https://twitter.com/#!/SI_PeterKing/status/200673823996121088Not a fan of the Time cover.
https://twitter.com/#!/SI_PeterKing/status/200673823996121088Not a fan of the Time cover.
Well I wasn't a fan of eight years of Montclair HS Girls Softball either, dipshit.https://twitter.com/#!/SI_PeterKing/status/200673823996121088
Ho HO! REALLY?! I seem to recall a near-weekly rant about coffee quality in hotels, and one recent instance of complaining about the proximity of affordable parking in the Copley Place Westin.Seeing as I travel quite a bit, though I don't have a lot of nerdy travel needs,
"I'm not particular. If I'm in a city that doesn't really have a super fancy hotel, then I don't have to stay in one. But if the city is big enough to have nice hotels, then I want to stay in one."... a few things are important. Take hotels. If I'm in a small city, such as on my training camp tour, convenience
is king. If the Red Roof Inn is closest and cuts down travel time, book it. But
on regular trips during the season or covering games, I like hotels in city
centers.
"My hotel preferences: I like big, expensive, hotels, downtown, near expensive restaurants."My hotel preferences: I like quiet. I like high floors. I love good views. I like good coffee in the lobby, or a Starbucks or Peet's on the same block. I like good food, and convenient good food, close by. I like to be able to walk where I'm going.
"This is why I like to stay in one of the most expensive hotels in one of the most expensive cities in the nation."This is why I'll take the Westin Copley Place anytime, over most hotels in the country
"I can afford to stay there, eat at overpriced Legal Seafoods, drink overpriced coffee, and catch a game at Fenway. There's really no point to this story except to brag about my charmed life. In these troubled economic times, if you have $1,000 to blow this coming weekend, I recommend it."I was there Friday night. And it met most every requirement: 28th floor, view of Back Bay and the Charles River and Cambridge, quiet, Starbucks just off the lobby, Legal Seafood in the adjoining mall (the biodome, my kids used to call it, because you never had to walk outside), and my walk to Fenway Park took just 24 minutes. And did I mention quiet?
Hey Peter King, did you know that Neil Young wrote that song while teaching his son, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, how to crawl? And that the lyrics are almost certainly a reference to Young's frustration that, despite all of his material success ("mashed potatoes") , his life felt fundamentally empty because he had fathered multiple children with severe disabilities, and was wracked with frustration and self-loathing over the most important thing in his life ("ain't got no T-bone")?Irsay, a buddy of Neil Young's, was obviously referring to one of Young's unfamous efforts, T-Bone. But he didn't have the words to this gem exactly right. The first stanza, taken from mp3lyrics.org:
Got mashed potatoes
Got mashed potatoes
Got mashed potatoes
Ain't got no T-bone
Ain't got no T-bone
It gets a lot better from there. Here's the second stanza:
Got mashed potatoes
Got mashed potatoes
Got mashed potatoes
Got mashed potatoes
Ain't got no T-bone
I literally snorted with glee while reading this post. Well done! Doc Leather's weekly eviscerations of Peter King are FJM-level awesome. Seriously, thank you for taking the time and effort to crank these out. Bravo! :bravo:Ho HO! REALLY?!
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You are such a fat piece of shit, I can hardly stand it.
Maybe not his fat ass, but one definitely could. What's awesome though is that we can almost guarantee that King has never made the walk himself. He quoted the 24 minutes directly from Google Maps.24 minutes to walk from the Westin to Fenway? Really?
"My job is so hard."I taped some segments of the USA Network show "Necessary Roughness'' the other day in Stamford, Conn. And no, I did not quit my day job. I play myself, working for NBC, reporting on the New York Hawks around the time of the league draft. Real TV's harder. Real TV is when the script isn't written for you
Why? Weren't you openly rooting for the Canucks a few months ago?Devils-Rangers, for a lot of marbles. Palms are already sweaty.
How much does anyone want to bet that King doesn't know that A) Los Angeles has had a team since 1966; and B) The Devils have only been in New Jersey since 1982, after hopping from Kansas City to Colorado.Love the fact that the NHL comes down to the new Southwest (Phoenix versus L.A.) against the old Northeast (New York-New Jersey). Put me down for the Kings and Devils. Meet the new boss (Quick) ... same as the old boss (Brodeur)
"The Celtics look shitty!"Celtics seem like they're being held together by baling wire.
k. But I hope the passionate Kevin Garnett plays until he's 63.
l. I would pay to see Rajon Rondo and four high school kids play. Still can't believe Danny Ainge was thinking about trading him. Excellent question from David Aldridge on the court after the Celtics' Game 1 win Saturday night, about how the grind of the playoffs may wear down an older team like Boston. "We'll be fine,'' Rondo said. "Look at us,'' and he walked away
"Until LeBron wins a title, I'm not going to say that MVPs are meaningless awards. But they are pretty meaningless"First reaction to stories of LeBron James winning his third MVP: I know the MVP's an important award in every sport, and congrats to James for winning a third. But until he wins a title, I'm not saying his MVPs are meaningless awards, but since Magic and Bird and later Jordan, NBA megastars are measured by titles, not MVPs.
A joke made by Pete Abe...PETER ABRAHAM...flies over King's head.Love the nickname given Dustin Pedroia by the Globe's Pete Abraham: Scrappy McScraperson
:barf:Not a big fan of the Time cover, as I said on Twitter. Big fan of breast-feeding. In private.
ha!Maybe not his fat ass, but one definitely could. What's awesome though is that we can almost guarantee that King has never made the walk himself. He quoted the 24 minutes directly from Google Maps.
Yeah, I meant that I was having a hard time believing it would take that long. I live right around the corner. 15 minutes tops. Certainly no longer than 20 if you're a slow walker.Maybe not his fat ass, but one definitely could. What's awesome though is that we can almost guarantee that King has never made the walk himself. He quoted the 24 minutes directly from Google Maps.
Peter, Thanks for your input - I'll pass it along to my wife who is currently breastfeeding our newborn.Ok, I've settled down a little.
"My job is so hard."
Oh, and thanks for letting me know what "real tv" is, fuck face. Question: what if a person writes their own script? Is that real tv? Or fake tv?
Why? Weren't you openly rooting for the Canucks a few months ago?
Maybe it's just a glandular problem.
How much does anyone want to bet that King doesn't know that A) Los Angeles has had a team since 1966; and B) The Devils have only been in New Jersey since 1982, after hopping from Kansas City to Colorado.
Or is he just commenting that he loves that teams from the Western Conference are from "the west" and teams from the Eastern Conference are from "the east"? He does know that's deliberate, right?
"The Celtics look shitty!"
"Except for these two awesome players."
"The Celtics are awesome. I can't believe Danny Ainge was considering making a trade to improve them!"
"Until LeBron wins a title, I'm not going to say that MVPs are meaningless awards. But they are pretty meaningless"
A joke made by Pete Abe...PETER ABRAHAM...flies over King's head.
:barf:
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I'm a pretty quick walker, and live blocks from Fenway, and a block from that Westin, and I don't walk to work in the morning because it takes 20 minutes or so, and I hate waking early. The walk home at night takes around 20, so I can see it.Yeah, I meant that I was having a hard time believing it would take that long. I live right around the corner. 15 minutes tops. Certainly no longer than 20 if you're a slow walker.
Why is this a "different column"? Doesn't he spend each week covering the NFL from outpost to outpost?Different column this week, stretching from Foxboro (Tom Brady) to San Diego out West (Dan Fouts), from an unhappy Dolfan in the Southeast (Daniel Tosh) to Russell Wilson in the Land of Opportunity in the Northwest (Seattle), from a hotel in Oakland to a bar in D.C., from a hockey rink in New York to the busiest building in North America (Staples Center in Los Angeles) ... well, let's just get on with it.
I absolutely love this. He writes it as if it hasn't already been said by literally EVERYBODY ELSE.First reaction to stories of LeBron James winning his third MVP: I know the MVP's an important award in every sport, and congrats to James for winning a third. But until he wins a title, I'm not saying his MVPs are meaningless awards, but since Magic and Bird and later Jordan, NBA megastars are measured by titles, not MVPs.
It's literally not the same as every other column.No need to try to venture onto Dr. Leather's turf, but the part that got me the most today was his first paragraph:
Why is this a "different column"? Doesn't he spend each week covering the NFL from outpost to outpost?
Yep.I absolutely love this. He writes it as if it hasn't already been said by literally EVERYBODY ELSE.
https://twitter.com/#!/SI_PeterKing/status/203155300373626882RT@PriscoCBS: Damn for a kid of the disco era losing donna summer makes me feel old ... You will survive.
-Wiki.He was named National Sportswriter of the Year for 2010. Peter also was the guest speaker during the 2001 Somers High School Graduation Ceremony. He followed David Acker, and gave an inspired speech that included numerous stories of Brett Favre's trials and tribulations
Oh. You're in London, visiting the famous Beatles studio. That famous album cover, with the Beatles (the most famous band in the world, probably ever) crossing the road. To their studio. On Abbey Road. Yea.I walked the crosswalk of Abbey Road Saturday evening (the ZEB-ra, short "e" crossing)
...the one made famous by the Beatles album cover of my youth
You know what, Peter? Fuck you. Way to condescend to your own fucking audience and countrymen. You love Cricket so fucking much, just stay there. Then tell me how you like soccer hooligans.What a concept ... appreciating good play from the opposition.
I'll always think of Smith with platitudes and cliches.I'll always remember Smith as a player who practiced like it was a game, and played every game like it was his last.
A) I'm not sure any coach read that.How many coaches read that and say, "Why didn't WE sign Rod Smith out of Missouri Southern in 1994?"
Does PK always explain, redundantly, what an article of food is made of?Neil bought us tickets to the hospitality tent, where lunch was served. Cerviche of halibut, it was called (cold fish),
Who the fuck cares?with seared chicken breast and French wine. Would Jerry Jones serve Cerviche of halibut at Jerryworld?
In America, we have this game called "Baseball" where something very similar happens."You come to a test match,'' he said, "and it's not always exciting. So you turn to the guy you've come with, or the people around you, and you talk. The conversation takes over. It's great. You relax, you have a beer, you talk, and then something exciting happens and it's back to cricket. It's a great dynamic.''
This is the most exciting part of his cricket story, which is like 456,543 words long. Holy shit.A few minutes later, a guy a few rows ahead of us announced, "It's my birthday!'' He passed a happy-birthday plate of Victoria Sandwich -- an English sponge cake -- around. I got the little piece with the "H'' on it, and passed it to the stranger next to me
"NERDS!!!!"So we waited as Beatles nerd after Beatles nerd did their best John-Ringo-Paul-George imitation. Too young to know what I'm talking about? Google "Abbey Road album cover.'' You'll see why 54-year-old men get really excited to see a silly crosswalk
Appalling.Why did I want to share these? I'm not sure
Oh. Ok. I see. PK just wanted to point out that HE is important enough to have merited giving a commencement speech once upon a time.One of the biggest thrills of my life was being asked to give the 2008 Ohio University commencement address (that's my alma mater).
"If you like this shit, wonderful! If not, well, I guess you think this is a football column, so you might think I'm being a trite asshole for posting this inane, sappy, shit. But you know what? You were wrong. This is Peter King's column, emphasis on Peter and King. So if you don't like it, fuck off. There's some football on page 1 (of 5), go read that if you want football."If you liked the passages, great. If not, I understand; this is a football column, not The Chronicle of Higher Education. But this is who I am, which I guess, if you've been reading this column for a while, you understand. Thanks for indulging me
Factoid of the Week That May Interest Only Me I
So, why does Peter King think it's odd that Crennel lives in Manhattan? Is it because he's older?Kansas City coach Romeo Crennel and his wife have an apartment in Manhattan.
Nothing earth-shattering about it. I just never figured Crennel as the Manhattan-during-his-downtime type. But good for him. It's a great place
You know what, Peter King? I get riled up when you tell me how to be a fan (a status/passtime which indirectly pays your fat ass, by the way). But now you're going to tell me (and everyone else) how to celebrate their child graduating from college? Seriously?"Love the families that hoot and holler at graduations like somebody just got asked to "Come on down" on The Price Is Right. #UVA''
-- @dandalyonsports, Washington Times columnist and proud University of Virginia grad dad, Sunday, tweeting from Charlottesville.
Agreed. Always thought the hooting and hollering was a bit overdone -- if not gauche.
ATTENTION! EVERYONE! PETER KING MAY HAVE CRACKED THE CASE OF JUNIOR SEAU'S TRAGIC DEATH! HAS ANYONE LOOKED AT HIS FINANCES?!I think the end of the line of Junior Seau's popular restaurant in San Diego -- and the downfall of his other restaurant interests in southern California recently -- leads me to ask this question: How much of a factor was financial trouble or financial pressure in Seau's suicide? Not that I know anything, but I now think the question has to be asked.
"Hey everybody, one piece of advice: fuck your finances. Get the nicest thing possible. Who cares if you have to pay it off for the next ten years, or pass on the cost to your kids: GO FOR THE GUSTO! At least twice a year, you'll be glad you did. The other 363 days? Well....fuck it, right? You only live once!"I think I have only one piece of advice for the Wilfs, in the wake of the news about the new Vikings stadium being approved and on schedule to open in 2016, and as it concerns whether to fork out the extra dough to cap the place with a retractable roof rather than a permanent one: Do it. Bite the bullet. You'll never regret it, especially on beautiful autumn October Sundays when it's cloudless and 48 degrees outside. And one other piece of advice: Make sure Christian Ponder, or whoever the quarterback in 2016 is, isn't one of those indoor-loving guys who will want the roof closed all the time. No reason for it on nice days.
You know what's funny? "Young Adult" is a comedy. I saw it, it kind of sucked, but it wasn't depressing. I don't think PK understands movies. Or humor. At all.a. Most depressing in-flight movie in the history of in-flight movies: Young Adult, with Charlize Theron. You're too good to play cheesy and creepy, Charlize -- especially when the script drags and the story's lousy. Sheesh.
Um. Actually....b. Love the British papers. Saturday's edition of The Times featured a long dispatch from Australia focusing on the Southern hairy-nosed wombat being endangered because of the potato weed, a noxious plant that damages the wombats' livers. Not many other papers covering the decline of the Southern hairy-nosed wombat.
l. Mike Aviles, Jarrod Saltalamacchia. Keepers of the Sox flame.
Just to drag this thread off course...I'm a pretty quick walker, and live blocks from Fenway, and a block from that Westin, and I don't walk to work in the morning because it takes 20 minutes or so, and I hate waking early. The walk home at night takes around 20, so I can see it.
Yes. He learned it at the cricket match while stuffing his pie-hole with cakes and warm, slightly carbonated beer.Did that fucking porpoise use the word 'gauche'? Jesus.
How fucking out of touch does he think his readers are?Too young to know what I'm talking about? Google "Abbey Road album cover.'' You'll see why 54-year-old men get really excited to see a silly crosswalk
I literally came here to comment on this quote. What a self-serving, thoughtless, world-blind idiot. He covers a game for a living, one in which adults sit in the stands and go absolutely berserk hundreds of times per game to cheer or deride complete and utter strangers."Love the families that hoot and holler at graduations like somebody just got asked to "Come on down" on The Price Is Right. #UVA''
-- @dandalyonsports, Washington Times columnist and proud University of Virginia grad dad, Sunday, tweeting from Charlottesville.
Agreed. Always thought the hooting and hollering was a bit overdone -- if not gauche.
You know what, Peter King? I get riled up when you tell me how to be a fan (a status/passtime which indirectly pays your fat ass, by the way). But now you're going to tell me (and everyone else) how to celebrate their child graduating from college? Seriously?
What a fucking asshole.
Dude, come on, get real. Its gauche!I literally came here to comment on this quote. What a self-serving, thoughtless, world-blind idiot. He covers a game for a living, one in which adults sit in the stands and go absolutely berserk hundreds of times per game to cheer or deride complete and utter strangers.
Cheering because a stranger did something in a game? Great!
Cheering one of proudest moments in your son, daughter, sister or brother's life? SHUDDUP EN SIDDOWN!
Indeed, this smacks of the kind of classism and snobbery that rich people are so prone to. Why bother cheering when your kid graduates college? Obviously both of their parents must have done the same, and the people cheering must have started talking to financial advisors about their college planning funds from birth? Right? Right? Everyone is rich and white and grew up in northern New Jersey, right?
Good lord, doesn't he WANT to live in a society that celebrates academic fucking achievement?
Settle down. He thinks it's a new Starbucks size (one used for 72 ounces caramel frappucinos, I'd imagine).Did that fucking porpoise use the word 'gauche'? Jesus.
This is the same man who put a note in his column every week, a column read by millions of people, about how his daughter's high school softball team was doing. Every single fucking week. CHEER MY SPAWN, AMERICA.I literally came here to comment on this quote. What a self-serving, thoughtless, world-blind idiot. He covers a game for a living, one in which adults sit in the stands and go absolutely berserk hundreds of times per game to cheer or deride complete and utter strangers.
Cheering because a stranger did something in a game? Great!
Cheering one of proudest moments in your son, daughter, sister or brother's life? SHUDDUP EN SIDDOWN!
Indeed, this smacks of the kind of classism and snobbery that rich people are so prone to. Why bother cheering when your kid graduates college? Obviously both of their parents must have done the same, and the people cheering must have started talking to financial advisors about their college planning funds from birth? Right? Right? Everyone is rich and white and grew up in northern New Jersey, right?
Good lord, doesn't he WANT to live in a society that celebrates academic fucking achievement?
Yes, it's ceviche. Also describing it as "cold fish" is not doing it justice and kind of just wrong. Sushi is cold fish. Ceviche is marinated in citrus and so the acidity "cooks" the fish. Technically it's "cold fish" but describing it that way (and spelling it wrong) just reveals that he didn't really pay attention to like, what he was eating. Or spend 5 seconds looking it up.I love reading leather's breakdowns every week. And I'm pretty sure it's ceviche, not cerviche, which King says at least twice.
You forgot about the time where he bragged about stealing a foul ball from a kid at a Spring Training game.This and the dumping on the cold person on the plane that wanted a blanket are currently my PK all time faves.