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When you write things that you know will be poorly received by the reader, does it make you brave or just a jackass? I’ll leave that one to the philosophers
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He’s the one guy that confounds me in the Deadspin to Defector switch. Figured he would have been left behind because his soccer writing has been dogshit for years
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Even if I agreed with what he was arguing, his paragraphs of "here's what you, an utter fool, might be thinking right now" is extremely goddamn annoying to read. It does seem like every article he writes is some sort of response to an imagined hater of a player he likesNybble posted:He’s the one guy that confounds me in the Deadspin to Defector switch. Figured he would have been left behind because his soccer writing has been dogshit for years He might be a really cool and nice guy, or a good editor, or both.
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General Dog posted:When you write things that you know will be poorly received by the reader, does it make you brave or just a jackass? I’ll leave that one to the philosophers This phrase is written in cursive on the walls of The Just Asking Questions Dojo. Normally I just sort of skip over his articles, but he fell back immediately on if you disagree you must be a tech bro racist that maybe made it feel like bad attempt at humor. Like the bit is he’s a dumb American soccer fan kinda thing and years ago it was funny because who cares about soccer and now it’s ok because they have actual good soccer writers on staff. He’s been dire for years and it just doesn’t make sense.
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Cognac McCarthy posted:Even if I agreed with what he was arguing, his paragraphs of "here's what you, an utter fool, might be thinking right now" is extremely goddamn annoying to read. It does seem like every article he writes is some sort of response to an imagined hater of a player he likes Apparently he's a good editor?
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I can't for a second believe he's a good editor. He was crafting 400 word run-on sentences routinely in the deadspin days.
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he 100% feels like the kinda guy that's a phenomenal editor for anyone else because he knows all of the rules of grammar and whatnot, but is a terrible writer himself because he feels like he knows enough to break all of the rules but he's just not that good
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I’ve definitely known people who are more than willing to take an axe to other people’s work but can’t cut a precious word in their own stuff
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morestuff posted:I’ve definitely known people who are more than willing to take an axe to other people’s work but can’t cut a precious word in their own stuff how dare you call me out like this
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Aug 15, 2023 14:26
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Haisley’s writing was suddenly pretty damned good during the Men’s World Cup; like, a total 180 from his previous run of paragraph-long sentences + frontrunning + not understanding fundamental things. Then he leaves for a bit and comes back from paternity leave and it’s like those good articles never happened.
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Reminder that Billy Haisley once opened a Deadspin article with a 335-word one-sentence paragraph.quote:Nevertheless, it's important to clarify that the person we see on the field or in advertisements, no matter how athletically admirable, is not necessarily the same as the person who exists beyond the spotlight. That conflation between good deeds on the field and a good person off of it is the origin of much of what is dangerous about godding up athletes. By the same token, if there is to be anything of broader socio-cultural importance to glean from sports and the people in it, and if athletes and their exploits can be said to represent anything bigger than the individuals who perform them, then it must lie in figuring out how to excise what is transcendent from what must be denounced. This isn't about liking Neymar as a person, but it is about learning about what his career has to teach. I could read this after three energy drinks and a mountain of coke and my eyes would still slowly close and I'd forget where I was and what I was doing. Crazy Ted fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Aug 16, 2023 |
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genuinely I love Darren Rovell: https://x.com/peteblackburn/status/1691604466410078428?s=46&t=N0fz65wLEKglu9TyofS2Yw
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Im not even sure I understand what I am supposed to learn from that if I go along and assume his anecdote represents a real trend
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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:genuinely I love Darren Rovell: Lmao
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https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1691652570857529767?s=46
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HOTEP JESUS
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Royce White is the name that stood out to me. This guy pivoted from mental health to the right wing grift circuit
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This reminds me I need to go rewatch Bubba Ho-Tep sometime because that movie owns. also wow I feel like this is the first time Whitlock's surfaced in a while now
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FlamingLiberal posted:Royce White is the name that stood out to me. This guy pivoted from mental health to the right wing grift circuit I remember when he played for Iowa State. Weird.
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Wiltsghost posted:I remember when he played for Iowa State. Weird.
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Wiltsghost posted:I remember when he played for Iowa State. Weird. gently caress, I was about to check if it was the same Royce White.
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The only thing missing from that panel is Tariq Nasheed
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White is on the grift circuit, but he's also got serious brain worms. He ran against Ilhan Omar in 2022, IIRC.
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habeasdorkus posted:White is on the grift circuit, but he's also got serious brain worms. He ran against Ilhan Omar in 2022, IIRC.
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His campaign website is still up. He lost the GOP primary to the woman who Omar crushed by 50 points.
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habeasdorkus posted:His campaign website is still up. He lost the GOP primary to the woman who Omar crushed by 50 points.
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Yes. Royce White is an rear end in a top hat.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Hoo boy there are a lot of ‘interesting’ things there I was...bored and stupid enough to read his open letter to Putin. He's all over the place and I like to imagine Putin actually reading it and crumpling it up and throwing it into the fire. But credit, he does sign it: 'Royce Alexander White Future President of The United States' Shoot your shot...which I recall was a problem with him at times as a player I think?
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Royce White turning into some psycho right winger sucks. Seems like something broke in his brain a few years ago.
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Grittybeard posted:I was...bored and stupid enough to read his open letter to Putin. He's all over the place and I like to imagine Putin actually reading it and crumpling it up and throwing it into the fire. Like there was a whole thing about how he refused to get on a plane
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Bird in a Blender posted:Royce White turning into some psycho right winger sucks. Seems like something broke in his brain a few years ago. Like many reactionaries, he had a period where he tried to break into the MMA scene.
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I think the "he refused to fly" thing was overblown and not really true but he did ask for a ton of accommodations in general that weren't realistic. In general seems like a guy not super in tune with reality for whatever reason.
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He had anxiety issues all the way back when he was at Iowa state. It was the reason given for his awful FT shooting. Don’t remember the plane thing in college, but also colleges aren’t really going to make special accommodations very often. Guy just never could put it together mentally for the NBA, and I guess it’s only gotten worse with age.
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From what I remember the plane thing was in the NBA
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And he wasn’t nearly as entertaining about it as Marvin Barnes:quote:Often the colorful personality, Barnes once refused to board a plane from Louisville to St. Louis. Because the flight was scheduled to arrive (Central Time) before its departure time (Eastern Time), Barnes famously said, "I ain't getting in no drat time machine." He rented a car instead.
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royce white was a BLM protester and generally progressive until he joined the big 3; steve bannon got in his ear and he's been doing the maga america first thing ever since the plane/mental health accommodations made him upset but it didn't break his brain
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Dr_Strangelove posted:And he wasn’t nearly as entertaining about it as Marvin Barnes: Pretending you're in a time machine is the best part of west to east flights!
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Sash! posted:Pretending you're in a time machine is the best part of west to east flights! only if you’re some kind of deviated prevert
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let's check in on the herb https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1693746347458138460
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