What a great article. Would have thought someone else would have seen it and posted it already.
Why Do I Continue to Read Peter King?
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Fantastic
The Onion: Peter King Realizes Fight With Wife Really About Disappointment In Raiders’ Offseason Moves
http://www.theonion.com/articles/peter-king-realizes-fight-with-wife-really-about-d,38213/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=Default:2
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The Onion: Peter King Realizes Fight With Wife Really About Disappointment In Raiders’ Offseason Moves
http://www.theonion.com/articles/peter-king-realizes-fight-with-wife-really-about-d,38213/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=Default:2
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Fantastic
The Onion: Peter King Realizes Fight With Wife Really About Disappointment In Raiders’ Offseason Moves
http://www.theonion.com/articles/peter-king-realizes-fight-with-wife-really-about-d,38213/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=Default:2efault
The Onion: Peter King Realizes Fight With Wife Really About Disappointment In Raiders’ Offseason Moves
http://www.theonion.com/articles/peter-king-realizes-fight-with-wife-really-about-d,38213/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=Default:2
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Where to begin. First, Peter King shouldn't be correcting anyone on their grammar. The guy writes at an eight-grade level, at best. And I'm not even certain he's correct in this instance. "The Wildcats punched their ticket to the tournament" is undoubtedly correct. "Kentucky punched their ticket..." works just as well as "Kentucky punched its ticket," in my opinion.
I mean, he broke his own stupid rule literally three sentences prior:
Further, King traffics in cliches every Monday, and he's going to call out someone else for the same?
What a bizarre thing to be bothered by.
How in the FUCK is this a "good Stories of New York tale." Holy fuck. I think this bothers me more than anything he's ever written.
And OF COURSE this fuckface buffoon thinks this could only happen in Manhattan.
Corsi said:
Where to begin. First, Peter King shouldn't be correcting anyone on their grammar. The guy writes at an eight-grade level, at best. And I'm not even certain he's correct in this instance. "The Wildcats punched their ticket to the tournament" is undoubtedly correct. "Kentucky punched their ticket..." works just as well as "Kentucky punched its ticket," in my opinion.
I mean, he broke his own stupid rule literally three sentences prior:
Further, King traffics in cliches every Monday, and he's going to call out someone else for the same?
What a bizarre thing to be bothered by.
This is so awesome, it hurts. What an idiot.
Eat yer heart out, Oscar Schindler! Peter King's got his own list, and it's faaaaaaantastic!
Corsi's right, of course, it's gross that the point of the story seems to be "Dude, I met a survivor today!" and not, I dunno, something a little more tasteful. I suppose we should be thankful that he didn't draw an analogy between the guy's experience during the war and to his status of a Yankees fan living through the A Rod situation, however, because you just know it crossed his mind.
Corsi's right, of course, it's gross that the point of the story seems to be "Dude, I met a survivor today!" and not, I dunno, something a little more tasteful. I suppose we should be thankful that he didn't draw an analogy between the guy's experience during the war and to his status of a Yankees fan living through the A Rod situation, however, because you just know it crossed his mind.
drleather2001 said:
"Oh you met a survivor today? Weird. I have a boot tread full of actual Auschwitz gravel. I wonder if your guy was in the same camp as my dirt? ONLY IN NEW YORK!"
Corsi said:
Where to begin. First, Peter King shouldn't be correcting anyone on their grammar. The guy writes at an eight-grade level, at best. And I'm not even certain he's correct in this instance. "The Wildcats punched their ticket to the tournament" is undoubtedly correct. "Kentucky punched their ticket..." works just as well as "Kentucky punched its ticket," in my opinion.
I mean, he broke his own stupid rule literally three sentences prior:
Further, King traffics in cliches every Monday, and he's going to call out someone else for the same?
What a bizarre thing to be bothered by.
It depends what he means by Team X, but of course it's PK and he doesn't specify anything ever. If "Team X" is "Kentucky" then he is technically correct but it is pretty nitpicky, especially for something said on-air. The Jets plural is also technically correct but he's actually referring to the organization, so he's kind of having it both ways since the anchor saying "Kentucky punched their" is obviously using "Kentucky" in a non-literal way to refer to the whole team, similar to how he's using "Jets" to refer to non-player personnel.
I thought King would be sensitive/offended by the "punch" part of punch the ticket after the extensive NFL awareness campaign on domestic abuse but I guess Pete is okay with that part of it. No More..... tired cliches from ESPN.
As with everything else King, he writes what he *thinks* a New Yorker/beer snob/coffenerd/music expert would consider a "New York Story"/good beer/good coffee/good music.
He's lived in New York for about 15 minutes yet he thinks his shit smells like a good brisket.
Was it a Schindler Lift?
http://www.schindler.com/us/internet/en/mobility-solutions/products/elevators.html
He's lived in New York for about 15 minutes yet he thinks his shit smells like a good brisket.
drleather2001, on 16 Mar 2015 - 09:48 AM, said:
Eat yer heart out, Oscar Schindler! Peter King's got his own list, and it's faaaaaaantastic!
Was it a Schindler Lift?
http://www.schindler.com/us/internet/en/mobility-solutions/products/elevators.html
The two problems with taking on a guy who beat the shit out of his girlfriend:
1. He might get suspended
2. It would be a bad PR move
Um, how about a third one:
3. You would have a guy who beat the shit out of his girlfriend on your team.
Some team might have a moral objection to employing that guy. WEIRD. I mean: STRANGE.
1. He might get suspended
2. It would be a bad PR move
Um, how about a third one:
3. You would have a guy who beat the shit out of his girlfriend on your team.
Some team might have a moral objection to employing that guy. WEIRD. I mean: STRANGE.
John Marzano Olympic Hero said:
This is one of the more explicit demonstrations of how Peter King seems really to believe in the juvenile notion of cool by association, or perhaps even cool by proximity. So... he knows a guy who ran into a survivor the other day?
All I get out of that is, "survivors exist," and I already knew that. But King thinks it means something.
Doctor G said:
No, no. He's reminding us how culturally aware he is by publishing an email from a Manhattan friend who recognized the tattoo, while he was in Manhattan.
There is no Rev said:
And I can't wait to tell my friends about you telling your friends about reading this story. Peter King should have prefaced that story with: The Holocaust. The gift that keeps on giving.
Peter King is the type of guy who plays Six Degrees of Separation and is really impressed with how close he is to other people.
"Wow! Two degrees from the Pope! I wonder if His Holiness would give me a special blessing, gang!"
"Wow! Two degrees from the Pope! I wonder if His Holiness would give me a special blessing, gang!"
There is no Rev said:
I just told the waitress at my local sandwich shop that you tweeted that he told his friends about that. Unfortunately, since I'm in Washington D.C., she gave me a blank stare. She just isn't as smart as waitresses in Manhattan.
I should probably move.
Is it possible to repel a suitor who is pursuing you because of the thing that's now supposedly repelling them? Like were Penelope's suitors repelled by her marriage to Odysseus?
"Q. Roger, care to comment on the biggest issue in the NFL in the past 12 months: 1, 2, or 3 teams in Southern California?"