The Last Great SJ Thread

[henryhenry]

This is funny, sort of.

http://sportsmediaguide.com/announcements/the-last-great-blog-post/

Maybe Wojo won't think so.

 

[imjustagirl]

The point is fine, but the horrible, snarky way it's written just undercuts the point. You don't get to call people out for being unoriginal when your post is snarky takedowns of other things.

Pass.

 

[Boom_70]

The point is fine, but the horrible, snarky way it's written just undercuts the point. You don't get to call people out for being unoriginal when your post is snarky takedowns of other things.

Pass.

I guess that's it. The queen of sj has spoken.

In the list writer forgot the best of "the last" -
Tom Wolfe's "The Last American Hero" about Junior Johnson. Maybe it does not count because it was originally Esquire story.

 

[Alma]

You don't get to call people out for being unoriginal when your post is snarky takedowns of other things.

You don't? You want a measured, nuanced meditation on how publishing houses use the word "last" in what they think is a way of selling a few extra books?

I'll pass on the book. Well, maybe not. I'd like to see how it "changed basketball."

 

[Azrael]

Fred Perry was many times over a tennis champion.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Perry

Unfunny and factually incorrect is no way to go through life.

 

[henryhenry]

Fred Perry was many times over a tennis champion.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Perry

Unfunny and factually incorrect is no way to go through life.

you wants facts?

factually, was he the last champion?

 

[imjustagirl]

You don't get to call people out for being unoriginal when your post is snarky takedowns of other things.

You don't? You want a measured, nuanced meditation on how publishing houses use the word "last" in what they think is a way of selling a few extra books?

I'll pass on the book. Well, maybe not. I'd like to see how it "changed basketball."

No. What I want is some modicum of effort beyond "google last in book title" and "google Fred Perry."

 

[imjustagirl]

The point is fine, but the horrible, snarky way it's written just undercuts the point. You don't get to call people out for being unoriginal when your post is snarky takedowns of other things.

Pass.

I guess that's it. The queen of sj has spoken.

In the list writer forgot the best of "the last" -
Tom Wolfe's "The Last American Hero" about Junior Johnson. Maybe it does not count because it was originally Esquire story.

And FTR, your wifey is and forever will be queen of SportsJournalists.com. So you can take your sanctimonious bullshirt somewhere else. I said I WOULD PASS. Not "everyone should stop reading this thread because I have weighed in now."

fork off, Boom.

 

[Boom_70]

You don't get to call people out for being unoriginal when your post is snarky takedowns of other things.

You don't? You want a measured, nuanced meditation on how publishing houses use the word "last" in what they think is a way of selling a few extra books?

I'll pass on the book. Well, maybe not. I'd like to see how it "changed basketball."

I too would like to see how it "changed" basketball.

Perhaps it was a simple as putting a big man on player taking ball out.

 

[Azrael]

Fred Perry was many times over a tennis champion.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Perry

Unfunny and factually incorrect is no way to go through life.

you wants facts?

factually, was he the last champion?

Of course not.

But the lazy punchline in the case of the Fred Perry entry is neither funny nor correct.

 

[deskslave]

Fred Perry was many times over a tennis champion.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Perry

Unfunny and factually incorrect is no way to go through life.

you wants facts?

factually, was he the last champion?

In a particular sense? Yes. And still is.

 

[henryhenry]

Fred Perry was many times over a tennis champion.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Perry

Unfunny and factually incorrect is no way to go through life.

you wants facts?

factually, was he the last champion?

In a particular sense? Yes. And still is.

explain.