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Edgy DC Jul 30 2007 02:58 PM

Tomorrow, Glavine goes for 300, A-Rod for 500, Bonds for 756 and the trade deadline is going down. Steve Phillips, bringing it all to you.

metirish Jul 30 2007 04:27 PM Re: ESPN Tuesday

Edgy DC wrote: Tomorrow, Glavine goes for 300, A-Rod for 500, Bonds for 756 and the trade deadline is going down. Steve Phillips, bringing it all to you. Talk about a great second act in life....jeez..

bmfc1 Jul 30 2007 04:30 PM

Steve Phillips just said that the Braves will win the NL East. I guess the Mets should concede since Phillips is so smart.

Nymr83 Jul 30 2007 04:37 PM

bmfc1 wrote: Steve Phillips just said that the Braves will win the NL East. I guess the Mets should concede since Phillips is so smart. He's always looking for an excuse to say that. they could have acquired kyle farnsworth and he'd have said it.

metirish Jul 30 2007 04:49 PM

I remember not long after Phillips started doing games on ESPN he interviewed John Schurholtz in the booth and practically licked his arse on air......."great to finally meet the man I spent years chasing"....

TransMonk Jul 30 2007 05:13 PM

bmfc1 wrote: Steve Phillips just said that the Braves will win the NL East. At least he's consistent. Consistently stupid. Consistently embarrassed. Consistently trying too hard.

Edgy DC Aug 03 2007 11:08 AM

Is this ESPN or The Onion?

Nymr83 Aug 03 2007 11:14 AM

its lame is what it is.

metirish Aug 03 2007 11:24 AM

That he is a working professor is a shame.

DocTee Aug 03 2007 11:34 AM

ESPN is a joke. Who's Now? Is that even a question? A list of probable NFL Hall of Famers that includes players who have yet to appear in a game? An article on the lack of Denver Broncos in Canton that says it won't get any easier because "Aikman and Marino will soon be eligible, thereby taking away votes from Terrell Davis" when both of those qbs are already enshrined. And that's just this week- It's the "entertainment tonighting" of sports.

Edgy DC Aug 03 2007 11:41 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 03 2007 04:46 PM

metirish wrote: That he is a working professor is a shame. He's more than a working professor, but a tenured chair. I read some of his older ESPN columns and they similarly fail to develop their theses with more than a "Come on, get real" attitude, but, just a short time ago, he wasn't writing in vernacular at all. These self-promoting professors are a fascinating lot, in that they know how to play the media into turning a story into a publicity opportunity for themselves, and parlay that publicity into book contracts, tenured chairs (by 40!), and ESPN columns. His wikipedia article reads like a press release, or the back of one of his books (it probably is), so I searched around for more on him. http://www.newsthinking.com/story.cfm?SID=174

Benjamin Grimm Aug 03 2007 11:58 AM

metirish wrote: That he is a working professor is a shame. I'm starting to get the feeling that anybody can be a professor.

Willets Point Aug 03 2007 01:09 PM

Yancy Street Gang wrote: ="metirish"]That he is a working professor is a shame. I'm starting to get the feeling that anybody can be a professor. Can I be a professor?

metsmarathon Aug 03 2007 01:42 PM

yes. i think it helps if you boil every single thing down to a matter of blacks vs. whites, rich vs. poor, or democrat vs republicans, wherein the one side, whichever it is, exists purely and solely to crush the other, by dint of its pure evilness. hank aaron, selfish? i don't buy it. hank aaron saying fuck you to bonds? yeah, that i'll buy. i wonder, if i lied on my resume and applied to usc to take a position that the esteemed "notorious phd" had his eye on, and he knew it, would he just shut up and shake my hand, or would he fight it? do i even have to wonder? bonds = hip hop? please. that would be like if tiger woods' kid grew up and decided to turn into a rapper. where's his cred? bonds had it made, clean, and THEN he decided to turn dirty. he didnt need to. he wasn't forced into it because his daddy left his momma when he was still in the crib and the only way outta tha damn hood was to sell drugs to pay his way. i'm actually a bit surprised that the professor didnt call hank aaron a racist because he doesn't support bonds. i mean, he did pull the "hank should support barry 'cos they're both black" bullshit, which is bad enough. i don't stand by every white fool, and hank shouldn't stand by every black fool. and neither should the professor, but i don't think its in his best financial interest to agree with me.

Edgy DC Aug 03 2007 01:52 PM

Yeah, but you stood by the Notorious B.O.T., clean through all the robot-hatin'.

Frayed Knot Aug 03 2007 02:10 PM

If that article is real it's idiotic, if it's sarcasm it failed.

Elster88 Aug 03 2007 04:01 PM

bmfc1 wrote: Steve Phillips just said that the Braves will win the NL East. I can't be the only one who is extremely comforted by this.

Elster88 Aug 12 2007 09:38 PM

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