Water Missles, Sports Media 2009

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.

You're on to me.

you, waitingfornextyear, withleather, ksk and deadspin.
And I don't go to any of those places for analysis.

MVP.

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.

Am I still considered a sports blog?

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.

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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 would've pegged you as a murderer before a fantasy sports guy.

i'm still in “i can't believe fjm is done” shock.

It's an obsession with manipulation and convoluted strategy – like chess. I think it makes perfect sense for my personality.

Murderer, huh? Thanks.

I keep checking back, hoping it'll reboot now that baseball has restarted. That was a sad day.

My point is that's the level that I didn't think you would be into fantasy sports. It was a compliment.

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.

Brian. He knows.

I'd say “sports” blog.

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!

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.

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.

Nerds omg

Less fantasy sports, more Star Trek and Terminator and Twitter girls.

I avoid guys like Dunn at all costs. His power isn't enough to compensate for the 0-4, no BB nights.

No: more movies and less Twitter girls. And more sports, obviously, since everyone chimed in on this post.

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.

You're on to me.

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.

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.

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.

I keep checking back, hoping it'll reboot now that baseball has restarted. That was a sad day.

What is fjm?

Brian. He knows.

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?

Corb have you played baseball mogul?

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.

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.

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.