Shitty Sportswriting Thread

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 12:00 pm

Tdarcos wrote:
pinback wrote:
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:What deli serves curry in the first place?
It was a joke, Paul! You remember jokes!
Excuse me, I did not write that. I think you owe me an apology for associating me with any of Jonsey's writings.

You are an incomprehensible, unreadable bore of a story teller. I maintain two sites you can't get enough of. Eat a dick, dickeater.

by **Tdarcos** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 8:42 am

Real simple, real short:

Howard Cosell, in his autobiography, said most sports writers are terrible at covering sports news because they don't treat it as news, they're often not educated or truly knowledgeable in the subject, and they're too often fanboys who are too partisan.

You won't get good coverage of any story, about, say, some issue with the government, if all the reporters are unquestioningly following its press releases. We do get reasonably good reporting of sports scandals, because non-sports reporters to the digging for facts. Most everything else in sports, the journalistic talent is sorely lacking.

by **Tdarcos** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 8:23 am

pinback wrote:
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:What deli serves curry in the first place?
It was a joke, Paul! You remember jokes!

Excuse me, I did not write that. I think you owe me an apology for associating me with any of Jonsey's writings.

by **pinback** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 1:26 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I honestly don't understand the tweet or why RICK hasn't killed himself because of how awful the joke was. Is.

Let's start small:

You understand there was a "deli" in Cleveland that temporarily changed the spelling of their name to "delly" (in support of their own player) and said they would serve no "Curry" (in reference to a player on the opposing team)?

Let me back up.

Do you know that the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors are currently playing each other in the NBA Finals?

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 12:56 pm

I honestly don't understand the tweet or why RICK hasn't killed himself because of how awful the joke was. Is.

by **pinback** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 8:53 am

Delicatessens "serve" food. In this case, they've decided not to "serve" "Curry". As a play on words.

Are you genuinely not understanding this, or is this just you doing your "I hate everything" bit?

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 8:21 am

That doesn't make any sense. None at all. You don't "serve" anything in basketball.

Did Reilly think he was watching tennis?

by **pinback** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 7:19 am

That is the nickname of Cleveland Cavalier "Matthew Dellavedova".

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 6:53 am

Why did he spell it "Delly"?

by **pinback** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 4:07 am

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I mean, this is dumb. It's got literally nothing to do with curries. It's like if a record store did the same thing.

A curry is a food. A food place serves food. Record stores do not serve food.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 8:47 pm

I mean, this is dumb. It's got literally nothing to do with curries. It's like if a record store did the same thing.

You want a joke over Twitter for the fact that nobody gave the Cavs a chance and now they're up 2-1? An ACTUAL joke? Fine.

"I haven't seen a finals series this cross-eyed since Stu Scott was calling them." There. You're welcome.

by **pinback** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 5:21 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:What deli serves curry in the first place?

It was a joke, Paul! You remember jokes!

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 4:38 pm

I do not.

I thought it had to do with how Dell Curry is Steph Curry's dad.

Don't turn this around on me. I read the link you provided and I STILL don't get it. What deli serves curry in the first place? This just got even more dumb.

by **pinback** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 2:00 pm

Do you... do you just not understand what he's talking about?

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 1:00 pm

by **Knuckles the CLown** » Mon Feb 17, 2014 7:00 pm

and..... he wrote the same column again.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/10437 ... eet-lebron

by **Flack** » Sat Feb 09, 2013 2:25 pm

I missed the last couple of games but I caught last night's against Phoenix. All I can say is, wow, today's Phoenix is a far cry from the Phoenix of the past. There was no rising, just the flames. Thunder won by 31, 127-96.

EDIT: Whoops, wrong thread.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 7:26 pm

Yes, but everyone hates him now.

by **pinback** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 7:11 pm

I liked his golf novels. I'm sorry, I thought they were funny.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 6:08 pm

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/8810 ... -faqs-2013

At least he has come to grips with the fact that everyone hates him now.

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