We will be the first to admit, as some of you have pointed out, that soccer isn™t necessarily our strong suit. This is because we grew up in the United States, enjoy watching sports on television and still think it™s almost perverse that they created a sport that doesn™t allow you to use your hands.
Of all the critiques aimed at soccer over the years, the above is certainly the most cutting, if not the most original. “A sport that doesn’t allow you to use your hands.” As opposed to professional blogging, a pursuit that doesn’t allow you to use your brain.
For the record, I grew up in the United States, enjoy watching sports on television and still think knee-jerk soccer bashing is far less offensive than someone bragging about having an empty skull.
(What, pray tell, is Deadspin’s strong suit?)
But really, don’t let the rest of the universe’s appreciation of the game in question in any way affect your smug sense of superiority — that’s not a problem for America these days, after all. Every time they show footage of David Wells on CNN International, there’s someone in another country (say, Canada for instance) who can’t fathom why we give a hoot.
(What, pray tell, is Deadspin’s strong suit?)
My guess is the annoying habit of using the royal we.
one is not amused!
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Where do you look to find these Deadspin articles? I mean, I click to go over there, and the entire page is filled with plugs for Oddjack disguised as articles and ads for Screenhead and every other Gawker Media web site.
When Bloggers Attack (Each Other). Wow, do you see the irony in all of this? Anyone? What, pray tell, is
Deadspin’sCTSB’s strong suit? Aren’t blogs that make fun of real events/real news sources kind of all the same?!?I think I’ve got a couple of strong suits. For one thing, an actual point of view. Another is that I’m not so quick to dismiss something merely because I can’t be bothered to figure it out.
The other strong suit is that I provide cowards like yourself with a forum in which you can express your deep, deep thoughts.
Other than that, however, we’re all alike.
Coward?!? Look in the mirror, CSTB. Or, is that GC? You jock fuck. Go kick a soccer ball. And go sign really, really bad indie rock talent while you’re at it. You’re better at that than ‘writing’ a blog. Maybe you can do something that doesn’t involve copying/pasting 99% of the content (?)
If you haven’t noticed, any CSTB postings about Deadspin link back to the original Deadspin article. Any interested Deadspin/Gawker types can easily run a link search and find out what’s being said about them, and I’m sure they do. Not only that, but CSTB posts show up within the Deadspin site itself, as part of the “Deadspin Guide to the Web”… so how could any of what CSTB is saying in regards to Deadspin be considered cowardly?
Meanwhile, “Mr. Roper”, your identity is hidden from the rest of us readers when you leave your comments. You haven’t explained why you are so invested in what’s being said about Deadspin that it makes you run around the Internet all day leaving comments in defense of Deadspin. You won’t even own up to your comment by leaving a link behind your name, like I do and almost everyone else does. So what’s behind your sneaky little chickenshit facade, anyway?
Rophynol my dear,
the 1% of CSTB that isn’t cut and pasted from elsewhere is hardly anonymous, unlike your witless posts. A quick visit to “About CSTB” to the right of the masthead fully reveals the identity of the much acclaimed cutter & paster.
I’m not sure what could be hotter than being called a Jock Fuck. I’m kinda turned on, to tell you the truth.
re : “and go sign really, really bad indie rock talent while you’re at it”.
I dunno, maybe you’d like to show me how?
Through the process of having a peak at IP addresses, the person identifying his or herself as “Mr. Roper” turns out to be the same individual who has graced the CSTB comments section under the names “Rog”, “Fucky”, “Dick”, “Lenny”, and most strangely, “hstencil” (though a handful of the comments credited to hstencil are really from hstencil).
anyhow, not to spoil the intrigue or anything, but I think a cursory glance at this person’s history of message board trolling will put the “sneaky chickenshit facade” into perspective.