This picture still makes me laugh

by Adam J. Morris on Sep 4, 2008 3:30 PM CDT

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That image is inspired by Tim MacMahon...

I raise you:

by ghostofErikThompson on Sep 4, 2008 3:47 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs

I think it is MacMahon on the skateboard...

…and Galloway at the typewriter…

by Adam J. Morris on Sep 4, 2008 4:17 PM CDT up reply actions

The one you posted from FJM?

…or the inexplicable one from ghostofErikThompson?

by FuturePants on Sep 4, 2008 4:32 PM CDT up reply actions

The FJM one

by Adam J. Morris on Sep 4, 2008 4:32 PM CDT up reply actions

Anyone care to translate?

The 40 Trumps All!!!

by thedirkatron on Sep 4, 2008 4:25 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs

It is supposed to depict...

…the conflict between bloggers and MSM types…

It was used in conjunction with an article about Buzz Bissinger bitching about Will Leitch…

by Adam J. Morris on Sep 4, 2008 4:33 PM CDT up reply actions

And so...

Adam, would you say you’re the tongue-wagging, skateboarding, purple-panted type?

by ghostofErikThompson on Sep 4, 2008 4:55 PM CDT up reply actions

That's exactly what I look like...

…when I’m up at my office at 9 in the morning, doing a morning post…

by Adam J. Morris on Sep 4, 2008 5:17 PM CDT up reply actions

And somehow...

by the evenings final gameday thread, do you look like the MSM curmudgeon?

A Texas Ranger blog must be tough on its writers.

by ghostofErikThompson on Sep 4, 2008 5:21 PM CDT up reply actions

I think it's the look of disdain on Mr. Sportswriter's face that does it for me

Baseball Time in Arlington

by jamcadbury on Sep 4, 2008 4:52 PM CDT reply actions

that looks like Dick Cheney

In which case it would mean he is content

by Telegraph on Sep 4, 2008 6:23 PM CDT up reply actions

The pigeons

seem kind of superfluous.

O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!
Sondern laßt uns angenehmere anstimmen,
und freudenvollere.

by t ball on Sep 4, 2008 5:22 PM CDT reply actions

Until you think about spattered statues in city parks

and the like.

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

by Ed Coffin on Sep 4, 2008 5:27 PM CDT up reply actions

Just as much as “all MSM are crotchety egoists” is wrong, “all bloggers are look at me all at once my opinion is important” is also wrong. Somehow, somewhere, the content of the message and how it is taken and how it is understood is being lost in the Keystone cops aspect of MSM complaints about bloggers. And just as true, genuine insight isn’t always caught from bloggers when they spend bandwidth on ridiculing MSM pieces.

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

by Ed Coffin on Sep 4, 2008 5:26 PM CDT reply actions

There's a quote I've enjoyed for a while

and I think someone here may have had it on their sig for a while…
I’m probably butchering it, but it goes something like this:
“Criticizing blogging after reading one blog is like picking up an airport romance novel and yelling ’Fuck you, Tolstoy! Your medium is dead to me!”

I know I’m getting most of that wrong, but the ‘Fuck you, Tolstoy’ has always stuck in my head.

Grieve: The Yanks have struggled so far. - Lewin: Yeah, cry me a bag of money.
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by WhipSmart on Sep 4, 2008 6:07 PM CDT up reply actions

That's from FJM

I'm undefeated in fights. Have I been in any? No. Thats because people know my f'ing status. Don't mess with the elite. - Miles

by Dirk Diggler on Sep 4, 2008 6:16 PM CDT up reply actions

The other reason this makes me laugh...

…is because the FJM post that this is included with is so amusing to me:

Hey, remember Spittly T. Yourefullofshit? He won a Pulitzer, wrote some good books, bulldozed a nice Midwestern boy on pay cable? Well, he’s back. And he’s sorry. Sort of.

But before you click on that link, before you do anything, in fact, let me introduce you to the funniest thing I’ve seen in about fifteen years (probably some peak-era episode of “Seinfeld,” I don’t know). The link directs you to a pretty good piece in the Boston Phoenix about the tension between old-line sportswriters (that’s them!) and new-fangled bloggers (that’s us!)

Accompanying the article is the best, most accurate piece of artwork on any subject ever.

Spanish Civil War : Guernica :: Sportswriter-Blogger Conflict : This Piece of Artwork

Are you ready?

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Seriously, I’m not fucking around. Prepare your eyeballs for its majesty.

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Now, I don’t know if this “Rob Zammarchi” character has a camera in my fucking bedroom or what, but that is a creepily precise, photorealistic representation of exactly what I look like and exactly what I’m doing right now. How did he do that? The skateboard, the purple jeans, the Chucks, the beaded necklace, the KRAZY Red Sox cap, the waggling tongue, the psycho-killer eyes — THIS IS WHAT I DO WHEN I BLOG!

And the depiction of the sportswriter, from what I understand of the species, is even more accurate. It appears to be John Clayton hammering away on an Underwood while pigeons shit all over him. You know — sportswriting. Old school-style.