Eff U, ESPN
Posted by SBG on Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 at 10:36 am
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First class.
I blame Bill Simmons.
I thought we were still blaming Kubel??
It switched over to McHale once it became (ugly) sweater season.
Rock bottom, baby.
I am a bit out of the loop. Was there much commentary here about the Britt Robson piece on McHale at MSP Mag?
None that I'm aware of. I didn't read the article in question. Link?
McFail a.k.a. Lone Ranger
Interesting piece. I've always liked Robson's Woof coverage. It reaffirms a few things I've felt about McHale:
1.) He's a decent guy (good father, husband, son, etc).
2.) He's never worked as hard (as a GM) as he could've/should've.
3.) His inability to adapt - the stubbornness that he wears like a badge - would ultimately be his undoing.
4.) He was a great color commentator.
My takeaways are:
1.) Taylor is a much larger part of the problem than McHale, his work ethic or his stubbornness. The way in which Saunders was hired in a sort of haphazard way outside of McHale portended Taylor's weakness as a boss and foreshadowed the debacle that was the Joe Smith fiasco.
2.) I agree with you on the stubbornness
3.) Flip does not get enough blame
I just seems that someone made a poll for Boston-haters, and forgot they weren't writing for a blog or message board. You're not supposed to hope that a star of a hated team gets hurt, so his team is more likely to lose, but people do.
Right. ESPN is no message board, it's a broadcast partner of the NBA.
Time, as Atrios would say, for a panel on blogger ethics.
I agree that it was wrong to post that line, but ESPN management also quickly pulled the poll and posted an admission of error and a full apology (and not one of those fake "we're sorry if anyone was offended" apologies). They handled the mistake properly. If you follow the way some media outlets like TIME and The Washington Post have handled reader response to some significant errors in political reporting lately, that's a breath of fresh air.
True enough.
Live by the snark. Die by the snark.