Sports Broadcasting/Anchors/Media Thread

[treble]

Sports Media Thread

Rogers Sportsnet has rebranded everything. Gone is their classic 'what the fuck is this' logo:

In its place is some lame 'SPORTSNET' where the S & N in the middle are underlined. The new slogan is 'fueled by the fans' and there's at least one commercial with shots of fans interspersed with shots of players on Canadian teams. It's about as awful as you think.

 

[Czech]

Sports Media Thread

That looks like a stylized drawing of a running back carrying the fooballl under his arm. Why they'd use a football player for what's primarily a hockey channel is beyond me.

 

[Mattdotcom]

Sports Media Thread

Maybe the bigger arm area is a hockey stick and the red dot is a puck. And the hockey player is a contortionist.

 

[Agent of Oblivion]

Sports Media Thread

I think it's a goalie making a save.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Sports Media Thread

Dude ready for his prostate exam.

 

[treble]

Sports Media Thread

I always thought it looked a bit like a whale. I think it came out around the time as the Canucks started using their Orca Bay logo, so I think I must have associated the two of them.

 

[Red Baron]

Sports Media Thread

New look, same shitty anchors.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

Sports Media Thread

That logo looks like some kind of bird or possibly a dinosaur.

 

[Mattdotcom]

Sports Media Thread

Definitely not a "crunk" bird or dinosaur, though.

 

[Czech]

Sports Media Thread

That Sportsnet thing is the Quebec Nordiques elephantigloo of the 21st century.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

Sports Media Thread

As long as they provide the sole Canadian HD feed for UFC TV broadcasts they can have whatever shitty logo they want.

I always thought it was a one-armed man juggling a ball with his legs. That's the way it looks, but what it actually is is anybody's guess.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

Sports Media Thread

IT'S GOATSE

 

[Byron The Bulb]

Sports Media Thread

why you gotta be like that, ESPN?

 

[Bored]

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http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20111220_Four_say_Philly_Daily_News_writer_Bill_Conlin_sexually_abused_them_as_children.html

Bill Conlin has been accused of molesting children back in the 70's. Is it wrong for me to hope this is true?

 

[Mattdotcom]

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Wow, a guy who looks like a cleaned-up George RR Martin a child molester, who would have thought

 

[teke184]

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http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20111220_Four_say_Philly_Daily_News_writer_Bill_Conlin_sexually_abused_them_as_children.html

Bill Conlin has been accused of molesting children back in the 70's. Is it wrong for me to hope this is true?

No, it's not.

Self-serving piece of shit is emblematic of the arrogant assholes on the BBWAA committee. This one in particular left Nolan Ryan off his ballot so that Ryan wouldn't go in with 100% of all possible votes.

 

[Smues]

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Isn't he the guy that outright said he stopped voting for people if they got a low total of votes, but then would reconsider them when the vote total moved up? I hope we found out he taught Sandusky everything he knows.

 

[alkeiper]

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“Bill Conlin has been a member in good standing of the BBWAA since 1966. The allegations have no bearing on his winning the 2011 J.G. Taylor Spink Award, which was in recognition of his notable career as a baseball writer.”

-Jack O’Connell, BBWAA secretary/treasurer
Dec. 20, 2011

Yes folks, the BBWAA believes we should separate character from achievements when considering the writers' wing of the Hall of Fame. They of course being the ones who keep suspected steroid users like Jeff Bagwell out of the Hall.

 

[teke184]

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Here's a good question... Why can a baseball writer be enshrined with less than 50% of the vote while MLB players require at least 70% of all ballots to vote for them?

Conlin's percentage was somewhere around the 43% range, which for most baseball players would be a way of saying "Maybe if they stick around on the ballot for another 10 years".

 

[alkeiper]

Re: Sports Media Thread

Here's a good question... Why can a baseball writer be enshrined with less than 50% of the vote while MLB players require at least 70% of all ballots to vote for them?

Conlin's percentage was somewhere around the 43% range, which for most baseball players would be a way of saying "Maybe if they stick around on the ballot for another 10 years".

Different methods. The writers give an award every year. If there's five on a ballot and pick one, no one would ever get 75% of a vote.

 

[teke184]

Re: Sports Media Thread

Here's a good question... Why can a baseball writer be enshrined with less than 50% of the vote while MLB players require at least 70% of all ballots to vote for them?

Conlin's percentage was somewhere around the 43% range, which for most baseball players would be a way of saying "Maybe if they stick around on the ballot for another 10 years".

Different methods. The writers give an award every year. If there's five on a ballot and pick one, no one would ever get 75% of a vote.

If they had to live by the same rules as the players they're voting on, I think they'd change the system up a bit.

There's no guarantee that a MLB player will get in every year, so there should be no guarantee that one writer will get an award.

 

[alkeiper]

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It's not really the same level of honor as the Hall of Fame though.

 

[Smartly Pretty]

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Did you guys know Carles writes for Grantland?

http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/40815/solving-the-coachella-flyer-code

There's something really weird about this that I cannot put my finger on.

 

[Czech]

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Carles writes for Grantland. Excerpt:

There are times when I feel like I resent the simpleness of bros, but then I remind myself that bros have never been as free to bro as they are now. Bro-wave media has taken off the bro's shackles, freeing him from the pressures of evolving into a man who uses 'emotional evolution' as a way to cover up that life has defeated him. Shows like Entourage give us hope that the bro way of life is a sustainable way of life.

As long as you have your bros, you can cultivate a meaningful existence. A clan of true bros potentially outlasts any girlfriend, wife, or sibling. It provides emotional support that helps us to escape from the pain and monotony of everyday life with a mix of humor, escapism, and bro-based situational absurdity.

I am afraid of losing my bros if they choose to 'emotionally evolve' beyond the bro. It feels like I have already lost my Entourage bros. Hopefully, Entourage will provide a paradigm-shifting ending in which the bro is allowed to have his own version of a happy ending. This is probably unrealistic because bros will never end, as we find true happiness as long as we exist freely in the Circle of Bro.

If Grantland is the All-Star Team of internet columnists, this is a relief appearance from a 2005 Kansas City Royal.

 

[BUTT]

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Hiring a internet personality whose only claim to fame is that he writes like a retard and then forcing him to use complete words and proper spelling seems counterintuitive. Why not actually get a good writer?

 

[the max]

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I have no idea who Carles is and after reading that excerpt, I don't want to. Terrible.

 

[Czech]

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Byron went through a Carles phase a couple years ago. He may have even originated "p." for "pretty."

 

[Byron The Bulb]

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Let's not remember that.

 

[still fly]

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Mike Francesa's new jingle is terrible.

 

[MFer]

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Can anyone explain to me why Bleacher Report appears to gain legitimacy by the day?