This is the sports journalism equivalent of hearing a 15-year old tell his favorite masturbation story. From when he was thirteen.
In the pantheon of I don't give a fuck journalism, this is in the top 5 (See -- I can mail it in like Sportsguy too.)
Friday, February 02, 2007
Flatulence
I am remarkably blase about this year's Super Bowl. But I'd like to hear one even vaguely justifiable reason for Sportsguy's picks column today to spend 90% of its time discussing Anna Kournikova. Basically, he ran into her the other night in a bar in Miami, and so this well-compensated journalist sent to Miami with an undoubtedly enourmous expense account to give us a feel for the game spends the bulk of his time writing about a women's tennis player who peaked years ago? He even actually tells a vaguely creepy story about his former intern playing high school tennis in Massachusetts. Then he swerves in order to tell us that he went to a Heat-Cavs basketball game (and to drop a cheap shot or two on LeBron's lap -- which may or may not be valid, but which certainly added to our trip down Nonsequiter Lane) Un-fucking-believable. And keep in mind -- this guy is in Miami and is supposed to be helping us give a damn about the Super Bowl.
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Please keep the profanity to a minimum. My virgin ears are very sensitive.
I have to agree with the Thunderstick on this one. There is certainly no need for such words. Your point was well taken without the vulgarity. I believe it was Percy B. Shelly who said "Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life,... is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret." This rings true.
You must have been in quite a foul mood, sir, to write such things.
Oh, I would actually argue that well-placed profanity has as much of a role to play in lamnguage as any other words. I don't buy the pollyannaish argument that profanity debases us nor Shelly's florid assertion that it is a monster or a blasphemy.
I draw on the assumption that anyone readfing here is adult enough to understand the multidudinous nature of the language.
Oh, and the Thunderstick was being facetious.
dcat
Profanity is an artform.
poop
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