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Avoid ye all Cleveland media, especially Browns beat reporters. When Mangini was hired he cleaned out the front office and installed his own people. The people he fired were media leaks. Lo and behold, the media immediately had a grudge against Mangini and he was deemed a bad coach (2 playoff runs in 3 years with the Jets) and a terrible evaluator of talent (Mangold, Revis, Ferguson, etc.) Drafting Alex Mack may as well have been a deadly sin with Maualuga still on the board according to these people, who are now grudgingly admitting that a good offensive line is better than a 2-down linebacker. Specifically, avoid Tony Grossi and Mary Kay Cabbot. I don't think I've ever seen either of these two actually break down the information given to them. They are muckrakers through and through. The only Cleveland-based writer of any value of Terry Pluto.
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bananasinpajamas posted:A lot of people expect Bill Simmons to be black, and entertaining. Neither are true. I bet Bill Simmons is really, really entertaining if you are a Boston sports fan.
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Aug 12, 2010 11:40
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:That's one of the things I was referring to where you can see the talent underneath the layers of laziness and stupidity. I will always remember when Bill said he had given up on the Bruins, but then 2 years later when they were good he was writing about them consistently. Also the Celtics. Currently, the Red Sox.
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Aug 12, 2010 18:02
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Is the joke that Aaron Hill is clearly having a down year or that anyone who hits 20 DINGERS is on roids?
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Aug 24, 2010 18:40
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There are people in every walk of life who think their poo poo doesn't stink. It's not surprising that someone who gets paid (probably more than most of us make) to write about sports (a job any of us could do) would be like that.
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Aug 25, 2010 12:09
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Eggs posted:As far as statistics go I wonder why a pitcher's wins are always displyed so prominently, seems to be one of the more useless stats in sports. It was probably more important 100 years ago when pitchers started 30-50 games and rarely did not finish them.
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Aug 28, 2010 20:57
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Old tyme baseball stats like ERA and WINS dont really tell you much other than the run support a pitcher had. Nolan Ryan ended with around a 3 ERA and almost as many losses as wins but it's because he played on terrible teams for nearly 30 years.
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Aug 28, 2010 23:58
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It only makes sense that Wins should decide the Cy Young winners. After all, Cy himself won a lot of games. The NFL MVP award should also thusly be awarded to the Quarterback who wins the most games.
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Sep 8, 2010 17:38
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stuart scott irl posted:This is apparently an "article" by a "writer" Bigass Moth posted:Avoid ye all Cleveland media, ... only Cleveland-based writer of any value of Terry Pluto.
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Sep 15, 2010 20:44
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Hahah, "If he hits 500 homers, and is presumed to have done so while “clean”," well argument over there. *Puts Sammy Sosa in the hall of fame*
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Sep 18, 2010 22:06
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barkingclam posted:Here's a fun column where a guy repeats a sentence about the 2009 Yankees 50 times. I'm not kidding: it's the same sentence, repeated 50 times, on purpose. That is by far the laziest thing I've ever read.
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Oct 1, 2010 20:19
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I assume all baseballers are cheating in one way or another. Even if he's not, why would he ever intentionally do worse than he is able to? Terrible writing as usual from sportz media.
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Oct 5, 2010 12:03
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Lazy like a Fox posted:I'd listen to a show that was 15 hours a week of some guy saying things like "Kobe is pretty good at basketball. So is Lebron. I feel no need to compare them." I stopped listening to him because he was always either talking about how awesome it was that USC/Lakers/Steelers/Yankees were at the top, or how small market teams shouldn't exist because their fans suck or something. Seemed like every day he said the exact same stuff regardless of what was happening in the news.
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Nov 5, 2010 20:33
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I still haven't seen a good reason why his suspension was reduced to 4 games.
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Nov 9, 2010 20:59
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Badfinger posted:Where'd he steal the comedy bit from again? I remember it being from somewhere I recognize. Some Michigan fan blog or something.
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Nov 15, 2010 18:17
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:http://www.murraychass.com/?p=2621 "Just ERA+, baby!" - sportswriters of the future
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Nov 19, 2010 18:46
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haljordan posted:Doesn't the fact that Felix accounted for over 20% of Seattle's wins this year count for anything in that guy's mind? He also accounted for over 20% of their losses!!!
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FairGame posted:In the grand scheme of things, the Cardinals trading Brendan Ryan is irrelevant. Doesn't stop columnists like Jeff Gordon from writing dumb things, though! Wrong. Here is why they were bad: Last year’s Cards lacked grit, focus, perserverance and a variety of other attributes hard to quantify with a calculator. The team played fine against elite opponents, but struggled against lesser foes.
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Dec 14, 2010 20:57
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Copernic posted:TMQ takes a bold stance against applause. He's 100% right except for sporting events where you basically should never be seated anyway (except baseball because it lasts 30000 hours),
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Feb 1, 2011 18:12
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What's funny is they used to play NFL championship games in wonderful open air stadiums in places like New York, Cleveland, Detriot and Green Bay every year. These writers are just so used to being pampered that they act entitled to perfect Miami weather every year when the reality is that gosh, it's February in the Northen Hemisphere.
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Feb 3, 2011 18:29
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Good thing Sanchez doesn't play for a team in his Mexican homeland where the Age of Consent is 12 
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Feb 10, 2011 12:44
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chutwig posted:Mark Sanchez is from Long Beach You may have heard America is somewhat of a "melting pot" of different nationalities.
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Feb 10, 2011 15:20
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OrangeKing posted:Based on that script, I can't even see that show ever getting on the schedule. Then again, maybe I shouldn't overestimate the networks. I watched the pilot to Mr Sunshine. This script is about as entertaining. I hope half of every episode is about how sports are a business and fans are totally stupid for supporting teams that are bad.
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Feb 17, 2011 12:35
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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 ESPNBoston.com
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Feb 18, 2011 18:08
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AlleyViper posted:I feel like this fits here Wrong Wrong Wrong
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Seriouspost where do Japan Base Ballers have spring training?
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Mar 11, 2011 18:11
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I CHALLENGE THEE posted:At this point I really wish they would just do away with interleague all together because it's getting really drat tired. Or, at the very least, spread it out every couple of years so it's still special. Interleague play was the worst thing to ever happen to baseball since the DH and banning of short pants.
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Mar 14, 2011 20:54
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I literally learned in 4th grade that paragraphs must contain at least two sentences.
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Apr 12, 2011 12:39
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MorningView posted:This isn't actually true, it's just a thing they tell little kids so they won't turn in assigned five paragraph essays that are five sentences long. You shouldn't overdo it though! I know I'm not a journalist, but if I could get paid to write about a sport by scrawling random one-sentence paragraphs about nothing in particular I would love to do it. "Our team sucks? Add more grit. So says this reporter."
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Apr 12, 2011 14:01
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Destroy the entire human race if that's what it takes to get this dude to stop getting paid to write about sports.
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Apr 13, 2011 00:01
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Well, you see, the Pirates are bad and he hates them but the Penguins are good so they deserve a new arena. Sportz journalism.
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Apr 13, 2011 12:43
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It's almost as if he's saying that Babe Ruth won more titles because he played with better supporting talent than Ty Cobb. That would be a logical opinion though.
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Apr 16, 2011 04:49
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euphronius posted:Let me double check here: When Barry Bonds alleged used PEDs they were not banned by baseball right? I have read so much about Bonds "cheating". PEDs were not banned by baseball at the time of the supersluggers in the late 90s-early 00s. Barry was in trouble for lying to congress about it, while Big Mac's "aw shucks" routine somehow got him in no trouble.
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Apr 27, 2011 12:57
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AlleyViper posted:Just gonna go ahead and cross-post this from the N/V thread Ah back to the old "A Rod only hits dingers when it doesn't matter" fallacy. I wonder how many of Barry Bonds' home runs won World Series. Hint, none. By the way the grand slam isn't some mythical mark to set when Travis Hafner has 11 or 12 of them.
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May 4, 2011 01:30
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Funny how it met editorial standards to be posted in the first place.
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May 13, 2011 13:31
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seiferguy posted:I wish this dumbass wasn't writing for the regional newspaper: So I guess we can add "attitude" and "stuff" to a checklist of what makes a good baseball player along with grit, heart, and intangibles?
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May 16, 2011 18:09
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Mornacale posted:If a baseball player said they were taking the year off to read poetry, they would immediately become my favorite baseball player for all time. This is why I forever love Ricky Williams.
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May 22, 2011 19:45
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The DH is a totally worthless position but at the same time it's far more exciting than watching pitchers strike out 4 times a game.
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Jun 28, 2011 11:51
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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. agreed that nothing owns more than seeing a pitcher launch a dinger to improve his batting average to .059
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unhwillneverwin posted:I don't know how anyone can write this with a straight face. B-b-b-b-but he's the captain!!!!!!
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