What The Fuck, Deadspin?
Like most sports savvy individuals, I’m a huge fan of Deadspin. The website/blog manages to intertwine a level of frat boy humour and raw intelligence that makes me laugh and then get angry at them for being funnier and smarter than me.
However, on Sunday, with Dustin McGowan an inning away from the no-hitter, these fuck-wits decided to publish this story, informing their readers that a no-hitter is in progress.
What the fuck?
I almost expect there to be a few useless Jays fans in the crowd who don’t know any better than to mention what’s happening on the field, but for such a highly esteemed website to break the taboo is almost unforgiveable.
I say “almost unforgiveable” because if Deadspin weren’t such a great read, I’d say I’m never visiting their site again. However, there’s not much out there that’s as good as the blog that these assholes have put together.
Therfore, I want to announce that I will continue to visit Deadspin as frequently as I have in the past, but I will visit their site under a powerless protest each time.
I’m also formally requesting disciplinary action for The Mighty MJD, the weekend editor for Deadspin. Might I suggest he be forced to listen to “Jays To The Top” repeatedly for one hour.
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I'm not with you on this one. Breaking taboos is what I'm all about, you black asshole.
Deadspin should really be linking to us more often, though. Those fucks!
I fucking love that song. We need a shoulder strapped petty blaster to listen to it on the walk to games.
As I mentioned earlier, Hughson over on the CBC deserves full credit for only even beginning to allude to the potential no-no in the top of the ninth. You could tell Rance was bouncing in his seat just eager to offer his "unique perspective" (a.k.a. glasses-wearing fuck-faced retard bullshit), but Jesse and Jim kept him in line.
God, why did Rance have to go to the broadcast booth. Somebody teach him to shut up and let me watch the game.
TV critic Chris Zelkovich in the Toronto Star wrote a column in yesterday's paper criticizing Hughson and the CBC for not saying anything about the no-no in progress until it was scotched. I wrote him an email, basically saying "Don't you know anything about baseball superstition? I'm sure Mulliniks and Barfield were saying to Hughson 'Shut the hell up about it.'"
Zelkovich actually wrote me back right away saying "that superstition is for the players only and it's the TV guys' job to tell the story of what's happening." I still think they showed good baseball smarts by not breathing a word about it.
That's crazy. I just sent him an e-mail of my own.
I'll post his response if I get one.
I think I'm with Zelkovich on this one, to be honest. It's pretty ridiculous to think that nobody is going to mention it. I'm sure that during every no-hitter ever pitched, somebody somewhere has said something about it. I'm sure that the one Verlander just pitched had web stories like "Verlander: No hitter through 7" popping up.
Wilner was talking about this last night, and about the Zelkovich article, too. He said that Howarth and Ashby clearly let the viewers know what was going on. They mentioned "no runs on no hits for the Rockies" and stuff like that, but didn't say "no-hitter" proper, which is a better way to do it than to pretend it's not happening-- and supposedly not going against superstition, I guess...
But ultimately, I agree with the point that the announcers are there to tell the audience what's going on. They don't have to beat it to death, but I have no problem with it getting mentioned tastefully. How many viewers do you think the CBC turned away because they saw it was 5-0 and just figured it wasn't nearly so special? If that was happening, they weren't doing their jobs as broadcasters, and I think Zelkovich is fine for calling them out.
Anyway, as the Fan supposedly proved, you can dance around it and still make it pretty clear what is going on-- I think that's the main point.
You're full of shit.
I understand radio is different because they don't have the visual display at the end of every inning, but seriously, fuck you, you're full of shit if you think it's alright for tv guys to say a no-hitter is going on.
While I agree that broadcasters are supposed to inform viewers, they're also there to entertain.
Part of what entertains me about baseball are the traditions and silly jinxes. By not saying anything, Hughson was honouring those traditions.
I'm sure too that watching the game on CBC and hearing Hughson subtly dance around mentioning the "no-no" in progress, made it all the more intense.
Good call by Hughson, bad call by Zelkovich.
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