is the New York Post national media?

You mean when the mobs were running things?

 

Exactly. Mob influence was part of the reason these sports declined. Not the only reason. (And do you think the sleazy characters running some teams now are much better than the Mob?)

 

How many workouts and press conferences did Deadspin attend to do that story?

If Bart Hubbuch has a story like that up his sleeve, it should be a damn good read with or without his attendance at a mini-camp.

This is comical, the way you think the media world is the same. You have heard of the NFL Network, right?

 

The New York owners are sleazy. That's why it's good to see teams in other cities breaking away from the New York shadow.

 

I'll pretend your question isn't insolent. Yes, I've heard of the NFL Network. It's a publicity organ for the National Football League that features "reporters" like Deion Sanders hugging draft choices and telling them how wonderful they are. That's what "reporting" has become in this era, along with "leaks" that are presented as "scoops." But a "scoop" isn't a story they want out. It is a story they'd rather not cover, like the history of the Manziel family. In recent decades, sports reporters -- especially in the NFL -- allow themselves to be used by teams, agents and just about anyone else willing to pipe self-serving leaks to "journalists" who preen about their "exclusives." And sites like this are filled with anonymous cheap-shot artists and sucker-punchers who opine as if they were on Fox News. Oh, wait. That's not fair. Fox News people identify who they are. Piss on you.

 

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But, boy, I want to.

 

That's the first time I've ever seen Deion Sanders referred to as a reporter. I don't think the NFL Network thinks of him as a reporter at all.

 

The media isn't being excluded. Bart Hubbuch is being excluded. Probably some others as well. But the local media which normally covers the team is allowed in, as well as most likely some national media. Apparently Hubbuch already had his story written anyway, because he wrote on Twitter that the Browns "might welcome positive national pub." If he's truly a reporter for a national publication, why not head to Rams minicamp and write about Michael Sam instead? I think he's just pissed he doesn't get invited to Johnny Football camp.

 

Sure he's a "reporter" by today's standards. He's got access. He gets inside stuff. He knows everybody. Does he have a critical sensibility? Hell no.

 

Is that jargon for his butthurt is justified?

 

Really? Well guess fucking what? I don't really fucking care. You wanna know fucking why? Because I don't fucking live in the fucking world! I live in fucking New York City! So go fuck yourself!

 

He-he.