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stuart scott irl posted:This really needs to not be a perfect circle, like the book cover. I think that's its most charming feature.
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# ? May 21, 2024 14:29 |
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Destroy the entire human race if that's what it takes to get this dude to stop getting paid to write about sports.
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 00:01 |
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Badfinger posted:There is a book. :stiegsmith:
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 00:06 |
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Holy poo poo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDWAOkTK5l4 e: I should probably make this clear that it's a video of Johnny Steigs for an early 80s ACTION SPORTS local news show. Groucho Marxist fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Apr 13, 2011 |
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Badfinger posted:There is a book. John Steigerwald posted:"Just Watch the Game" is not your typical Pittsburgh Sports book. No punches are pulled here. I honor the good guys and great performances that I covered and I trash the bad guys. I also remember the good-old days when watching and playing sports were about the games. Before "snack moms" and everybody getting a trophy.
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 00:26 |
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Vogon Poet posted:
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 00:30 |
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My god. Not only is he the worst journalist, he's also a terrible loving human being. Goddamn.
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 00:42 |
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SporkOfTruth posted:
I wanted to point out your avatar has a disquieting similarity to said journalist.
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 00:49 |
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I'm late to the party - how I didn't immediately think of coming here after seeing this article this afternoon is beyond me. Holy poo poo, how do you write that article and not immediately realize you're making the "she was asking for it" argument? Not to mention the 20,000 other articles he's written, of course.
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 01:01 |
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euphronius posted:I wanted to point out your avatar has a disquieting similarity to said journalist. Don't you dare talk about Michael Jack Schmidt that way. <>
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 01:14 |
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I hated him before it was cool. Seriously..this jackass has been fired from more jobs than Mike Keenan. It's why he's writing for some bumblefuck nowhere newspaper, and not working for a major media outlet.
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 01:28 |
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I saw that there were 90 some posts since I checked this thread yesterday and thought "whatever it is, I'm betting it's not worth 90 posts..." Look how wrong I was.
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 02:47 |
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Haha maybe it was posted in that word salad but Steigerwald had a nice meltdown on his website when he got kicked off a local sports talk TV program for making racist comments about the guy Pitt briefly hired as football coach for having a baby out of wedlock. And here's a great bit where he digs his own grave defending himself, saying "the fact that he's a black makes it (the issue of his child) even more important because 70% of people in the black community have a child out of wedlock" http://tinyurl.com/3enegjp (goes straight to mp3 podcast of interview)
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 04:48 |
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this crazy dude posted:How Bill Cowher ruined Kordell Stewart I thought this guy of all people would be all over the "Kordell=gay" thing. Or maybe Cowher just didn't talk him out of being gay is his angle?
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 04:56 |
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Grittybeard posted:I thought this guy of all people would be all over the "Kordell=gay" thing. You kidding? Just look at that 'stache. You know this guy is on the down low.
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 06:15 |
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quote:Why voting "NO" on Pittsburgh's new stadiums was the right thing to do
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 07:15 |
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He has a point about getting the Consol Center Built. The super-corrupt mayor of Pittsburgh tried steering the contracting bids to a casino operator who was friendly with the even more corrupt state gaming board, and was almost bankrupt. Mario worked out a deal with another casino company to have them build the arena using zero public funds. This led to Mario using Kansas City as a smokescreen to get a deal done. As far as the vote no, it was a city referendum that would have put a half-cent tax on the hospitality industry, which really would have been a better option than the funding that the city ended up with. He's just being obtuse about that.
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Toona the Cat posted:He has a point about getting the Consol Center Built. The super-corrupt mayor of Pittsburgh tried steering the contracting bids to a casino operator who was friendly with the even more corrupt state gaming board, and was almost bankrupt. Mario worked out a deal with another casino company to have them build the arena using zero public funds. This led to Mario using Kansas City as a smokescreen to get a deal done. What I'm saying is that crowing about voting no for public stadium financing and then immediately turning around and crowing about helping move forward with a publicly-financed arena is pretty loving stupid.
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 09:25 |
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Well, you see, the Pirates are bad and he hates them but the Penguins are good so they deserve a new arena. Sportz journalism.
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 12:43 |
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Mornacale posted:What I'm saying is that crowing about voting no for public stadium financing and then immediately turning around and crowing about helping move forward with a publicly-financed arena is pretty loving stupid. I see what you're saying now. Indeed it is.
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 14:02 |
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He responds with the clever headline - http://justwatchthegame.com/blog/thanks-for-not-taking-it-personallyquote:OK. It appears that my recent column in three local newspapers has gone viral and I could be on my way to becoming this week’s Most Hated Man in America. In the comments, he says quote:JohnSteigerwald He didn't have it coming, but if he didn't wear a Giants jersey, he doesn't take a beating. Toona the Cat fucked around with this message at 14:53 on Apr 13, 2011 |
# ? Apr 13, 2011 14:24 |
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Guns don't kill people, people kill people. Baseball jerseys, on the other hand, are malevolent forces of evil, bending humans to their will. e: Wow, I had to mouse over the link to get the full glory of that headline: Thanks For Not Taking it Personally.
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 14:32 |
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a stupid shitmagician posted:Especially in the cheaper seats, where I believed Stow had been sitting. Also if he wasn't in the cheap seats where the loving unwashed low class poors sit he wouldn't have been beaten! Oh wait, he wasn't in the poor section? What a goddamned tragedy! This guy is clueless and a terrible human being.
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 14:50 |
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Jesus, between that post and some of the comments on it you'd think the guy got called some obscene names or at worst had a beer poured on him. Not, you know, beaten within an inch of his life.
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 14:54 |
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Hey everyone, you weren't supposed to READ what I wrote. Certainly not read it and then draw conclusions based on what you read. What were you thinking? What's that? If there are issues with understanding, it's the prerogative of the person presenting the information to clarify? That doesn't sound right to me, you're just the ones who are morons.
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 14:55 |
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Well, you know, the guys who did the beating were probably negroids driven into a frenzied bloodlust at the sight of a blonde white woman, or possibly illegal immigrants angry that this gringo was on their turf repping the colors of their mortal enemy. What I'm REALLY saying here is, if you'd stop letting these welfare recipients spend my hard-earned tax dollars that Nobama insists on giving to lazy shiftless browns on baseball games and crowbars, we wouldn't have this problem! Am I right? Huh? Think about it. please write something like this in your next column Steigerwald
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 14:55 |
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I've never had a "favorite" sportswriter. Until now
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 15:04 |
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Steigerwald owns.
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 15:08 |
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stuart scott irl posted:
Hahah look at this quote:JohnSteigerwald Goldmine.
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 15:08 |
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look guys, all i'm saying is that if a man wanted to watch two teams hit baseballs with bats, he shouldn't have worn a shirt that represented one team. he deserved to be beaten into a coma for that. ~The Steig~
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 15:10 |
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euphronius posted:Hahah look at this DOSCOURSE open C:\\compassion ERROR: FILE NOT FOUND
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 15:24 |
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For a guy that apparently considers himself a sportswriter and a sports fan he sounds like the people that come into the odd GBS sports thread and talk about how sports are stupid and sports fans are children and why do you get paid millions of dollars to throw a ball around but I only make $38,000 a year working 60 hours a week an IT Help Desk.
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 15:42 |
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Seriously, when you have to go back and explain your point, you really didn't get the job done the first time.ElwoodCuse posted:For a guy that apparently considers himself a sportswriter and a sports fan he sounds like the people that come into the odd GBS sports thread and talk about how sports are stupid and sports fans are children and why do you get paid millions of dollars to throw a ball around but I only make $38,000 a year working 60 hours a week an IT Help Desk. And he writes about as well as the GBS crowd, too! Do you think...
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 16:18 |
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I thought with his blog title of "Just watch the game" there would be tons of ranting about Sabermetrics, but I haven't seen any of that. Instead, I found much much more
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 16:25 |
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quote:So, Pitt hires a black coach with the purpose of selling him as a guy who can win football games and serve as a good mentor and a role model for ALL the players but ESPECIALLY the black players. (Although the part about being a better role model for the black kids would go unspoken. I think it’s what people mean when they talk about an elephant in the room.) http://justwatchthegame.com/blog/let-me-try-that-a I want to lock this guy in a room with Jason Whitlock and sell it for pay-per-view.
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 16:39 |
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I, a notable white guy, am here to moralize on what's best for black people
zakharov fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Apr 13, 2011 |
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ElwoodCuse posted:http://tinyurl.com/3enegjp (goes straight to mp3 podcast of interview) I tried to sit through this, I really tried, but I just couldn't make it. As soon as he tried to compare he role model argument to Weight Watchers I had to turn it off.
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AlleyViper posted:I tried to sit through this, I really tried, but I just couldn't make it. As soon as he tried to compare he role model argument to Weight Watchers I had to turn it off. Yeah, he really reaches the Glenn Beck level of "I want to punch this guy through my radio/TV". I hope this column goes national, I don't think anyone outside of Pittsburgh cared about his racist remarks about the football coach.
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# ? Apr 13, 2011 17:59 |
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To use his own defense: "I'm not saying the rape victim had it coming, but if she hadn't been wearing those skimpy clothes, no rape...you know what I'm saying?" Yeah, what you said was totally fine, and not victim-blaming in the least. Way to exonerate yourself!
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ElwoodCuse posted:Yeah, he really reaches the Glenn Beck level of "I want to punch this guy through my radio/TV". 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 whiteknighting Beck, just highlighting the depths of awfulness that article reached.
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