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Water Missles, Sports Media 2009

by Brian on May 4, 2009

in Blogs,Guns,NBA,Social Issues,TV

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about different ways to attack other countries, and I came upon the idea of giant water missiles.

Like you could hover them over the grid and be like really threatening with them, and all the countries would be scared because you’re just like, “Yeah, you guys are our enemies and you’re gonna be drenched.”

Just a thought.

All my sports blog friends – please don’t take offense to the following at all – it’s not a condemnation on the work you do. It’s simply what TOO MUCH INFO has ultimately resulted in for me.

Those of you who try to talk sports with me in various venues may be finding that it’s increasingly difficult to determine whether or not I have any idea whether or not I know what I’m talking about.

The cold, hard, harsh, viral truth of this tempest is because I probably don’t. I have, as of lasterday, dropped the last of the sports pages/blogs/sites from my feed reader. The only thing I do is go to NBA DOT COM to see when the big game is on.

(If you must know – that last one was Henry Abbot’s TrueHoop. It’s not a reflection on Henry – he’s a great writer and I like him tremendously. And I do still have Trey Kerby’s the Blowtorch on there, because if you look close, he’s not actually writing about sports.)

Somewhere I just found I was enjoying the games more, the less I read about them.

Now that I’m riding totally knowledge/analysis free and instead spending my time talking to girls on Twitter, it’s amazing. When it really hit me was when I found out Jason Terry was Sixth Man of the Year from the ABC broadcast. Like, a full day or so after it was announced, even.

I love trophies.

Anyone else experimented with living a life of under-saturation in the Age of Over-saturation? What’s your experience or thoughts on this in general?

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  • I used to comment in many places, but I've lost my desire to do so anymore. Plus, I've also discovered this thing called "girls" that you speak of. Puberty--what a concept!

    Blogs do community very poorly. After a while, we realize that no one really cares in real life that we can break down the triangle or analyze VORP. Unless your friends are similarly obsessed (and mine aren't), who cares?
  • I've dropped everything - not just blogs. Blogs and most columnists I dropped a long time ago. I don't even check the headlines anymore.

    If it's big enough, I'll hear about it, ie LeBron's new trophy!
  • I do fantasy football AND baseball (I'm a devoted Sabermetrics person; discussion of "heart" and "passion" and "desire" and "guts" makes me want to throw things at my TV), so I get most of my daily updates from the bowels of ESPN's sport-specific pages or Rotoworld, and end up searching for the most current things in specific players' local papers - sorry interwebs, you don't get scoops like they do, mainly because you don't care like they do.

    I'm both over-saturated and under-saturated. I could tell you the OF situation for the Colorado Rockies is messy with young talented speed that can't hit, but I'm largely out of the loop on whether or not the Cs-Bulls series really was the greatest of all time. Numbers are all that matter.
  • i'm still in "i can't believe fjm is done" shock.
  • What is fjm?
  • fire joe morgan, the best blog ever. the guy (who actually turned out to be that Schur dude who writes for the office and is now semi-ruining my image of him with the parks and recreation abortion) got tired and he and his buddies stopped last year. they focused on baseball stats and idiotic announcers.
  • I keep checking back, hoping it'll reboot now that baseball has restarted. That was a sad day.
  • I would've pegged you as a murderer before a fantasy sports guy.
  • It's an obsession with manipulation and convoluted strategy - like chess. I think it makes perfect sense for my personality.

    Murderer, huh? Thanks.
  • Corb have you played baseball mogul?
  • Had never heard of it until just now. Looks interesting, but is it head to head with anyone else, or just you vs. the computer? The best part of fantasy sports is trash talking with friends.
  • nah its just you. but it's fun in the sense of self-serving ideologies. like me trying to prove that you can do well with a bunch of slow guys who draw walks at the top of the order, or stuff like that.
  • I definitely get what you're saying; I avoid players who strike out a lot, and focus much more on OBP instead of average, and get pitchers who don't walk guys and who win less, but have very low WHIP and ERA.
  • Nerds omg
  • actually, strikeouts i don't mind, so long as the walks are there. adum dunn is the perfect case of undervalued talent.

    don't buy it, you can prolly download it for free off a torrent site or on Ares.

    sorry for nerding up your comment section, brian.
  • I avoid guys like Dunn at all costs. His power isn't enough to compensate for the 0-4, no BB nights.
  • flawed logic, dude. guy's 162 game average for his career is a .383 OBP and 40 homers. "putting the ball in play" is overrated.
  • Less fantasy sports, more Star Trek and Terminator and Twitter girls.
  • No: more movies and less Twitter girls. And more sports, obviously, since everyone chimed in on this post.
  • My point is that's the level that I didn't think you would be into fantasy sports. It was a compliment.
  • Greg Odens tonsils
    You spoke about saturating enemies in the beginning of your post and then followed up talking about how you felt over-saturated with information about basketball. Very clever Mr Spaeth. 7.5 points go to you.
  • Am I still considered a sports blog?
  • goathair
    I'd say "sports" blog.
  • joe
    i'm down to airplanes, ksk, deadspin for sports. i used to totally oversaturate with politics: cable news, politico, etc. now, i hardly care at all.
  • TVBrain
    you, waitingfornextyear, withleather, ksk and deadspin.
    And I don't go to any of those places for analysis.

    MVP.
  • goathair
    You're on to me.
  • .
  • goathair
    Brian. He knows.
  • i am apparently in that boat a little. i stop by truehoop, but usually scan the headlines and go somewhere else. i do stop by deadspin, but i'm not entirely sure that counts.

    i am somewhat offended that the douchebag that writes the big lead actually gets pageviews for making his opinions (which usually mirror the views of a pre-teen girl obsessed with celebrity tabloids and "lost") seem like accepted fact.

    oh and i love freedarko and the wizznutzz but i am not sure i always grasp what either is saying.
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