Dave Zukauskas writes,
“Adrian Dater, a Denver sportswriter, wrote something about ESPN yesterday, and then added more today.
The newspaper has since taken the two columns down from their web site, but a few blogs (The Big Lead, Dear Lord Stanley) hopped on what he said, and have excerpts.
You™re nothing more than a bunch of pathetic piggybackers, trying to fool that gullible sports audience out there – of which you have legions of the duped tuning in daily. Oh, and here™s a little shout out to guys like the Bill Simmonses of the world – guys who never did the real work of journalism but just love to sit from their on-high funnyman thrones and crack wise on the doings of those who could: Hey, I™m from New England – I AM YOUR DEMOGRAPHIC – and I™m even tired of your act. Thanks, Bill, for the 113th œcolumn on a Vegas trip last weekend. Hench, J-Bug, the line at McCarran, Seventh Circle of Hell, oh, it™s all so fresh and funny, my man. Yes it was, the first 23 times I read it.
“Dear Lord Stanley” saved a screen shot of one of the original columns that was taken down.
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You can take your ESPN and all the alleged superiority that comes from being on it every day and you can shove it in that little space where there is very little sunlight, ever.
Oh, and good luck making it in your business when the wrinkles start to show a little.
“Go and hang out by Jorge Posada’s locker, as I did tonight, and ask why he stranded the bases loaded in the eighth inning to cost the Yankees a game.”
That’s this guy’s idea of incisive journalism? How would anyone answer that question?
And in any case, I guarantee he actually posed it in the form of the most awesome non-question question ever, “So, Jorge, talk about …. “
“That’s this guy’s idea of incisive journalism? How would anyone answer that question?”
Dude, being in a locker room in Denver is practically like being in Beruit or Gaza.