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Vertical Lime posted:Wasn't TMZ going to start a separate sports gossip site? That's going to be one classic battle. Yep: http://deadspin.com/5432195/tmz-sports-prepare-for-the-next-great-tabloid-war-or-something The fall was quick and painful. I'll miss it.
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# ¿ Aug 13, 2010 18:23 |
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barkingclam posted:I will admit that Deadspin has really gotten one thing right under Daulerio: their Dead Wrestler of the Week series is really good. What sounds like (and really should be, since so much of their content is) a gimmick/snarky look at wrestling is always a insightful look at the personalities behind 'sports entertainment.' So, so agreed. One of the last reasons to go there.
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# ¿ Aug 31, 2010 19:37 |
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Ryan loving Theriot. Thank God they got Blake DeW-AW gently caress.
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# ¿ Sep 24, 2010 19:10 |
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Noel Murray of the AV Club wrote a pretty great article that came out today - Why does most modern sports broadcasting suck so hard? http://www.avclub.com/articles/why-does-most-modern-sports-broadcasting-suck-so-h,48708/ quote:One night this past summer, Bob Costas broadcast a baseball game on the MLB Network, with former Atlanta Braves all-star John Smoltz as his color commentator. Throughout the game, Smoltz used his iPad and his MLB At Bat app to keep tabs on the other games going on around the league, and at one point a confused Costas asked Smoltz what he was doing. Smoltz tried to explain that an iPad was like a big iPhone, so Costas picked up the iPad and held it up to his head like a phone, intending to illustrate how ridiculous modern technology is—and not, say, how a certain once-youthful and plugged-in sports broadcaster had become embarrassingly out-of-date.
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# ¿ Dec 8, 2010 04:13 |
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Tender Bender posted:There was a thing about how his nickname was "bitch-tits" but given how ripped he is it's like lol your pecs are massive rather than the traditional fatty manboobs. Bitch tits are also a side effect of steroid usage, which is where I'd heard the term http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynecomastia#Classification - Pure Glandular.
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# ¿ Feb 15, 2011 15:31 |
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jyrka posted:Bill Simmons is starting his own website: http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Morning-Buzz/2011/02/18/simmons.aspx Klosterman's not a surprise, but a big deal, anyway. Dammit, I'm going to have to read this. Also I wish Quickish had a decent RSS feed.
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# ¿ Feb 18, 2011 18:47 |
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Crazy Ted posted:Who was the Deadspin writer that Simmons hired? Katie Baker: http://deadspin.com/people/katiebakes/posts/
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# ¿ Feb 18, 2011 20:26 |
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BackInTheUSSR posted:I will highlight the ending: Nurture that talent and you've got the next Bill Plaschke on your hands! Or do the right thing and have the blood of the next Bill Plaschke on your hands.
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# ¿ Mar 3, 2011 18:06 |
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Let's talk more about Jeff Pearlman and how terrible he is at reporting. http://www.jeffpearlman.com/albert-pujols-and-the-treatment-of-people/ ALBERT PUJOLS IGNORES PEOPLE WHILE HE PREPARES TO BE THE BEST IN THE WORLD AT SOMETHING, A BLOO BLOO BLOO. Gerald LAIRD signs for people!
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# ¿ Mar 4, 2011 18:19 |
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That article was amazing. I woke up in the dumps, but now I'm ready go to go! Give it my all! Perform to the best of my abilities!! GET MY JEANS AND T-SHIRT DIRTY.
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# ¿ Apr 12, 2011 13:31 |
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I haven't seen Gendo's avatar in a while, kinda want to switch it with a screengrab of Steigerwald spinning a basketball.
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2011 00:03 |
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Fevernova posted:Probably a tired question, but who or what should I be reading? Gary Smith and Joe Posnanski should be enough to get you through life.
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# ¿ Apr 26, 2011 15:24 |
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MorningView posted:It's definitely not. I know plenty of people who like him even though they don't care about Boston sports. I think it's mostly because he hit on a type of sportswriting that seemed really fresh and new at the time. This is pretty much it. He nailed the "common man" writing perfectly, before blogging was really a huge thing, and he had the excess Boston baggage to add the sports-fan-as-torture angle. 2001, man! A long drat time ago. Since then, his favorite teams have won like seven championships and what once was cute pop culture sadomasochism is now a really rich dude that is a fan of successful sports teams making Entourage references and talking about his friend Jimmy Kimmel.
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# ¿ May 3, 2011 20:56 |
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leokitty posted:What in the gently caress is this cheerleading piece of poo poo? http://mlb.sbnation.com/2011/5/21/2182701/chicago-cubs-boston-red-sox-score-news But Al Yellon sucks rear end anyway. Oh God, if only the Cubs had kept Damian Miller, he was the CATALYST
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# ¿ May 22, 2011 02:02 |
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MorningView posted:There is no football for me to turn off though! If only he'd warned us earlier The messages are great. They remind me of the Onion cartoonist: http://www.theonion.com/articles/may-23-2011,20509/
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# ¿ May 27, 2011 03:09 |
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Groucho Marxist posted:I just found out that Hipster Runoff is going to contribute to Grantland So is Masked Man, which is a great thing, if his Dead Wrestler of the Week writing is any indicaton.
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# ¿ Jun 2, 2011 19:22 |
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I know it's Chuck Klosterman, so it's probably Grantland at its ceiling, but man, if the writing is going to be like this: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6625899/three-man-weave , I will take it and be happy.
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# ¿ Jun 8, 2011 16:55 |
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leokitty posted:What the gently caress why are there no RSS feeds? Yeah, I was just wondering that myself.
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# ¿ Jun 8, 2011 17:34 |
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leokitty posted:What the gently caress why are there no RSS feeds? http://www.grantland.com/feed since I just found it this morning.
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# ¿ Jun 10, 2011 17:31 |
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http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6657523/so-cricket-maybe I didn't know Schur was writing for Grantland, but hey! Here he is.
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# ¿ Jun 15, 2011 18:05 |
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zakharov posted:It was good until they went into "cricket actually sucks" mode. I never got "it sucks", more "holy poo poo this game is long and one of us is on vicodin". (which they could've stood to mention about 200% less) And now I know what the duck means!
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# ¿ Jun 15, 2011 20:06 |
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swizz posted:brb, setting my degree on fire in the yard quote:So far, though, the only harkening sound from over on the hill is equivocation. Or, is it just plain silence? Should the Stieg quote ever need to be replaced, I'd vote for this.
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# ¿ Jun 28, 2011 13:48 |
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Grozz Nuy posted:But pitcher hits are the best kind of hits and totally make up for the other 90% of ABs. And that's why Zambrano is the best pitcher in the world. Finally got our first out of Grantland: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6708682/the-math-problem You can't underestimate intangibles, everyone!
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# ¿ Jun 28, 2011 16:59 |
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The broken bones posted:nice. A Sports Night movie with a lot of goddamn inappropriate work space behavior. Dear God let Sorkin bake me a Social Network II.
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# ¿ Jul 29, 2011 04:52 |
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Crion posted:I don't really know if this counts as sports journalism because I don't give anyone a blowjob for playing the right way, but: And now, an even better read. Great job.
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# ¿ Oct 8, 2011 01:16 |
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FairGame posted:Whoever the editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports section is needs to get kicked in the junk repeatedly. To be fair, it's definitely the most exciting thing to happen in St. Louis in at least four years.
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# ¿ Oct 13, 2011 04:26 |
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The broken bones posted:Here's a Tub of poo poo written by Yeah, we just got a ~leadership~ article in Chicago about Cutler - http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/ct-spt-1020-pompei-bears-chicago--20111020,0,1295522.column Cutler doesn't care enough! Cutler doesn't want to be there! Wait! Cutler CARES IN THE WRONG WAY
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# ¿ Oct 21, 2011 13:37 |
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morestuff posted:This column is pretty hilarious. He is the 15%.
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# ¿ Oct 21, 2011 18:38 |
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Who wants to read a lovely MLB fanfic? http://espn.go.com/espn/page2/story/_/id/7152611/st-louis-cardinals-mlb-champions-page-2-predicts-25-world-series-winners mmm, Page 2. I remember when you launched! You had such promise.
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# ¿ Oct 31, 2011 05:17 |
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DOOP posted:Jon Heyman is a birther Albert Pujols' birth certificate - good enough for the US government post-9/11, not good enough for sports writers.
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# ¿ Dec 5, 2011 05:15 |
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wrong threeead
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# ¿ Dec 18, 2011 20:04 |
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Another Pennsylvania child molester, waiting for the Second Mile link.
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# ¿ Dec 20, 2011 20:51 |
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hcreight posted:Similarly the Texas Judge who beat his disabled goon daughter with a belt couldn't be prosecuted because it happened in like 2003. Why the gently caress are there statutes of limitations on poo poo like this? The statute of limitations was abolished in PA in 1996, but it isn't retroactive.
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# ¿ Dec 21, 2011 02:00 |
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I have nowhere else to put this so here is Bob Costas promoing a Bulls game from 1979. http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/index.php?c=786 That hair. THAT HAIR.
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# ¿ Dec 26, 2011 19:20 |
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:Stop writing about Skip Bayless and read this piece from Outside Magazine on the Livestrong Foundation and its charitable activities. This is some actual, legitimate reporting. That is a great (and horrible) article. Here is a horrible (and horrible) article Rany J. just linked to on the twitter: http://www.thenewsherald.com/articles/2012/01/15/sports/doc4f139f14424fe118040314.txt?viewmode=fullstory . Jack Morris' inflated ERA from the steroid era should NOT keep him out of the Hall of Fame! Also, Peter Gammons is voting for Jeff Bagwell, who is from Boston, so OBVIOUSLY, he's biased, but I'm going to stump for Jack Morris, pay no mind regarding where my newspaper is based.
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# ¿ Jan 16, 2012 19:40 |
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Badfinger posted:The part about that particular paragraph you should actually be annoyed at is that Morris pitched about 140 lovely innings in 1994 then retired. No one outside of writers trying to contrive a narrative for Jack Morris thinks of a career ending in 1994 as being in the "steroid era" at all, much less half his loving career. The best I can figure is that he's pinning the start of the steroid era in '87 with the Bash Brothers.
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# ¿ Jan 17, 2012 04:24 |
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leokitty posted:The Illinois government has apologized for Al Yellon on numerous occasions.
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# ¿ Jan 24, 2012 06:37 |
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Bigass Moth posted:Cubs fans aren't bad at all. They have zero to brag about and their wining is easily understood by a Cleveland fan like myself. Did you see that the Cubs almost made the World Series nearly a decade ago
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# ¿ Feb 7, 2012 15:24 |
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Arctic Baldwin posted:screen caps? http://deadspin.com/5892317/rick-reilly-trolls-norm-macdonald-and-norm-returns-the-favor-tenfold Rick Reilly brought Jell-O to a gunfight.
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# ¿ Mar 12, 2012 04:12 |
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ElwoodCuse posted:There has never been a home run hit to right field at Petco Park ever? Is this some kind of sarcasm or do they mean the power alley or something? I know the place is big but goddamn. http://www.hittrackeronline.com/detail.php?id=2011_3365&type=ballpark That's just last year. Looks like the right field power alley doesn't get much love, but even a couple made it out that way.
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