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Post by coachcb on Oct 2, 2009 7:42:30 GMT -6
Let me preface this by stating that I DESPISE sport's writers...There are several in the state that may suffer a Caribbean-Religion-esk downfall if I have to hear any more of their crap....
1.We're 3-2 on the year, having lost to two teams with a combined record of 7-3; both solid playoff contenders. The rest of our schedule is pretty polar; we play 3 teams and the best one has won 2 games, the other two are 0-5. We also have the top two teams in the state left on the schedule. So, at worst, we're really looking at a 5-5 record on the yea, assuming something terrible happens to us. The top 8 teams out of a 14 team league make the playoffs. This year, you have a solid shot at making the playoffs with a 4-6 record; the bottom tier of the state is terrible.
But according to a local sports writer, we're going to be lucky to make it into the playoffs, after 13 consecutive appearances and playing for 3 out of the last 4 state titles.
2. I am SICK TO DEATH of hearing about the 'spread offense." Any team that lines up in one shotgun set is now a spread team. Two teams that are 0'fer in the season run Air Raid style spread, are terrible on offense and all we hear about is their 'potentially explosive offense." We've been runniung 11 personnel as a base for 15 years, but because we don't line up in the gun much and have a balanced attack, we're a 'power running team'. Talk about hypocricy; all of the sports writers need to go away.
3.A local team that is 0-5 on the season has gotten the top billing on the front of the sport's page for 2 out of the last 5 weeks. All because they run a 'mix and match spread offense..' What ever the f--k that means... Another local team that runs Wing T beat us in double overtime last week, but because they don't run a 'modern offense', they get very little ink.
I really hate sport's writers, I really, really do....
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Post by brophy on Oct 2, 2009 7:51:28 GMT -6
Let me preface this by stating that I DESPISE sport's writers...
I am SICK TO DEATH of hearing about the 'spread offense."
I really hate sport's writers, I really, really do....  I wish I could say I was amused, tickled, or humored by seeing a blizzard of text, filled with football buzzwords and sports cliches and STILL never manage to say anything of any substance - but it only seems to encourage the proliferation of idiocy and retardation of a legitimate sports discussion. |
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Post by coachcb on Oct 2, 2009 7:55:36 GMT -6
YA MAAN, WE GOIN' TA DO TERRRRRIBLE T'INGS TO DEM!! GET DEM PINS IN DAT VOODOO DOLL!!!
(No racism intended)
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Post by utchuckd on Oct 2, 2009 7:58:41 GMT -6
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Post by mariner42 on Oct 2, 2009 8:57:18 GMT -6
Local paper got a rise out of me when talking about a game this last weekend where a kid set the county receiving record with 10 catches, 310 yards, and 6 TDs, saying that the defending team who single covered this kid "elected to use a much more bold strategy than (our team), who doubled (the kid) every play". Really? You couldn't mention that we also held him without a catch and stopped their QB's string of 300 yard passing games? We're cowards because we figuratively made them play left-handed?
Ah well, at least we didn't give up 60 in our cowardice.
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Post by John Knight on Oct 2, 2009 9:29:03 GMT -6
My voodoo dolls would all have little black and white striped shirts on!
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Post by dread on Oct 6, 2009 15:36:26 GMT -6
At least you guys get media attention...
Over in Europe there are some leagues that have to write their own articles and send them to the newspapers.
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Post by formrbcbuc on Oct 11, 2009 18:23:04 GMT -6
Coming from someone near the Mexican border, if the Voodoo don't work, try Santeria, all you need is some Native American god disguised as catholic saints, some virgin mary candles (available at any mexican food store), and you have an excuse to buy a bottle or two of tequila...
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Post by coachinghopeful on Oct 12, 2009 0:28:05 GMT -6
As someone who was actually considering a career in journalism and had a friend who'd been the entire sports dept. at a small town newspaper, I wouldn't be so hard on them.
Speaking from personal experience, journalism is one of those careers where intelligence, work ethic, or talent isn't nearly as important as having connections and knowing how to get a rise out of people. Just look at the success of ESPN, FoxNews, or high profile blowhards like Skip Bayless. You think any of those people/institutions got where they are simply by being well informed, reasonable, and fair? That doesn't sell newspapers or win ratings!
In journalism, if a guy is a total moron, he's likely to take flack for it from the readers. If he were writing about, say, a murder trial or a "hard news" story, this would be a major problem. However, if it's sports, opinion, or entertainment oriented this is an asset to that guy from a career standpoint. If a writer gets a lot of nasty letters, or a gallery of dumb@$$es nodding in agreement, his bosses will look at him as a draw for the newspaper. If anything, he's likely to get a raise for it.
However, don't think they have it too easy. I have a friend who used to be the sports editor for a local small town newspaper, which meant he basically WAS the entire sports dept. and had to write all the articles and columns himself. If you think dealing with the parents of football players is annoying, imagine dealing with the extended families of every athlete at the school on a daily basis for under $20k a year! Among his weekly correspondence:
1. A friend of his boss tried to get him fired because he wouldn't write articles on the "QB Controversy" at the local HS. This was because the guy's son had been moved from QB to WR while the baseball coach's son started (and played well on a bad team).
2. An alderman who got mad that the volleyball team his daughter played on didn't get as much press as the football team or the dominant boys' basketball and baseball teams. This alderman also lobbied my friend's boss to fire him.
3. The head football coach at the HS routinely sent him very badly spelled, punctuated, and threatening letters over the way he was covering his team in the midst of a 1-9 season. I read the stuff in question and they were professionally written, accurate, and respectful. HC was very, very insecure and got forced out a couple of years later.
4. An assistant coach on the basketball team, which happened to be in the middle of a run to the Regional finals, tried to go behind his boss' back and have articles written to expose a BS "scandal" at the school so he could get the head basketball coach fired and take his job. There was no evidence there besides this assistant's B.S. "anonymous source inside the program" crap.
5. A former star pitcher on the baseball team back when they won state in the 80s, who called every day for a year trying to talk my friend into writing an article on his old team. The article, of course, would focus primarily on our former star pitcher's heroic efforts and mention his little used car lot on the outskirts of town.
Then there were the other parents who just griped about their kids' playing time in whatever sport as if it were a major news story, the ones who got mad that the MS, Freshman, and JV teams didn't get any press, etc.
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