I could have taken the complaining at this symposium a lot more seriously if Michael Wilbon hadn’t played the “people sit in their mother’s basements and write this crap” card.
Damn, that shit was lame a decade ago. Although I should probably give him credit for not bringing up shaving and showering.
Get The Picture 
Wilbon did make a good point about how a writer needs to be able to convey his,or her thoughts in a way that tells a good story. This blog’s prose is interesting to read. Some blogs are hard to slog through even if the analysis is good. The greatest analysis is the world does not matter if it is hard to read.
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“I think it’s important though to point out that some of these Internet outlets that we’re calling ‘fly by night’ have…kind of kept mainstream sports media a little bit honest,”
I’m glad this point was made. Not sure about the “kind of” there. It seems self-righteous when the media has objections towards an independent group that is keeping them honest.
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And Maury Povich is on the panel? And they want to talk about “journalism”. Give me a break. He is the worst example of journalism I can think of.
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Just think how many kids out there wouldn’t know who their father is without Maury. The man is a saint
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Connie Chung knows who her daddy is.
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Pam Ward?
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I wonder why Peter King wasn’t on the panel.
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I’ve often wondered how these jerks like Povich get away with obvious child exploitation. They take a poor kid, put his face on TV and then show the most miserable arguments and confrontations that they can gin up over who the child’s father is. That kid has to go back to his home, neighborhood, school, church, whatever and be subject to the comments and opinions of people who have entertained themselves watching the misery unfold on TV. Meanwhile, the TV host and show cashes in. This is child exploitation to me, and everyone involved should be charged in whatever state the show is recorded in.
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how long you been sitting on that one?
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Funny. But it has bothered me for a while and this is the first opportunity I saw to sound off.
Here, I’ll fix it by tying it in with this blog..Povitch was a back up quarterback for GT in the early 60’s.
That statement is keeping with dudemankind’s contention.
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You do know that the entire show is scripted and those folks are just actors right? Everybody else, including the kids know it.
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Infants know it? Two year olds?
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Oh, and by the way…..Pro Wrestling is also fake.
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Even in fake pro wrestling, people still sometimes get hurt, and even die. Bad analogy, dude
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“You don’t know me!!”
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“The tribe has spoken.”
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His awful politics aside, Senator’s writing is superior than about 95% of the sports writers out there. Wilbon is horrible.
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Thank you… I think. 😉
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I don’t always agree with the Senator but I love his blog and his passion, especially for Georgia football. I find it amusing the egos some of these sportswriters have because espn decided to give them a platform other than their dying newspapers. Its actually one of my biggest complaints about espn and I suspect has something to do with their flailing ratings. I would rather watch more games, even reruns, than watch some sportswriter spew his opinion as if I care.
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We have always been at war with the journalists
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Politics aside, WTF is a ‘Southern Yank’?
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Yankee born … Southern raised.
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Man, if I could only sit in my parents’ basement and blog about football and play daily fantasy sports. Now that would be the life…
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And have the Mexicans pay for my la vida loca basement
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