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Chris Gaines posted:I knew it'd be terrible so no! It is so much easier to be lovely and jaded than it is to actually look at what was written  .quote:So, just for fun, I pulled a whole bunch of anonymously sourced sentences, and attempted to make one coherent-ish story, in which every sentence was anonymously sourced. I'm pretty sure this was not intended as serious journalism, but instead as a commentary on the nature of sports journalism itself. Meta-journalism if you will.
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Dec 17, 2013 21:32
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They sort of are.
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AAA DOLFAN posted:He's such a goddamn caricature of himself at this point holy poo poo What really makes me sad is that FakeOmarKelly hasn't updated since July.
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superaielman posted:What really makes me sad is that FakeOmarKelly hasn't updated since July. I assume he quit because it's getting indistinguishable from the real thing.
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superaielman posted:What really makes me sad is that FakeOmarKelly hasn't updated since July. It just got boring. Also it was two guys, so I'm extra shocked it's been stuck
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Chichevache posted:It is so much easier to be lovely and jaded than it is to actually look at what was written 
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It's okay buddy. I usually skim long posts too.
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Dan Steinberg is the greatest local sports blogger there is. I don't know who second place is, but the gap must be Grand Canyon sized
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Despite Peter King I've come to expect good things from MMQB. This is not good.Robert Klemko posted:We find ourselves, now more than ever, in the business of mythmaking—Calvin Johnson is the unimpeachable, superhuman #Megatron—as fast as we can bang out breathless post-big-play tweets. Had a talent comparable to the Lions’ receiver lived in the 1920s and not been born in the ’80s, famed sportswriter/hero-maker Grantland Rice might have described him as the tap-dancing, football-swallowing Poseidon of Ford Field. Today, we just scream-annoint him a BEAST and leave it at that. It continues on like that. I'm not sure that he knows hyperbole is used for emphasis and not literal statements of fact.
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quote:Had a talent comparable to the Lions’ receiver lived in the 1920s and not been born in the ’80s Am I the only person that can't even read this?
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superaielman posted:What really makes me sad is that FakeOmarKelly hasn't updated since July. What really makes me sad is that Twitter account isn't named PseudOmarKelly.
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The Puppy Bowl posted:Despite Peter King I've come to expect good things from MMQB. This is not good. Not being one to read "The MMQB" myself, I was for some reason holding out hope that Klemko's article was a lament of the prosaic praises and epithets that contemporary sports writers employ. Life would be much improved if writers would allow themselves to describe a player as a "football-swallowing Poseidon of Ford Field" instead of "Initials#" or some cliched word.
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was poseidon known for swallowing things? is there water at ford field? Is that mega stupid and purpler than loving barney???
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This man is not pleased that his fourth round draft pick did not work out.quote:Heading into the season without a quarterback they felt was a long-term answer, the Raiders selected Wilson with their fourth-round pick this year — a rookie out of Arkansas who had some serious upside. At the time, many thought the pick could bring Oakland great value, considering Wilson was projected as a first-rounder just twelve months earlier. This is not how the draft process works. If he was worth a first round pick at the time of the draft, he would've been taken in the first two rounds. The facet that he wasn't meant that he had serious holes in his game that turned him from a star into a project. It was great value, because Wilson has great tools, but expecting first round production out of a fourth round pick off the bat because he was projected in the first round is ridiculous. quote:By the time the season was set to begin, Wilson was placed on waivers before ever seeing a regular season game — to make matters worse, there wasn't a team in the league interested. Wilson was then re-signed to the practice squad, where he stayed for the remainder of his time in Oakland — even watching undrafted rookie Matt McGloin take over the starting job many thought might be his some day. The fact there wasn't a single team interested should tell you something about Tyler Wilson. And the Raiders entered the season with Pryor and Flynn competing for the starting job and a burning heap of wreckage behind them; if you thought one of them might become starter, you had some very rosy lenses in your frames. quote:From Oakland's perspective, they probably wish they had just let Wilson remain a free agent from the day he cleared waivers. Then, at least, they wouldn't have today's reminder of what a failed pick it was. Reminder that the Raiders took a flyer on a former first round prospect in the fourth. Not really a failed pick except for the fact he isn't on the team anymore, and most fourth round picks wash out anyways, even the ones that aren't quarterbacks that would be throwing to a bunch of UDFAs. quote:In two seasons thus far, McKenzie has gotten a pass from me thanks to the mess of a salary cap he inherited. With no cap space (and no first or second round pick two years ago), McKenzie had built in excuses all around him — not to mention a first year head coach. YOUR PASS IS ABOUT TO BE REVOKED MCKENZIE, YOU'RE A LOOSE CANNON AND YOU AREN'T HITTING ON YOUR PICKS, HAND IN YOUR PASS AND GUN quote:While I would vote for Allen's firing at the end of this season, however, I do think McKenzie deserves one more season with another full draft class and some cap space to work with. "Well it's been three years into this rebuild where we had no cap space, a ton of injuries to young players, and were in a no man's land for drafting QBs. Time to pull the plug."
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To put it in perspective, I just ran a quick search and found 21 players drafted in the fourth round since 2000 who never even appeared in a game: http://www.pro-football-reference.c...ce=any&show=dnp
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Sash! posted:Am I the only person that can't even read this? "If Calvin Johnson had played in the 20s and not today, Grantland Rice would've said blah blah blah"
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If Calvin Johnson had played in the 1920's he'd have been all but superhuman.
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Is he also white in this scenario or playing in some other football league?
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Kalli posted:Is he also white in this scenario or playing in some other football league? There were a handful of black players in the 20s; I imagine someone as physically gifted and crazy-talented as Megatron would have seen field time, at least until the 1933 season when Noted rear end in a top hat George Marshall became an owner.
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Rap posted:was poseidon known for swallowing things? is there water at ford field? Is that mega stupid and purpler than loving barney??? It at least has the virtue of being creative, if wrong, which is more than can be said for the rest of the article.
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People are excited by old nicknames because they aren't contemporary, and so they didn't have to live through the coining and discarding of all the lovely nicknames from 80 years ago. Can you imagine how horrible nicknames are going to be 25 years from now and how we'll pine for T-Mac and RG3? Calvin Johnson is also a hilariously bad example of samey nicknames because it might not be original but it's unique.
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King Hong Kong posted:It at least has the virtue of being creative, if wrong, which is more than can be said for the rest of the article.
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sweet thursday posted:Creativity is not required to walk hand in gossamery hand with an overly ostentation vernacular That really should be the least of his worries.
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This is an old article but it really bothers me. A lot of people these days, including some posters here, have such a knee jerk reaction to pot ever being mentioned as a negative thing This Deadspin article is the pinnacle of this. http://deadspin.com/pot-isnt-life-and-death-and-tyrann-mathieu-isnt-a-re-1463990959 quote:Tyrann Mathieu smoked some weed in college. If we're going to play this brain-dead association game, let's start by being clear about what he actually did. He smoked some weed, somehow got vilified for it, was thrown off his football team, went to rehab for weed, and now plays for the Arizona Cardinals. There is no inherent connectivity among any of those events—they succeed one another in a m You would have to be a dumbass to reduce everything that happened to him as "smoked some weed and got caught." The man has some serious demons from his past and to dismiss them as getting caught for smoking weed, and to act as if there is nothing else going on with him, is irresponsible at best. It is disrespectful to him to downplay what he is going through. He didn't have to attend months of counseling, inpatient rehab, have Patrick Peterson basically isolate him from all the negative people from his past, because of "just weed." Sometimes people actually do have real problems. I hope the Cardinals surround him with the support system he needs while he is rehabbing. Ribsauce fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Dec 21, 2013 |
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People with problems are more susceptible to weed and substance abuse in general, it doesn't therefore mean that weed makes you more susceptible to problems edit: but yeah, it can definitely be a negative factor in the lives of a lot of people. And that's all I have to say about that forever. sweet thursday fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Dec 20, 2013 |
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I think your causation and correlation are a little skewed but whatever. Having the drug debate in the US is so mind numbingly irritating
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You know who else had everything in their past reduced to 'smoked some weed' in the public's perception?
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Kalli posted:You know who else had everything in their past reduced to 'smoked some weed' in the public's perception? He's so happy, so unaware of the murders he's gonna commit
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Kalli posted:You know who else had everything in their past reduced to 'smoked some weed' in the public's perception? As soon as I saw those tattoos I was like "yep he's probably going to kill at least a few people" Just waiting for the other shoe to drop with Kaepernick
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Declan MacManus posted:He's so happy, so unaware of the murders he's gonna commit
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Rasczak posted:As soon as I saw those tattoos I was like "yep he's probably going to kill at least a few people" Finally we have proof that Cam Newton is an objectively better human being than Drew Brees. Cam is ink free.
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sweet thursday posted:People with problems are more susceptible to weed and substance abuse in general, it doesn't therefore mean that weed makes you more susceptible to problems drat my first sentence was not what I meant to say. I meant to say while weed did not cause his problems, it is not very fair to act like it is not a problem for him. If he is using it in an attempt to suppress his other problems instead of addressing them, it is still bad. I should have read that a few times before hitting submit. The man has had a tough childhood and the fact he is even alive at this point should be commended. A ton of credit should go to Patrick Peterson as well for being a true friend to him instead of another person around him without his best interests in mind. Ribsauce fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Dec 21, 2013 |
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http://nfl.si.com/2013/12/22/derrick-johnson-horse-collar-call-kansas-city-chiefs/ A season filled with just absolutely appallingly bad calls, and that's the worst call of the season? Keep in mind that in the very same game this happened.
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i'm dying http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-dolphins/fl-omar-kelly-dolphins-1226-20131225,0,2410859.story quote:Miami Dolphins must find a way out of the NFL's Matrix
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Ehud posted:i'm dying Beat reporter, superhero, script writer
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Declan MacManus posted:Beat reporter, superhero, script writer This is turning into the Omar Kelly Says Stupid poo poo megathread for a reason.
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