So, let's parse this, shall we: "Gone way too soon," by itself, already conveys a sadness over "what will never be" -- which makes the entire third line redundant.Jose Fernandez:
Gone way too soon. So bummed for
what never will be.
Of course, PK can't have that -- he needs a three-line fake haiku. So, instead of being "bummed" about some real aspect of this, he decides to be bummed about Fernandez not being able to have a long career ... as if that's the real tragedy in this.Jose Fernandez:
Gone way too soon. So bummed.
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For a guy who has written a half-dozen books, has a weekly football column, tweets incessantly and has written probably well more than two millions words total in his career, Peter King still knows very little aboutwords.
Wait, I can't tell - is that the joke Haiku or the real one? Please god don't say it's real.Why? For the tasteless tone-deaf haiku, of course:
Jose Fernandez:
Gone way too soon. So bummed for
what never will be.
...and it's SPECTACULARWait, I can't tell - is that the joke Haiku or the real one? Please god don't say it's real.
I agree he was a really good sport and it was an excellent interview. They asked him some difficult questions about his clueless tweeting but without feeling like they were attacking him. It was pretty much how I feel about him. He's not mean spirited or a bad person, he just occasionally "eats the trash."Peter King was on Pardon My Take today. He is certainly willing to laugh at himself and is generally self aware. No haiku talk, but he addresses the bike lane/Robin Williams tweets. He was a good sport.
It's probably best that Big Cat and PFT were able to do the piece with him, because Portnoy would have just been in attack mode and probably got a much different reaction out of King.I just watched their "exit interview" as well and it's hilarious. Maybe this belongs in the podcast thread, but the PMT guys are probably hurt a bit by their Barstool label. They're smart, funny and for the most part good-natured. It just seems like they have a ton of fun.
s. Uber alert: For the first time in 36 years, we are car-free. And thrilled about it. After five years of being city-dwellers with a car, we decided that 83-minute “drives” in Manhattan to go 7 miles (which has happened) simply had to go. And so we’ll rent when we need a car, and take the subway and walk and ride a bike at other times, and be much happier.
I think that's just the "we" as opposed to the "royal"...This is great news. Those Manhattan drives can be so taxing.
Also, using the Royal We to include his wife?
Well, he didn't mention his wife specifically so he may have been referring to just himself. It's unclear is my snarky stupid point.I think that's just the "we" as opposed to the "royal"...
About 13 miles long and 2+ at its widest point, 14th Street. And while garages are an unconscionable ripoff, the subway is always an option, at least for us peasants.Isn't the whole island less than 7 miles? Must be nice to not even have to mention that garaging a car here costs more than a lease on anything below a 5 series.
I'm fairness to Marciano, do you think Peter King ever ventures into the northernmost six miles of Manhatten?About 13 miles long and 2+ at its widest point, 14th Street. And while garages are an unconscionable ripoff, the subway is always an option, at least for us peasants.
I doubt he ever ventures too far away from the East Side between 57th and 96th.I'm fairness to Marciano, do you think Peter King ever ventures into the northernmost six miles of Manhatten?
I doubt he ever ventures too far away from the East Side between 57th and 96th.
The not-East Side is a verrrry dangerous place:I doubt he ever ventures too far away from the East Side between 57th and 96th.
Slice of New York Life Dept.:
Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Saturday, 3:30 p.m., Broadway and 78th, 25-ish woman walking south on a crowded sidewalk, on her cellphone, waaaaay too loud, as people stare:
“WHERE ARE YOU GUYS? I’LL MEET YOU … YEAH … I JUST GOT MY EYEBROWS DONE. TOOK ME LONGER THAN I THOUGHT … NO, EYEBROWS!”
Um, the folks over in Fort Lee can hear you, miss. And they’re all staring at your eyebrows.
Maybe its so the condensation on the outside of the cup doesn't drip all over their clothes because they aren't all wearing whatever track suit/sweatshirt get up that they got for free form somebody happy that you gave them 3 lines of ink.e. Coffeenerdness: Bizarro pet coffee peeve of mine: people who order cold drinks, then put heavy-paper sleeves on them.
Funny, I say "When are we going to stop killing children?"CBS war correspondent Elizabeth Palmer is such a gem. When I watch her reporting life-and-death stories from Aleppo, such as the one with two children killed by a stray mortar attack, I say, “What a role model for all reporters.”
A) Misspell the name of supposed favorite album? Check.f. Thanks for getting me cross-country twice in six days, Bob Dylan. In honor of your Nobel Prize for Literature, I listened to “The Freewheeling’ Bob Dylan” and the double album “The Essential Bob Dylan.” Twice.
I love that he has the "g" and the apostrophe. What the hell does he think the apostrophe is for? It looks cool?A) Misspell the name of supposed favorite album? Check.
The not-East Side is a verrrry dangerous place:
Maybe its so the condensation on the outside of the cup doesn't drip all over their clothes because they aren't all wearing whatever track suit/sweatshirt get up that they got for free form somebody happy that you gave them 3 lines of ink.
Where do you live again?Flurries outside my window in New York late Sunday night.
Wonder if he'll pat himself on the back because he went to see the "Real America?"....I went to South Carolina on Wednesday to do a story
Yup.Anyway … you get insulated spending a lot of time on the coasts, as this recent election showed.
King's a man who can do both.As we’ve seen all over the country, we just haven’t had enough rain to tamp down the hazards for these huge fires.
Two Bobcats spoke late Sunday afternoon. At the end of our conversation, just before hanging up, Steelers safety Mike Mitchell (Ohio University class of 2009) said to Peter King (Ohio University class of 1979): “Good talking to you, Mr. King. OU, Oh Yeah.” Then he was gone. That wasn’t a thing when I was in Athens.
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Mike Mitchell’s birthday: June 10, 1987.
Peter King’s birthday: June 10, 1957
Yup, I was thinking of the birthday noteI'm going with:
If he manages to track down the real life 'Leather' of YWML fame then I would consider it a success.I just saw on Twitter that King is promoting "My attempt at an oral history of Chris Berman."
I'm thinking PK has no idea what "oral history" means. No, Pete, it doesn't mean gathering a bunch of quotes about a person.
I skimmed through it. Filled with platitudes from the usual suspects (and Tom Brady). But for a history of Berman, you'd have thought King would have gotten a quote from Bob LeyI just saw on Twitter that King is promoting "My attempt at an oral history of Chris Berman."
I'm thinking PK has no idea what "oral history" means. No, Pete, it doesn't mean gathering a bunch of quotes about a person.
Chris Berman: ‘The Vin Scully of the NFL’
So, if Berman sits around and farts on TV for another 27 years, he'd be the same age as Scully when he retired. In fact, I cant think of a single way that Chris Berman is like Vin Scully. I think they both have 2 eyes.Chris Berman, who has been with ESPN since 1979, has agreed to dial back his workload for the network in 2017, at age 61.
BILL POLIAN: Boomer is in status, if not style, the Vin Scully of cable television and of the NFL.
- Chris MortensenHe likes to call me “Jackass” or “Jackass The Sequel” or “Jackass The Box Set”
I think that's a different oral history.If he manages to track down the real life 'Leather' of YWML fame then I would consider it a success.
Somehow that error is still up. Maybe they don't read their own websiteOops, here's the capsule summary at http://mmqb.si.com/ of Benoit's latest article :
Fifteen years after slowing the Greatest Show on Turf and ascending to genius status, the Patriots coach faces another historically great defense in the Super Bowl. This time around, he’ll try to slow the Falcons with a different brand of defense
Yeah, apparently they wrote it wrong first and then corrected it in the article itself. They forgot to check the capsule, though.It's correct in the article.