Jason Whitlock really ticks me off

[EmbassyRow]

Tom:
I notice you have more than 29,000 posts. I've been here about three years and have about 600, and even that feels like a lot. Where do you find time and the inspiration to do all those?

Please, shoot straight on this one. Just curious.

Oh, good for you. You're obviously important and do other things. May we all strive to post less than You.

How can You read our words all the way up there on Your obvious moral high ground?

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Hero worship.

yes. i've always thrown down a little worship at the foot of the fat man.

Which one??

Given your photo icon, was waiting for Jackie Gleason with a cue in his hand.

 

[I Digress]

unless you know the identity of all of us clutch, how you do you know something we've written hasn't been ripped apart on this board at some time?....

 

[mustangj17]

unless you know the identity of all of us clutch, how you do you know something we've written hasn't been ripped apart on this board at some time?....

How do we know Clutch isn't Jason Whitlock?

 

[forever_town]

Hero worship.

Who died and made YOU of all people the arbiter of what's acceptable on SportsJournalists.com? I don't see a Global Moderator or Forum Moderator tag under your user name.

 

[Sgt. Bilco]

Clearly, it's difficult, if not impossible, to determine if Clutch is, indeed, Whitlock. Frankly, I could hardly give a shirt, though if you are Whitlock, I am one of those who think your work is vastly overrated ... However, given this Clutch's insipid and childish dismissal of liberals as desperate to let terrorists roam free, it's certain Clutch is an ill-informed idiot at best and consciously and studiously ignorant at worst.

Um, Clutch? As a proud, loud, liberal who came by his hate for the right back in 1972, I can assure you, I want both George Bush prosecuted for his many obvious crimes and I want real, honest-to-goodness terrorists to pay for their acts.

Now, where is that pesky Osama bin Laden again? Oh, wait, that's right -- we don't really need to catch him after all, sayeth Bush....

 

[Diabeetus]

This thread:

 

[budcrew08]

Budcrew, I think your question is a valid one, but your thread title doesn't exactly go along with how you've defended yourself.

I don't particularly envy or despise him, even though some board members aren't big fans of his. I was just trying to bring up a point on a column.

maybe the thread title isn't exactly right, but that's a little out of context. That statement is in reference to the fact that many on this board don't like him or his work. I don't have any of those issues.

 

[write then drink]

This thread:

actually, it looks like two pancakes ... if you look closely

 

[Some Guy]

Here we go again, hero worship on the threads of sportsjournalists.com.

Whether we diss Whitlock or praise him here, or Jay Mariotti, or Jeff Pearlman, or whomever, just the fact we single out one of our peers by name and talk about him or her, is a form of hero worship.

This is kind of embarrassing, for one of our peers to be talking about another peer like they are some sort of celebrity. We should be able to let one of our peers write a column without getting bent out of shape over it, even when opinion goes against what you would write.

I know this site is called Journalism Topics, but this sort of thing really doesn't need to be there. Do you think bench players on the Pittsburgh Pirates or KC Royals sit around on their own Web site all day daydreaming, threading and critiquing about ARod or Pujols or Beckett all day?

Let's at least act try to act professional here.

No, they sit in the dugout and pick their teammates swings and mannerisms and love life apart. Dugouts are like fricking sewing circles, to borrow an outdated saying.

I don't see the smallest problem with the topic, though I would agree that if it wasn't Whitlock or some other envied/despised figure in the business, it probably would not inspire the start of a thread.

I guarantee you in more than one dugout last year, somebody asked, "WTF is going on with Manny?"

People tend to gossip about their business, and other people in it.

 

[spaceman]

Five.
Five dollar.
Five Dollar FOOTLONG.
ANY FOOTLONG!

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

My brain hurts.