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morestuff posted:I spent a couple years working on a few different sports desks. The younger reporters were almost always wackos whose lives revolved around sports sports SPORTS, while the older editors were uniformly awesome, funny, well-rounded people. Bill Madden is old and loving horrible I'm not sure your theory holds.
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The broken bones posted:I personally love this one: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1158635/index.htm This is a really wonderful profile piece about a kid from South Africa who plays baseball you should all read.
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Aug 11, 2010 17:57
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Criminal Minded posted:I'm only just now finding out that Reggie Willits isn't black You'll forget and be surprised when someone brings it up again later.
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Aug 11, 2010 19:10
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The broken bones posted:I thought Dick Allen was white for a long time too I take it that was before you found out about how he was treated by the Phillies org and fans?
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Aug 11, 2010 19:16
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Gift is like the black Reggie Willits. I hope he makes the show more than anyone not named Disco Hayes. I just checked in on him and he is playing for State College this year! He seems to be doing pretty well given his level of experience: http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=ngoepe001gif I missed him when State College was in town to play Brooklyn 
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Aug 11, 2010 21:16
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Bigass Moth posted: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. JD Drew sucks because he's just so boring 
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Aug 12, 2010 18:04
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I assume he published it because he knew full well she wasn't going to send any of that stuff over, whether they exist or not. As far as I know none of it has materialized yet, though I don't keep up. Which, you know, makes it even worse.
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Aug 13, 2010 17:54
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Rick Reilly has also written some fantastic articles. Just like Simmons, it's a shame that he mails it in so loving much. It feels like he writes at least one column a month about how much he hates baseball. Poor baby, being all forced to watch a sport he hates.
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Aug 13, 2010 22:10
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I CHALLENGE THEE posted:You could basically say the same thing about all of the Gawker network but for whatever reason idiots still throw money at them Most people just keep going where they've always gone. If Deadspin et al were suffering traffic wise they'd change direction but I guess people really enjoy the weekly "I was going to hook up with this totally hot [I swear] chick but then I pooped my pants!" stories.
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Aug 13, 2010 23:24
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The ESPN NY baseball section is actually the opposite of homery. They didn't actually hire anyone away from the local media.
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Aug 13, 2010 23:46
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R.A. Dickey posted:Sure they did. Adam Rubin (NY Daily News), Ian O'Connor (NJ Bergen Record), Wallace Matthews (NY Post)? No, they were all already working for ESPN in various radio capacities and slid over full time. Wallace Matthews was writing for Newsday and left before he was hired for ESPN NY duties. He threw a fit about the Dolans wanting their writers to be less negative or whatever. When they started ESPN Boston they make a big deal that they poached big names, they utterly failed to poach anyone from the local media in New York. If they even bothered to try, I guess.
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Aug 14, 2010 00:26
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Marc Carig rules and is writing more opinion pieces and you should all pay attention to him: http://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/2010/09/views_why_the_yankees_shouldn.htmlquote:Over Labor Day weekend, through both my Twitter feed and the reader comments on my blog, I've read lots of groaning about how the Yankees don't bunt nearly enough. He talks a lot about how people who want more bunts are silly.
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Sep 7, 2010 21:44
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stuart scott irl posted:They took it down now, but someone posted a whole thing on the ESPN rumor mill ruminating on whether the Phillies would pick up Rollins' 2011 option, apparently unaware that they already did that in January. For whatever reason that reminds me of this: 
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Sep 15, 2010 18:17
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The broken bones posted:Who was the old school writer dude who wrote the "vorp blorp shmorp" article? Bruce Jenkins? http://sportsargumentwiki.com/index.php?title=Bruce_Jenkins
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Sep 15, 2010 20:46
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I consider SKANK to be a very important statistic so Bruce Jenkins was right.
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Sep 15, 2010 22:27
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Wally Pipp was actually benched for sucking by Miller Huggins.
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Sep 16, 2010 05:56
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I've seen them put a gay couple on the kisscam at Staten Island at least once. If Staten Island can do this and not explode, so can you St Louis.
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Sep 16, 2010 17:45
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I think between innings stuff is only a problem I you go to a lot of games. I see the same poo poo all the time at Yankee Stadium and RCBP but that's just because I go so often. It's for the people who go a few times a year, which is probably most of the people at any given game.
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Sep 16, 2010 21:01
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I think it's fake!! So let me publish it anyway!!! I thought he was going away?
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Sep 17, 2010 19:13
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He said he was going away for a while but then never actually went away.
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Sep 17, 2010 21:56
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Badfinger posted:I can't quite point out the way that article is stupid, but I know it is. Because Adam Dunn isn't near the end of his career. He hasn't even put in 10 years of service time. It's pretty goofy to write an article like that when the only possible conclusion is ~time will tell~.
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Sep 18, 2010 16:51
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stuart scott irl posted:also his career OBP is .381 and Cameron talks about him like he's just a home run hitter or something Well he also doesn't seem to know how loving good Gary Sheffield was so I just ignored that whole thing.
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Sep 18, 2010 18:22
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I just read a post on Fangraphs that is "Mariano Rivera is a good pitcher because he does whatever he wants with his pitches" (not as true for the two seamer but you get my point). I guess I'm supposed to be impressed by the color maps but it contains zero new info. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/riveras-cutters-working-the-count/ e: There's a chance I'm also tired of seeing 7,000 articles about Mariano. It's like everyone's backup. Hey, let's put up something about how Mariano is a freak leokitty fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Sep 20, 2010 |
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Sep 20, 2010 20:05
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Yeah I mean the hot spot graphs are cool, the guys who do Pending Pinstripes use them a lot. It's just info that a huge amount of outlets have already done, in even cooler ways. Like the NY Times and that big writeup.
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Sep 20, 2010 20:13
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It is really weird to see a guy described as "one of the leading authorities on LeBron James".
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Oct 6, 2010 18:06
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If THN is like the Sweet Spot for baseball, it was probably started as a labor of love by one of their basketball writers. Now the dudes in suits have decided that they have to give the Heat Index all of the possible Miami Heat related traffic and welp.
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Oct 6, 2010 18:21
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Badfinger posted:In conclusion, Will Carroll is a fat stupid rear end in a top hat. Been this way for a while!
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Oct 12, 2010 16:26
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My question is how has Filip Bondy held a job writing his bullshit for so long?
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Oct 14, 2010 21:52
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A drat FOG posted:Haha oh my god, this is so great it might be a troll. It is a troll it's Filip Bondy. Here's his recent article history: http://bit.ly/9fyxi7
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Oct 14, 2010 21:55
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bishnu posted:I guess this should be posted here. The Washington Post has just announced a content exchange partnership with...The Bleacher Report? That is terrible. 
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Oct 19, 2010 17:37
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I'm sure their quality is just going to go through the roof now!
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Oct 21, 2010 16:21
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quote:Jaworski: I saw it from Ben when we met with him Sunday, I texted him all along while having those issues and I think he’s a guy that has matured.  1) Describing his behavior as "having those issues" makes me want to puke. 2) Texting!!!!
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Nov 9, 2010 19:54
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Be careful to puff her up with lots of praise and then, when you find a convenient place, do not hesitate to take what you seek and to embrace her by force. For you can hardly soften their outward inflexibility so far that they will grant you their embrace quietly or permit you to have the solaces you desire unless first you use a little compulsion as a convenient cure for their shyness.
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Nov 9, 2010 20:45
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The broken bones posted:why is it that Philadelphia is like the only place on the planet where black baseball players get undeserved praise and white baseball players are treated with contempt? Guilt over their horrible treatment of Dick Allen
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Nov 18, 2010 02:52
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Murray Chass' 2009 Hall of Fame Ballot: Jack Morris, Jim Rice I think that explains him completely.
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Nov 19, 2010 21:27
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haljordan posted:Is he one of those NO PLAYER GETS IN ON THE FIRST BALLOT jagoffs? Don't think so, he was a writer for the NY TImes for 40 or 50 years or something so he has only been able to vote since 2008 when he was fired.
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Nov 19, 2010 21:42
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Badfinger posted:Oh hey guys, just passing through. Gonna leave this here on my way out don't mind me. I ... I thought that was written by the Doyel troll but when I clicked I learned that, no, it is from Scott Miller. Jesus
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Dec 2, 2010 23:09
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Smoltz just got a hell of a lot cooler in my eyes. Not that he wasn't cool or whatever to begin with. He is really bad in the booth even if he's not a bad guy, but if he's trying like that it gives me hope he'll get better. David Cone wasn't good his first year and then he was awesome and then he was gone
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Dec 8, 2010 16:56
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Lee of course would have been a good signing for the Yankees but nonstop hyperbole is coming out of asses across the area today, he's just following the trend.
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