Quick parent rant

expendable · Oct 2, 2006

JBHawkEye said:

Appgrad05 said:

And in other news, Grandma wants to know why we haven't written about her baby yet.

Well Grandma, your little sweetie decided it was a good idea to call in and complain about the lack of coverage nine days into the season. Then, when talking to her coach, I bring this up. Coach says, in the nicest way possible, that she's a bitch and there are five girls on that volleyball team that are more talented and better human beings.

But my official response: "There are a lot of athletes on a lot of school teams deserving of coverage, Ma'am. We try to get to as many as we can."

It's all about pulling them on through the turnstile.
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We had that this summer when a prep softball player e-mailed us bitching because we wrote how her error let in the only run for the opponent in the doubleheader. The highlight was when she said her parents had to deal with "the blunt of my tears and anger." Blunt?
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Blunt eh? Don't think there would be much anger after a blunt.

Herbert Anchovy · Oct 2, 2006

Being a spoiled teenager is such a tough cross to bear.

sartrean · Oct 3, 2006

Cadet said:

sartrean said:

Cadet said:

I did not call you an idiot, I said your perspective was ignorant. There is a difference.
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I did not say that you called me an idioit. Do you know how to read?

Obviously you think I'm an idiot. And I know the meaning of the word ignorant.
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Do not pick a fight with my intelligence. You will not win.

So now that I clarified some things about my market, about my paper, and some of the schools in my coverage area, do you still think my perspective is ignorant?
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The way I see it, your initial statements had two points: first, that soccer in your area doesn't warrant coverage, and second, that soccer as a sport doesn't warrant coverage because you don't understand a 1-1 tie or low-scoring game.

I had no problem with your first point, because each coverage area is different. Your directives from the higher-ups may be to ignore soccer until the postseason or whatever. That's fine. I understand that. But unless you have been directed to do otherwise, you can't just blow off a sport because you don't like it.

Which brings me to the next point. Your statements on soccer as a sport are the ones I found to be ignorant. I tried - obviously a futile effort - to enlighten you on how to cover a soccer match properly in a way that makes a 1-1 tie mean something to the readers. Because, like it or not, it is your job to know how to do so. God forbid your next gig involve covering an MLS team or something. The real idiots would be those who would hire you to that position.
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Well, this is all moot now anyway. I got my walking papers today, and my thrice-weekly paper's sports section will be totally phased out effective at the end of football season next month. Should a coverage area team make it to the state championship, in football or others, stringers will cover it for A section.

Otherwise, the paper will continue with A section, lifestyles, opinion. That's choice. The content in those sections averaged about five to 10 web site hits per day, while sports content averaged anywhere from 300 to 400 hits per day, more on Tues, Thurs and Sat when the paper comes out.

Publisher said the reason sports was being phased out is due to advertisers' reluctance to by space in the section. Funny, I'm not really mad about it, actually relieved. Don't have to worry about my crummy deadlines anymore.

Cadet · Oct 3, 2006

Sorry to hear that, man. I wouldn't wish that on anyone in the business.

sartrean · Oct 3, 2006

I appreciate your sympathy. But I don't care. Less headaches, and maybe those friggin annoying moms and dads I've come to know over the past 18 months I've worked in this town will now appreciate what I tried to do while there was a sports section.

Tom Petty · Oct 3, 2006

MertWindu said:

Tom Petty said:

MertWindu said:

Hey TP, are you really trying to insult me by inferring that I'm feminine? Oh, right, because women are the weaker sex. Awesome. How old are you, exactly, and which position on the offensive line do you play?
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yes, exactly like soccer players. they are the weaker sex.
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Whatever you say, mouthbreather.
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thank you penis sucker.

Smallpotatoes · Oct 3, 2006

How did this thread morph from a rant about parents to a battle between soccer bashers and soccer enthusiasts?

MertWindu · Oct 3, 2006

Tom Petty said:

MertWindu said:

Tom Petty said:

MertWindu said:

Hey TP, are you really trying to insult me by inferring that I'm feminine? Oh, right, because women are the weaker sex. Awesome. How old are you, exactly, and which position on the offensive line do you play?
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yes, exactly like soccer players. they are the weaker sex.
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Whatever you say, mouthbreather.
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thank you penis sucker.
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Yeah, ok, you win Chief. Go take a victory lap in front of your adoring public.

HandsomeHarley · Oct 3, 2006

Shifty Squid said:

3. The outcome can never be turned over to a series of observers, be them officials, judges or anyone else, to decide who wins.
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Except in the case of NFL officials, college football officials (Hi Pac 10!) or Major League Baseball umpires.

Herbert Anchovy · Oct 4, 2006

An NFL offensive linemen -- the most ungainly of oafs (relatively speaking) on any football field -- is moving at something like eight feet per second, more kinetic energy than a half-ton pickup truck. If any wuss soccer player can do anything like that, I'd love to see it.

Canyonero! · Oct 6, 2006

Not on the soccer tip, but a (grand)parent rant. I get a voicemail today from a grandma absolutely ripping me because her granddaughter's photo is in a collage and her name's not listed. She says "I'll only be happy if you run the picture again with her name." Then proceeds to rip me about a picture of her from a year-and-a-half earlier that didn't have her name, saying "You did this in March of 2005, and I'm not happy about it."

I wasn't at the paper in March 2005. And I don't care what's going to make grandma happy.

Trey Beamon · Oct 6, 2006

Oh, the ignorance of some readers. Stop bitching about that spelling error from 1983, lady. I wasn't here. Hell, I couldn't even tie my shoes at the time.

BTW, you've got the Best. Name. Ever, Canyonero! ;D

Can you name the truck with four wheel drive,
Smells like a steak, and seats thirty five?
Canyonero! Canyonero!

Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down
It's the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown
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Hey, hey!
Twelve yards long, two lanes wide,
Sixty five tons of American pride!
Canyonero! Canyonero!

Top of the line in utility sports,
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!
Canyonero! Canyonero!

She blinds everybody with her super high beams
She's a squirrel-squashin', deer-smackin' drivin' machine
Canyonero! Canyonero! Canyonero!

Whoa, Canyonero! Whoa!

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