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Re: MMA Has Hit High School

Indie_gig — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:32:53 -0000

The school’s only concern was that the students were not actually hitting each other

Re: Around the Hall: So, will he or won’t he?

BFowler — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:03:55 -0000

Wow, a range of things to react to on here today. I will start with this. I think with Bob Hammel reaching out on behalf of Fred Glass and Tom Crean (both of whom have sung Coach Knight's praises) there stands a better than 50% percent chance that Coach Knight will return for the ceremony (although I would put it at roughly 50.00001%). If coach Yeagley also offers a hand that would highten the chances.

2nd - Just because a kid lists you on his list does not mean there is any real intent there. See Dom Ferguson, IU had no real intent of signing him although he listed them. If a kid also lists Cincinnati and South Carolina with IU, that tells me he is wishing more than holding.

3rd - Postman E (Eamonn) - I like your playing with words. It keeps someone with ADD like me interested. You have a unique take on things and I like the way you use quirky sayings and words I have to look up in the dictionary. I read the Dagger as part of my daily reading and I understand you have to entertain a national audience with the blog, not just IU fans, so I see where you were coming from. I am a fan of your work and I appreciate the quirks. The three of you together have founded my favorite blog and I appreciate that. However, you lend credibilty to those criticizing you by responding to them. I also thought that the comments were unneccesary (as explained in point 4), but they should not define you as a "journalist."

4th - To those offering criticism to Eamonn, a blog is a space to offer opinions. It is designed to provide an outlet for one's thoughts. There is no journalistic integrity required, nor is there any reason to worry about word choice, just the words you think best describe your thoughts on the particular matter. I would understand if you were an English professor or a journalism major and Eamonn was your subject of study or your professor, but I assuming you are not and he is not. Postman E's only obligation is to get readers and encourage the advertisers to pay to have a spot on his blog so his employer can get more money. (my 2 cents on the matter)

Re: Around the Hall: So, will he or won’t he?

gibbonjockey — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:36:43 -0000

I was probably too blunt in my comment and, in retrospect, out of line with the "awful writer" label. I should have just stuck with "awful article" because the article is poorly written and lazy. If you're just a blogger who's in this for kicks and giggles then carry on. If you are a writer to be taken seriously, then do a better job next time. You can take it as criticism or as constructive criticism, that's up to you. My point about the output still stands even if I'm apologizing for meritless namecalling.

Re: Around the Hall: So, will he or won’t he?

jdelisle — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:23:28 -0000

Eamonn, I'm not sure why you feel the need to reply. GFDave and gibbonjockey both had valid points even if the delivery was a little blunt. Writers (at least the good ones) should have thick skin. Save the sarcastic remarks for a different blog/website/whatever and let's stick to the topic.

Re: Around the Hall: So, will he or won’t he?

BigA — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:22:37 -0000

I have to disagree on this one, Dave. While you might not care that Eamonn helped found this blog (many people do, by the way, it should be noted), it's a little shortsighted to question his credibility because you don't agree with his choice of words. Reserve questioning credibility when we (myself, Ryan or Eamonn) report something that's inaccurate.

Re: Around the Hall: So, will he or won’t he?

GFDave — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:03:43 -0000

Words are the way to make the point. I'm honestly surprised you don't get that. Maybe its part of the explosion of technologies that put a premium on quantity and presence over quality. but im not intothat, r u feelin me?

I really don't care that you helped found a blog. What credibility as a writer does that lend to you? Your words are all you have and yours, in this instance anyway, are exactly as I first described them. Good luck to you.

Re: Around the Hall: So, will he or won’t he?

PostmanE — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:41:01 -0000

Hi guys! Eamonn here, reporting live from my hole in the ground. Allow me to explain my apparently egregious word choices, because your harsh comments make me deeply sad inside. (They don't bother me at Yahoo!, but you guys are supposed to be my friends! What gives?!)

I went with abstract and nebulous because IU, sprawling, huge institution that it is, can sometimes seem to exist regardless of the people running it. If Knight chooses to view it that way, fine, but my point is that IU the school isn't responsible for how the story ended; Knight, and Myles Brand, and various other folks no longer employed there are. I promise I wasn't trying to be a poser. I probably just could have gone with "sprawling," but sometimes I type very fast in order to get all my work done. It happens.

Relatively momentous was used because I believe a thing can have varying degrees of momentousness; my dog not crapping in the house today is momentous to me, but in the lifetime development of my dog -- or the continued development and progress of the human race -- only barely so. See what I mean here? "Relatively" is a way to provide context. Not everyone cares about IU basketball, you see.

And anyway why are you guys being so picky? Is not the point of the post itself more important than word choice, which as far as I know is marginally subjective? (Did I choose those two correctly?)

Also, um, GF Dave, I'm one of the founding three members of this here blog, and while my contributions this offseason have been nil I'll be writing The Morning After et. al. again starting in the fall. Until then, you won't have to deal with my poser ass. In the meantime, I'll be "working on my craft."

Thanks for reading! Love y'all!

Re: Selena Roberts’s Books Sales Unimpressive, But Does A-Rod Really Win?

PostmanE — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:32:26 -0000

This is an excellent post. Well played.

Re: Golf Announcers Are Just The Best

PostmanE — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:42:36 -0000

Simmer. You really need Mouthpiece Sports Blog to remind you the Masters is today? You really want us to analyze how Tiger's round is shaping up? In a world where you literally can't stumble onto a sports web site without being faceplanted by Masters coverage, you're really that starved for my take on Jeev Milka Singh's approach?

Re: ESPN Can’t Please Everybody. Who Knew?

PostmanE — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:04:24 -0000

Right on, Gaff-man. I'm not as concerned with controversial opinions as I am an overall tactical analysis, I guess, but that's where we differ. That happens. I think there's one thing we can agree on: Andy Gray excels at both, and that's why he's so very good. (Can ESPN steal him again, please?)

Anyway, thanks for responding. Cheers.

Re: Video: With Topps 3D Live, Baseball Cards Relevant Again

PostmanE — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:13:45 -0000

There’s these things we have now called the “Internet” and “the Nintendo Wii,” and they are far more stimulating to our nation’s youth than a piece of cardboard.

I actually find the Nintendo Wii to be roughly as stimulating as a piece of cardboard.

Re: Lost Time Is Not Found Again: Feb. 12, 2009

PostmanE — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:39:13 -0000

You would say that, Persian. Go back to your Hummer H2 with Gucci accents, which only a Persian would think is cool.

Re: Aussie Rules Football Is Terrifying

PostmanE — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:38:44 -0000

Not to mention the names in question here are "Setanta O'Hailpin King" and "Cameron Croke." Those are great Irish fist names.

Re: White Sox Mascot Southpaw Hoping Barack Obama’s Appoints Him ‘Secretary Of Fun’

PostmanE — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:13:06 -0000

"You go up there, you sit behind Obama at the inauguration, you goof around and plunk some little kid on the head ... that's not serious."

Re: And now we shall discuss the low attendance inside Assembly Hall

PostmanE — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:07:58 -0000

First of all, equating Illinois' fan base with Iowa's is silly. Iowa can't fill a student section to save their lives. Illinois kids have to fundraise just for the chance to get student tickets, and their entire stadium is sold out and cloaked in bright orange every single game. I hate me some Illinois, but it's hard to call their fan base "average"; it's nowhere near as awful as Iowa's.

Second: The whole point of Ryan's piece, or at least part of it, was to drive home the idea that most students are fairweather fans. Most students aren't going to sit in the balcony to watch IU play Penn State in the middle of the day on Saturday, nor are most IU students going to buy season tickets, $220 or not. Think about the percentages here. If there are 36,000 undergrads at IU, and Assembly Hall seats about 8,000 students, that's only a fraction of the student population that even has an interest in season tickets in the first place. When the team is horrible, you're going to lose a fraction of the latter group around the margins.

Complaining about "real fandom" or "supporting the team through thick and thin" or whatever else is nice. It makes emotional sense, especially to people like us, who spend time blogging about sports. Clearly, we care. But everyone else is a swing voter, and there isn't a single student section in the country that wouldn't experience similar loss if their team was playing at roughly the level of IPFW. It's just reality.

Oh, and to plenty of students, $220 is $220, whether you pay for it now or in five years. That's not cheap to most people, least of all people who are, say, working themselves through school, or at the very least have to work part time for their spending money. Not everyone can get Mom and Dad to plunk for basketball tickets, strange as that may seem.

Re: Iowa Broadcaster Loses Job Over Internet Photos

PostmanE — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:27:07 -0000

I suppose it was left unsaid, because I didn't think it needed to be said, but duh. Ed Podolak shouldn't be so drunk he can't see people taking photos of himself peering down women's shirts. Clear? Clear.

And yet again, I'll repeat it: There is an argument to be made for posting the photos. There is also an argument to be made for not posting them, I guess, but if faced with similar circumstances, we might have posted them. It's just the lack of responsibility taken in the Wiz's second post that irks more than anything.

And finally, I'm not sure why we can't blame Iowa's adminstrators for being, as you say, humorless and soulless. They get a pass on that? They're allowed to fire (or, apparently, suspend) a guy for doing a completely harmless thing -- drinking in public and flirting with apparently consenting women while doing so -- without being called out for being soulless? That doesn't seem fair.

I'd apportion the responsibility here as follows:

(i) Podolak: 40%
(ii) Soulless Iowa types: 40%
(iii) Us Internet cretins: 20%

Re: Iowa Broadcaster Loses Job Over Internet Photos

PostmanE — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:17:56 -0000

First of all, you're right: Podolak had the chance to keep his job, according to the Gazette, but as he didn't want to deal with a suspension or reprimand, decided to leave instead. We'll add that to the post in a second, and thank you for bringing it to my attention, as I hadn't seen it when I wrote the post yesterday afternoon.

That said, The Wiz of Odds brought the photos to a larger audience, message boards or not, and I fail to see how that decision didn't lead, in one way or another, to Podolak eventually losing his job. It did, whether he made the final decision, or the administration did. And one more time, because it bears repeating: There is a precedent for posting stuff like this and I'm not wholly opposed to it -- I just found the Wiz's lack of condolences in his follow-up post to be really cold and off-putting. If you're going to start a firestorm, deal with the repercussions.

Re: Buckethead Pens Tracks In Honor Of LeBron James

PostmanE — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:15:03 -0000

If Chuck Klosterman wrote your physics textbook: "Relatively speaking, gravity pulls everything down. Except when it doesn't."

Re: The Morning After: Michigan, or clapping alone

PostmanE — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:28:43 -0000

I don't want to throw Dumes under a bus, I actually like him a lot. I love his swag. But he needs to balance his talent and confidence with a little moderation. That's all.

Re: One thing IU ranks high in? Creating turnovers.

PostmanE — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:10:24 -0000

That actually makes perfect sense, and it jibes with what mine eyes have seen all season. It also follows that teams can afford to be less careful with the ball against Indiana, and so they are -- the games aren't tightly contested matchups but more similar, for top-tier teams, to some sort of JV scrimmage. Sloppy begets sloppy.

Great work, R.

Re: The Big Ten Continues To Be One Giant Pile Of Failure In Bowl Games

PostmanE — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:47:33 -0000

www.theonion.com/content/node/28559

Re: The Greatest Rock Band 2 Beastie Boys “So What’cha Want” Performance. Ever.

PostmanE — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:18:35 -0000

So whatchuwhat ... whatchu want?

Re: MLB 09 To Utilize Rock Band Mic. Awesome.

PMK — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:48:32 -0000

.....and instead of being called The Basement Tapes, they will be called The DB Tapes.

Re: MLB 09 To Utilize Rock Band Mic. Awesome.

PostmanE — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:19:36 -0000

More session photos leak to the internet. Some day, music historians will comb our blogs for these outtakes. They'll be like The Basement Tapes, but with way more fleece vestness.

Re: It’s Official: Rooftops Are Open For Winter Classic

PostmanE — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:58:32 -0000

“There were rooftops asking $750 a head (at one time). Some are still at $500. They’re smoking a crack pipe."

I believe Mr. Gramatis is confusing the rooftop owners with the 2007-08 Indiana Hoosiers.