i'm dying at this one:
During the investigation and answering questions from the media, Brady denied tampering with footballs or having any knowledge of those who did. However, he declined to make his text messages and emails available to NFL investigators.Why, Tom?Why?You know why.I know why.The NFL knows why.Because Brady cheated, that’s why.Just like A-Rod.Just like Barry Bonds.Just like Lance Armstrong.Another one of our nation’s most beloved sports heroes – a true Patriot – has flushed his integrity down the toilet.Bye, bye, Mr. American Pie.
Why, Tom?
Why?
You know why.
I know why.
The NFL knows why.
Because Brady cheated, that’s why.
Just like A-Rod.
Just like Barry Bonds.
Just like Lance Armstrong.
Another one of our nation’s most beloved sports heroes – a true Patriot – has flushed his integrity down the toilet.
Bye, bye, Mr. American Pie.
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 7 May 2015 19:18 (nine years ago) link
the "Why, Tom?" part is the killer
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 7 May 2015 19:19 (nine years ago) link
Tom "AP" Brady
― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 7 May 2015 19:19 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ey3cI9g.png
― mookieproof, Thursday, 7 May 2015 19:50 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CEbc2npVAAA5kY4.jpg:medium
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 7 May 2015 20:35 (nine years ago) link
ugh slothrop, I shoulda recognized the Bye Bye Mr. American Pie one. that's our local columnist Mike Bianchi, who has been an embarrassment for as long as I can remember because he's held the post since I was a child.
I used to write him emails frequently to complain about his most recent horrible analogy, his penchant for hyperbole, or his reactionary writing style (as evidenced with the example above). He's famous mostly for hopping on whatever bandwagon issue crops up and taking a personal stand that often greatly exceeds the scope of whatever the transgression was to begin with.
fucking hate that guy.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 7 May 2015 21:40 (nine years ago) link
the column he wrote the day after Earnhardt died was insufferable. He even had a special modified avatar of his face added to the column, which was usually adorned with his cheesy smiling face....only this time he used a deliberately concocted "sad" face instead. one that wouldn't have been believed in children's theatre, mind you.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 7 May 2015 21:42 (nine years ago) link
i think Jemele Hill is the only person from our local paper who went on to have a solid career.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 7 May 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
yeah that whole thing makes shaughnessy seem restrained. this dude seems like a demon of cheesy shitty banality
― slothroprhymes, Thursday, 7 May 2015 21:52 (nine years ago) link
the other local sportswriter used to call him an idiot on their televised appearances all the time. Bianchi's only retort was usually "you're fat"
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 7 May 2015 21:59 (nine years ago) link
Sports writing is and always will be terrible, because sports contests are extremely rule-bound and essentially near duplicates of one another in everything but the outcome of each contest. All the possible stories have been written hundreds of thousands of times. Consequently, sports writers are stuck in horrible dead end jobs they often become wretched unhappy people.
― Aimless, Friday, 8 May 2015 02:01 (nine years ago) link
so for sportswriting to get better, out with the rules?
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 8 May 2015 15:22 (nine years ago) link
Or, someone could write and AI program to replace sports writers.
― Aimless, Friday, 8 May 2015 16:29 (nine years ago) link
already donehttp://automatedinsights.com/sports/
― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 May 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link
lol yeah Yahoo uses it for Fantasy football
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 8 May 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link
it would occasionally do things like attribute wins to the wrong team or call teams by the wrong name tho
that bye bye american pie abortion of a paragraph is like aspiring to be plaschke and it makes me die a little inside
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 8 May 2015 17:16 (nine years ago) link
that's a masterwork compared to some of of the shit he writes about sports he barely knows
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 8 May 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link
aimless clearly has what it takes to be a (sports or non-) pundit
― mookieproof, Friday, 8 May 2015 18:12 (nine years ago) link
I prefer to be a pandit. Worse pay, but a better job title.
― Aimless, Saturday, 9 May 2015 04:18 (nine years ago) link
http://www.bidoun.org/images/20_nath_02.jpg
― Mademoiselle Coiffures (mattresslessness), Saturday, 9 May 2015 05:15 (nine years ago) link
http://deadspin.com/why-espn-fired-bill-simmons-1703103609
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 9 May 2015 13:12 (nine years ago) link
h8 when ppl attribute me to the wrong team tbh
― italosVEVO (wins), Saturday, 9 May 2015 13:30 (nine years ago) link
envisioning the part of the writing game where people get millions of dollars during salary negotiations is difficult for me
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 11 May 2015 00:22 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CE0Vhj5UgAAPjI3.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link
envisioning the part of the writing game where people get millions of dollars during salary negotiations is difficult for me― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, May 11, 2015 12:22 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, May 11, 2015 12:22 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
you could move to los angeles where all our sports writers do is troll local teams and write one sentence paragraph overly sentimental pieces and win pulitzers
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 16:33 (nine years ago) link
tbf the current lakers are pretty easy to troll
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/sports/soccer/english-soccer-club-sets-up-tight-defense-but-this-one-repels-journalists.html?_r=0&referrer=
Swindon Town, a third-division club that typically plays in front of crowds of fewer than 10,000, has taken some of the most extreme measures yet: In effect, the team has eliminated non-game-day news media access. Reporters, photographers and videographers are largely barred from interviewing any member of the team, the coaching staff or the club’s management, save for a hurried question or two for the manager at a postmatch news conference.
― ive reddit all your posts and I want a crowdfund (dan m), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 16:34 (nine years ago) link
@WhitlockJasonTell Greg Howard that Craggs and Marchman ghostwriting his stuff and rewriting Ta Coates talking points won't save his ass #daddyshome
smdh
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 15:12 (eight years ago) link
http://j.school/post/131134873540/the-explanation-20-still-undefeated
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 16:12 (eight years ago) link
rip grantland
― ive reddit all your posts and I want a crowdfund (dan m), Friday, 30 October 2015 18:35 (eight years ago) link
that sucks. love zach lowe, esp his podcasts, and some of their soccer stuff was p good, and a couple of outstanding tennis features as well iirc
― pandemic, Friday, 30 October 2015 18:39 (eight years ago) link
http://jeffbradleyblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/a-little-ditty-about-out-of-work.html
Interesting take on being out of work/underemployed. Guy is the brother of former USA National team coach Bob Bradley.
― pratt truss it (dan m), Thursday, 12 November 2015 22:28 (eight years ago) link
I would tell you that - not gonna be humble here - my writing was really good. I will also tell you that my other skills - live tweeting, posting random photos of things in the stadium, in the press box - were really bad.
it's a new world
― mookieproof, Thursday, 12 November 2015 22:39 (eight years ago) link
in which michael wilbon and tony kornheiser hold forth on sportswriting
http://povichcenter.org/povichsymposium10
― mookieproof, Monday, 23 November 2015 19:30 (eight years ago) link
https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3073/2767638386_d8efc6fb1f.jpg
― Jeff, Monday, 23 November 2015 20:50 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CadY6_DVIAAjzme.jpg:large
― mookieproof, Friday, 5 February 2016 15:09 (eight years ago) link
bomani jones was tweeting out excerpts of her cam piece all morning, truly vomitous bullshit
― metro slothrop want some more (slothroprhymes), Friday, 5 February 2016 15:13 (eight years ago) link
impressive that espn has found room, amidst their coverage of how the 2011 nfl draft *should* have gone, to cover pro wrestling with a straight face
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 01:41 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CuvR8NmXgAAq0u_.jpg:small
― mookieproof, Friday, 14 October 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
@darrenrovellFastest way to a job today is to provide a team, a player, an agency, great work unsolicited and for free. Great way to be noticed.
― mookieproof, Friday, 27 January 2017 16:10 (seven years ago) link
bloodbath at espn
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 15:14 (seven years ago) link
ed werder looks like biggest name so far
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 15:24 (seven years ago) link
pretty much everyone who covered hockey is gone, which i guess shouldn't be a surprise
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 15:53 (seven years ago) link
hockey writing can safely be left as a Canadian monopoly
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link
lots of quality reporters gone, lots of terrible on-air blowhards get to stay
― passionate plant-based athlete (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 17:18 (seven years ago) link
Jayson StarkFor 17 yrs I've had a dream job covering baseball for ESPN. Today is my last day. Thanks to all the great people at ESPN, MLB & all of you!
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 17:33 (seven years ago) link
damn, i always enjoyed his presence as the esoteric stat nerd
― passionate plant-based athlete (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 17:56 (seven years ago) link
oh no, i liked him a lot. mr positive vibes dork trivia head.
― nomar, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 17:59 (seven years ago) link
espn doubling down on the hot take culture huh?
― Spottie, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 18:06 (seven years ago) link
shams was robbed imo
https://defector.com/presenting-the-2023-shamsy
― mookieproof, Thursday, 28 December 2023 21:03 (eight months ago) link
these pull quotes are amazing
https://defector.com/pro-commanders-spin-somehow-a-bigger-mess-than-commanders
― mookieproof, Monday, 5 February 2024 20:18 (seven months ago) link
“competence, vision and sanity”
― brimstead, Monday, 5 February 2024 23:32 (seven months ago) link
The magnifying glass on her is enormous, but the actual performances examined through the prism of reality have been the overall positive mixed bag almost any top rookie has early on in a pro sports career.
-- ESPN's Michael Voepel on Caitlin Clark
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 20:05 (four months ago) link
strong early contender for a shams
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 20:37 (four months ago) link
wow lol
― brony james (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 20:47 (four months ago) link
just sitting around thinking about refraction
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 21:30 (four months ago) link
I came out of that sentence a changed person, but I can't exactly say how
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 22:01 (four months ago) link