Dear dimwit on the phone

Legal issue here. You're playing sports, at a ticketed event open to the public. There are bleachers holding thousands of people there to watch YOU. There is no reasonable expectation of privacy. Therefore, it's certainly OK to publish ANY photo taken of ANYONE in a public place or at a publicly-accessible event.

A classroom? There's a reasonable expectation of privacy there (they're captive, and a school is not open to the public), so one might need to take a bit more caution on photos.

 

No, our rival was that damn good. What I meant about his offensive cluelessness what that he would keep changing the offense in the middle of the season when what we were doing wasn't working. I remember he switched offenses my sophomore year, though I don't remember what they were very well. I know he moved an offensive tackle to fullback.

My senior year, he switched from an I formation to an inverted wishbone between the fifth and sixth games. Moved at least four people around. Our tailback became a wide receiver. Our fullback and quarterback swapped positions. One of our tackles became a tight end.

Looking back, I had to think that if our offense was so bad that we couldn't run it right and get results after three weeks of pre-season practice and four or five games under our belts, how the hell did he think we were suddenly going to be able to run an entirely different offense with people playing new positions in a week?

 

No dimwits in three weeks: Let's be thankful for the folks at oveheard in the newsroom.com:

Sports editor on the phone: “Your team sucked. That’s why we didn’t have photos of them.”

 

Yep. But to clarify - I only said that after I hung up ... and made sure the call was complete.

She wanted photos of her son and he played on a 2-9 team that wasn't that good. We shot them maybe twice all season.

However, the next day I found that one of our weeklies had some decent shots of the kid, so I called her back and made the proper connections. So now you know ... the rest of the story.

 

Kentucky fans keep calling, pissed that their games aren't on our TV schedule.

There's just one problem: the games haven't been aired, live or otherwise, unless it's been a national broadcast. But Kentucky fans can't understand that. They think we're out to "get" their team, or some such bullshit.

 

My mind has been blown....you just connected my two favorite websites with a complete story

*Poof*

 

Are they blacked out on Fox Sports Net? Down here we get them playing every tomato can east of the Rockies.

 

Old lady called to ask what channel a new sports TV station was on. I ask her if she has Comcast, she replies yes, so I tell her it's channel whatever on Comcast. She tells me her remote doesn't have an "on Comcast" button.

 

Most of their games that been on FSN have been blacked out in this area. Not sure if it's a statewide thing or not.

 

Nice.

 

And this is why I lose a little more faith in humanity every day.

 

Dear AAU Baseball coach,

You emailed an announcement for us to run in our community sports section which was a page long. Since it's going into the paper for FREE we can edited it down to the essentials who, what, where, and most importantly HOW MUCH IT WILL COST. Sorry, I don't care for player development or how your team will be a better deal than other teams in the area. I have this little thing called SPACE in the paper to fit your announcement, youth basketball, hockey, bowling, volleyball results, and dead deer/moose pictures. Sorry for your announcement sounded like a MONEY GRAB (who we kidding it really is), but that's what most parents are most concerned about is how much it will cost for Little Johnny to play. If they want to know more about your team we ran your email and your phone number to contact you. If you want us to run the WHOLE ANNOUNCEMENT, I can certainly give you our AD department phone number/email so you can BUY AN AD NEXT TIME.

Thank You.