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A drat FOG posted:Glenn Beck is insane and deluded but I don't recall him ever blaming the victim of a horrific violent crime for what happened to them (though to be fair it's not like I watch him regularly) I'm not completely sure you're correct.
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That's one of my favorite Onion things ever
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 20:53 |
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Toona the Cat posted:directly attributed to the obscene number (70%) of black kids being born out of wedlock Are you guys quoting the same article or does he reference this in like everything he writes?
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 20:58 |
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Tender Bender posted:Are you guys quoting the same article or does he reference this in like everything he writes? The latter. He never once referenced an article. I'm interested in goons' opinions on the piece about BYU that Deadspin just released but we can't stop this Stiegerwald train
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 21:02 |
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New thread title rules. e: So, the BYU Honor Code isn't enforced equally, and is inequitable toward non-Mormon black athletes? How incredibly shocking! And the school and its representatives don't fully advise new recruits of the code, nor the consequences of breaking it? Dr_Strangelove fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Apr 13, 2011 |
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:I'm interested in goons' opinions on the piece about BYU that Deadspin just released but we can't stop this Stiegerwald train I think the reporting is good, but I had some issues with the tone, particularly the section discussing the church's history with minorities. There's nothing wrong with having a perspective, but I always think that in a story like this you undercut yourself when you drift into making black-and-white declarations like they do.
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 21:48 |
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BYU is terrible, discussion over.
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 22:06 |
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Mornacale posted:BYU is terrible, discussion over. Try being from the same area as Jimmer Fredette. I hope he gets hit by a meteor in the off-season. If he makes it as an NBA player I will probably have to kill myself to escape the news coverage.
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 22:22 |
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haljordan posted:Try being from the same area as Jimmer Fredette. I hope he gets hit by a meteor in the off-season. If he makes it as an NBA player I will probably have to kill myself to escape the news coverage. Fredette about it
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 22:47 |
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I haven't seen Gendo's avatar in a while, kinda want to switch it with a screengrab of Steigerwald spinning a basketball.
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# ? Apr 14, 2011 00:03 |
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Want to see what passed for Sports-Illustrated-Level writing in 1957? SURE YOU DO! quote:Fame Is For Winners
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# ? Apr 16, 2011 02:20 |
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Crazy Ted posted:Want to see what passed for Sports-Illustrated-Level writing in 1957? Sportswriting. Sportwriting never changes.
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# ? Apr 16, 2011 02:24 |
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quote:This has happened—but not as often as the fan thinks. As a matter of fact, if a superior player continues to play superior ball and does not let-discouragement or ennui set in, the chances are good that the franchise as a whole will begin to pick itself up and edge toward the pennant. Then, the addition of only one or two catalytic ballplayers, and suddenly there's a pennant. holy poo poo
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Deathlove posted:I haven't seen Gendo's avatar in a while, kinda want to switch it with a screengrab of Steigerwald spinning a basketball. I volunteer.
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# ? Apr 16, 2011 03:23 |
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Crazy Ted posted:Want to see what passed for Sports-Illustrated-Level writing in 1957? That might be this guy. If it is, the guy who wrote that won the pulitzer prize for commentary (much later). I hope it's not the same guy. It probably is. Grittybeard fucked around with this message at 03:39 on Apr 16, 2011 |
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BackInTheUSSR posted:holy poo poo
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# ? Apr 16, 2011 04:00 |
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Grittybeard posted:That might be this guy. If it is, the guy who wrote that won the pulitzer prize for commentary (much later). He got what he deserved. He's dead now.
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# ? Apr 16, 2011 04:48 |
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It's almost as if he's saying that Babe Ruth won more titles because he played with better supporting talent than Ty Cobb. That would be a logical opinion though.
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# ? Apr 16, 2011 04:49 |
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Bigass Moth posted:It's almost as if he's saying that Babe Ruth won more titles because he played with better supporting talent than Ty Cobb. That would be a logical opinion though. ummmm hello if a superior player continues to play superior ball and does not let-discouragement or ennui set in, the chances are good that the franchise as a whole will begin to pick itself up and edge toward the pennant.
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# ? Apr 16, 2011 04:52 |
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quote:But who can forget the spectacle of Ted Williams tossing his bat in the air in disgust last year because he was given a base on balls which merely won a game for the Red Sox but did nothing for Ted Williams? Did this actually happen, or is this one of those sportswriter things that is nothing at all like what actually happened?
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# ? Apr 16, 2011 07:36 |
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OrangeKing posted:Did this actually happen, or is this one of those sportswriter things that is nothing at all like what actually happened? Sportswriters hated the man. More in depth he never ever turned down a walk (.482 lifetime OBP which looks like a misprint every time I look it up). On the other hand he really really liked to hit baseballs, so I could theoretically see him being slightly pissed he didn't get to swing the bat. In either case the writer's a jackass.
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# ? Apr 16, 2011 07:47 |
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quote:That [Ty Cobb's stats] didn't [lead to championships] argues that Cobb's admitted individual brilliance had a deleterious effect on the success of the team as a whole... I know that whole article could be bold, but this particularly struck me. The author is straight-up saying that Ty Cobb was TOO GOOD and thus actually made his team worse. I love that even if someone argued "Babe Ruth was carrying the Yankees alone, the rest weren't that great," the article is still completely worthless. If both Cobb and Ruth were by far the best players on mediocre teams, then Cobb's skill of getting a fuckton of hits is still probably less likely to carry a team than someone whose ability is to hit dingers like crazy. And then it also falls apart when we consider the fact that it's all a complete wild goose chase because we have these "stat" things and they seem pretty conclusive in saying that Babe Ruth was just straight up better than Ty Cobb, so obviously ceteris paribus his teams would win more. e: ^^^ Don't forget the Babe's lifetime .474 OBP. Babe Ruth had a lifetime .510 wOBA, 197 wRC+ Babe Ruth's average season was twice as good as a league-average hitter. Mornacale fucked around with this message at 07:57 on Apr 16, 2011 |
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Ty Cobb's grit factor was off the charts. He played baseball the right way, going hard into second spikes first at every opportunity, hustling into the stands to pound on a cripple, refusing the pretentious of success by abandoning his roots and/or hatred of blacks. Seriously though, Cobb owned at baseball.
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# ? Apr 16, 2011 13:00 |
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http://www.hockeyinsideout.com/boone/about-last-night-13 I'm not even going to post quotes from it because you really need to experience it for yourself.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:http://www.hockeyinsideout.com/boone/about-last-night-13 god, I love this, my favorite Bad Sports Article Type is when someone starts with a shaky metaphor and keeps going and going and going with it
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I read the entire thing, but I won't pretend I understood a single word of it. Someone seriously got paid for that? Badfinger fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Apr 17, 2011 |
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I skimmed it and was like "yeah, that's real bad" but when I actually went back and read every single line I just started laughing uncontrollably.quote:And your Montreal Canadiens certainly weren’t the Bruins’ enslaved, pyramid-building bitches. quote:Tell me that wasn’t a just-but-vengeful G-d pounding some serious karma up Boston’s butt.
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A drat FOG posted:I skimmed it and was like "yeah, that's real bad" but when I actually went back and read every single line I just started laughing uncontrollably. That was basically what happened with me. Glanced at it, thought "oh boone you loving moron" and moved on, but on the revisit it's hilarious.
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Badfinger posted:I read the entire thing, but I won't pretend I understood a single word of it. Yes, Hockey Inside/Out is the Canadiens-focused website for the largest English language newspaper in Montreal. Background: Chara tried to murder a guy on the Canadiens or something and then didn't even get a suspension!!! and the guy he tried to murder is still injured, and then the Bruins played like rear end in the playoffs and Chara got the pooping flu or something like that and now lots of dumb poo poo Montreal fans are talking about KARMA and Divine Retribution.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Yes, Hockey Inside/Out is the Canadiens-focused website for the largest English language newspaper in Montreal. That's the damning thing, I do actually know what the article is about. It's just completely unintelligible.
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http://www.npr.org/2011/04/17/135471975/robot-journalist-out-writes-human-sports-reporter?sc=fb&cc=fp A robot wrote a better story about a perfect game than a live person. sports journalism
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IS IT THE SHOES posted:http://www.npr.org/2011/04/17/135471975/robot-journalist-out-writes-human-sports-reporter?sc=fb&cc=fp That's not sports journalism at all. The GW piece was written by a sports information director who wanted to cover up what happened. He should also be out of a job by now.
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:That's not sports journalism at all. The GW piece was written by a sports information director who wanted to cover up what happened. Can you elaborate on why he wanted to cover it up? I'm not familiar with the situation.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:http://www.hockeyinsideout.com/boone/about-last-night-13 I thought this was some dumb blog thing before realizing that it was written for the Gazette by a guy who's been there for 30 years. I dunno how awful it really is - it's banal, but it's far from the worst thing I've seen in this thread.
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IS IT THE SHOES posted:Can you elaborate on why he wanted to cover it up? I'm not familiar with the situation. The team he follows had a perfect game thrown on them. It's natural to polish a turd, but this is the extreme extent of that.
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barkingclam posted:I thought this was some dumb blog thing before realizing that it was written for the Gazette by a guy who's been there for 30 years. I dunno how awful it really is - it's banal, but it's far from the worst thing I've seen in this thread. did you read the same article as me or do you just not know what banal means
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Biblical angle aside, I thought it was just another a boring, unoriginal sports column. As a whole, it wasn't so blatantly awful I burst out laughing or anything. But yeah, I reread it and the bibical stuff really is too much.
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# ? Apr 18, 2011 03:23 |
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it's almost like i posted it in here because of the biblical stuff almost
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barkingclam posted:I thought this was some dumb blog thing before realizing that it was written for the Gazette by a guy who's been there for 30 years. I dunno how awful it really is - it's banal, but it's far from the worst thing I've seen in this thread. Dude quote:Tell me that wasn’t a just-but-vengeful G-d pounding some serious karma up Boston’s butt. Biblical and anal rape reference in the same sentance. About a hockey game.
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toadee posted:Dude And blasphemy! Karma and G-d are different religions!
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