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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. HAHA. I thought that was a blog. poo poo.
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The Steig kind of, sort of apologizes (not really) http://www.observer-reporter.com/or/steigstory/04-17-2011-steigerwald-column quote:I had my audience in mind, and was saying that the incident in Los Angeles was an example of the out-of-control behavior that I had been writing and talking about for years. I never dreamed anybody who knew Brian Stow would read those words, and they wouldn't have if it hadn't gone viral. It's our fault for linking to it!
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# ? Apr 19, 2011 15:42 |
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Hahahaha "it really is a world-wide web." Christ that poo poo makes me angry but I'm not going to bother commenting because even if he responded somehow (he won't) it would just make me more angry and depressed and I would be reduced to making more limpdicked tweetjokes about him.
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# ? Apr 19, 2011 15:45 |
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Jesus it's like he thinks someone overheard him saying poo poo in a bar and then spread it around. Not that he wrote something clumsy at best and reprehensible at worst in a column published both in print and online.
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# ? Apr 19, 2011 15:58 |
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A drat FOG posted:"it really is a world-wide web" ya know we need a computerweb just for real people like we got here in P-A
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Dr_Strangelove posted:ya know we need a computerweb just for real people like we got here in P-A The most ridiculous thing is that if there's anywhere where fans are likely to consider themselves part of the team and act like morons, it's Pittsburgh. Actually, I can almost understand a thought process of "Steelers fans are retarded and think they're more important than they are -> I should write a column telling them to quit -> Oh hey, some guy got put into a coma in LA, this'll scare 'em straight!"
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# ? Apr 19, 2011 19:58 |
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THE MACHO MAN posted:HAHA. I thought that was a blog. poo poo. It is a blog, to be fair. They don't let Ole Man Boone near the print edition. But it's still a blog run by the Gazette and the blog carries all their other content and stuff, so it's pretty official. edit: god drat how fuckin dumb can you be online these days stieggy
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# ? Apr 19, 2011 23:55 |
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Bob Smizik hates the Piratesquote:Of all the controversial trades made by Pirates general manager Neal Huntington, perhaps none raised the passion level of fans as much as the one that sent Nate McLouth to Atlanta. That probably was because fans, quite correctly, saw McLouth as a young, building block of the future and not a soon-to-be free agent, who would cost too much to keep. That Sinha guy is to blame for some of this, but he's not getting paid to write, so the guy who is can be blamed for repeating his terrible opinion. e: For humor purposes: Nate McLouth .232/.295/.391, Charlie Morton 2-0, 1 CG, 1.64 ERA ( I know it's luck shut up), and Jeff Locke (one of the team's top pitching prospects) with 1.93 ERA, 9.6 K/9, 1.9 BB/9 in AA. Mornacale fucked around with this message at 07:47 on Apr 20, 2011 |
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Smizek has always been a tool, his feud with Mark Madden is pretty funny too. Although I guess to be fair he's just a bad writer, not a bad person like Steigerwald.
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# ? Apr 20, 2011 14:12 |
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:It is a blog, to be fair. They don't let Ole Man Boone near the print edition. But it's still a blog run by the Gazette and the blog carries all their other content and stuff, so it's pretty official. Groucho Marxist posted:The Steig kind of, sort of apologizes (not really) So not only did he pretty much say his audience is a bunch of assholes and retards, he admitted that he does poo poo to get hits. Sweet!
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# ? Apr 20, 2011 15:56 |
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How about some good writing? I enjoyed this.
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# ? Apr 20, 2011 19:43 |
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Kinda surprised that Bill Barnwell is joining the new Bill Simmons site, he doesn't really fit the mold of what they've been going for so far. I could see him working as sort of a generic guy to write a ton of copy. That's not saying he's at all bad, but not someone you would pick for an all-star lineup. If any one from FO was ever going to get snapped up by the mainstream media you would think it'd be Tanier.
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# ? Apr 20, 2011 20:22 |
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I think they probably just wanted a football stats guy and he's the most widely known guy with FO aside from Schatz.
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# ? Apr 20, 2011 22:07 |
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Doesn't Tanier have a decent gig already with the New York Times? You'd probably have to blow him away with a contract or offer him a lot of freedom.
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# ? Apr 20, 2011 22:12 |
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Badfinger posted:Doesn't Tanier have a decent gig already with the New York Times? You'd probably have to blow him away with a contract or offer him a lot of freedom. If he just writes for their football blog, he's likely a freelancer rather than a full-time employee. I'm sure it pays OK, but that's just supplementary income.
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# ? Apr 20, 2011 22:18 |
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Deadspin posted a great compilation of excerpts wherein Bill Plaschke wonders stupidly aloud whether players are distracted by completely irrelevant things http://deadspin.com/#!5794419
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# ? Apr 21, 2011 19:08 |
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stuart scott irl posted:Deadspin posted a great compilation of excerpts wherein Bill Plaschke wonders stupidly aloud whether players are distracted by completely irrelevant things http://deadspin.com/#!5794419 Ugh that Lindsay Vonn quote still makes me angry. He has no idea about alpine skiing and does not understand how loving good she is.
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# ? Apr 21, 2011 20:21 |
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leokitty posted:Ugh that Lindsay Vonn quote still makes me angry. He has no idea about alpine skiing and does not understand how loving good she is. But but but she wore TIGHT PANTS that dirty slut
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# ? Apr 21, 2011 20:53 |
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he's mad because his daughter became a huge slut after simply viewing that Vonn picture
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# ? Apr 21, 2011 20:54 |
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R.D. Mangles posted:Really? Maybe it's just because the only Reilly I've ever read is from his last few years at the back of SI, but I can't imagine that guy writing anything that isn't a festival of hacky bullshit on one of three topics: About the second thing- I think I might have already posted this but he literally called this kid my brothers played hockey with an rear end in a top hat for playing field hockey in Massachusetts a while back when the kid was 15. No highlight that the kid was from South Africa and was a recent immigrant and that field hockey was pretty big in his family. Also this kid was probably the politest kid ever and was super nice to everyone. Reilly also called his parents assholes. In sum, Reilly is a big bitch. Aye Doc posted:the Steigerwald who does Penguins games isn't John, thankfully. his name is Paul! I was trying to find out if they're brothers and I do believe I've found my answer: And I'm sorry but I could not stop laughing when this happened because of how bizarre it was for a pro sportscaster to say this.
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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:About the second thing- I think I might have already posted this but he literally called this kid my brothers played hockey with an rear end in a top hat for playing field hockey in Massachusetts a while back when the kid was 15. No highlight that the kid was from South Africa and was a recent immigrant and that field hockey was pretty big in his family. Also this kid was probably the politest kid ever and was super nice to everyone. Reilly also called his parents assholes. In sum, Reilly is a big bitch. Why did he call them all assholes?
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Mornacale posted:Why did he call them all assholes? Here's the context. morestuff fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Apr 21, 2011 |
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Mornacale posted:Why did he call them all assholes? morestuff posted:Here's the context. Yeah my bad I should have made the context clear. He was a pretty decent sized kid playing field hockey with girls. Still, it was lazy, lazy journalism to just point out how guys were playing field hockey and then say that there parents should get hit in the nuts, ignoring all of the issues as to why Brad played field hockey. He also played ice hockey and broke the glass with a slap shot during practice once so I'm not sure I would want to play field hockey against him either but I wouldn't call a fifteen year old kid out over it.
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# ? Apr 21, 2011 22:43 |
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Rick Reilly posted:Boys are a problem that's whittling away at the fabric of field hockey in Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. "Playing with boys is awful!" one girl wrote on an Internet field hockey site. "When you win, people think it's only because of the boys on your team. It's so defeating." I'm not a chauvinist in any sense of the word but I don't think it's unreasonable for some guys to want to play field hockey and I don't see anything in that article that leads me to believe otherwise. The question I have to ask myself is, "is letting men play in any way adversely affecting the opportunity being afforded to women?" I don't really see how. The risk of physical injury, to me, seems really overstated in order to lend some credence to the article's lovely thesis, that in America, field hockey is a "girl's game". Gender norms, love those in the context of civil rights litigation... What is this article even getting at, this is a basic equal opportunity issue and one that's been apparently been litigated repeatedly in their favor already, why am I supposed to think that they're assholes? Because some participants are displeased simply because it affects the balance of the game? Because the guys aren't adhering to a traditional American gender norm? gently caress man, I agree that it's not the most constitutionally pressing issue, but that doesn't mean that the affected party doesn't deserve equal access swizz fucked around with this message at 05:07 on Apr 22, 2011 |
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It's just funny that Reilly is trying to take the moral highground while basically saying that women can't be as good as men in sports.
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# ? Apr 21, 2011 23:57 |
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Again, the main thing that people were upset about at the time was that it was such a ridiculous thing to say about Brad because anyone who knew the kid knew that he is literally polite and nice to a ridiculously comic degree even. It's like calling Stan Musial a bad person or a raci-oh gently caress
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I CHALLENGE THEE posted:It's just funny that Reilly is trying to take the moral highground while basically saying that women can't be as good as men in sports. Hey, don't forget supporting the emasculation of those players because they're willing to put up with some bizarre requirement that field hockey players wear skirts.
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# ? Apr 22, 2011 00:50 |
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It appears that Rick Reilly has never seen nor heard of kilts.
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# ? Apr 22, 2011 00:53 |
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New boss in town? Time to sniff that crack!quote:A lifelong love of baseball is the basis for Bud Selig's approach to job
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Mornacale posted:Hey, don't forget supporting the emasculation of those players because they're willing to put up with some bizarre requirement that field hockey players wear skirts. Rick Reilly's Informed View of the World posted:Not only is Ryan unashamed to wear the Warriors' pleated plaid skirt on the field -- even in front of his girlfriend -- but he also wears it to school on game days, as do all his teammates. I am aghast! What kind of a MAN would do such a thing--in front of his dame, nonetheless?!
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quote:Boys are a problem that's whittling away at the fabric of field hockey in Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. "Playing with boys is awful!" one girl wrote on an Internet field hockey site. "When you win, people think it's only because of the boys on your team. It's so defeating." Well, based on this post from an internet field hockey site!!!, that guy is clearly in the wrong and is ruining the very fabric of the sport itself.
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# ? Apr 22, 2011 16:30 |
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How many articles has Reilly written about plucky, courageous girls competing in boys sports because there wasn't a girls team to play on?
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# ? Apr 22, 2011 17:05 |
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haljordan posted:Well, based on this post from an internet field hockey site!!!, that guy is clearly in the wrong and is ruining the very fabric of the sport itself. Taking random posts from mostly anonymous users on websites has been used in all levels of journalism lately. Why anyone thinks this is good journalism is beyond me.
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# ? Apr 22, 2011 17:12 |
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It's probably on par with quoting the anonymous bystander, which is another journalistic failure that's been repeated as long as I can remember.
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# ? Apr 22, 2011 17:17 |
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If someone were to break Rick Reilly's writin' hand I'd be much obliged
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# ? Apr 22, 2011 18:07 |
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gardenald posted:If someone were to break Rick Reilly's writin' hand I'd be much obliged Hasn't he already recycled previous SI articles for ESPN, only changing liked 10% of the story? I seem to remember Deadspin calling him out on this. I have no doubt that if somebody broke his hand, he'd be able to cut-and-paste some old poo poo and call it a day.
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# ? Apr 22, 2011 18:10 |
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He's been doing that forever. Like half his columns for SI were [name] was told that he could never play [sport] because of [disability] but he fought and persevered.
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# ? Apr 22, 2011 19:15 |
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A dude for Forbes wrote this. Forbes. http://blogs.forbes.com/tomvanriper/2011/04/21/move-the-dodgers-back-to-brooklyn/ Tom Van Riper posted:Move the Dodgers Back to Brooklyn gently caress making sense financially, move the Dodgers back to Brooklyn, dissolve the Mets, move the Rays to Los Angeles and bingo bango. You have a now-defunct newly-built MLB stadium in Queens, a 29-team league and no place for the Dodgers to play. I just love the overall "we've been nice enough to let the Dodgers play in LA for the past 50 years, but it's time for them to come home, we deserve this" tone of the article.
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quote:It’s the move New Yorkers have been waiting and praying for since Walter O’Malley abandoned them for the west coast a couple of generations ago. Where does he get this from? All the Dodger crazies are long gone
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# ? Apr 22, 2011 21:29 |
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leokitty posted:Where does he get this from? All the Dodger crazies are long gone The ones that are still around post, depressingly enough, at the Baseball Fever forums in the Brooklyn Dodgers subforum.
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