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    Game Thread 8/8/06 Sox-Yanks

    in 2006 Season in Review

    Posted · Edited by kyyle23

    QUOTE(SoxHawk1980 @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 08:31 PM)
    The criticism of this team is well earned. I don't know how any fan can be optimistic about the rest of this season given how this team has played and how it has been managed. We all WANT the Sox to get to the playoffs. But if you follow the team and actually watch the games, I don't see how one can actually think it is going to happen.

     

    I didnt realize I needed all of my fellow Sox fans to rub it in my nose as well?

     

    See, you always flip around "Dont trash the Sox" with "Gee, the Sox are AWESOME!".

     

    I can see the problems, but I dont enjoy trashing the Sox and hoping bad things will happen to the team and that the manager gets fired. That sounds like a Cubs fan.

    Game Thread 8/8/06 Sox-Yanks

    in 2006 Season in Review

    Posted

    QUOTE(Cerbaho-WG @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 07:56 PM)
    Ok, Mr. Omnscient, please tell us your sage advice because Wang has been arguably the Yankees' best pitcher and is bound to settle down. I mean there's no sense in running because no one has even stolen a base off of Jorge Posada. Hell, everyone knows Ozzie personally sent Cintron there.

     

    Will you shut the hell up? If you want to have a cynical wankathon where you hope for the Sox to lose so you can tell us how big your cock is, please go somewhere else. Cynicism is one thing, but it's another for some idiot possibly still in High School to parade around like he's the pinnacle of baseball logic.

     

    Ha, someone said it. LOL

    Game Thread 8/8/06 Sox-Yanks

    in 2006 Season in Review

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    QUOTE(TitoMB345 @ Aug 8, 2006 -> 07:25 PM)
    I am finally over the Ozzie Guillen Craze. If he stays next year, I will be highly disappointed. The guy flat out can't manage. Period. Nothing he does is above average. Who's available though? Razor Shines?

     

    thats overeacting if you ask me

    Films

    in SLaM

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    QUOTE(farmteam @ Aug 6, 2006 -> 03:04 PM)
    Anyone ever see Everything is Illuminated? The preview looked kinda good.

     

    I also saw Porky's for the first time this week, and it was hilarious. The scene in the principal's office (right after the shower scene) is classic.

     

    Is that the movie with Elijah Wood as a guy who is searching for pieces of his family's history pre-holocaust?

    Ahh Mariotti's Back...

    in Pale Hose Talk

    Posted · Edited by kyyle23

    QUOTE(wallyburger @ Aug 6, 2006 -> 09:33 AM)
    Because it is his opinion, not yours or someone else's. Sun Times pays him for his opinion. He doesn't have to be balls on accurate or coddle the local sports product, to be an op/ed columnist. What he seems to do is ask questions that others might ask from an outside view, and then supplies his take. Beat writers do interviews or report on what a player said. They can have opinions, but rarely express them in their journals. They are reporters. Jay is not a reporter. Beat writers would not be exactly welcome in clubhouses or on chatered planes if they wrote the stuff Jay does. They are where they are by the grace of the players and management. If you want puff pieces, go to a beat writer. Ask a beat writer if he would rather be a columnist who does not have to stay on the good side of players and management to do his job.

     

    As a reader, you can ignore his articles. Box scores and beat writers will supply all the recap info you need. Jay , supposedly, got a raise and contract extension by the Sun Times. Someone at that paper made a decision that his articles were worth their while., at least to their revenue stream. It seems they don't care wheteher he is liked or despised, as long as he is read.

     

    Look, the guy ripped my esteemed U of Miami football team the other day. I thought he was way off base and was using stale outdated perception, but I really didn't expect him to go to the Huricane off season workouts to adjust his perception. Perception is what it is. Just Jay being Jay. Ozzie and Jay are trwins seperated at birth.

     

    i couldnt agree with this more.

     

    It is strange to me that you can appreciate and enjoy Jay for what he is, yet you despise Ozzie, but you think they are one and the same. ;)

    Ahh Mariotti's Back...

    in Pale Hose Talk

    Posted · Edited by kyyle23

    QUOTE(wallyburger @ Aug 6, 2006 -> 08:24 AM)
    I am under the impression that beat writers need to follow the team on the road and show up in the clubhouse. I don't think that is appropriate or necessary for a columnist/op ed writer.

     

    No Wally, it isnt necassary for a columnist to be in the clubhouse(although I dont know why you would think it would be inappropriate for a columnist to show up in the clubhouse, when every other columnist in CHicago aside from Mariotti shows up).

    But is it appropriate to write columns as if you interviewed someone or as if you were in the clubhouse experiencing the atmosphere if you werent there? Think about how many times Mariotti uses the phrase "The mood in the clubhouse is.....". The guy is never there. It is one thing to speculate on happenings in the clubhouse, it is a completely different animal to get your report from someone else or from the television and make your own conclusions about it.

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