I have probably 25 articles bookmarked that examine the crappiness of the writing present in the world and so I need to briefly get these out of my system.
Peter means pertaining to the draft, but it could just be 7 teams overall in the NFL look interesting to him and it would not shock anyone.
Absolutely, ignore the fact the Panthers have zero quarterbacks on the roster that were drafted (all acquired under John Fox), the fact they have under $3 million in cap room, don't have a first round draft pick, or the fact they have immediate needs at WR, OL, DL and CB...I am sure they are going to somehow be able to turn no first round pick and five picks overall into a quarterback of the future.
Because of the failure of the Jason Taylor deal, the Redskins pick once in the first 75 picks -- at 13. They don't pick again until 79.
"It sounds to me like Jason Taylor doesn't have the commitment or the stomach to keep playing football, especially if he's willing to forfeit that hefty salary. Good luck to him on trying to get $8 million from another team.''
Even if they had kept Jason Taylor, they still would not have this pick. Other than the fact they did not give Jason Taylor a second year in Washington before cutting him, what has changed? Everything Peter writes here is still true, they just don't have to pay him this year to be on the team.
I always have thought Peppers was a little overrated myself but......the Vikings traded a first round pick and two 3rd round picks for Jared Allen. Allen had 284 tackles and 57.5 sacks the first five years of his career and Peppers had 255 tackles and 53.5 (and one season of 2.5 and 14.5 the two years after that) the first five years of his career. I think Peppers is worth at least a first round pick if you compare the two players versus what the Chiefs got in compensation for Allen.
From David Davies of Conway, Ark.: "Why is it, Peter, that it makes perfect sense to you why a GM like A.J. Smith, widely considered to be a boorish dolt of man from all I have read, can be lauded for "not paying (Tomlinson) for production of two or three years ago," but a player like Anquan Boldin can be vilified for asking for more money when he has clearly outplayed his contract.
Peter didn't really answer the question. The reader did not ask if the Cardinals should give Boldin a new contract, he asked why Boldin should not receive more money for outplaying his contract. The reader is asking why writers question the character of Boldin and showing how they treat him for asking for more money, but not asking Peter whether Boldin deserves the money.
So Peppers is not worth a first round pick but Anquan Boldin is?
It's been 11 years since George, a devoted follower of women's basketball, came out. She hopes it's not as long before the ACC women's tournament does the same.
There is no sign at the men's tournament that says, "Welcome Heterosexual White Men With Incomes Over $100,000."
I get what this article is saying...kind of, but what kind of marketing is appropriate in this situation since the tournament does not seem to directly market to any other group of people? That's what I don't get.
Not really, you could ask everyone as they walk in the door.
And lesbians. Alone, in couples and in large groups of friends.
As successful as the women's tournament has been in terms of attendance, Griffin and others believe it would do even better if officials would target lesbians in their marketing.
3. This is one more reason I love conference tournaments. I like it when a very good ranked team loses the tournament to a team that needs to win the tournament to make the NCAA Tournament. This time it is Cleveland State beating Butler. At least Gary Parrish did not write, "Butler did it, in the Horizon, with a basketball," that would have been cheesy. Kudos to him for refraining.
Some people hate automatic bids but if Cleveland State can beat Butler, why can't Maryland beat a team they have played once or twice to win the ACC Tournament? Then you have some idiots who want to have 128 games in the NCAA Tournament, which is too large of a tournament in my opinion. The NCAA Tournament is great because it is brief and exciting, we don't need it to turn into the 2 month long NHL and NBA Playoffs.
I bet you thought I was going to make fun of an article Reilly wrote about a blind kid. Nope, it was right in Reilly's wheel house. He is still overpaid, but this was a great story. Still Reilly could not quite stop being a little condescending and making a borderline offensive comment at the end while trying to be cheesy.
See, he is blind, so girls aren't attracted to him and ignore him, so one girl hearing about him is crazy and unthinkably wonderful. Reilly wants you to know because he is blind, he should be an outcast, but he is not because he shot those two crucial foul shots.
Blind people can't normally go to the prom. Usually they have to stay chained up in the basement when it comes time for prom...but Matt did hit those foul shots, so he is allowed to go to prom.
See...it is a blind date because Matt is BLIND! Get it?
(Reilly writing a story about a deaf baseball player named Jerry) "He now has a girlfriend and is thinking about asking her to marry him and he wants to pay help pay for the wedding. His future in-laws offered to pay for it all, but he wouldn't hear of it. See, he can't hear them because he is deaf!"
5. Bill Plaschke, in the first leg of his trifecta of crap articles he wrote this week, checks in with Andruw Jones.
I don't believe it. There has not been such a thing as a "trim" Andruw Jones since about 2001.
Plaschke, in flashes of journalistic brilliance asks this question probably 5 times in this article. What the hell "sorry" will do I will never know, but Bill really, really wants to hear it.
I can see Bill Plaschke running up the stairs and telling Colletti in his semi-lisp that Andruw Jones is sorry and Colletti responding by asking, "who?" and then getting back on the phone with Pedro Martinez's agent.
Oh poor you. I am sure the Dodgers, who overpaid you by millions last year, did not have such a great year as well.
It doesn't matter what they are. Here are my two and only plausable theories. Andruw Jones was overweight and has been for nearly half a decade now and he has never made any adjustments in his swing to how pitchers have pitched him. It's actually really simple. He turned into a fat guy who can't hit the ball.
Nothing says a slow news day like following around a player the team you cover released a few months ago and repeatedly asking him to apologize.
6. In Plaschke's second turd trifecta he does a puff piece on Mike Scioscia and it is just grand...meaning very puffy.
So this is either the desk of Phil Jackson, Gregg Popovich, Bill Belichick, Bobby Cox, Joe Torre, Tony LaRussa, Terry Francona, Jim Leyland, or Mike Tomlin.
I am sure this speech really won over Artie Moreno when Scioscia applied for the Angels' position as manager.
Please stop. I just ate.
They also happen to play in the same division...wait no they don't...same league...again, no. What a great horrible comparison.
Assuming the Angels would have not lost to a different team in the ALCS, even if they had not lost the ALDS to Boston three times. This is a fairly large assumption. You know what they say about assuming though...when Bill Plaschke assumes, he is an ass, no matter what.
Assuming he retires at the age of 60, which if he is a successful manager doesn't seem too likely.
Brilliant. While other teams are playing checkers, the Angels play baseball.
But the call was typical Scioscia, exactly what has made him successful.
Squeeze or not, he's still a good fit.
7. Now for the final of the Plaschke crap trifecta. He thinks the Dodgers should bring back Pedro Martinez. Not a bad idea overall, but let's see why.
We have a winner for "worst reason to sign Pedro Martinez or any free agent ever." I don't think you should resign a player for making up for trading that player 15 years ago. It seems kind of short sighted to me.
Injury plagued? He will be a perfect fit on the disabled list with Jason Schmidt. Where can the Dodgers sign?
He did look good...against the Netherlands.
Sure he pitched against some little leaguers, but they were state champion little leaguers.
Those six innings over a four day span really cleared up his questions about durability and whether Pedro is worth the money he may want. If the Dodgers are looking for 6 guaranteed innings every 4 days, Pedro is their man.
8. Bill Simmons has a halfway decent (i.e. not easy to make fun of) column up today. For fear of inciting the rage of SimmonsClones, I will talk about it.
This sums up accurately how I feel about 80% of Bill's columns. Yet I still read them.
Watch college basketball. It is worse. Referees in college basketball have no idea how to correctly call dual possession or a charge call. No clue.
I know Bill is just entertaining me here and is absolutely not a journalist, but I want to look at how this number would work out.
I have been attending games since I was 5, and I have NEVER seen a more bummed-out player enter an NBA game than Marcus Camby. Ever.
"The look on Dunleavy's face after Randolph jacked up that awful 3 at the end of the game was priceless. It sort of looked like the same reaction that Ryan from the 'Real World' had when he found out that Katelynn is a tranny.
I can see two SimmonsClones wrote those last two paragraphs. It must be nice to be idolized by men between the ages of 18-25. Overall, not a lot to make fun in this week's column by Bill.
Josh McDaniels is an absolute dumbass for letting any trade scenario with Jay Cutler involved public information. If he thought it would not stay under wraps he should have never had the talks initiated and if he was going to start the talks then he should have approached Jay Cutler and told him what was going on.
For a team like the Broncos that need some new talent, this is a really smart policy.
10. Jay Mariotti thinks no one in the United States cares about the World Baseball Classic. I think he is semi-correct that few people care right now, even though I personally am watching the games.
Baseball picked one of the worst possible times to hold the WBC. It is being held right when college basketball is getting exciting and Spring Training is beginning. Serious sports fans are not going to pay attention to the WBC when the NCAA Tournament is about to start and when their favorite teams are getting ready to start the new baseball season. If they schedule it for early February or maybe December when college football is winding down, I think it would be a different story.
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I thought about it, and unless an area has a specific high concentration of gays and lesbians in a specific locale (like say West Hollywood or southwest Long Beach out here), how the hell would this be done? Full page ads going "Lesbians! Women's College Hoops! Come see if you'd like to get you some of that!!"
Also, if you start targeting lesbians with your advertising, won't that possibly drive away the families and other more "wholesome" attendees? Out here in LaLa land maybe not so much, but I'm just guessing that lesbian videos might go over well in the Carolinas, but lesbians themselves aren't all that out in the open. Hell, are they even enough of a demographic that it would make a difference in attendence if they did start targeting them with advertising? Just guessing again, but, I doubt it.
Yeah, I brainstormed about this as well and could not figure out the exact game plan to do this. I think they could target out in specific areas but then that sounds a lot less like advertising and some form of perverted sexually preference profiling.
I guess my comment is that basketball is not like a product you can go purchase that many people are not aware of. People either get into it or don't, now maybe they could pique the interest of a group by catering more towards them and that is what this article was suggesting. I think the bigger problem is that many lesbians feel the ACC is not acknowledging them, more than targeting the tournament to them, which may be true. I think they are concerned about families going to the game.
I think there is enough of a target demographic, I just feel like the ACC would be better of marketing basketball as a whole to lesbians rather than the ACC Tournament.
I for one thought Bill's article was horrible. Besides not having his facts correct, I just don't get how a normal human goes to a game in person and comes home and watches the game. Its like he taped the game hoping they would show him on TV or something, then watched it when he got home to find out and decided to write an article on it since he was out of ideas for the week.
Oh, and I dont know about you or anyone else, but since Bill can make an across the board statement about who people will go see if they are in town...I'll say this, no way people see Duncan, Howard, and Durant coming to town and go "we can't miss this game".
Other things that are completly stupid...Everyone in his section thinks the Clippers will lose, i guess he talked to everyone...yet there is a guy txting on his blackberry behind him who isn't paying attention to the game. He complains about 3 point shooting, he should take a look at some of the players on his beloved Boston team as well as some of his favorite players (i.e. Lebron. The Cavs apparntly only have 5 plays (like most teams actually), yet none of the 5 plays he listed contain their 2nd best player and 2nd and 4th highest scorers. No way does he and his friend tealk about how much they paid for season tickets (umm 12k? ummm thats $300 a ticket...no chance in hell). And to say it was all worth it to see Lebron play one game...so basically they would pay 12K to watch Lebron play. If that is the case, why not move out to Cleveland and buy season tickets?
At the 1:34 section he says V had a block...no he didnt, Kamen lost the ball. He talks about how Thornton was pulled at some point even though he was their best player that night...yet we get this gem a few mins later "LeBron drives by Thornton for the 330th time tonight". I would have pulled him too, since the guy doesn't seem to be a very good defender (and I'm aware he was pulled be accident, but he was NOT the best Clipper that night). The :20 post is even better...he complains about how Davis didn't post up Gibson but once in the game (was saying its the coachs fault for not calling that play over and over), yet here we have Davis taking matters into his own hands on defense to guard Lebron...ummm why didnt Davis do that on offense too, you know, cuz he is the point guard, and the PG usually calls the play.
Then he spends time ripping on the last play and the fact Dun put in a 3 point specialist that was sitting the whole game. Ummm every coach in the league does that, and I'm almost 100% certain the play called in the huddle was not Zach shoot a 3 pointer. I dont know, this is an article about how bad the coach is, when just about everything that went on in this game showed just how bad the players are on the Clippers. Its not the coaches fault his guys can't defend, it's not his fault they can't run simple in bounds plays, not his fault his PG is an over rated player that can't call his own game, or the fact he was given a roster of horrible players that don't know the concept of a team. The Clippers suck, and to me the blame lies on the players. I mean Bill just wrote a whole article on Baron, and in that article Baron himself says he doesn't try to win. This is the coaches fault? Every team in the league blows a game like this every year, it happens.
For a guy that considers himself a NBA geek, why doesn't he write about more then just the Clippers and Celtics?
AJ, I did not hate the article that much because I knew it was Bill's typical drivel. Honestly, I am about tired of complaining that Bill only pays attention to 2-3 NBA teams, yet claims to know about every team, only to have some Simmons fan respond saying that I am stupid because Bill is just an entertainer, not a writer. I have become incredibly tired of reading his same articles week after week were he makes claims that this was the best game/play/event ever and other hyperbole like that.
I just scanned his article and did not feel like doing a whole write up on it. Maybe if I had analyzed it more, I would have realized how bad it was.
You seem to have some valid points, I wish I had watched the game. I know everyone blames Dunleavy for everything going wrong, and part of it is his fault, but I am sure the play was not for a 3Pt shot by Randolph and he can't control what the other team does. It seems like the team has given up as well, so they are partially to blame...Bill won't blame them. I saw nothing wrong with Novak coming off the bench to shoot a 3P shot, I don't know who else should come in. Why would you bring in someone who can't shoot as well, just because they have played more?
It probably was a shit article but didn't seem so bad at first inspection.
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