Comments on: Get Over It People. Adam Jones Is Not Headline News http://thestartingfive.net/2008/10/09/get-over-it-people-adam-jones-is-not-headline-news/ Bangin’ and Scorin’ Every Trip Down the Floor Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:06:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: origin http://thestartingfive.net/2008/10/09/get-over-it-people-adam-jones-is-not-headline-news/#comment-17941 origin Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:47:54 +0000 http://thestartingfive.net/?p=1631#comment-17941 True words Jimmy Paz true words man. Oh Matthew are you really surprised that Unicron whitlock let Matty "white line" jones slip threw the crack. Oh and I rather read a article written by the Klan then read Unicron's garbage article. True words Jimmy Paz true words man.

Oh Matthew are you really surprised that Unicron whitlock let Matty “white line” jones slip threw the crack.

Oh and I rather read a article written by the Klan then read Unicron’s garbage article.

]]> By: Mizzo http://thestartingfive.net/2008/10/09/get-over-it-people-adam-jones-is-not-headline-news/#comment-17940 Mizzo Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:47:13 +0000 http://thestartingfive.net/?p=1631#comment-17940 Nah, she's cool. Good friend of mine. Nah, she’s cool. Good friend of mine.

]]> By: jimmy paz http://thestartingfive.net/2008/10/09/get-over-it-people-adam-jones-is-not-headline-news/#comment-17939 jimmy paz Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:52:10 +0000 http://thestartingfive.net/?p=1631#comment-17939 Look at the way McCain and Palin constantly use sports metaphors in promoting their Manichean "good vs. evil" world view. This nonsense works so well because that's the way the mainstream sports media looks at sport itself. Heroes and villains, good guys and bad guys. This is also why we need to look at sport itself with a more critical eye. Certainly Adam Jones is one of the NFL's "bad guys", and the media needs players like this to promote their simplistic way of looking at the world. Even more interesting is the way exactly the same behavior is viewed, depending upon whether the perpetrator is a "good guy" or a "bad guy". In the "developing" country in which I live (Michigan), the Detroit Lions are the only allegedly professional football team. Lions' quarterback Jon Kitna plays badly, regularly throws temper tantrums, yells at teammates and coaches, and acts like a petulant child. This is because, the beat writers tell us, Kitna is "fiercly competetive"; a "gamer" who really "cares" and "wants to win" so badly. Wide receiver Roy Williams plays badly, regularly throws temper tantrums, yells at teammates and coaches, and acts like a petulant child. This is because, the beat writers tell us, Williams is "immature", "undisciplined", "not a team player", and a "cancer" on the team. Go figure. Boston Red Sox outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury is an up-and-coming fan favorite and emerging media "good guy". He hit the only "three -run single" in post-season history recently, when Angels' players Torii Hunter and Howie Kendrick allowed his bases-loaded, two-out pop fly into short center field to drop for a cheap hit. The reason this was a single and not a three-run double was, of course, because Ellsbury did not run out his pop fly, and ended up able to reach only first base. Both the TBS commentators and the "Baseball Tonight" crew on ESPN were delighted by this statistical oddity, but no one pointed out that had Ellsbury hustled, it would never have happened. Imagine had Manny Ramirez hit a "three-run single" during his years in Boston! Go figure. Jimmy Paz Look at the way McCain and Palin constantly use sports metaphors in promoting their Manichean “good vs. evil” world view. This nonsense works so well because that’s the way the mainstream sports media looks at sport itself. Heroes and villains, good guys and bad guys. This is also why we need to look at sport itself with a more critical eye. Certainly Adam Jones is one of the NFL’s “bad guys”, and the media needs players like this to promote their simplistic way of looking at the world. Even more interesting is the way exactly the same behavior is viewed, depending upon whether the perpetrator is a “good guy” or a “bad guy”. In the “developing” country in which I live (Michigan), the Detroit Lions are the only allegedly professional football team. Lions’ quarterback Jon Kitna plays badly, regularly throws temper tantrums, yells at teammates and coaches, and acts like a petulant child. This is because, the beat writers tell us, Kitna is “fiercly competetive”; a “gamer” who really “cares” and “wants to win” so badly. Wide receiver Roy Williams plays badly, regularly throws temper tantrums, yells at teammates and coaches, and acts like a petulant child. This is because, the beat writers tell us, Williams is “immature”, “undisciplined”, “not a team player”, and a “cancer” on the team. Go figure. Boston Red Sox outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury is an up-and-coming fan favorite and emerging media “good guy”. He hit the only “three -run single” in post-season history recently, when Angels’ players Torii Hunter and Howie Kendrick allowed his bases-loaded, two-out pop fly into short center field to drop for a cheap hit. The reason this was a single and not a three-run double was, of course, because Ellsbury did not run out his pop fly, and ended up able to reach only first base. Both the TBS commentators and the “Baseball Tonight” crew on ESPN were delighted by this statistical oddity, but no one pointed out that had Ellsbury hustled, it would never have happened. Imagine had Manny Ramirez hit a “three-run single” during his years in Boston! Go figure.

Jimmy Paz

]]> By: Matthew Fudge http://thestartingfive.net/2008/10/09/get-over-it-people-adam-jones-is-not-headline-news/#comment-17934 Matthew Fudge Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:11:53 +0000 http://thestartingfive.net/?p=1631#comment-17934 So am I gonna get ripped a new one if I post one of Jemele's articles on here, even if she's right? So am I gonna get ripped a new one if I post one of Jemele’s articles on here, even if she’s right?

]]> By: Mizzo http://thestartingfive.net/2008/10/09/get-over-it-people-adam-jones-is-not-headline-news/#comment-17933 Mizzo Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:03:35 +0000 http://thestartingfive.net/?p=1631#comment-17933 It's cool Matt. That was just so you know. It’s cool Matt. That was just so you know.

]]> By: Matthew Fudge http://thestartingfive.net/2008/10/09/get-over-it-people-adam-jones-is-not-headline-news/#comment-17932 Matthew Fudge Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:52:50 +0000 http://thestartingfive.net/?p=1631#comment-17932 I only posted it to say that Whitlock's response was what I expected. I only posted it to say that Whitlock’s response was what I expected.

]]> By: Matthew Fudge http://thestartingfive.net/2008/10/09/get-over-it-people-adam-jones-is-not-headline-news/#comment-17931 Matthew Fudge Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:51:48 +0000 http://thestartingfive.net/?p=1631#comment-17931 No prob, Miz. No prob, Miz.

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