Why Do I Continue to Read Peter King?
- Thread starter John Marzano Olympic Hero
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Come on, these were borderline retarded questions, except the Chiefs one. I have no problem with the way King answered these tweets.
John Marzano Olympic Hero said:
What kind of answer would King have given if the tweets were prefaced with: "Long time reader, love the column"?
The 3.16% chance of Tebow going to Jacksonville is moderately funny, which makes it the cleverest thing King's written in months.
Not to mention, the job itself sounds, you know, like its a lot of fun.
There are people in sales/distribution that sometimes visit multiple cities in a single day (say, fly from NYC to Chicago at 6:00 AM, lunch meeting at 12:00; then fly to Minneapolis at 4:00, dinner meeting at 7:00, etc...), several days per week. I used to work with several of them (and had to make frequent trips myself throughout the country, sometimes (*gasp*) on weekends). This is hardly uncommon, and those people often are working under tight quotas, or sales figures, that they struggle to make and live in a near-constant state of stress. The personal lives of the ones that stick with it past about 35, if they can't get to a managerial position that requires less travel, tends to be pretty shitty.
But hey, I really feel for this fucking guy who has to travel a lot, but generally within a 90-minute drive of his house, to go watch professional sports for a living. Tough break, dude.
There are people in sales/distribution that sometimes visit multiple cities in a single day (say, fly from NYC to Chicago at 6:00 AM, lunch meeting at 12:00; then fly to Minneapolis at 4:00, dinner meeting at 7:00, etc...), several days per week. I used to work with several of them (and had to make frequent trips myself throughout the country, sometimes (*gasp*) on weekends). This is hardly uncommon, and those people often are working under tight quotas, or sales figures, that they struggle to make and live in a near-constant state of stress. The personal lives of the ones that stick with it past about 35, if they can't get to a managerial position that requires less travel, tends to be pretty shitty.
But hey, I really feel for this fucking guy who has to travel a lot, but generally within a 90-minute drive of his house, to go watch professional sports for a living. Tough break, dude.
Of course, if Peter took 2 minutes to look it up he would see the massive cap hit that would be accrued if Sanchez is cut. And I'm sure the Jets would love for a team to give them anything, even a 7th to take Sanchez off their hands. But will it happen? I don't know. Maybe?!?!
drleather2001 said:
The thing that bugs me is that Howie Rose has two jobs (hockey and baseball) that only briefly intersect, but Peter King seems to be using Howie as an example of how difficult the job is for everyone in the business, or more accurately as an example of how difficult Peter King's job is. Of course, Peter King only covers football which has the easiest schedule and fewest games by far of the four major sports.
I'm sure the hockey season is a bit of a grind to cover since it's winter and it's three or four games a week. Baseball is a bit easier to cover than hockey since it's likely nice weather and you are probably staying in one location for a couple of days in a row but that being said it's a long season, so, yeah, that might be hard at times.
Covering football, where there are at most three days of actual games to cover a week, would be a piece of cake at least in comparison to covering hockey or baseball.
I'd like to blast King for this inanity:
"I think other teams have the same skeletons, and potential skeletons, in their closets. But to me, the Lions are different. They'd blown so many receiver picks over the years -- granted, in the Millen administration, not Martin Mayhew's -- and you can't go drafting scared. But Young missed much of his second season at Boise State for fighting a teammate. I liked the pick at the time, because he filled a major need to take pressure off Calvin Johnson. Young, if well-adjusted, would have been a great asset to Detroit. But I couldn't know what the Lions knew then; when you pick a player 44th overall, you've done significant work on him, and you should know of the problems that could surface later on. Character problems, maturity issues. Those are flaws we in the media can't know nearly as well as the teams. The Lions, I'm betting, knew what a risk Young might be.
King knew or should have known that Young had missed a lot of time for getting in trouble, he thought the pick was worth it at the time, but now that he has the benefit of hindsight he crushes the team.
If your defense is "I can't know what the team knows about character" then it's pretty hard to ever rip a team for any pick. But he's anything but consistent on that: he's more than willing to praise the Chargers because he likes Manti's character. And the lesson of Titus Young (that reporters and fans can't actually know that much about these players' off the field woes) seems to be lost on him, as he has praised the Ogletree pick a couple dozen times in the past week despite the fact that Ogletree has a checkered off the field record.
"I think other teams have the same skeletons, and potential skeletons, in their closets. But to me, the Lions are different. They'd blown so many receiver picks over the years -- granted, in the Millen administration, not Martin Mayhew's -- and you can't go drafting scared. But Young missed much of his second season at Boise State for fighting a teammate. I liked the pick at the time, because he filled a major need to take pressure off Calvin Johnson. Young, if well-adjusted, would have been a great asset to Detroit. But I couldn't know what the Lions knew then; when you pick a player 44th overall, you've done significant work on him, and you should know of the problems that could surface later on. Character problems, maturity issues. Those are flaws we in the media can't know nearly as well as the teams. The Lions, I'm betting, knew what a risk Young might be.
King knew or should have known that Young had missed a lot of time for getting in trouble, he thought the pick was worth it at the time, but now that he has the benefit of hindsight he crushes the team.
If your defense is "I can't know what the team knows about character" then it's pretty hard to ever rip a team for any pick. But he's anything but consistent on that: he's more than willing to praise the Chargers because he likes Manti's character. And the lesson of Titus Young (that reporters and fans can't actually know that much about these players' off the field woes) seems to be lost on him, as he has praised the Ogletree pick a couple dozen times in the past week despite the fact that Ogletree has a checkered off the field record.
He's exhausted his recommendations list from the five different beers he's ever tried, apparently.
And then when you check Twitter to see these tweets, there has been about a dozen this whole year
https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%40si_peterking%20allagash&src=typd
https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%40si_peterking%20allagash&src=typd
You do tweet, and your stance on The Office vs Seinfeld isn't exactly novel. The Seinfeld finale is regarded as one of the most disappointing in television history.
And regarding the above, does he like walking or not? He spent nearly 150 words on that "story" and I can't tell if he enjoys walking or not. I think it was just an excuse to tell us (again) that he lives on the East Side of Manhattan and works in Midtown.
That Travel note doesn't make sense at all.
The best thing about Manhatten: !alking! What is my note about? 2 instances where I hopped in a cab and then was forced to walk the last couple blocks when the cab got stuck. If it's so awesome to walk then why not just walk from the start?
The best thing about Manhatten: !alking! What is my note about? 2 instances where I hopped in a cab and then was forced to walk the last couple blocks when the cab got stuck. If it's so awesome to walk then why not just walk from the start?
Peter King: not clear on the concept of whip-its.
Boo fucking Hoo, King had to leave the office at 5:15. He works so hard!
And the entire Travel Note is inane. "Manhattan has traffic and sometimes its faster to walk" is about the most uninspired observation I've ever heard.
What a fucking moron.
What kind of an NYC (excuse me, MANHATTAN) resident calls it "Avenue of the Americas"? Are you fucking kidding me? It's sixth goddamn avenue.
jmcc5400 said:
You dont get it. He had to leave ("I was late getting home . . . ." )
Perhaps Mrs. King's Pon Farr was scheduled to conclude at 530.
If I get home at 530 I get suspicious looks from the wife and kids. ("You didn't get fired, did you?")
A 17 minute walk is an AWESOME commute. It's not like he's walking from Tribeca to midtown, where a cab ride of 12-20 minutes turns into a 45 minute walk. A 17 minute walk means you never don't have time to get there. He's just a self important dick. He couldn't afford the 17 minute walk but he could afford the 8 minute cab ride, which is about how long it would take to drive from 2nd Avenue to the Avenue of the Americas?(assuming NO traffic)
So basically he's making it seem like he couldn't afford the 9 minutes. What was going on that couldn't wait 9 minutes?
So basically he's making it seem like he couldn't afford the 9 minutes. What was going on that couldn't wait 9 minutes?
I can't believe that a human being would express excitement over Peter King's upcoming Father's Day book list.
Fucking flyover country, man. ktwhitt0914 is probably from East Bumblefuck, Kansas.mpx42 said:
Wasn't Rev just asking for book recommendations the other day? I guess he had to go to a higher power.
I can only imagine my father's reaction if I handed him a book for Father's Day with the words "Peter King recommended this."
They're the defending World Champions, you idiot. Of course they're excited about their team.
Is there any doubt Peter's coworkers make fun of him behind his back the way they do Jerry on Parks & Rec?