soxfaninyankeeland said:
No. It's like Leather said, he's an insecure blowhard who was looking for preferential treatment and when he didn't get it he decided to be an insufferable pussy about it.
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No. It's like Leather said, he's an insecure blowhard who was looking for preferential treatment and when he didn't get it he decided to be an insufferable pussy about it.
drleather2001 said:
The fact he specifies 'midtown' in virtually every reference to his domicile is awesome, as if we would be VERY UNIMPRESSED if he lived somewhere else in Manhattan.
Mystic Merlin said:
It really is transparent, given that he rarely talked about the specifics of where he lived when he lived in Montclair or Boston.
I really think he's getting worse. What used to be puffy anecdotes about family living in New Jersey, which were merely boring and irrelevant, have been supplanted by curmudgeonly, thinly-veiled, stories of self-satisfaction.
I mean, five years ago the knock on King was that he was a little too openly effusive in his pride over his daughters. It was annoying, but at least there was a sense that his priorities were in the right place and, hey, it's great he took a minute to shine a light on girls' sports once in awhile. No big deal.
But now he's turning into fucking Andy Rooney, ranting against the merely-kinda-tolerable minutiae of life that nobody else has the time or inclination to complain about. The thing is, that was Andy Rooney's job!
I distinctly remember King dropping plenty of references about how he was living in a brownstone in the South End, how he could walk to Back Bay to catch the Acela and the restaurants he would go to in the neighborhood. The South End is certainly not universally known for being a haven for the wealthy in the way Midtown is but for anybody who knows Boston, it was a clear dogwhistle to tell you that Peter King is rich and can afford swanky things.
drleather2001 said:
Also, found these:
http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2011/08/05/sis_king_on_the_move/Sports Illustrated football scribe Peter King has put his South End condo on the market, but it’ll cost you a pretty penny to buy it. The writer’s two-bedroom, 2 1/2-bath abode on Shawmut Avenue has 19 windows, panoramic views of the Back Bay and Financial District, a designer kitchen with state-of-the-art appliances, a soaker tub, and two decks. King and his wife, Ann, paid $1.26 million for the 1,628-square-foot condo in 2008, and they’re asking $1.35 million. King told us he’s in no hurry to move, but spends at least 22 weekends a year in New York, and is getting a little weary from all the travel.
http://observer.com/2011/11/sportswriter-peter-king-fumbles-at-sutton-place/
MyDaughterLovesTomGordon said:
Yeah, I think we can all relate to living there. Too bad the cab drivers in the area aren't up to snuff.
Plus then he can brag about the hassles of having to take a cab everywhere in the city to get to the good restaurants and Starbucks locations.
He walks pretty fast for a fat guy. 14 minute miles is pretty good, but I don't see him the "brisk walker" type.
Reverend said:
Yep. This is hilarious because I live in that building because it's 3 blocks from my office.(the non commute is life changing) Living in the same building as King is going to give me unique access to his daily movements and will hopefully enhance this thread.
He probably power walked the route to Fenway for weeks until he finally broke 30 minute mark. That two minutes means the world to a muppet like PK.
I like how he called any form of walking 'leisure'. There's nothing leisurely about anything related to cardio for that man.
What exactly do you think coffee is, Pete? It is coffee-flavored water. And who the hell gets ticked off about in-room coffee?
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Borderline racist. Nice touch.
So, you're not going to explain the first tweet to me, but you're going to explain the second one, which anyone who was even breathing yesterday would understand?
So, Pete didn't even watch the Pro Bowl? I know I didn't have any interest in it, but isn't the Pro Bowl kind of his job? You've got all the major players in one place - seems like a good spot to do some reporting. Maybe I'm wrong.
To PK's credit, I thought the stuff about the zero blitzing and the percentage of times they go to Crabtree in the red zone was pretty interesting. That's definitely good reporting, even if some of it was second hand from another SI reporter.
To PK's credit, I thought the stuff about the zero blitzing and the percentage of times they go to Crabtree in the red zone was pretty interesting. That's definitely good reporting, even if some of it was second hand from another SI reporter.
This is mindroasting. He's got a SB that had a ref getting shoved, a power outage that lasted 45 mins, many poor officiating calls, a terrible halftime show....and THIS is his number 1 complaint of the day?
He's beyond awful and should die already.
Says the guy in the multi-million dollar apartment who doesn't have to worry about shoveling his driveway all day long. What a tonedeaf turd.
I normally hate this meme, but if Peter King happens to be reading, I fixed it for you.
Good grief, the balls on this guy calling someone out for overreacting. Helen Lovejoy is more calm than this asshole.
Yeah, only 11 people died! What a bunch of pussies we all are in America. I mean, it's not a real storm until we hit at least triple figures with the death toll.
That family with the 11-year-old in Boston who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a car his dad was digging out? Total fucking pussy. What an over-reaction to the storm dieing is.
That family with the 11-year-old in Boston who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a car his dad was digging out? Total fucking pussy. What an over-reaction to the storm dieing is.
King is normally tone deaf so maybe I shouldn't be surprised, but I am. People died as a result of this storm and 100's of thousands were cold and miserable for a couple days while they waited for power to come back on. Meanwhile, PK sits back in his warm cozy multi-million dollar apartment and samples drafts trying to come up with a good idea for his beer-nerdness note. If there is such a thing as karma PK is in trouble.
And like ChristmasApe pointed out in his weekly Peter King column, this is a guy that has been bitching for two years about the Super Bowl being held next year in NYC because it may snow.
He just wants to look tough "Look at me, I'm in NYC and I'm not complainin'!"
It's like he wants respect for not complaining about a storm, because he thinks this makes him some kind of Ordinary Guy Hero. That's an entire sub-persona for him. "Hey, I'm an ordinary guy, I don't like Prince! Give me Bruce, amiright?" "Hey, I'm an ordinary guy, you know, I like Brett Favre." "Hey, I'm an ordinary guy, I like my hotel clerks to treat me with some respect and give me the pillow, ya know?" "Hey, ordinary guys, help me out: don't you hate it when some fancy-pants businesswoman on the plane talks too loud? Seriously."
He's appealing to audience to affirm that there's nothing at all wrong with Peter King. He's just telling it like it is, you know, for all of us Ordinary Guys out there.
What makes it sad and awful is that the vast majority of ordinary people look at a bad snowstorm in the news and go "Jeez, that SUCKS. What a pain in the ass." Because ordinary people empathize with our fellow rank and file. King can't because he's not a fucking Ordinary Guy. He's an entitled, wealthy, asshole. It's the definition of pretentious.
It's like he wants respect for not complaining about a storm, because he thinks this makes him some kind of Ordinary Guy Hero. That's an entire sub-persona for him. "Hey, I'm an ordinary guy, I don't like Prince! Give me Bruce, amiright?" "Hey, I'm an ordinary guy, you know, I like Brett Favre." "Hey, I'm an ordinary guy, I like my hotel clerks to treat me with some respect and give me the pillow, ya know?" "Hey, ordinary guys, help me out: don't you hate it when some fancy-pants businesswoman on the plane talks too loud? Seriously."
He's appealing to audience to affirm that there's nothing at all wrong with Peter King. He's just telling it like it is, you know, for all of us Ordinary Guys out there.
What makes it sad and awful is that the vast majority of ordinary people look at a bad snowstorm in the news and go "Jeez, that SUCKS. What a pain in the ass." Because ordinary people empathize with our fellow rank and file. King can't because he's not a fucking Ordinary Guy. He's an entitled, wealthy, asshole. It's the definition of pretentious.
drleather2001 said:
Yes and this was his High-Hat way of chiding the media for hyping up something he doesn't feel is hype-worthy. This from a sports writer.
ifmanis5 said:
Come on, it was just a snow storm that killed a few people. No big deal. It's not like Peyton Manning was changing teams or something.
King, if he wrote the Dave Barry beat this morning:
d. Watching coverage of the most important event in the history of America last weekend on this new-fangled television I barely use and you would have thought something truly historical had occurred. Turns out it was just two groups of fellows carrying around a pigskin for a few hours.
e. We do tend to overreact to sporting events in this country.
d. Watching coverage of the most important event in the history of America last weekend on this new-fangled television I barely use and you would have thought something truly historical had occurred. Turns out it was just two groups of fellows carrying around a pigskin for a few hours.
e. We do tend to overreact to sporting events in this country.
Thing is - what he's reacting to is the media coverage which was partially driven by authorities doing all they could before the event to drive awareness so people would stay away from potentially dangerous situations.
So the 'hype' is a public awareness campaign that is absolutely responsible for keeping the fucking toll of damage and distress down. So, though a seperate and important part of his idiocy is the ignorance of the statement in relation to the fact 11 people did actually die, this statement is itself pure self defeating hypocrisy.
The thing he criticised is what lead to thing he dismissed.
He is just so fucking dumb. I hate him. He's like a goddamn metaphor for ... nah, seperate conversation.
So the 'hype' is a public awareness campaign that is absolutely responsible for keeping the fucking toll of damage and distress down. So, though a seperate and important part of his idiocy is the ignorance of the statement in relation to the fact 11 people did actually die, this statement is itself pure self defeating hypocrisy.
The thing he criticised is what lead to thing he dismissed.
He is just so fucking dumb. I hate him. He's like a goddamn metaphor for ... nah, seperate conversation.
SydneySox said:
This is a thousand times right. It's been so right for so long that we have fucking Bible stories about it. Seriously.
Jonah. Fuck the whale. Well, not intercourse, but you get the meaning. Jonah tells a city God is pissed and is gonna rain some bad-news because of their sinful ways. But then they repent and repair and because they start living well, God decides not to do it. But now Jonah is pissed off because now he has no creditability at all because he told them they were going to be destroyed and now they are ok. There's a reason Kurt Vonnegut began Cat's Cradle in this way.
Peter King is pooh-poohing a storm that didn't have casualties when the lack of casualties is likely attributable to people taking the storm seriously and doing the right thing. He really is just a lazy thinker at this point. And the thing is, when you have a pulpit, that's not a neutral issue--he's propagating the gospel of lazy thinking.
Good thing Peter King was actually writing about football in 2005. Otherwise we might've gotten:
"Watching the rain coverage on TV Friday, I was sure thousands would be killed by the crush of storm surges. Then I woke up Saturday, put on the TV, and saw pretty much the worst thing that happened on the Gulf Coast was that the Favres would have to rebuild their house."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473746/posts
"Watching the rain coverage on TV Friday, I was sure thousands would be killed by the crush of storm surges. Then I woke up Saturday, put on the TV, and saw pretty much the worst thing that happened on the Gulf Coast was that the Favres would have to rebuild their house."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473746/posts
epraz said:
Yeah but there were 2' of snow not far at all from NYC, and local news covers those areas too.
Also, 8" of snow is kind of a big deal even if it happens twice a year. That much shows pretty much shuts the city down for a while and if people aren't reasonably careful there are all kinds of health risks.
And he's also extrapolating how NYC reacts to weather events/snow storms onto how the country, as a whole, reacts to weather events/snow storms. Which is, of course, fucking moronic and insane. Where I live, people actively root for moderate (e.g. 8 inches) snowfall and weather in the 20s, because it means they can pursue their winter sport of choice (be it pond hockey, cross country skiing, or whatever).Shelterdog said:
But King is so much a part of the very same media microcosm, he can't see outside the NYC media hype box. He's a part of the same fucking problem he laments: that what passes as "news" (nevermind what passes as a "crisis") in NYC must be news everywhere else.
EDIT: And in this case, yes, it's news that NYC got hit by a big snowstorm. But that's a different thing entirely from saying that, because NYC reacts one way to a snowstorm, everybody in the country therefore reacts in the same way, which is to say, they overreact.
What a fuckface.
Reverend said:
Yep. It's a part of human nature for people to want to lord their rightness/toughness over others. We had a little earthquake up here in Maine this year and everyone gloried in posting pictures of knocked over chairs, etc., and making fun of all the earthquake coverage, while a bunch of us had cracked foundations and chimneys that were a major fucking pain in the ass to repair.
It's understandable in the layperson. It would be nice if those among us with the largest bully pulpits didn't engage in it.
This is the same guy who a month ago thought it was worthy of space in his column to talk about audible snow balls pelting his car in Colorado.
Ha ha haaa....aahhh. Peter. You just can't help but turn an objectively good thing that you had ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with into a way to be an asshole.
And, for the record, some of us didn't have a long weekend. I have to work today. So fuck yourself. Oh, and to answer the question: I played a lot with my kids, installed their new car seats, got drunk with some friends on Sat. night, helped my wife do our taxes, and worked toward closing on the purchase of my family's first house. All of which, I would say (although I'm biased) is more work and ultimately more responsible than being a responsibility-less college kid hanging out with some friends at a gym for a night.
Oh, by the way, what did YOU do this weekend, fuckface? Oh, right, you made some inane list of all your least favorite airlines. Because you travel so much.
"I hate American. One time, they had the temerity to GIVE ME A MIDDLE SEAT! Don't they know who I am? The Kingster don't ride in the middle!"
"Damn right. First class, all the way, jerksticks."
What a tough life. What a tough man.
Ok, he's just naming any old beer now.
So, with that USAirways story...I mean, does he think they tell Boeing (or whoever) to make their seats a little smaller than usual for their orders? Or is he complaining that someone assigned him a middle seat and he thinks that the airline does this on purpose or something because it saves the airline cash if certain seats are empty and they fill all the middle ones?
Honestly, if the WORST thing a guy that flies all the time can say about the airline was that on one flight four years ago he sat in a middle seat, that's not too bad.
Honestly, if the WORST thing a guy that flies all the time can say about the airline was that on one flight four years ago he sat in a middle seat, that's not too bad.