How Not to Write a Column -- Sid! Style

[slappy4428]

To the readers -- a not a few coaches around the nation -- he's an institution.

To anyone in the business, he's an embarrassment -- at least on some level.

Let's be remembering that the next time someone gets up on their high horse about "giving the readers what they want."

Sid Hartman is what the readers want.

Not any readers I know of and most of my immediate family lives in MSP

 

[Rosie]

King Sid must have some serious blackmail material on higher-ups at the Strib.

 

[Cansportschick]

Ah crap! I thought from the title of the thread that Sid Crosby is now writing his own column about how to spend millions of NHL dollars.

Got fooled again....

 

[Small Town Guy]

does not have one player who was offered a scholarship to Minnesota

What the fork does this tidbit have to do with the forking game?

I actually think that's a pretty interesting tidbit. There's something like 20 or more players from Minnesota on NDSU's roster and many from North Dakota. There were several stories about how many of the players were motivated against the Gophers by the fact that they obviously didn't want them. And it also speaks to whether Mason's crew missed on some guys who could have really helped them (like the Fargo kid who ran them over for 200-plus yards).

As they say, Sid is what he is. He wrote his first column for the paper in frickin 1945. Plus, at this point, Lakers fans probably wish he was still the owner of the team and not Jerry Buss.

 

[zeke12]

Hey, I grew up hating Sid.

But, as Rosie said, either he's got disturbing pictures of someone or the majority of the people like him, because they haven't canned his ass.

 

[Joe Williams]

King Sid must have some serious blackmail material on higher-ups at the Strib.

You're kidding, right? There are no photos or negatives that could be more scandalous to the Strib's higher-ups than what they already have done, in full public view, to that newspaper. There is zero interest in integrity or funding quality under the new private-equity ownership. If Sid brings in enough customers to justify his salary -- customers, not readers, in the new parlance of that newsroom -- than they're happy to have him around. Journalistic standards be damned.

 

[Lyman_Bostock]

I think this discussion about Sid is exactly why the Strib keeps him around. You might despise him or love him, but you still read him and talk about him.

Remember, bad publicity is better than none.

Besides, how many people in the Upper Midwest can be referred to by his first name and everybody knows who you're talking about?

 

[zeke12]

I think this discussion about Sid is exactly why the Strib keeps him around. You might despise him or love him, but you still read him and talk about him.

Remember, bad publicity is better than none.

Probably true.

He still sucks.

 

[Lyman_Bostock]

I think this discussion about Sid is exactly why the Strib keeps him around. You might despise him or love him, but you still read him and talk about him.

Remember, bad publicity is better than none.

Probably true.

He still sucks.

Agreed.

 

[wickedwritah]

Plus, at this point, Lakers fans probably wish he was still the owner of the team and not Jerry Buss.

Huh?

 

[Lyman_Bostock]

Plus, at this point, Lakers fans probably wish he was still the owner of the team and not Jerry Buss.

Huh?

I don't think Sid owned the Lakers, but he was GM at one time. While still on the newspaper payroll, IIRC.

 

[wickedwritah]

Never knew that, Lyman. Thanks for sharing.