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freepassbound · 10 months
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what's something you hated/loved but now, you're okay with it?
I mean, I could list probably dozens of food items in response to that (I was a very picky eater as a kid 😅): dark chocolate, spicy food, anything beyond basic American food 😅...
I don't think I've changed much activities-wise... or at least I can't think of any? To be honest, I don't do much... 😬🤷‍♂️
And trying to think of something that went the other way (loved -> okay)... I guess fast food was big for me when I was a kid (especially McDonalds) and now I am very meh about it.
I could say, watching baseball and professional basketball - I do think the math nerds have taken a lot of fun out of both games (and I say that as a math nerd)... but to be totally honest, it also probably has a lot to do with the fact that my teams both suck, have sucked for years, and show no signs of stopping sucking anytime soon. If that situation ended, I imagine I'd love to watch them again.
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bloggerblagger · 3 years
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91)      Is this the man who scuppered the Super League?
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Question: Which of the really big teams  did not join the breakaway? Answer: Bayern Munich, Ajax, PSG. 
Of these, whose owners were most threatened by the Superleague? Answer: PSG. Why? Because they are owned by the Qataris and Qatar host the World Cup in 2022. The second to last thing the Qataris  want is to fall out with FIFA now. And the very last thing  they want is Messi, Ronaldo, Kane et al being barred from playing in their World Cup. So it seems to me highly likely that  Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, Emir of Qatar, needed to do something.
Next question: Which team was the first to pull the rug from under the Super League? Chelsea*. Who makes the decisions at Chelsea? I think we all know the answer to that.  
Do we really think Roman is the kind of man who would bow to pressure from  a few hundred fans demonstrating outside Stamford Bridge? On the other hand we do  know, do we not, that there is one man whose bidding even Roman Abramovic has to do.
It may have escaped your notice - it had mine - that there has been a marked thawing of relations between Qatar and Russia over the last couple of years. But a quick bit of Googling will tell you that there has been. The Qataris have quite a lot of investments in Russia apparently.
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So I do not think it beyond the bounds of possibility that a telephone conversation has taken place over the last day or so, that went along these lines:
“Hello, Vlad speaking.”
“Watcha Vlad, me old cocker, it’s the Emir ‘ere. I need a bit of a favour.”
And then a second call might have followed.
“Roman?”
“Yes, Your Esteemed Excellency, Master of All  You Survey?”
“You know this Super League your plaything is joining?”
“Yes, Your Magnificence, Emperor of the Universe, isn’t it a wonderful idea? Many millions are the roubles that will be cascading into our joint bank account.”
“Hm. Well, I’ve been thinking that it might not be that wonderful an idea after all.”
“Do you know,  Your Tremendousness, Supreme Leader with Knobs On, now you come to mention it, it is an absolutely terrible idea.”
Of course, this is pure conjecture on my part. `But I think it is a damn sight more plausible than the idea that these ruthless billionaire owners would have been put off their stroke by a rabble of pissed up football fans.
 * Although, technically, Manchester City were the first club to pull out, they only did it after Chelsea had publicly signalled their intent to do so by preparing documentation to withdraw.
The myth of the pyramid.
Everybody has got their knickers in a twist over  the proposed Super League being a closed shop. Although actually it would have been only a partially closed shop, because although fifteen  teams would have  been guaranteed their place,  the plan  did leave room for a changing roster of  five poor relations to be allowed in. Apparently, the whole thing  was an unforgivable affront to the great traditions of the British game.
Au contraire.
Until 1986 the Football League was a closed shop. A completely closed shop. The only way any one of the ninety two clubs could be removed was if they were voted out by the other members, and routinely, for many years, even the club that finished ninety second was voted back in. Only after 1986 was there a right to promotion to the Football League for the team that won the Conference.
Yes, there was relegation and promotion between the divisions within the closed shop, but if you didn’t have the golden ticket, there was no way of gaining admission as of right.
So if this league of twenty had been divided into two divisions of ten (the size of the Scottish Premiership) with promotion and relegation between those two divisions, it would have every bit in the English tradition. Except the Super League  was prepared to guarantee  a ladder to five teams every year. Which was exactly five more than the old Football League did. 
Blame it all on the Yanks.
‘Overpaid. Over sexed. And over here.’ That was the phrase used to describe the GIs who came to Britain in the war. And at the root of that, quite obviously, was envy.
Not much has changed. The rapacious  American owners have been fingered as the villains of the piece, wanting to undermine our cherished Corinthian ideals with their alien way of  doing sport.
In fact, the NFL, although it lacks the ‘jeopardy’ of relegation which is apparently essential to the British enjoyment of football, is much fairer than our Premiership. (Side note: In 60 odd years of watching football, I have never before heard the word ‘jeopardy’ used in connection with it, never mind it being so incredibly important.)
In the NFL - and I believe in baseball and basketball - there is a built in concept of competitive fairness. Basically the team that does worst in one season gets the pick of the new players for the next, via the ‘draft’ from the College teams. That way each team has a chance of success. And there is a salary cap. It’s quite complicated but the basic idea is that each team must spend approximately the same  total on player wages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salary_cap#National_Football_League
Behind all this is the rather socialist ( and seemingly unAmerican idea) that the collective good is important for the individual good.  The product they are selling is the NFL and for that to be interesting to people it needs to be competitive.
Compare that to our ludicrously unfair system where money rules. Only the teams with the big money can win the big prizes. Yes, Leicester won the Premiership a few years ago. But that was the only time in 30 years. That was the exception that proves the rule.
No, these rather egalitarian  ideals were not part of the Super League proposals. We were to get the worst of their system and none of the good bits. But to reflexively dismiss the American way of doing things as being ‘greedy’ and necessarily inferior to ours is just plain stupid.
Was the whole thing really Boris’s idea?
If it had been I would have been rather impressed because it would have implied a degree of competence that he certainly doesn’t have. But honestly, he couldn’t haven’t dreamed up anything more useful to him.
At the very moment when the ’Tory sleaze’ story is beginning to have some traction along comes this Super League nonsense to divert the credulous nation. And it’s  not just any old diversion but the perfect way to put another brick or two in the once red wall. Boris as saviour of the people’s game! 
Now he can order Oliver Dowden to rush off to parliament to fulminate about the awfulness of it all and threaten to send gunboats to Anfield. And Boris himself can invite flat capped footie fans to Downing Street to tell them he is going to drop a ‘legislative bomb’ and promise his undying support.  
The truly amazing thing is that, listening to the Chief Someone or Other of the National Supporters Something or Other on Radio 4 at lunchtime, it seemed  to me like they actually believed him. They seem completely oblivious to his being a compulsive bare faced liar. (“There will no border down the Irish Sea Etc.”)
I can see him in his Downing Street flat right now, bitterly complaining to Carrie.
“Fucking Putin. Why did he have to sticking his sodding oar in? We could have strung this out for another month.”
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thefootballlife · 4 years
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Why I’m tapping out on Scottish football
This isn’t a site that has ever really done much in the way of profanity but, at this time, it perhaps feels like that should be well and truly broken.
Because, at this juncture, I think I may just have to call it on my love of Scottish football. In a way, it’s been coming - I’ve not subscribed to a service that offers live Scottish football for some considerable time and my following of highlights has, this season in particular, spotty at best. I’m a Celtic fan but can count the number of games I’ve watched this season on one hand.
On the other hand (the one not being used for counting), I’m proudly Scottish and proudly a Celtic fan but, fuck me, I think I’m done.
As no-one could avoid, we are in the midst of a pandemic. As no-one could avoid in Scotland only, we are in the midst of a footballing existential crisis. Arguably, the SPFL are the only party handling Coronavirus worse than Donald Trump, and he literally told people to inject themselves with Toilet Duck then tried to walk it back claiming it was sarcasm in spite of the fact that he’s meant to be the leader of the free world and that sarcasm isn’t included on his role profile. The SPFL’s crisis stems, of course, from the Dundee email vote saga, a saga that would have been averted had anyone in Hampden thought “Huh, maybe I should check our Spam folder before the deadline of this massively important vote”.
Say what you like about the British government’s attitude towards PPE stockpiling, but at least they bothered to check and read the EU scheme emails before deleting them. The SPFL couldn’t even be arsed to do that before announcing a partial result on whether we should end the season or not.
Don’t get me wrong, that the season is over in Scotland was the right call, but it was done in such a manner that one would have to find an easier job than organising a piss up in a brewery to actually compare the SPFL’s handling of the vote to.
In a time where we are asking clubs and the nation as a whole to come together, like The Beatles song, Scottish football is managing to fall apart, like The Beatles. And little shows this more obviously than how reconstruction could be passed - a committee of fifteen of which ten are directly involved in either a promotion or relegation fight. Rangers might want an independent inquiry into the SPFL’s emails, like a Trump supporter any time the words “Hillary Clinton” are mentioned but me? Well, I’d just like even a single hint of independence when it comes to what should be the defining reorganisation of Scottish football more so than when Rangers went kerblooie. I’d like to be able to say the SPFL had an independent group which actually decided to do something for Scottish football solely in the interests of what is best for Scottish football. We don’t have that.
And let’s be honest, if the best thing for Scottish football didn’t involve expansion of the top flight, it wouldn’t be given the time of day by the large amount of the panel that would lose out by rejecting expansion. Is Ann Budge really going to chair a meeting that says “Hey, maybe Hearts should be relegated because they’re terrible?”
No, she bloody well isn’t.
Rather than working together to improve Scottish football, we have instead commissioned a football club version of The Hunger Games, where clubs only ever look out for themselves. That League Two clubs have already joined together and demanded 14-14-14 shows that. Brora and Kelty would be deserved and valuable additions to the bottom tier but, whoops, looks like those League Two clubs want to pull up the drawbridge to everyone else. The playoff at the bottom was brought in to ensure that sides who didn’t deserve to be in the league on merit, because they didn’t invest and more, has proven to be a good thing. East Stirlingshire and Berwick have gone to be replaced by Cove and Edinburgh City, two sides who show ambition and have thrived. Their success has set the template for other clubs lower down the ladder to show ambition that was previously not possible. But if you’re a club like an Elgin, a Brechin or a Stirling who have built the club on foundations of ensuring the status quo, the playoff has served its purpose and allowing other ambitious clubs in the league would just hasten their own exit from the leagues. Denying Brora and Cove would just send the message that ambition isn’t welcome and there’s no point shooting for the moon because, well, league clubs will seize upon a crisis to move the moon that bit further away.
In a way, it’s hard to blame clubs for acting like dicks. Coronavirus poses an existential threat to many of them due to the unique revenue mix of Scottish football. But reason now would get repaid with renewed interest later. Acting entirely selfishly will only kill that.
You’ll note I’ve not yet mentioned Rangers’ dossier of SPFL misdeeds, backed by Hearts and Stranraer. Funnily enough, the clubs that stand to lose out the most are those making trouble and that is what this is. Whatever Rangers have on the SPFL, publicly muckraking and stringing the saga out only serves to undermine any interest in Scottish football. All to what end? To try to taint a title that Celtic would have won anyway? Celtic, who have been noticeably silent, get dragged into the situation simply by not biting. The accusation of Peter Lawwell running Scottish football from behind the scenes that Rangers’ actions play into is utterly ridiculous - not because he isn’t influential but because if two decades of running Celtic have told us anything, it’s that Lawwell couldn’t possibly be this incompetent in running a business.
The issue is clear - the SPFL makes decisions through the consent of clubs. Those clubs provide plenty of competent administrators to help work out what their club’s view should be. But, ultimately, the SPFL’s failure is that there is absolutely no clear leadership, there are only 42 competing views leaving no-one happy and, in many cases, some loudly crowing about perceived injustices. Anyone able to get a bloc of votes can vote down pretty much whatever they like, leaving us in a paralysis where the only decisions that get made are those that are the least controversial. Perhaps the only thing the SPFL has gotten right since this all began is that they thought reconstruction would be difficult to achieve.
If nothing else, this crisis has shown the utter damned futility of the SPFL in its current form. It’s democracy, if that’s what you call it, has failed. If reconstruction blows up and Hearts end up in the Championship, they will blame the SPFL and not being bad at football. It shows the sense behind a position such as that of MLB commissioner - a representative who would get to make all the calls that need making in a crisis like now who acts not at the behest of clubs but with the implied consent of them once elected by clubs. It might not quite be a benevolent dictatorship, but the desire of someone trusted to be able to turn around and go “We’re going 16-16-10, lads because I’ve had a bunch of research done and that’s what’s best” is pretty hard to resist at this moment in time. Hell, they even have a centralised clothing commissar who keeps an eye on costumes to make sure they make the most of branding and whatnot.
One other thing in baseball’s favour is its journalism. Baseball, the national pastime, has its own myths and elegies that have allowed writing to shine at this time and have been the most enjoyable part of my current free trial with The Athletic. Alternatively, football has offered numerous treatise in how we get back to normal, while Scotland has offered the same in how we want to get back to normal, but not that normal, because when stuff was normal, those boys over there were arseholes and, anyway, here’s the opinion of a sectarian bloke from Derry on Scottish football and, oh, he’s not got any actual stake in Scottish football but we just thought, you know, why not and we’ll hope for the b…
Can you see why it makes you want your head to fucking combust? You could spend your time reading writing of sporting myth or you could look at Scottish football, which is the artistic equivalent of a graffitied cock on a toilet stall and we’re having an existential crisis over how many pubes we should draw on it.
On a personal note, I don’t need it. Talking about Scottish football a lot gets me abusive tweets. Talking about all the South East European football I consume doesn’t, it gets me nice ones, it inspired a surprisingly popular successful podcast (The History of Yugoslav Football Podcast, available on all good podcast providers!), it gets people actually being grateful that you spend the time doing something you enjoy. It, unlike Scottish football, doesn’t have me in an abusive relationship.
There is time and opportunity to rectify all this. To work together rather than pull apart. But it won’t happen. Scottish football isn’t just too fractured, it has an identity among many fans where taking a gun to it’s foot and managing to shoot itself in the head is both a defining and desirable trait. We have people in our game who will disagree just for the sake of doing it. We have a mainstream media presence in papers, online, on tv and on the radio which is less Sunday Supplement and more the “Hello, I’d like to have an argument” sketch from Monty Python.
It’s insufferable. It is. Scottish football is fucked and anyone who wants to fix it appears to only be interested in fucking it that bit more.
I’d like to be proven wrong. I’d love to be proven wrong. I’d love there to be a reason beyond ten in a row as a Celtic fan to engage it but, hell, even I know that it’ll actually just be 8+2 in a row or 9.5 in a row or however it will be spun by the commentariat and, eventually, everyone outside of Scottish football. When you know full well that even your justification for keeping the faith, the culmination of a decade of work at the club, will just be undermined by fucking semantics until it’s scarcely an achievement at all, then what is the point?
What is the actual point? What’s the point in Scottish football? That we can produce an endless list of entertaining anecdotes and happenings yet we can’t run a league with any common sense or, let’s face it, integrity? That self-interest has been put so far ahead of anything else it prevents any effort to actually move forward together towards a better future?
Clubs are suffering. Players are suffering. Fans are suffering and will vote with their decreasing wallets.
I hope it proves me wrong. I hope some person takes over and sorts things out. I hope some person reading this will be able to produce an argument that would restore my faith. I hope, but I don’t expect.
Until it sorts itself out, however, it’s hard to argue it's worth my time. Or yours.
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mrtroy · 5 years
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Baseball & My Momma...
Christmas, 2018
Hi Mom –
With retirement on your mind, and knowing that you and Pops are more so in ‘purge mode’ than you are in the market for acquiring big bulky things, this year, I got you a gift that is small in size. However, it has a lot of meaning to me and I want to share that meaning with you in this short story.
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Any time I take a moment to reflect, my thoughts often subconsciously jump to my childhood. Often, I’ll think of Bethany or Lake Geneva. Depending on who I may have just seen in person, sometimes my thoughts jump back to a memory I have with that individual. Basketball in the driveway with Justin. Playing golf at Boughton Ridge or Naperbrook with the Lisses. Touch football with KB, the Wioras and Klupchaks. I’m sure the common sporting theme is not shocking to you…
I’ve mentioned three sports so far, but a fourth hasn’t come up yet. What sport could that be, you ask?
Of course you already know…
When I think of baseball – which is probably my favorite thing to think about– there are three things that specifically come to mind.
I think of pitching to Pops on the front sidewalk when he used to sit in that old wooden chair. I think of playing fantasy baseball with Uncle Tony. But most of all, and more so than anything else, when I think about baseball, I think about you.
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I’m not sure if there’s a more succinct old adage that describes what I’m about to say, but I think it says a lot about someone when they are the strongest, or most common link you have to your favorite thing in the world.
But, I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. If someone asked, I could very easily say, baseball and my mom, why yes, these are a few of my favorite things!
You know most of the common stops on our Baseball Memory Lane – • Taping the 1990 World Series – and shaking a ‘why I oughta’ fist at the Reds for sweeping the series in four games • The never-ending quest to provide dry baseball pants before Little League games • The hapless job of trying to buy tickets to out-of-town stadiums with seat locations that could pass without major bellyaching from your favorite peanut gallery • Driving Justin and I to All-Star tournament games and listening to the Peanuts soundtrack in the car • Playing catch in the backyard in the dark every Mother’s Day under the spotlight • Listening to Pat and Ron on WGN in the Summers on the screen porch • Learning how to keep a scorebook during all those Yankees World Series in the 90s
There are a few others – getting heckled as we walked out of Busch Stadium in ’98 after the Cards swept the Cubs. Remember how surreal it was to have all of those Cardinal fans yelling at us? And I’m sure you haven’t forgotten sitting out in the cold at those early Spring games at Naperville Central my freshman year with Mrs. Buoy and Jon Elwardt’s mom…
There are a lot of these examples, but the bullet points are definitely my favorite.
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One of the best qualities about baseball throughout the course of time has always been that it is in fact, timeless. In the literal sense, nine innings is only nine innings when nine innings are complete. The clock doesn’t run like it does in most other sports. In a more figurative and historical sense, baseball has withstood the test of time, whether it was being played by Babe Ruth in 20s, DiMaggio in the 30s, Jackie Robinson in the 40s and on into today.
Beautifully, that has remained true for us throughout the years, too. Thankfully for you, I presume, you don’t have to worry about getting those baseball pants into the dryer anymore, but as the years have ticked by, our memories have aged quite well, I do believe. • There’s a new Pat & Ron on the radio, and while a certain someone may not enjoy all the ‘heaters’ from the new Ron, they still sound pretty good on the screen porch • The location of our Mother’s Day catch has shifted about 250 miles west, but I know we all still look forward breaking out the old Lou Whitaker mitt just as much now as we ever did • The not-so-old Busch Stadium that we were heckled at in ’98 couldn’t withstand the test of time, but going to the new one in 2015 with Patch and Kaitlin was pretty special. I still laugh thinking of you bemoaning St. Louis – ‘What do you mean they got a new stadium already? Their last one was built when?? (1966) (In a similar tone to ‘why I oughta’) ‘Amateurs!!!’ • Ken Griffey Jr., Chipper Jones and Derek Jeter may have retired and officially ended my childhood, but that Javy Baez guy has been pretty fun to watch. Especially ‘Javy tags’ • And instead of keeping score for those Yankees World Series, how about the Cubs actually winning one? I’m not sure I ever thought I’d write those words. But how much fun was that to go to John Troy’s house and watch the game on his rooftop and hear the cheers or groans from Wrigley before the time delay on TV could even show us what the fans at the park were reacting to? I could go on. Lord knows there are a lot of memories to rehash on this subject. But, none of them come close to meaning as much as what I want to talk about next. What I want to talk about next is one of the greatest things you’ve ever done for me as a mom. It has helped shape who I am as a person and it is an example that I am confident is as timeless as the game of baseball itself.
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What I’m referring to here is the way you’ve taken an interest in my favorite game and taken it from something you didn’t know much about, to something now that you genuinely love. I don’t know if it was going to Fenway when you were pregnant with me that began my love affair with this great game, but whatever it was, I always felt like you were right beside me as I grew, and learned, and played and watched.
It has meant the world to me to be able to share this love with you. And, I have tried to emulate the way you have invested in me – and invested in learning the game as a way to connect with me – in other areas of my life. Your example has been my gold standard for what it means to truly take an interest in something not only for your own personal enjoyment, but because you know how important something is to someone else. I know as a parent, there are thousands of examples of things you do for your kids – things you don’t love – because you have to. Or because you believe they are the right things to do. Or because you want to help teach a lesson, or model good behavior.
But it never felt like any of those when I was growing up, or even to this day. It just felt like you were interested in what I was interested in and that you wanted to enjoy what I was enjoying with me. I was incredibly lucky at the time, but I was also naïve. I didn’t realize that this wasn’t something that all moms did. As I have gotten older and talked to more and more of my friends, I have come to realize that what we have in this regard is very, very special.
I know I don’t have to do this, but for the first time ever, I want to thank you for coming alongside me and loving me, and the game of baseball the way you have. It has helped burn a tangible set of examples into my mind about what it means love something and someone in a uniquely all-encompassing way that I can only hope to model at some point later in my life.
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As I close this note, I want to look forward.
While I am greatly looking forward to you and Pops being able to retire, there is a part of retirement that I have heard can be a bit of an adjustment. Well, there are many adjustments, I am sure, but one of them that I have heard about is redefining your identity. I have read certain things about how it can be difficult to go from identifying as a long-time resident in your community to all the sudden moving somewhere and feeling like you don’t know anyone and don’t feel like you fit in. I have read that it can be hard sometimes to adjust to not working and in turn not feeling like you contribute in the same way to society. I haven’t worried much about these things for you and Pops. I feel like you do a good job making friends and I’m sure you’ll get involved in your new community to the point where you’ll find purpose in a volunteer opportunity, social club, or societal cause.
On a deeper level, I’m sure it’ll be interesting to see how many parts of your identity change when you go from being all the things you are now to putting a ‘former’ in front of many of them. A former teacher. Someone who used to live one place, or formerly did X, Y or Z. Again, I’m sure you’ll adjust as you go, as you always seem to.
Our relationship has changed, too, and it will continue to do so. Hopefully you’ll go from being a parent to also being a grandparent. Who knows what might be in store on that front…
Normally, I don’t like to tack on a lot of descriptors to the things that define our identities. If we’re too tied up in defining ourselves a certain way, it’s hard to adapt to change. This has been a consistent theme in my work life – trying to learn how not to let too much of my self-worth be defined by how well I am able to meet others’ expectations, or to not let how much money I make define how successful I am. Things like that…
As things change for you and Pops over the next year or so, if you move out of your house, and become a former teacher, a former Naperville resident, someone who used to go to a certain health club for almost 30 years, and on and on, I hope you will cling to the parts of your identity that can’t change.
Daughter. Sister. Mom.
There’s a reason there’s such strong emotions that go along with those parts of your identity. Because no matter what life throws at you, no matter what happens, once you are those things, they are always true about you.
So, please take this small token as a reminder of what a great mom you’ve been, and what a great mom you are.
With a little nod from our friend, Baseball.
Merry Christmas.
Love,
Matt
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flauntpage · 5 years
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50 More Hot Takes for the Philadelphia Sports Fan
The first “hot takes” article did well last October, so I figured I’d do another one. This will be 50 more hot takes for the Philadelphia sports fan, which brings us to 100 hot takes over the course of eight months.
Now, not all of these are “hot” or even “takes,” i.e. some are lukewarm and some are just observations or maybe even aphorisms. But since this is 2019, I feel encouraged and motivated to just say shit without really thinking it through, then we’ll get people all riled up and benefit from the fake arguments that ensue. That’s the strategy, right? Just fire off a bunch of outrageous claims and watch site traffic roll.
Right, so with that Pulitzer-worthy lede, here are 50 more hot takes for you and your mom, after the jump:
Grown men should not bring a baseball glove to the ballpark unless accompanied by a child who is also wearing a glove.
Glen Macnow and Ray Didinger is the best radio show in Philadelphia.
It’s really weird that fans and media always call NBA players by their first names. We’re not their close friends, so I don’t know why Kawhi Leonard is just “Kawhi” and Kobe Bryant is just “Kobe” and LeBron James is just “LeBron.” We don’t refer to Tom Brady as “Tom” and we don’t refer to Drew Brees as “Drew.” It’s kind of creepy.
Philadelphia sports fans are horrendous at detecting sarcasm and satire.
Shitting on Pat’s and Geno’s for being “touristy” is a tired take. The “what’s your favorite cheesesteak?” argument is beyond worn out.
If you cut off other drivers at the sports complex, you’re an asshole. This is especially true for people in the outside lanes who turn in front of Xfinity Live and just force their way into the Wells Fargo Center parking lots. Wait in line like the rest of us.
Wearing a matching Eagles hat and jersey is inappropriate. The max should be one article of specific team apparel, so either the hat OR the jersey, but not both.
Too many media members in this city treat sporting events like social events, as if it’s important to “see and be seen,” but not actually do any work or ask any interesting questions. It’s the struggle to remain relevant.
You can’t talk shit about soccer if you watch WWE.
Late 90s ECW was better than anything WWE or WCW ever put out.
Tommy Dreamer should be ranked higher on any list of the best ECW wrestlers of all time. (Coggin tells me this is not a hot take)
Every able-bodied writer should be forced to play or referee the sport they cover for at least one year. It adds to your knowledge of the game while offering more credibility at the same time.
People like to complain about “fanboy journalism,” but the fact of the matter is that people click whenever we write a story that makes fun of Dallas, Boston, or New York.
Fake news isn’t fake news because you disagree with it. The term literally means that the story is fabricated. We had this problem with the Joe Santoliquito story, when people outright dismissed it because they didn’t like the assertions being made, regardless of whether or not they were true.
Synchronization at Philly sporting arenas is pretty bad. I’m not sure if it’s an acoustics problem or what, but sometimes simple cheers like “M-V-P or “De-fense” are being shouted at different times by 2-3 different sections of the stadium. It makes it look like we don’t know what we’re doing.
I can’t take you seriously if you can’t actually pronounce player names. It’s not Nelson “Aguilar,” nor is it Alshon “Jefferies” or Chase “Daniels.” Sports radio hosts should be instructed to hang up on callers who can’t pronounce names.
Pittsburgh isn’t a rival city. They are geographically further away than New York and D.C. and the fans who live there are very similar to us.
The NHL has the best overtime rules among the “four major North American sports.”
The NFL has the worst overtime rules, by far.
162 games of regular season baseball is a total snooze fest. Trim the regular season (boring TV) and add more playoff games (excellent TV).
The Flyers’ decision to cover and then remove the Kate Smith statue was totally rushed, like they didn’t think it through and just copied the Yankees in fear of bad publicity.
Likewise, it bothers me how quickly people were calling for Odubel Herrera’s removal from the Phillies organization. This is America; we gather facts, collect evidence, and exercise due diligence. Then we make informed and educated decisions.
Baseball traditionalists are the worst. “Nothing needs to change! Baseball is perfect the way it is!” Ugh, go away.
There’s too much mucking, grinding, and bullshitting on the boards in the NHL. The international dimensions make for a more open and enjoyable game.
Stephen A Smith is a national treasure.
“Click bait” is defined by the body of the story, not the headline. We are literally trying to write headlines that grab attention and result in people clicking on the story. They’re called “teases” in television lingo.
Boston isn’t much different from Philly. Both are great cities with history and culture and passionate sports fans. The only difference is they have horrible accents and Coggin thinks they’re more racist.
The in-game interview is the worst segment of all time and eternity. There’s no reason a coach should have to speak to the media during an actual game.
Media should not be allowed in the locker room, which is a sacred and private place for athletes.
Arena music is really bad in 2019. Some of the stuff you hear at Sixers’ games is the worst mumble rap ever.
“Welcome to the Jungle” needs to be banned from sporting events forever. It’s worn out.
I can’t support calling touchdowns “tuddies.”
Tomato pie is whatever. It’s not horrible, but it’s not good either.
Twitter should lock for at least 30 minutes after an Eagles loss, and everybody should be required to go outside and smoke a cigarette before they can log back in.
People still have no idea what Colin Kaepernick is protesting.
Criticizing the Wing Bowl for objectifying women feels off-base to me. Nobody forced anyone to be a wingette or escort the eaters to the stage, those women signed up to do that.
I don’t understand Philadelphia’s love for Pearl Jam. Alice in Chains and Soundgarden are the superior Seattle grunge bands. Nirvana is also overrated.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band may very well be the most overrated act on the planet.
Mike Trout is boring.
Most sports writers and editors have an inflated sense of worth. We are not firefighters or doctors. We are not uncovering Russian collusion. Sports is entertainment. It’s the appreciation of athletic skill and achievement. We can inform and write interesting stories without taking ourselves too seriously.
Let’s not confuse journalism for sports writing. Peter Arnett was a journalist who reported from Vietnam and Iraq. Dan Shaughnessy is a sports writer who covers Boston teams.
We talk about how much we love Philadelphia, about how “blue collar” we are, yet I see trash and dog shit on every street corner. We need to do a better job of taking care of our neighborhoods and showing some pride in where we live.
If you shovel out your own parking spot, then put a cone there to save it, you’re a selfish asshole. It literally takes five minutes to shovel out your neighbor’s car or clear the snow from their steps. Do something for somebody else.
Stop calling Fishtown “hipster.” It hasn’t been hipster for years. All of the hipsters moved to the west side of Frankford Avenue or down to East Passyunk.
Media members who don’t show up during the regular season should be banned from attending playoff games.
Eagles talk should be banned from the end of minicamp to the start of training camp.
I wasn’t a fan of Justin Gaethje’s “American vs. a foreigner” angle at the recent UFC Fight Night at the Wells Fargo Center. Gaethje is from Arizona. His opponent, Edson Barboza, has trained in New Jersey for several years. Barboza was born in Brazil but has more of a connection to this region than Gaethje does. That felt a little hollow to me, the fact that the crowd was lopsided in Gaethje’s favor.
Media members should never talk shit about a player on social media, then go put a microphone in his or her face. Athletes pay attention to those kinds of things.
Calling millennials “soft” is dumb, because Baby Boomers were the ones handing out the participation trophies. We literally created the environment they are living in.
Parents who yell at their kids, the coach, or the referees at a youth sporting event should be immediately escorted from the premises and put on six months of probation.
That’s what I’ve got.
Agree? Disagree? Just want to troll the comments section? Get at me dog.
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The first “hot takes” article did well last October, so I figured I’d do another one. This will be 50 more hot takes for the Philadelphia sports fan, which brings us to 100 hot takes over the course of eight months.
Now, not all of these are “hot” or even “takes,” i.e. some are lukewarm and some are just observations or maybe even aphorisms. But since this is 2019, I feel encouraged and motivated to just say shit without really thinking it through, then we’ll get people all riled up and benefit from the fake arguments that ensue. That’s the strategy, right? Just fire off a bunch of outrageous claims and watch site traffic roll.
Right, so with that Pulitzer-worthy lede, here are 50 more hot takes for you and your mom, after the jump:
Grown men should not bring a baseball glove to the ballpark unless accompanied by a child who is also wearing a glove.
Glen Macnow and Ray Didinger is the best radio show in Philadelphia.
It’s really weird that fans and media always call NBA players by their first names. We’re not their close friends, so I don’t know why Kawhi Leonard is just “Kawhi” and Kobe Bryant is just “Kobe” and LeBron James is just “LeBron.” We don’t refer to Tom Brady as “Tom” and we don’t refer to Drew Brees as “Drew.” It’s kind of creepy.
Philadelphia sports fans are horrendous at detecting sarcasm and satire.
Shitting on Pat’s and Geno’s for being “touristy” is a tired take. The “what’s your favorite cheesesteak?” argument is beyond worn out.
If you cut off other drivers at the sports complex, you’re an asshole. This is especially true for people in the outside lanes who turn in front of Xfinity Live and just force their way into the Wells Fargo Center parking lots. Wait in line like the rest of us.
Wearing a matching Eagles hat and jersey is inappropriate. The max should be one article of specific team apparel, so either the hat OR the jersey, but not both.
Too many media members in this city treat sporting events like social events, as if it’s important to “see and be seen,” but not actually do any work or ask any interesting questions. It’s the struggle to remain relevant.
You can’t talk shit about soccer if you watch WWE.
Late 90s ECW was better than anything WWE or WCW ever put out.
Tommy Dreamer should be ranked higher on any list of the best ECW wrestlers of all time. (Coggin tells me this is not a hot take)
Every able-bodied writer should be forced to play or referee the sport they cover for at least one year. It adds to your knowledge of the game while offering more credibility at the same time.
People like to complain about “fanboy journalism,” but the fact of the matter is that people click whenever we write a story that makes fun of Dallas, Boston, or New York.
Fake news isn’t fake news because you disagree with it. The term literally means that the story is fabricated. We had this problem with the Joe Santoliquito story, when people outright dismissed it because they didn’t like the assertions being made, regardless of whether or not they were true.
Synchronization at Philly sporting arenas is pretty bad. I’m not sure if it’s an acoustics problem or what, but sometimes simple cheers like “M-V-P or “De-fense” are being shouted at different times by 2-3 different sections of the stadium. It makes it look like we don’t know what we’re doing.
I can’t take you seriously if you can’t actually pronounce player names. It’s not Nelson “Aguilar,” nor is it Alshon “Jefferies” or Chase “Daniels.” Sports radio hosts should be instructed to hang up on callers who can’t pronounce names.
Pittsburgh isn’t a rival city. They are geographically further away than New York and D.C. and the fans who live there are very similar to us.
The NHL has the best overtime rules among the “four major North American sports.”
The NFL has the worst overtime rules, by far.
162 games of regular season baseball is a total snooze fest. Trim the regular season (boring TV) and add more playoff games (excellent TV).
The Flyers’ decision to cover and then remove the Kate Smith statue was totally rushed, like they didn’t think it through and just copied the Yankees in fear of bad publicity.
Likewise, it bothers me how quickly people were calling for Odubel Herrera’s removal from the Phillies organization. This is America; we gather facts, collect evidence, and exercise due diligence. Then we make informed and educated decisions.
Baseball traditionalists are the worst. “Nothing needs to change! Baseball is perfect the way it is!” Ugh, go away.
There’s too much mucking, grinding, and bullshitting on the boards in the NHL. The international dimensions make for a more open and enjoyable game.
Stephen A Smith is a national treasure.
“Click bait” is defined by the body of the story, not the headline. We are literally trying to write headlines that grab attention and result in people clicking on the story. They’re called “teases” in television lingo.
Boston isn’t much different from Philly. Both are great cities with history and culture and passionate sports fans. The only difference is they have horrible accents and Coggin thinks they’re more racist.
The in-game interview is the worst segment of all time and eternity. There’s no reason a coach should have to speak to the media during an actual game.
Media should not be allowed in the locker room, which is a sacred and private place for athletes.
Arena music is really bad in 2019. Some of the stuff you hear at Sixers’ games is the worst mumble rap ever.
“Welcome to the Jungle” needs to be banned from sporting events forever. It’s worn out.
I can’t support calling touchdowns “tuddies.”
Tomato pie is whatever. It’s not horrible, but it’s not good either.
Twitter should lock for at least 30 minutes after an Eagles loss, and everybody should be required to go outside and smoke a cigarette before they can log back in.
People still have no idea what Colin Kaepernick is protesting.
Criticizing the Wing Bowl for objectifying women feels off-base to me. Nobody forced anyone to be a wingette or escort the eaters to the stage, those women signed up to do that.
I don’t understand Philadelphia’s love for Pearl Jam. Alice in Chains and Soundgarden are the superior Seattle grunge bands. Nirvana is also overrated.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band may very well be the most overrated act on the planet.
Mike Trout is boring.
Most sports writers and editors have an inflated sense of worth. We are not firefighters or doctors. We are not uncovering Russian collusion. Sports is entertainment. It’s the appreciation of athletic skill and achievement. We can inform and write interesting stories without taking ourselves too seriously.
Let’s not confuse journalism for sports writing. Peter Arnett was a journalist who reported from Vietnam and Iraq. Dan Shaughnessy is a sports writer who covers Boston teams.
We talk about how much we love Philadelphia, about how “blue collar” we are, yet I see trash and dog shit on every street corner. We need to do a better job of taking care of our neighborhoods and showing some pride in where we live.
If you shovel out your own parking spot, then put a cone there to save it, you’re a selfish asshole. It literally takes five minutes to shovel out your neighbor’s car or clear the snow from their steps. Do something for somebody else.
Stop calling Fishtown “hipster.” It hasn’t been hipster for years. All of the hipsters moved to the west side of Frankford Avenue or down to East Passyunk.
Media members who don’t show up during the regular season should be banned from attending playoff games.
Eagles talk should be banned from the end of minicamp to the start of training camp.
I wasn’t a fan of Justin Gaethje’s “American vs. a foreigner” angle at the recent UFC Fight Night at the Wells Fargo Center. Gaethje is from Arizona. His opponent, Edson Barboza, has trained in New Jersey for several years. Barboza was born in Brazil but has more of a connection to this region than Gaethje does. That felt a little hollow to me, the fact that the crowd was lopsided in Gaethje’s favor.
Media members should never talk shit about a player on social media, then go put a microphone in his or her face. Athletes pay attention to those kinds of things.
Calling millennials “soft” is dumb, because Baby Boomers were the ones handing out the participation trophies. We literally created the environment they are living in.
Parents who yell at their kids, the coach, or the referees at a youth sporting event should be immediately escorted from the premises and put on six months of probation.
That’s what I’ve got.
Agree? Disagree? Just want to troll the comments section? Get at me dog.
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50 More Hot Takes for the Philadelphia Sports Fan
The first “hot takes” article did well last October, so I figured I’d do another one. This will be 50 more hot takes for the Philadelphia sports fan, which brings us to 100 hot takes over the course of eight months.
Now, not all of these are “hot” or even “takes,” i.e. some are lukewarm and some are just observations or maybe even aphorisms. But since this is 2019, I feel encouraged and motivated to just say shit without really thinking it through, then we’ll get people all riled up and benefit from the fake arguments that ensue. That’s the strategy, right? Just fire off a bunch of outrageous claims and watch site traffic roll.
Right, so with that Pulitzer-worthy lede, here are 50 more hot takes for you and your mom, after the jump:
Grown men should not bring a baseball glove to the ballpark unless accompanied by a child who is also wearing a glove.
Glen Macnow and Ray Didinger is the best radio show in Philadelphia.
It’s really weird that fans and media always call NBA players by their first names. We’re not their close friends, so I don’t know why Kawhi Leonard is just “Kawhi” and Kobe Bryant is just “Kobe” and LeBron James is just “LeBron.” We don’t refer to Tom Brady as “Tom” and we don’t refer to Drew Brees as “Drew.” It’s kind of creepy.
Philadelphia sports fans are horrendous at detecting sarcasm and satire.
Shitting on Pat’s and Geno’s for being “touristy” is a tired take. The “what’s your favorite cheesesteak?” argument is beyond worn out.
If you cut off other drivers at the sports complex, you’re an asshole. This is especially true for people in the outside lanes who turn in front of Xfinity Live and just force their way into the Wells Fargo Center parking lots. Wait in line like the rest of us.
Wearing a matching Eagles hat and jersey is inappropriate. The max should be one article of specific team apparel, so either the hat OR the jersey, but not both.
Too many media members in this city treat sporting events like social events, as if it’s important to “see and be seen,” but not actually do any work or ask any interesting questions. It’s the struggle to remain relevant.
You can’t talk shit about soccer if you watch WWE.
Late 90s ECW was better than anything WWE or WCW ever put out.
Tommy Dreamer should be ranked higher on any list of the best ECW wrestlers of all time. (Coggin tells me this is not a hot take)
Every able-bodied writer should be forced to play or referee the sport they cover for at least one year. It adds to your knowledge of the game while offering more credibility at the same time.
People like to complain about “fanboy journalism,” but the fact of the matter is that people click whenever we write a story that makes fun of Dallas, Boston, or New York.
Fake news isn’t fake news because you disagree with it. The term literally means that the story is fabricated. We had this problem with the Joe Santoliquito story, when people outright dismissed it because they didn’t like the assertions being made, regardless of whether or not they were true.
Synchronization at Philly sporting arenas is pretty bad. I’m not sure if it’s an acoustics problem or what, but sometimes simple cheers like “M-V-P or “De-fense” are being shouted at different times by 2-3 different sections of the stadium. It makes it look like we don’t know what we’re doing.
I can’t take you seriously if you can’t actually pronounce player names. It’s not Nelson “Aguilar,” nor is it Alshon “Jefferies” or Chase “Daniels.” Sports radio hosts should be instructed to hang up on callers who can’t pronounce names.
Pittsburgh isn’t a rival city. They are geographically further away than New York and D.C. and the fans who live there are very similar to us.
The NHL has the best overtime rules among the “four major North American sports.”
The NFL has the worst overtime rules, by far.
162 games of regular season baseball is a total snooze fest. Trim the regular season (boring TV) and add more playoff games (excellent TV).
The Flyers’ decision to cover and then remove the Kate Smith statue was totally rushed, like they didn’t think it through and just copied the Yankees in fear of bad publicity.
Likewise, it bothers me how quickly people were calling for Odubel Herrera’s removal from the Phillies organization. This is America; we gather facts, collect evidence, and exercise due diligence. Then we make informed and educated decisions.
Baseball traditionalists are the worst. “Nothing needs to change! Baseball is perfect the way it is!” Ugh, go away.
There’s too much mucking, grinding, and bullshitting on the boards in the NHL. The international dimensions make for a more open and enjoyable game.
Stephen A Smith is a national treasure.
“Click bait” is defined by the body of the story, not the headline. We are literally trying to write headlines that grab attention and result in people clicking on the story. They’re called “teases” in television lingo.
Boston isn’t much different from Philly. Both are great cities with history and culture and passionate sports fans. The only difference is they have horrible accents and Coggin thinks they’re more racist.
The in-game interview is the worst segment of all time and eternity. There’s no reason a coach should have to speak to the media during an actual game.
Media should not be allowed in the locker room, which is a sacred and private place for athletes.
Arena music is really bad in 2019. Some of the stuff you hear at Sixers’ games is the worst mumble rap ever.
“Welcome to the Jungle” needs to be banned from sporting events forever. It’s worn out.
I can’t support calling touchdowns “tuddies.”
Tomato pie is whatever. It’s not horrible, but it’s not good either.
Twitter should lock for at least 30 minutes after an Eagles loss, and everybody should be required to go outside and smoke a cigarette before they can log back in.
People still have no idea what Colin Kaepernick is protesting.
Criticizing the Wing Bowl for objectifying women feels off-base to me. Nobody forced anyone to be a wingette or escort the eaters to the stage, those women signed up to do that.
I don’t understand Philadelphia’s love for Pearl Jam. Alice in Chains and Soundgarden are the superior Seattle grunge bands. Nirvana is also overrated.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band may very well be the most overrated act on the planet.
Mike Trout is boring.
Most sports writers and editors have an inflated sense of worth. We are not firefighters or doctors. We are not uncovering Russian collusion. Sports is entertainment. It’s the appreciation of athletic skill and achievement. We can inform and write interesting stories without taking ourselves too seriously.
Let’s not confuse journalism for sports writing. Peter Arnett was a journalist who reported from Vietnam and Iraq. Dan Shaughnessy is a sports writer who covers Boston teams.
We talk about how much we love Philadelphia, about how “blue collar” we are, yet I see trash and dog shit on every street corner. We need to do a better job of taking care of our neighborhoods and showing some pride in where we live.
If you shovel out your own parking spot, then put a cone there to save it, you’re a selfish asshole. It literally takes five minutes to shovel out your neighbor’s car or clear the snow from their steps. Do something for somebody else.
Stop calling Fishtown “hipster.” It hasn’t been hipster for years. All of the hipsters moved to the west side of Frankford Avenue or down to East Passyunk.
Media members who don’t show up during the regular season should be banned from attending playoff games.
Eagles talk should be banned from the end of minicamp to the start of training camp.
I wasn’t a fan of Justin Gaethje’s “American vs. a foreigner” angle at the recent UFC Fight Night at the Wells Fargo Center. Gaethje is from Arizona. His opponent, Edson Barboza, has trained in New Jersey for several years. Barboza was born in Brazil but has more of a connection to this region than Gaethje does. That felt a little hollow to me, the fact that the crowd was lopsided in Gaethje’s favor.
Media members should never talk shit about a player on social media, then go put a microphone in his or her face. Athletes pay attention to those kinds of things.
Calling millennials “soft” is dumb, because Baby Boomers were the ones handing out the participation trophies. We literally created the environment they are living in.
Parents who yell at their kids, the coach, or the referees at a youth sporting event should be immediately escorted from the premises and put on six months of probation.
That’s what I’ve got.
Agree? Disagree? Just want to troll the comments section? Get at me dog.
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50 More Hot Takes for the Philadelphia Sports Fan
The first “hot takes” article did well last October, so I figured I’d do another one. This will be 50 more hot takes for the Philadelphia sports fan, which brings us to 100 hot takes over the course of eight months.
Now, not all of these are “hot” or even “takes,” i.e. some are lukewarm and some are just observations or maybe even aphorisms. But since this is 2019, I feel encouraged and motivated to just say shit without really thinking it through, then we’ll get people all riled up and benefit from the fake arguments that ensue. That’s the strategy, right? Just fire off a bunch of outrageous claims and watch site traffic roll.
Right, so with that Pulitzer-worthy lede, here are 50 more hot takes for you and your mom, after the jump:
Grown men should not bring a baseball glove to the ballpark unless accompanied by a child who is also wearing a glove.
Glen Macnow and Ray Didinger is the best radio show in Philadelphia.
It’s really weird that fans and media always call NBA players by their first names. We’re not their close friends, so I don’t know why Kawhi Leonard is just “Kawhi” and Kobe Bryant is just “Kobe” and LeBron James is just “LeBron.” We don’t refer to Tom Brady as “Tom” and we don’t refer to Drew Brees as “Drew.” It’s kind of creepy.
Philadelphia sports fans are horrendous at detecting sarcasm and satire.
Shitting on Pat’s and Geno’s for being “touristy” is a tired take. The “what’s your favorite cheesesteak?” argument is beyond worn out.
If you cut off other drivers at the sports complex, you’re an asshole. This is especially true for people in the outside lanes who turn in front of Xfinity Live and just force their way into the Wells Fargo Center parking lots. Wait in line like the rest of us.
Wearing a matching Eagles hat and jersey is inappropriate. The max should be one article of specific team apparel, so either the hat OR the jersey, but not both.
Too many media members in this city treat sporting events like social events, as if it’s important to “see and be seen,” but not actually do any work or ask any interesting questions. It’s the struggle to remain relevant.
You can’t talk shit about soccer if you watch WWE.
Late 90s ECW was better than anything WWE or WCW ever put out.
Tommy Dreamer should be ranked higher on any list of the best ECW wrestlers of all time. (Coggin tells me this is not a hot take)
Every able-bodied writer should be forced to play or referee the sport they cover for at least one year. It adds to your knowledge of the game while offering more credibility at the same time.
People like to complain about “fanboy journalism,” but the fact of the matter is that people click whenever we write a story that makes fun of Dallas, Boston, or New York.
Fake news isn’t fake news because you disagree with it. The term literally means that the story is fabricated. We had this problem with the Joe Santoliquito story, when people outright dismissed it because they didn’t like the assertions being made, regardless of whether or not they were true.
Synchronization at Philly sporting arenas is pretty bad. I’m not sure if it’s an acoustics problem or what, but sometimes simple cheers like “M-V-P or “De-fense” are being shouted at different times by 2-3 different sections of the stadium. It makes it look like we don’t know what we’re doing.
I can’t take you seriously if you can’t actually pronounce player names. It’s not Nelson “Aguilar,” nor is it Alshon “Jefferies” or Chase “Daniels.” Sports radio hosts should be instructed to hang up on callers who can’t pronounce names.
Pittsburgh isn’t a rival city. They are geographically further away than New York and D.C. and the fans who live there are very similar to us.
The NHL has the best overtime rules among the “four major North American sports.”
The NFL has the worst overtime rules, by far.
162 games of regular season baseball is a total snooze fest. Trim the regular season (boring TV) and add more playoff games (excellent TV).
The Flyers’ decision to cover and then remove the Kate Smith statue was totally rushed, like they didn’t think it through and just copied the Yankees in fear of bad publicity.
Likewise, it bothers me how quickly people were calling for Odubel Herrera’s removal from the Phillies organization. This is America; we gather facts, collect evidence, and exercise due diligence. Then we make informed and educated decisions.
Baseball traditionalists are the worst. “Nothing needs to change! Baseball is perfect the way it is!” Ugh, go away.
There’s too much mucking, grinding, and bullshitting on the boards in the NHL. The international dimensions make for a more open and enjoyable game.
Stephen A Smith is a national treasure.
“Click bait” is defined by the body of the story, not the headline. We are literally trying to write headlines that grab attention and result in people clicking on the story. They’re called “teases” in television lingo.
Boston isn’t much different from Philly. Both are great cities with history and culture and passionate sports fans. The only difference is they have horrible accents and Coggin thinks they’re more racist.
The in-game interview is the worst segment of all time and eternity. There’s no reason a coach should have to speak to the media during an actual game.
Media should not be allowed in the locker room, which is a sacred and private place for athletes.
Arena music is really bad in 2019. Some of the stuff you hear at Sixers’ games is the worst mumble rap ever.
“Welcome to the Jungle” needs to be banned from sporting events forever. It’s worn out.
I can’t support calling touchdowns “tuddies.”
Tomato pie is whatever. It’s not horrible, but it’s not good either.
Twitter should lock for at least 30 minutes after an Eagles loss, and everybody should be required to go outside and smoke a cigarette before they can log back in.
People still have no idea what Colin Kaepernick is protesting.
Criticizing the Wing Bowl for objectifying women feels off-base to me. Nobody forced anyone to be a wingette or escort the eaters to the stage, those women signed up to do that.
I don’t understand Philadelphia’s love for Pearl Jam. Alice in Chains and Soundgarden are the superior Seattle grunge bands. Nirvana is also overrated.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band may very well be the most overrated act on the planet.
Mike Trout is boring.
Most sports writers and editors have an inflated sense of worth. We are not firefighters or doctors. We are not uncovering Russian collusion. Sports is entertainment. It’s the appreciation of athletic skill and achievement. We can inform and write interesting stories without taking ourselves too seriously.
Let’s not confuse journalism for sports writing. Peter Arnett was a journalist who reported from Vietnam and Iraq. Dan Shaughnessy is a sports writer who covers Boston teams.
We talk about how much we love Philadelphia, about how “blue collar” we are, yet I see trash and dog shit on every street corner. We need to do a better job of taking care of our neighborhoods and showing some pride in where we live.
If you shovel out your own parking spot, then put a cone there to save it, you’re a selfish asshole. It literally takes five minutes to shovel out your neighbor’s car or clear the snow from their steps. Do something for somebody else.
Stop calling Fishtown “hipster.” It hasn’t been hipster for years. All of the hipsters moved to the west side of Frankford Avenue or down to East Passyunk.
Media members who don’t show up during the regular season should be banned from attending playoff games.
Eagles talk should be banned from the end of minicamp to the start of training camp.
I wasn’t a fan of Justin Gaethje’s “American vs. a foreigner” angle at the recent UFC Fight Night at the Wells Fargo Center. Gaethje is from Arizona. His opponent, Edson Barboza, has trained in New Jersey for several years. Barboza was born in Brazil but has more of a connection to this region than Gaethje does. That felt a little hollow to me, the fact that the crowd was lopsided in Gaethje’s favor.
Media members should never talk shit about a player on social media, then go put a microphone in his or her face. Athletes pay attention to those kinds of things.
Calling millennials “soft” is dumb, because Baby Boomers were the ones handing out the participation trophies. We literally created the environment they are living in.
Parents who yell at their kids, the coach, or the referees at a youth sporting event should be immediately escorted from the premises and put on six months of probation.
That’s what I’ve got.
Agree? Disagree? Just want to troll the comments section? Get at me dog.
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