what makes a good baseball player along with grit, heart, and intangibles?
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Crazy Ted posted:Scott Raab, a writer for Esquire, tries to pen a new nickname for Dirk Nowitzki.
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:I really enjoyed this piece myself, and I suspect that when Jones starts writing about baseball instead of about himself writing about baseball... Although he and Simmons are both so thin-skinned that seeing him find a home on Simmons' site is like wrapping a quail egg in tissue paper. Holy Diverticulitis fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Jun 9, 2011 |
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Nerokerubina posted:The most feared pitch-caller of his generation.
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haljordan posted:Truth. I enjoy seeing on-screen graphics about the 5 players with the most home runs during a night game, following a day game played on the East Coast in which more than 1500 hot dogs were sold at the concessions stand.
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The ball disappeared into the white clouds of the outfield lower reserve, where the ball landed. Before then, it soared against the nimbus of some really expensive seats, which were higher than the other seats — 20,000 feet higher. This moment's grace manifested itself as if skywritten by the hand of God in puffs of white: "Baseball," against the backing firmament of "ARMITRON."
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zakharov posted:I don't know who told Ian O'Connor he was the next Roger Angell, but I want to punch them.
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BackInTheUSSR posted:Three, god dammit Deadspin stop loving caring so much, you petty bitches. Besides, it's not like Grantland didn't set the tone for this and establish the standard of the discussion. It was pitched with a lot of aspirational rhetoric about being a haven for high-quality longform journalism, promoting and mainstreaming the most lauded form of sports journalism for the online world. Simmons took off his Daniel LaRusso helmet and said, "I'm Bill Simmons, and I'm here to rescue you! I'm here with Malcolm Gladwell!" Okay, but if you're going to bill yourself as a repository for that kind of high-quality product, people are going to take you at your word and hold you to it. At worst, Scocca's accepted their standards and said, "You are not meeting them," by pointing out that they had a shameful first week of basic errors that went unacknowledged and were "disappeared" without citation, and now they've moved on to meeting their journalistic bona fides by hiring a guy who repeatedly committed the most fundamental sin in journalism. If Grantland had been billed as a vanity project for a waterheaded cultural critic with a luddite homer streak, featuring an all-star cast of navel-gazing narcissists, a corporate boardroom junk-science pimp and some forgettable TV-talk Tumblr bimbo, nobody would have given a poo poo. But they made their bed, and now other journalists — many more than just the Deadspin staff — are now making sure they lie in it. Or maybe they're all just  ing real hard because the "u mad? idiot fucker bitch" button is glowing on their PCs.
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Mornacale posted:The fact is that Deadspin can do no right as long as Daulerio is running the show, because anything they write is tainted with his long history of being an unethical hack (and a smug rear end in a top hat about it to boot). Pigeonholing Deadspin as solely a sports journalism site is silly for the reasons you stated, but thinking of it as basically a rumor-mongering dick factory is equally mistaken. In the last year, they published leaked financial reports from an NBA team and a handful of MLB teams, showing how ownership buries profits, cooks the books for tax breaks and manipulates the discussion with fans and with cities — to say nothing of other MLB teams, in terms of revenue sharing — to falsely claim greater financial burdens than actually exist. Those were really sharp pieces of work that contributed enormously to the ownership/fan dialogue. Both were written during Daulerio's stewardship.
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Mornacale posted:I meant that Deadspin is going to get a bunch of criticism no matter what it does, because of the rep that Daulerio has built it.
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CLAMBO! posted:I don't know if this counts as journalism but I really enjoyed this article. It's the David Foster Wallace NYT bit on Federer. I only link it because it keeps popping into my head as I've been reading Grantland, then unfairly compare those guys to DFW and they fall so far short.
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The broken bones posted:who needs meticulous note taking when you can just ramble for 3000 words [writes 5,000-word article about an American All-Stars vs. Boston Red Sox best-of-seven series of "RBI Baseball" from a stoner's living room in Milpitas in 1990.] ________________________________________________________________ * - By "greatest," of course I mean† that, [250 more words]. † - What is "meaning," anyway?
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barkingclam posted:[0:01-0:33] What, you mean you don't like it when Klosterman writes 2000 words about an instrumental 70s rock track and tries to straddle a line between being snarky and insightful?
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Heaf posted:They did that thing about BYU's honor code last year and that was decent enough. Not really anything exceptional, anymore.
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MorningView posted:Dalerio basically made his career by looking over Stu Scott's shoulder while he sent a text (or more likely making a story about doing that up) "I detect Deadspin, therefore bad!" Holy Diverticulitis fucked around with this message at 13:48 on Aug 27, 2011 |
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MorningView posted:His Super Bowl coverage was the first thing he did on Deadspin that got him a lot of attention, and the Stu Scott text was the most famous thing to come out of that. quote:I don't know why you are so desperate to defend a guy who thinks pictures of athletes' penises or who random ESPN employees are loving are worthy news stories. I'm sure Deadspin has some good pieces here and there, but it's largely a lovely tabloid. Holy Diverticulitis fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Aug 27, 2011 |
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MorningView posted:Right but I wasn't arguing that it was the only thing he's ever done, I was saying that it was the thing that initially brought him to the attention of a wide audience. And it was mostly for the sake of a joke, although I do think that particular story set the tone for a fairly large percentage of the work he's done since.
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I know this has probably been posted in a bunch of NCAA threads, but when something this thorough and well-written appears, it should probably get posted in this thread, too, just so nobody can miss it: The Shame of College Sports Edit: I'm still reading it, and it just gets more damning, more complete, more muckrakingly wonderful. College sports were already structurally indefensible, but this condemns the entire edifice from the foundation upward. Holy Diverticulitis fucked around with this message at 10:42 on Sep 15, 2011 |
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Akileese posted:Wait is it a real magazine, like people actually spent actual working hours making this?
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Crion posted:I don't really know if this counts as sports journalism because I don't give anyone a blowjob for playing the right way, but: 
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Mornacale posted:Please, for the love of god, tell me that woman is not a professional writer. I don't want to believe that someone who gets paid to write words unironically and repeatedly uses "epic fail".
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Mornacale posted:I'm saying that this piece reads to me exactly as if it were a blog written by a downtrodden Boston fan or terrible member of the national media. Given Schur's stellar record, I found it disappointing.
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nasboat posted:I don't really see what makes this so fantastic a piece. A majority of it is him just giving smarmy responses to a Bill Simmons column. Anyone can 'MST3K' another person's writing -- doesn't make it good or worthwhile.  While some of the responses are certainly smarmy, and while smarm doesn't equal quality, that detracts from the fact that the rest of the piece illustrates good and worthwhile points about Simmons' argumentative inconsistency (incompetent ownership who somehow simultaneously provide a superior intellectual strategic example), his want of perspective in terms of the league's attempts at expanding the product (see: targeting overseas markets, expanding digital availability) and his contradictory claims for necessary action going forward (the NBA needs to expand, but his plan relies on contraction and consolidation). The author has another good point in that this is another case of Simmons' insinuating the value of considering outside perspectives, which is of a piece with his habit of claiming that he can solve franchises' problems, should be considered for a GM position—but, "Hahaha, I was just kidding about that." It's a passive but repeated form of self-promotion. quote:Not to say I agree with Simmons or anything (seems pretty well-known that he means well but is off-base with many of his ideas, especially regarding the lockout), but the fervor with which other lesser-known writers trip over each other to get out there and attack his stuff is hilarious. Anyway, if you want to read a non-smarmy reply to Simmons, there's a good one here. (Hat tip to Vbabby, who rules.)
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nasboat posted:Just gonna leave this here. People getting picky about the use of the word "we" in sports is a gigantic pet peeve of mine (yes, my pet peeve is people who complain about it, not people who do it), and the fact that a good writer wasted time and effort to put this piece together makes it even worse. This whole Slate piece from Scocca is riddled with links to this dude flying off the handle about everything, but this message board post against a "nobody" just ends it: Chris Jones posted:You're very brave, daemon, a regular folk hero. Your crusade against my blog should earn you medals, totems erected in your honor. You jumped into the fray like a regular trenchman, your bayonet flashing, your blood pumping.
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stuart scott irl posted:I know Deadspin is eternally the penis website around here for some reason but Craggs wrote a loving awesome thing about Tebow http://deadspin.com/5856237/ Anyway, just thought I'd share this from obese shitsack Scott Raab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKXQaXwF3cQ
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dokomoy posted:One of this mornings sportscenters aired a piece by Buster Olney on the front office situation of the Red Sox. In the piece he quoted an unnamed team executive comparing the Sox front office situation to the battle for Gaza.
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This is bullshit: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=15644 I don't know who these guys are, but I will NOT be reading Baseball Prospectus again anytime soon if this is the kind of riffraff that they allow to sully their webpages. User should lose posting privileges for ALL the hours.
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Deadspin should publish both names. There is a direct equivalency between someone from the internet sharing the name of someone they saw on television and someone who made a huge sign about the people in her personal life with the intention of sharing it with 70,000 people and catching the eyes of broadcast television cameras beamed nationally to over 10 million others. Deadspin's gender politics are nauseating. If this girl has told us anything, it's that her personal life is nobody's business.
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Transfatuation posted:Making a humorous sign is not remotely an invitation to be harassed online/offline/anywhere, and if you can think of a single legitimate reason to provide her identity beyond that, I will paypal you 14 dollars and 88 cents.
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