Why Do I Continue to Read Peter King?

[Monbo Jumbo]

Starbucks coffee doesn't taste like coffee, because they burn the beans to a point where they taste like burnt stuff, not coffee.

This is helpful for them, because burnt crappy beans taste the same as burnt good beans, so no worries about sourcing.

True coffee nerds refer to them as Charbucks, referencing the overroasted beans devoid of coffee flavor.

 

[E5 Yaz]

 
I'm more fixated on how, yet again, he is calling out low wage entry level service employees for not taking pride in their work.

 
Let them eat coffee cake

 

[Joshv02]

 
You know how he discovered the flat white*?
 
Because Starbucks is in the middle of a new campaign to hype it.  

Right.  In New York.  Where a coffee nerd can get a Flat White at dozens of places.
In Boston, there are only a handful of places that made a Flat White, and you can imagine a pseudo coffee nerd learning about it anew (though Flatblacks have been making them in Boston for a decade).

 

[Leather]

I try to go to independent coffee places, when possible, but the nature of life (especially with two toddlers, which means using a drive-through to get coffee OH MY GOD PEOPLE WITHOUT KIDS WHY ARE YOU USING THE DRIVETHROUGH IT WOULD TAKE YOU 3 MINUTES TO GET OUT AND GO INSIDE BUT 15 IN THE DRIVETHROUGH) means I frequent Starbucks and Caribou (which is better) a lot.   I usually just get iced coffee.  It's...ok.

 

[pappymojo]

 
I'm more fixated on how, yet again, he is calling out low wage entry level service employees for not taking pride in their work.

I bet he wouldn't have an issue with the way they make coffee if they took a pay cut.

 

[Corsi]

Peter King ‏@SI_PeterKing  52s52 seconds ago
MT @RetiredDictator: PK reports what he is told to report … Yes. That has been my career. It has served me quite well.

 

[ifmanis5]

LOL he admits it! 
 
That's like Imelda Marcos admitting, 'yeah, but look at my shoe closet.' What a hack.

 

[Leather]

"But I was just following orders!"

 

[JohnnyTheBone]

I know it's been said many times before, but it bears repeating.  What an asshole.

 

[ifmanis5]

The saddest part is he's right.
 
There's two kind of reporters now- the selected few who are trusted with precious leaked info from high-placed sources and the rest of the riff-raff who merely report on the initial report. Peter is one of the chosen few who get to be well paid stenographers. Plus, if he starts to question his position, he'll lose the access so it's in his best interest to wait by the phone for the crumbs that get throne his way. He's like a zoo animal waiting for scraps, no way he could exist in the wild.

 

[pappymojo]

This probably explains why he shares his opinions on his day to day life - beer, coffee, train rides, jogging on treadmills, hotels, airports, living in Manhattan, his daughter's softball games, restaurants, etc.  He only reports on what he is told to report, but he has to fill a column and if he hasn't been told to report on anything in time for his column, these are the only things he could think of that (1) absolutely won't upset the gravy train, (2) he can write about without getting wrong, and (3) he can write about without requiring any actual thinking. 

 

[Reverend]

This probably explains why he shares his opinions on his day to day life - beer, coffee, train rides, jogging on treadmills, hotels, airports, living in Manhattan, his daughter's softball games, restaurants, etc.  He only reports on what he is told to report, but he has to fill a column and if he hasn't been told to report on anything in time for his column, these are the only things he could think of that (1) absolutely won't upset the gravy train, (2) he can write about without getting wrong, and (3) he can write about without requiring any actual thinking. 

 
I sorta wonder if there's some kind of existential assertion of self to try to compensate for the near complete abnegation of self required to be a puppet for the powers that be.
 
I could even sympathize with the selling out given the vast sums of money if he didn't come to self-identify with the powers that are just using him as an self-conscious tool.

 

[yecul]

All that requires self-awareness. I do not believe he has any. He talks about himself for filler, to be sure, but primarily because he thinks he's now part of the story as the top dog football guy. He isn't a puppet, he's tapped in and has great sources. He's not blindly following HoF rules, he's doing important work with integrity.
 
King strikes me as a little dull and likely the towel boy stereotype hanger on with the team. This is compensation. It makes him more pathetic than anything.
 
Or he's an asshole. I figure one or the other and neither is good.

 

[Reverend]

All that requires self-awareness. I do not believe he has any. He talks about himself for filler, to be sure, but primarily because he thinks he's now part of the story as the top dog football guy. He isn't a puppet, he's tapped in and has great sources. He's not blindly following HoF rules, he's doing important work with integrity.
 
King strikes me as a little dull and likely the towel boy stereotype hanger on with the team. This is compensation. It makes him more pathetic than anything.
 
Or he's an asshole. I figure one or the other and neither is good.

 
Naw it doesn't. It requires a sense of self-worth and an over-inflated sense of one's value certainly qualifies, just not in a good way--all it needs is to cause him to leak and insert himself into the columns because of that sense that what he has to say about his life is worth hearing.
 
Which is to say we largely agree.

 

[Over Guapo Grande]

Leonard Nimoy Died
I told the clueless waitress.
Really kinda weird. 
 
(alternate ending: 
"Live long and prosper" ) 

 

[Corsi]

https://twitter.com/SI_PeterKing/status/571516850506485760

https://twitter.com/SI_PeterKing/status/571516850506485760

link to tweet

 

[BannedbyNYYFans.com]

King is getting killed on twitter for this tweet:
 
https://twitter.com/SI_PeterKing/status/571516850506485760
 
Lots of "Holy shit, it's not always about you" 
 
 
Beaten to it....fuck you, Corsi. 

 

[soxhop411]

WTF KING

 

[Gambler7]

I just saw the tweet and my jaw dropped to the floor. I knew it would already be here. Just when you think he can not get any worse...

 

[E5 Yaz]

On the other hand, if he had lost his daughter imagine all the field hockey updates we'd have been deprived of reading

 

[nattysez]

There are a lot of people defending him.  "You don't know what it's like to be a parent and lose a kid for even 30 seconds," "He's just trying to express his concern in his own way," etc., etc.  People don't seem to understand that there is NO REASON to tweet anything about YOURSELF when trying to offer support to someone else.  Just say "I support you."  

 

[Jed Zeppelin]

Ahh Pete, so close to an appropriate, well-delivered response but you just had to bury the lede.
 
It would have been mostly fine if it said something like "I so feel for the family. Once lost my daughter at the mall and it was the worst moment of my life. I can't even imagine what they must be going through right now."
 
That last part is crucial because it takes a real, normal earthling to admit that each one of his experiences is not necessarily the pinnacle of its particular experience category. It's not weird to relate things like this to one's own experiences, but PK doesn't do that; he weighs them against his own experiences and always finds them wanting. His thing is at least as bad as your thing.

 

[Buster Olney the Lonely]

I once lost my kid for five seconds. Worst five seconds of my life. So I feel for Peter King.

 

[Red Right Ankle]

I once lost my Starbucks card.

I never found it. Devastating. #findmax

 

[Corsi]

I once hit a bad patch of turbulence on a shuttle from Boston to New York. Worst 3 minutes of my life. I so feel for 9/11 families . #NeverForget

 

[leetinsley38]

I once had to wait 30 minutes to be seated at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. Worst 30 mins of my life. I so feel for those starving African children. #feedthechildren

 

[Average Reds]

Almost lost Mary Beth
Felt like the end of the world
My condolences

 

[Reverend]

Almost lost Mary Beth
Felt like the end of the world
I told the waitress

 

[Leather]

I once couldn't find my keys to my apartment on the upper west side of Manhattan, New York City, for fifteen minutes. I feel for people with Alzheimer's.

 

[Reverend]

Old, but new to me.
 
https://twitter.com/chicagofakenews/status/560679813552537600

 

[joe dokes]

He isn't a puppet, he's tapped in and has great sources.
 

 
Given Nimoy's passing, I was going to tie it to the emotionless Spock.  But to Spock, emotions were bad. 
 
He's more like Data -- an android built to serve the NFL.  His "cover" equipped him with quasi-human emotions.  (or maybe human quasi-emotions). "This is how humans "feel," he was told."

 

[Corsi]

https://twitter.com/SI_PeterKing/status/572161023341420544

https://twitter.com/SI_PeterKing/status/572161023341420544

link to tweet

 

[jacklamabe65]

As I was driving to the Sixth Floor Museum
A stone skipped up and hit me
As we approached Dealey Plaza
And I closed my eyes
And clutched my throat
And now I understood.

 

[CoffeeNerdness]

He even uses the official NFL tablet.

 

[Corsi]

j. Why is court-storming allowed?
 

 

[Leather]

 I think I’m glad there wasn’t the kind of overreaction I’d expected to Michael Sam signing to appear on “Dancing With The Stars.” I don’t think there should be any negative reaction, period. One: A man has to make some sort of living. If no team is going to sign Sam to play football, and he wants to continue to work out and chase his dream of being an NFL player, he’s got to find some way to support himself financially so the dream can continue to be chased. He’s living in Dallas, and paying to work out at a facility. Two: Training to dance on a TV show for three or four weeks doesn’t adversely affect a person’s ability to play football. Three: I expect if Sam doesn’t sign with an NFL team, he’ll strongly consider the Canadian Football League. “I’ll give up the game when my legs are both broken,” he wrote in a column for The MMQB two weeks ago. Dancing is not a detour. It’s a very part-time job.
 

 
Wait, what?   Why on earth would anyone care?  
 
I don't think Peter King understands why the press reaction to Michael Sam's pre-season last spring was so stupid.   He just thinks "Michael Sam: CONTROVERSIAL FIGURE.  Noise follows him wherever he goes!"   and then is surprised when people don't care if he's gay.  "WOW! Big deal folks: people outside of football don't care about Michael Sam being a gay football player.  I think that's great.  Guess he's not a big distraction for being gay after all (outside of football, anyway)!"
 

4. I think Peyton Manning and the Broncos are likely to agree to a restructured contract soon—a redone deal that will make neither side happy. Why? If I were Manning, I’d hardly think I deserve a pay adjustment, after throwing more touchdown passes than anyone else in football over the past three years. And the Broncos would want it to be less than it’ll end up being, most likely. But there’s little doubt it’s going to get done.
 

 
Nice of him to throw out the pro-Peyton argument and ignore the not one, but three, elephants in the room as to why the Broncos want him to take less:
1) So they can afford a supporting cast;
2) Peyton's old
3) Peyton might be broken.
 

q. Julianne Moore wins the Oscar on Sunday night. Julianne Moore acts in Manhattan on Tuesday. There’s someone who likes her job.
 

 
"Hey, cast, crew, everyone...LISTEN UP!  I just won an Oscar, so FUCK THIS NOISE!  Taking off for Jamaica for a few weeks.  Maybe I'll see you when I get back.  Peace Out - Jules Moore."

 

[Red(s)HawksFan]

"Hey, cast, crew, everyone...LISTEN UP!  I just won an Oscar, so FUCK THIS NOISE!  Taking off for Jamaica for a few weeks.  Maybe I'll see you when I get back.  Peace Out - Jules Moore."

 
There's a small part of me that thinks PK believes there's an "off-season" in acting/movie-making, and the Oscars fall into that period of time.  As in, it's Oscar time, no actors are working this time of year, particularly nominees/winners.

 

[Reverend]

As though anyone could get to Julianne Moore's level in that profession if they didn't like it.
 
Reminded me of this clip with Matt Damon at 0m40s. (Note NSFW: Profanity)
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ7icVvDK9I

 

[joe dokes]

As to making every play reviewable, remember Fisher’s words to me: “So if someone throws a touchdown pass against us to win the game, I’m going to throw the challenge flag. Somebody [committed a holding penalty] out there. Somebody did something. You start there and then go … I mean, I don’t know. Replay was designed to overturn obvious errors. It was never designed to include penalties.” Doesn’t sound like the committee is inclined to consider that very seriously.
 

 
Didn't Belichick say that his idea was only to challenge penalty calls that *were* made? (in an obviously erroneous way, in keeping with the current replay rule) Or did King himself make this point somewhere?
 

n. In other words, the burden shouldn’t be on the harrassee to press the mute button on 300 people some days. I support him, but I’m not sure how he can define exactly what is harassment and how to mute it automatically.
 

 
As with his criminals in the Hall of Fame position, King, thinks that everyone is like him -- terrified of the difficult decision that may result in criticism.

 

[Reverend]

As with his criminals in the Hall of Fame position, King, thinks that everyone is like him -- terrified of the difficult decision that may result in criticism.

 
Also: The point isn't to fucking put it on "mute," it's to end it.

 

[joe dokes]

 
Also: The point isn't to fucking put it on "mute," it's to end it.

 
I'm not a twitterer, so I didn't appreciate the distinction there.

 

[E5 Yaz]

 
Also: The point isn't to fucking put it on "mute," it's to end it.

 
So, you're saying it's not a mute point?

 

[Harry Hooper]

 
Didn't Belichick say that his idea was only to challenge penalty calls that *were* made? (in an obviously erroneous way, in keeping with the current replay rule) Or did King himself make this point somewhere?
 
 
 

 
Yes, weird take by Fisher there. The point was to challenge a call that was (erroneously) made, as in mistakenly calling PI for faceguarding, not going back to "All 22" reviews to scour what happened between the RG and LDE on the other side of the field.
 
 
Fisher goes on to show his coaching "wisdom": If I challenged a holding call and a false start in the first half, I’ve used all my challenges.
 
 
Maybe, Coach, you would save your challenges for key plays, as you're supposed to be doing already?

 

[joe dokes]

ON REPLAY REVIEWS. Peter, you quoted Jeff Fisher saying, “So if someone throws a touchdown pass against us to win the game, I’m going to throw the challenge flag. Somebody [committed a holding penalty] out there. Somebody did something.” But doesn’t the coach need to specifically tell the official what they are challenging? So Fisher couldn’t just throw the flag and say “find something” to the official. He have to say, “No. 68 held No. 55 while he was rushing the QB,” or something like that. No?
—Matt N., Horsham, Pa.
Although a coach must tell the referee the call he is challenging, the rule now states that if there is another review-eligible foul on the play, that potential foul must also be reviewed. So in other words, if everything is reviewable—holding calls, pass interference, a defensive end jumping offside—then an offensive holding call would negate a winning touchdown under the proposal that anything is replay-reviewable.
 

 
Aside from the obvious tweak that would allow only calls that *were* made to be reviewed, WTF is he talking about? "The rule now states . . . . another review-eligible foul."  What "fouls" are now "review eligible", other than too many  men on the field?
 
What am I missing?

 

[Harry Hooper]

Can they review those formations used by the defense to try to block field goals?

 

[scottyno]

 
Aside from the obvious tweak that would allow only calls that *were* made to be reviewed, WTF is he talking about? "The rule now states . . . . another review-eligible foul."  What "fouls" are now "review eligible", other than too many  men on the field?
 
What am I missing?

tipped passes for pass interference, and you can retroactively call illegal touching, but I'm not sure if you can challenge illegal touching and overturn it if it was incorrectly called

 

[Corsi]

g. “Birdman.” Wow. Michael Keaton needs to win awards, multiple, for his portrayal of a fading actor trying to remake his life on the stage
 

 
Huh? Does he realize awards season is over?  Or that Keaton won a Golden Globe?
 
What is with this guy? He literally discovers everything two months too late and still somehow acts like it's a revelation. 

 

[Corsi]

I am not a big fan of cinematography, but the way the camera follows Keaton through the theater to the streets of Broadway, and Edward Norton through the theater, is just brilliant.
 

 
What does this even mean? "I am not a big fan of cinematography"?  I don't even think that's possible.
 
He clearly doesn't know what that word means.

 

[John Marzano Olympic Hero]

I'm not a big fan of sound, but I love listening to "Revolver" by the Beatles. 
 

 What is with this guy? He literally discovers everything two months too late and still somehow acts like it's a revelation. 
 

 
He reminds me of a guy I went to college with who found out about Led Zeppelin his freshman year (this was 1992) and spent weeks telling us about this new band he just heard. The big difference is my buddy was a really good guy, a bit naive, but was genuine in wanting to share his new discovery. Peter King acts like he's doing us all a favor by telling us about something that was released a half-year ago. 

 

[MyDaughterLovesTomGordon]

I'm not a big fan of writing, but the way Peter King puts words together is exceptionably bad.