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Badfinger posted:Does the television steal your soul or something? Nah I probably overreacted, being able to experience a game in person is just more fun imo, and while the argument can certainly be made to watch the game at home, Reilly has like 3 good reasons and a bunch of terrible ones. This is obviously just a fluff piece but I had a hard time talking a friend into going to a game because he said he'd rather watch it at home. I'll agree that I don't think I could handle going to all home games though, because you really do miss a lot e-He complained about the weather. Snow/rain games are the most loving fun to watch in person, maybe it's just a northern thing i donno
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Randomly Specific posted:Revisiting that 'scooped on Twitter business' it reminds me of an article that I read before the election, talking about how the media still gets excited about chronological scoops (being the first with a story that everyone will get) rather than enterprise scoops (being the first with a story that nobody else even knows exists yet.) In sports journalism, this will probably be true for a while, maybe gradually replaced by accurate scoops. But what kind of enterprise stories can you really come across in sports? Besides managing to uncover something huge like "Bill Belicheck privately admits he prefers white players" there isn't much enterprise to be had. But in general news, I think there's gradually a move toward enterprise reporting, both on Twitter and in general. But there's a good chance I think that because I work at a weekly paper, where we barely bother to try to break most news and instead work strictly on enterprise stuff.
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Rap posted:But in general news, I think there's gradually a move toward enterprise reporting, both on Twitter and in general. But there's a good chance I think that because I work at a weekly paper, where we barely bother to try to break most news and instead work strictly on enterprise stuff. Thank god. I remember following Brown Moses' Libya thread and going by Twitter every city in Libya fell like fifty times.
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For a story on that scale, there's just no solution for it. God knows we here in Boulder fell into it with the Jessica Ridgeway story recently. We didn't post anything inaccurate at any point, although we did report on a false accusation of an attempted child abduction like every news outlet in Colorado. It's extremely hard not to get into the breaking news game on a big, big story like that. But, on average, when news poo poo is not hitting the news fan, I do think there's a move toward enterprise reporting, yes.
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On one hand I agree the rush for breaking news first is a bit silly, on the other hand, Mike Florio made a ridiculous amount of money by doing just that and (sadly) became the default place to check for news. Obviously, not really repeatable, but that isn't going to get us of that gremlin.
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I wish I could make a ridiculous amount of money to break Mike Florio. Y'all should start up a pool.
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Rap posted:In sports journalism, this will probably be true for a while, maybe gradually replaced by accurate scoops. But what kind of enterprise stories can you really come across in sports? Besides managing to uncover something huge like "Bill Belicheck privately admits he prefers white players" there isn't much enterprise to be had.
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I know it seems silly, but you have to wonder how much of it is now driven by fantasy football. "Maurice Jones Drew is out so pick up his backup!" and its a race among people in a league to do just that. So people are going to subscribe to twitter feeds and check certain outlets if they are reliably fast and accurate.
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Not a stretch to say it's fantasy related but most of the injury-related news is motivated by gambling. The line shifts and people bet on the other side if a key player is listed as doubtful on the injury reports (which only exist due to said gambling).
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Fair point. Fantasy football would just accelerate what was already a critical business for gamblers. Guess it's one of those life-bending First World Problems that we'll just have to try to endure with grace.
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Blackula69 posted:I worked for a national wire service and breaking news fast is totally awesome. Then again, getting it right is equally important. Florio does neither Oh, it's really fun to break news, absolutely. As a weekly we can hardly compete but it's really exciting.
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Brannock posted:I'd really like "surging" and "reeling" to be excised from the sportswriter lexicon. Or just consider what the gently caress they're saying. The one that really blew me away was an article that declared that Michael Vick (pre-jailing) had answered the questions about his consistency with an awesome two-game performance.
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Looking at preseason predictions is always fun. At the beginning of the season, Peter King was predicting that the Chiefs would have the No. 3 AFC seed and had Romeo Crennel pegged for coach of the year. Fake edit: In fact, three of SI's writers had Romeo as coach of the year. 
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AKMoose posted:Looking at preseason predictions is always fun. At the beginning of the season, Peter King was predicting that the Chiefs would have the No. 3 AFC seed and had Romeo Crennel pegged for coach of the year. And here's our own prediction thread for this year...
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AKMoose posted:Looking at preseason predictions is always fun. At the beginning of the season, Peter King was predicting that the Chiefs would have the No. 3 AFC seed and had Romeo Crennel pegged for coach of the year. As loathe as I am to defend Peter King, the Chiefs improving wasn't as crazy as it seems now. The team was getting healthy after a series of devastating injuries last year, and they were replacing a lunatic at coach. Turns out the Chiefs aren't good, even when they're healthy, and Romeo doesn't belong as a head coach.
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Febreeze posted:Psh, normal predictions are boring. Lets make outlandish predictions and see which ones comes true. Oh man I still have a good chance on some of these
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I had the Eagles in the Superbowl. A DOLF backed me up with: "Eagles might have the most talented roster in the NFL. It's seriously insane." Wrong-bro's forever.
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Given that Calvin Johnson is almost on pace to break Jerry Rice's record I hope that'll finally "break" the Madden curse. Of course people will still point at all the other stars brought low by the curse, so oh well.
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Febreeze posted:Oh man I still have a good chance on some of these Mark Sanchez retains the Starter role all year- somehow, someway this ends up coming true despite everyone in the world other than Rex and Tanny being completely confused about it. Brandon Marshall has no incidents- Cutler is more likely to have an incident than Marshall. You would think a surly QB and a WR with issues would be a disaster, but they are somehow not blowing up. Its actually kind of cool. The Browns look competent enough - Still lots of games to Browns away. Peyton Manning does not win Comeback Player of the Year - I don't know who else would even come close to this. Possibly Peterson, but I don't think he missed nearly enough of the season to really be considered a "come back" player. The MVP is not a quarterback- Doubt this one comes true, unless Megatron does actually break Rice's records. That's pretty much the only chance. The Bills make the Playoffs- not gonna happen The Steelers don't- a toss up right now depending entirely on Ben's health Nobody decides to move to LA - will come true Chad Henne looks awesome with the Jags - has come true Megatron actually has a better year and fully debunks the madden curse- has come true John Skelton is the starting QB at the end of the year- When it comes to QB's and the Cardinals, literally anything is possible, except that they will have a good QB. That's impossible.
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swickles posted:Chad Henne looks awesome with the Jags - has come true Two good games isn't "looking awesome". If he keeps it up for the rest of the year then yeah.
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Febreeze posted:Two good games isn't "looking awesome". If he keeps it up for the rest of the year then yeah. Uh even if he was throwing four picks a game, have you seen that mustache
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Kalli posted:I had the Eagles in the Superbowl. Totally thought the Eagles were going to win the NFCE at least, but that might have just been residual spite from the NFCCG. Here's my full prediction post. I bit hard on the Bills and Panthers hype, and discounted the Falcons too much, but other than that I don't think I did too badly aside from the aforementioned Eagles pick. Grozz Nuy fucked around with this message at 07:28 on Nov 29, 2012 |
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Febreeze posted:Two good games isn't "looking awesome". False 
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Kalli posted:I had the Eagles in the Superbowl. I thought the Eagles would have 7 sacks against New Orleans. I got tons of poo poo for it then so it's only fair to own up to being Very Wrong now. I think we might have 7 for the whole season. I am the worst amateur predictor. 
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Hey I remember that thread! Let's see what some of us had to say about the ol' Houston Texans... Intruder posted:Haha Houston being the class of the year. They just replaced the side of their offensive line they run toward the majority of the time, their only good WR is Andre Johnson (when even OTA reports say the rookies are struggling, gently caress) and he'll probably get hurt, who knows with Schaub's health, their defense can only go down from where it was last season, Kareem Jackson is going to get a lot more snaps at CB than last season... Intruder posted:Everyone is predicting the Texans make it deep into the playoffs it seems like but seriously they're more likely to go 4-12 (due to injuries and SOS) than 12-4 (cause they have no shot at this) Oh. Intruder you're the best~ 
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Arschlochkind posted:Hey I remember that thread! Let's see what some of us had to say about the ol' Houston Texans... And Titans in the Super Bowl of course. 
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I remember wondering why everyone though the Eagles and Chiefs were playoff teams.  Sadly I also remember thinking Cincy was a Division Champion. 
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Tae posted:Bears's defense is old, can't keep up *said for the last 4 years* To be fair... They are old. But apparently Lovie Smith discovered the location of the Lazarus Pit.
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Tae posted:Bears's defense is old, can't keep up *said for the last 4 years* Its also said about the Steelers and (falsely) the Ravens. Apparently if you don't have 6 rookies on D, you are an aging defense.
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Semi-related as it involves a football analyst. For some bizarre reason I had on sportscenter and ESPN is trotting our Herm Edwards to debate Stephen A. Smith in regards to who is better Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant. it's as loving terrible as you can imagine. I swear to god the network is devolving into "Bleacher Report" of the TV world.
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Cavauro posted:Predictions: The Bears will win 12 games. The Bengals will win 7, with two complete end-of-game meltdown losses that should have been wins. From this point it would take one team winning out and the other losing out. I'd rather be wrong.
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Cavauro posted:From this point it would take one team winning out and the other losing out. I'd rather be wrong. 
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Here's a new face here, Kevin Seifert. http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcnorth/post/_/id/50883/free-head-exam-chicago-bears-46 quote:2. Something seemed odd to me about that number so I looked a bit more closely. At the start of Week 14, there were 208 NFL games played this season. 72 total OPIs called means... 2.9 OPIs per game? Did... Did Seifert divide total games by total OPIs, instead of OPIs over total games? As in, games per OPI, instead of OPIs per game? Yes... yes he did. 
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Hahahaha holy poo poo. ESPN doesn't employ editors hahahaha
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