Recent content by Scribbled_Notz

LMAO. Yes. Glad someone else said it. RIP.

Yes, it does mean lazy investigating. As in, cops going for "the dope on the table"...taking the lazy, easy bust. And I say again, if you think those are lazy or easy stories, I say you're someone who has likely never done one yourself. Which I'm guessing is spot-on, since you reference (and...

Re: 2011 Hot Stove Thread Very solid pickup for my Phillies. Almost makes the pain of the collapse a little more tolerable. One less bamboo sliver under the fingernails.

"Dope on the table" is a reference to lazy investigating. If you're suggesting lazy investigating in all these stories, you must be friggin' Bob Woodward. And yes, Whitlock referencing "dope on the table" is one of the most ironic criticisms in history, because I don't know a lazier reporter...

Posnanski better be careful. Whitlock is the self-anointed authoritative god of media behavior. I'm telling you, there was something in the water in Kansas City. Someone spilled the essence of know-it-all-ism into that city's water supply a few years back.

The same Whitlock who just got absolutely destroyed when he just tried to write ONE news story on the NBA lockout? Forget mall cop, Whitlock is the one standing in line at Mrs. Fields cookies. That guy is an armchair journalist who talks about other people who are working. An abomination, and a...

I didn't see Dreamgirls, so it feels like it has been decades since Eddie Murphy did a quality movie that didn't rely on fart humor. Anyway, the wife and I went and saw Tower Heist last night, and it was actually really funny. Probably the funniest I have seen Murphy in more than a decade. It's...

The Daily Show. Has to be.

Yes, he did. And he broke the USC stuff, too. That only got a Heisman Trophy and BCS title stripped for the first time in history. I'm guessing that stuff provided more food for thought about college football's flawed amateur system than anything else written in the last few decades.

Agreed. By lcj's measure, I guess that means everyone who has ever written about anything regarding college football is a "mall cop"...since none of it has changed the "system". As awesome as Taylor Branch's piece was, it didn't change a single thing, either. Given a choice between an...

That Taylor Branch piece was excellent. Probably one of the best analysis pieces I've seen in a long time. But that doesn't make Robinson's work any less impressive or relevant. Calling him a mall cop sounds like bitterness. And how does getting a coach fired support the system? Didn't he and...

Re: 2011 Hot Stove Thread Is it me, or has this been the slowest free agent period in recent memory? It feels like it's just dragging. Or maybe I'm just getting used to the NBA/NFL pace where it's a frenzy for a few days and then a steady trickle. Or maybe it's just a lukewarm year for free...

Now that we've seen it all, ESPN deserves a salute for hauling out a lot of their unseen SportsCentury stuff on this one. They had by far the best coverage of Frazier's passing. Met him once, years ago when I working in Philly, and was amazed at his demeanor. Always kind of thought of him as a...

Have to agree on this. I know a few of the guys over there, and this doesn't match up with his rep amongst his colleagues. If anything, it's the opposite.

I'm sure the integrity thing played a big part. But I can't believe ESPN would try to hire a guy like Robinson to sit him. They'd just be opening themselves up to more harassment by sites like Deadspin and The Big Lead. And yeah, I've heard they have a really loyal staff, and I saw the whole...