| Update: No More Squid for You Posted: 23 Jun 2008 11:29 PM CDT  Listen up, people.
The other day I worked in a reference to a giant projected squid into a blog post* and no one commented. No one. Granted, other than the squid, the blog was basically just a rushed expression of vacant 21st century short-attention-span rambling. Still, you people clearly don't know how difficult it is to combine giant squids and football. You would think it's would be easy, but it's not, especially since Tony Siragusa retired. Rick Reilly can't get squid into his shiznit, and he gets $70 a word or something. So, now you will just get a bunch of links to about stuff I found all over the internet today and there's no squid in it anywhere. Other than the picture above, because a squid fighting a dinosaur and a whale is just freaking awesome. No real Browns news of note, either. Links of greatness: - Apparently Brady Quinn's likeness is being used without permission in an ad for things my parochial mind can't fathom. I do like the comment on KSK: "Find other men who want what you want?"... What, nachos?
- Pro Football Talk says it's sorry for tossing out all kinds of unverified crap just so it could get page views. Sorta. Mike Florio wants credibility now. Ex-Browns owner Randy Lerner or the Ghost of Dead Terry Bradshaw liked the old PFT better.
- A blog called 18to88 feels that ex-Browns front office guy Jeremy Green, now a football expert for ESPN's Insider service, is the dumbest man alive. He also calls the Browns front office from Green's tenure "one of the all-time worst front offices in history". This is why no one takes bloggers seriously - as if Jeremiah Pharms, Paul Zukauskas, Andre King and Michael Jameson wasn't a sweet day two in the 2001 draft.
- Ah, the wonderful things you get when you mix the Dolan family and pro sports ownership. You get the New York Knicks, for example, and the classy way that the Indians organization is dealing with the city of Buffalo. Speaking of which, why does Larry Dolan get a free pass in Cleveland? Other than owning the channel that broadcasts his own team and having a friendly deal with sycophantic radio station WTAM? Other than that, why?
- I've been talking for a while about the tanking of the newspaper industry and that it's bad news for sports fans. Not to mention readers concerned with things like politics and wars and stuff. According to the New York Times, it's even worse than we imagined, and won't bottom out for three or four years. Get ready to be blogged to death as newspapers try to become snarky internet sites.
- WOIO's Carl Monday is what Will Leitch remembers as he leaves Deadspin. Cleveland TV news: Bad enough for the Daily Show, bad enough to gain national fame. Maybe the only way the local media would criticize Larry Dolan is if he was in a library and... Best not to go there.
* Actually, I had it in the post, then I removed it because it was stupid. Then I put it back in. But still.   |
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