Sports Editor, Montgomery Advertiser

SEC Guy · Dec 31, 2008

Brad will fire or run off half of Montgomery's staff in his first six months there.

Hoops is being honest. Give him credit for that. I'd rather someone be honest than some of the disingenuous BS that gets posted about this guy.

I have several friends who have worked for Zimanek in Athens and Appleton and it's safe to say he's fucking despised by EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.

I met Brad about eight years ago at the APSEs and when I heard he was in Athens, I asked him about one of his writers who had just went to one of the big websites.

The first thing he said was, "It's not a coincidence that he got there after a year of working with me."

The guy is just a prick.

lone star scribe · Dec 31, 2008

Wow. Just wow.

WriteThinking · Dec 31, 2008

HoopsMcCann said:

poor fucking bastards in montgomery. notice the people who say nice things about brad never worked for the piece of shit.

i've never heard anyone who worked for him say a nice thing about him. it's universal. the rest of you have heard him tell you how great he is as a sports editor, but that's his best trait -- utter lack of self-awareness which leads to some unearned feelings of superiority. which is funny, because people seem to buy taht shit when the asshole interviews.

since it was erased on the other thread, someone tell me when he dies because i want to shit on the still-warm corpse and do a mexican hat dance around the lifeless -- but yet somehow more productive -- body.

i saved the bastard's life one day (true story) and i still debate whether i did the right thing. i went with my human side and did it instead of the thinking side of me. the only good thing was that he could have killed someone else had i not stepped in, so i prefer to look at it as saving some stranger's life, and keeping zimanek was a sad byproduct.

oh, and folks in montgomery, if he offers you blue gatorade, i wouldn't drink it.
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Wow. Just wow.

(And I just looked back and realized that lone star and I just had totally identical thoughts, at the exact same time. Don't know if I've ever seen that in immediately consecutive posts that were obviously being written at exactly the same moment).

SEC Guy · Dec 31, 2008

In my 20+ years in this business, I have never heard of another SE badmouth his staff more than this guy. He likes to create the perception that he's always surrounded by idiots, so he's the genius if the section is any good.

If you have one of the top beats at the Montgomery paper, I would expect to be looking for work very soon.

John · Dec 31, 2008

HoopsMcCann said:

poor fucking bastards in montgomery. notice the people who say nice things about brad never worked for the piece of shit.

i've never heard anyone who worked for him say a nice thing about him. it's universal. the rest of you have heard him tell you how great he is as a sports editor, but that's his best trait -- utter lack of self-awareness which leads to some unearned feelings of superiority. which is funny, because people seem to buy taht shit when the asshole interviews.

since it was erased on the other thread, someone tell me when he dies because i want to shit on the still-warm corpse and do a mexican hat dance around the lifeless -- but yet somehow more productive -- body.

i saved the bastard's life one day (true story) and i still debate whether i did the right thing. i went with my human side and did it instead of the thinking side of me. the only good thing was that he could have killed someone else had i not stepped in, so i prefer to look at it as saving some stranger's life, and keeping zimanek was a sad byproduct.

oh, and folks in montgomery, if he offers you blue gatorade, i wouldn't drink it.
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Thanks for dropping by, Hoops. If you want to have a heart attack, read the glowing story on Jeff Wilson retiring on the front page of today's ABH.

HoopsMcCann · Dec 31, 2008

ugh, just did john

slappy4428 · Dec 31, 2008

Good luck to those on staff who will need it... (no comment on another...)

lone star scribe · Dec 31, 2008

WriteThinking said:

HoopsMcCann said:

poor fucking bastards in montgomery. notice the people who say nice things about brad never worked for the piece of shit.

i've never heard anyone who worked for him say a nice thing about him. it's universal. the rest of you have heard him tell you how great he is as a sports editor, but that's his best trait -- utter lack of self-awareness which leads to some unearned feelings of superiority. which is funny, because people seem to buy taht shit when the asshole interviews.

since it was erased on the other thread, someone tell me when he dies because i want to shit on the still-warm corpse and do a mexican hat dance around the lifeless -- but yet somehow more productive -- body.

i saved the bastard's life one day (true story) and i still debate whether i did the right thing. i went with my human side and did it instead of the thinking side of me. the only good thing was that he could have killed someone else had i not stepped in, so i prefer to look at it as saving some stranger's life, and keeping zimanek was a sad byproduct.

oh, and folks in montgomery, if he offers you blue gatorade, i wouldn't drink it.
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Wow. Just wow.

(And I just looked back and realized that lone star and I just had totally identical thoughts, at the exact same time. Don't know if I've ever seen that in immediately consecutive posts that were obviously being written at exactly the same moment).
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Write, you know what they say about great minds thinking alike.

Seriously, I'm just blown away by level of vitriol aimed at this SE. I will confess I don't know him, but I know some of the other principals involved. I have no dog in this hunt, but it's certainly cautionary.

WriteThinking · Dec 31, 2008

lone star scribe said:

WriteThinking said:

HoopsMcCann said:

poor fucking bastards in montgomery. notice the people who say nice things about brad never worked for the piece of shit.

i've never heard anyone who worked for him say a nice thing about him. it's universal. the rest of you have heard him tell you how great he is as a sports editor, but that's his best trait -- utter lack of self-awareness which leads to some unearned feelings of superiority. which is funny, because people seem to buy taht shit when the asshole interviews.

since it was erased on the other thread, someone tell me when he dies because i want to shit on the still-warm corpse and do a mexican hat dance around the lifeless -- but yet somehow more productive -- body.

i saved the bastard's life one day (true story) and i still debate whether i did the right thing. i went with my human side and did it instead of the thinking side of me. the only good thing was that he could have killed someone else had i not stepped in, so i prefer to look at it as saving some stranger's life, and keeping zimanek was a sad byproduct.

oh, and folks in montgomery, if he offers you blue gatorade, i wouldn't drink it.
Click to expand...

Wow. Just wow.

(And I just looked back and realized that lone star and I just had totally identical thoughts, at the exact same time. Don't know if I've ever seen that in immediately consecutive posts that were obviously being written at exactly the same moment).
Click to expand...

Write, you know what they say about great minds thinking alike.

Seriously, I'm just blown away by level of vitriol aimed at this SE. I will confess I don't know him, but I know some of the other principals involved. I have no dog in this hunt, but it's certainly cautionary.
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I don't know this SE, either, lone star.

I just might have to look him up a little bit now, though.

playthrough · Dec 31, 2008

Vitriol, indeed. But if the job is filled, we're done here.

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