Morning Philly Hate

Gotta get those webhits up. Even if it means writing a shitty article.

by Missing Barry on Oct 20, 2010 7:54 AM PDT reply actions

Yeah

Too easy. Hate hate hate

by GameSix on Oct 20, 2010 8:13 AM PDT up reply actions

lol that guy is mad.

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by jponry on Oct 20, 2010 8:12 AM PDT reply actions

Bankrupt in more than one way.

The Philadelphia Inquirer is the third oldest paper in the country, founded in 1829. And it is still mired in bankruptcy proceedings after being auctioned off last spring

Trying to reverse declining circulation and revenue by featuring ill-informed so-called columnists with the imminently unimaginative by-line “Gonzo” seems to be a recipe for failure. I mean, how many Phillie illiterates in this guy’s targeted readership are there who have the wherewithal to operate a newspaper rack?

Bueller?

When a paper employs a paid troll to write snark aimed at the junior high school demographic, it is a sad day in American Journalism.

Between 1975 and 1997, this paper won 18 Pulitzers in categories from National Reporting to Editorial Cartooning and Investigative Reporting. It is now reduced to printing and distributing barely-pubescent schoolyard smack.

Bankrupt in every form of the term I’d say.

by Roy Hobbs Jr. on Oct 20, 2010 8:38 AM PDT reply actions 5 recs

Rec’d.

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by Kitspool on Oct 20, 2010 9:12 AM PDT up reply actions

well said

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by j14 on Oct 20, 2010 9:40 AM PDT up reply actions

So much this. He’s clearly trolling. Is it really that hard to just write quality work??

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by Prussian Creole on Oct 20, 2010 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions

Eh, it’s worked for the NY Post.

Utter frustration and futility.
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2010 8:28 AM PDT up reply actions

Yeah this guy has a radio show with Vai Sikahem in philly. He is a moron. I believe we was saying that the Phillies sweep, maybe 5 games with the only loss from Blanton.

Overplayed memes:
EASTCOAST BIAS
2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly

by say hey nation on Oct 20, 2010 9:07 AM PDT reply actions

Wow...

Not biased at all.

by AmorVincitOmnia on Oct 20, 2010 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions

two-decade stretch that went from scandalous to sad to an SNL-worthy sketch comedy skit.

I don’t see the difference between the last two.

Overplayed memes:
EASTCOAST BIAS
2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly

by say hey nation on Oct 20, 2010 9:10 AM PDT reply actions

Wow, just wow at page 2.

Guess which Philly TV personality came to Game 3 toting a man purse/murse/European carry-all. Answer coming up. . . . This Cody Ross nonsense has to stop. How can a wannabe professional rodeo clown be the Giants’ biggest postseason bat? . . . Madison is a weird name for a dude. . . . Media trivia answer: Keith Russell from Action News. When I asked him about it, he channeled Alan from The Hangover: “It’s not a purse. It’s called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.” . . . Charlie Manuel said Joe Blanton, not Roy Halladay, will pitch Game 4. Manuel sounded pretty confident about his decision. Wonder whether Philly shares that sentiment.

Hey Gonzo, your face is weird for a human.

Overplayed memes:
EASTCOAST BIAS
2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly

by say hey nation on Oct 20, 2010 9:14 AM PDT reply actions

To summarize:

Bonds is a cheat, Giants fans are bad people for cheering for him, a beautiful city is wasted on this populace.

Awesome. I always knew there was something morally wrong with me, deep in my soul. Now I know that it’s because I like a player who probably cheated in an era filled with hundreds of such players.

What’s maddening about this is that I don’t think columnists and talking heads realize that there’s a level of defiance to our love of Bonds. I would be 100% willing to talk about his faults— it’s not a good thing that he cheated or treated the media like crap. But because there are so many sanctimonious pricks who seem to think he’s the antichrist, feel like I need to be that much more vocal in my support of him to counteract that. So how about this national media— you call off the witch-hunt, and I’ll stop cheering quite so loudly.

Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...

by Smoke on the Water on Oct 20, 2010 11:47 AM PDT reply actions 3 recs

well said.

I'm a man

by Wes_Mantooth on Oct 20, 2010 12:40 PM PDT up reply actions

Yes.

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by Josh from Hollywood on Oct 20, 2010 1:06 PM PDT up reply actions

Wrecked

It's Johnnie Walker inside.

by Lies and Perfidy on Oct 20, 2010 3:38 PM PDT up reply actions

Well said. I remember several years ago when Jason Giambi got caught for steroid use. The local news interviewed a Red Sox fan who stated how unfair it was that Giambi got a pivotal home-run for the Yankees against the Sox in a playoff game. Several years later, it was revealed that David Ortiz was also using steroids. It begs the question, how many players were using that didn’t get caught? I certainly don’t feel sorry for Bonds, but no baseball fans have a right to be sanctimonious about the steroid issue…

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by Tommy Wiseau is a Giants Fan on Oct 21, 2010 9:13 AM PDT up reply actions

When will people understand

That the ‘roids weren’t what made Bonds such a great hitter, it was the eye? Barry Bonds had a fantastic ability to identify which pitches were in the strike zone and which were not, and to take pitches that he didn’t want even if he thought they were strikes. Sure, he had fantastic power, which made him one of the best hitters of all time. But the reason he was so successful on the juice, and so many others were not, was because he went past the physical strength to training himself to know when to swing.

Even before he became a cheater (and really, if everyone’s cheating, is anyone cheating in a meaningful way? Doesn’t it even out?), he was hitting like crazy because of his eye; beginning in 1990, he never posted an OBP below .400 (except for 1999, when he had a .225 BABIP, and even then it was .389) or an OBP-SLG below 100. He waited for his pitch, and when he got it, he used his incredible bat speed to drive the ball. Steroids probably did help him hit a lot of those homers. On the other hand, he would have broken the record a lot sooner were it not for all those IBBs. But he never would’ve gotten close without that eye.

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by quincy0191 on Oct 20, 2010 3:38 PM PDT reply actions

Steroids build upper body mass, mostly shoulder and pectoralis. Home run power comes from leg drive and core strength, and the wrists. Net gain from steroids: one to three feet on the average fly-ball. Non-issue.

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by S.F. Giangst on Oct 21, 2010 5:53 AM PDT up reply actions

Steroids help build strength in whatever muscles you work out. That most juicemonkeys do it to build their upper body strength doesn’t limit the effects to just those muscles….

by Missing Barry on Oct 21, 2010 6:48 AM PDT up reply actions

And steroids aid in muscle recovery which is pretty important over 162 games.

Utter frustration and futility.
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2010 8:30 AM PDT up reply actions

Sheesh, what’s wrong with MC Hammer?

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by leftymalo on Oct 21, 2010 12:03 AM PDT reply actions

WE LOVE THE HAMMER

Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller

by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2010 8:30 AM PDT up reply actions

I think we just have to acknowledge that every city has a very small contingent of dum-dum sports columnists, San Francisco included. This dude is a piece of doggy do do, but is he really that different from Skip Bayless, when he was writing columns for the San Jose Mercury News? I just hate that we continue to get dogged for a guy that left the organization 3 years ago. Oh, well, at least he didn’t make any gay jokes…

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by Tommy Wiseau is a Giants Fan on Oct 21, 2010 9:04 AM PDT reply actions