Why Do I Continue to Read Peter King?
- Thread starter John Marzano Olympic Hero
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Reverend said:
Give him a break--he was spent after completing a mixed metaphor triple lindy (bookmarking something for a deep drive down the road?).
Reverend said:
Exactly. How does he get away with that? "Cool question bro, someone should totally answer it some day."
JohntheBaptist said:
I've said it before but his decision to select questions that he can't answer is what shows particular antipathy for the reader. If he doesn't have the time to properly answer a mailbag question then he could just as well print a question he can answer intelligently.
Plus it's not a hard question to bullshit an answer to. I'd go with "you've still got to have great QB play to win a superbowl but if you can get great QB play during the playoffs at a bargain--like SF and Seattle are getting this year, like Baltimore did in the playoffs last year, and like GB did with Rogers in 2011--then your margin for error is that much greater."
https://twitter.com/SI_PeterKing/status/393105789331984384/photo/1
Hey - Peter King is a hard working dude.....look at him working on the roof of his car...
Hey - Peter King is a hard working dude.....look at him working on the roof of his car...
So, King, rather than even bothering to Google the terms "japanese travelers stuffed animals," just leaves it at that. "Strange."
Had he bothered to do the two seconds of research, he'd have found that these were likely employees of the Unagi Travel Agency, which is a "travel agency for stuffed animals, sending favorite toys on adventurous trips when an owner is too ill or unable to do so himself. While the stuffed friend is away, the owners can follow their travels by looking for updates on the Unagi Travel Facebook page."
A bit offbeat, sure, but I actually think their mission is pretty neat. Instead, King just labels these people weirdos.
d. Thanks, Florence and the Machine, for “Shake It Out.” That’s my song of the week.
- My hip new song of the week for you young folk, released in September 2011. Only 2 years old!
- My hip new song of the week for you young folk, released in September 2011. Only 2 years old!
Corsi said:
That is a wonderful mission. King should be destroyed for that level of insulting ignorance. Woe be to the Make-A Wish kid that makes hm wait in line at Starbucks. "I'll just never understand why so many adults need to horn in on a kid's enjoyment. Maybe it was because it's Halloween, but all the adults were dressed as nurses and doctors. Weird."
John Marzano Olympic Hero said:
Honest to God, I DO NOT WANT to see someone jizz all over Peter King and then sell the video to an Internet porn service.
Or did you mean something else?
https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/394881586858299392
I mean, the freaking URL is mmqb.si.com. King is so god damn arrogant.
"Nothing against SI"???? THEY SIGN YOUR PAYCHECKS!
There was a link from the SI.com NFL front page.
He's a bully, but on the other hand he's a dunce.
He's a bully, but on the other hand he's a dunce.
Not to mention fundamentally wrong. Actual site is mmqb.si.com. No matter what he might tell himself, it's still just content on SI.com.
If the guy says in his quote that he was traveling from Chicago to Detroit, you don't need to tell us in the lead-up to the quote that the guy was traveling from Chicago to Detroit. Makes me suspect that King didn't get an actual quote but is paraphrasing the story. I mean, Christ, does anyone else besides Peter King need to include both where they are traveling from and where they are traveling to. That level of detail sure as shit doesn't add anything to the story.
Also, you have to wonder how Robert Klemko feels about this quote in light of how poorly it reflects on him.
I can only imagine how much I would hate Peter King if I worked for MMQB.
joe dokes said:
Yeah, as with ShelterDog above, there are times when I find him not just engaging in even high level douchery but in honest to God moral failings.
People who know better than I can fill in any blanks or make corrections, but travel is a huge deal in Japanese culture as a luxury good due to the lack of space. You can't have big houses or lawns and stuff, but you can go places. This is related to the stereotype of the Japanese tourists with their cameras, and how there are "hot spot" locations that they will flock to. I'm not a huge fan of conspicuous consumption, but I get the desire to indulge and if I had my way, everyone would get a chance to do so now and again.
In this context, the travelling doll program is rankly beautiful. King doesn't have the slightest idea of what he is dissing, or the fundamental cultural insensitivity of it and, as Corsi and Joe Dokes point out, because he can't be bothered to take even a cursory look into the phenomenon. I didn't know about the doll program either, but I also didn't blog about it on a national stage while calling myself a journalist.
I'm not prepared to say that's a suspendable offense, but I am willing to bet that low level employees of SI have been fired for less.
Reverend said:
I'm not quite sure I ever accused him of moral failings--I mostly think he's a stupid asshole--but lets not quibble.
Peter King: standing up for bullies since that day his high school football team let him hand out water on the sideline.
RT @Laura722: Sad that Cooper has been nothing but apologetic about the whole thing, yet people want continue to kick him.
— Peter King (@SI_PeterKing) November 4, 2013
Peter King: standing up for racist football players, because, gosh, if he doesn't, who will?!
I am legitimately not sure what King's take is here. I get the feeling that he's taking the side of Incognito, albeit in an oblique way. If I had to guess, King's thoughts on the matter could be summed up thusly:
"So, let me get this straight, a professional football player gets a little razzed, a little teased, a little "hazed" (if you want to call it that), and instead of taking his licks and earning his spot like every other player, he goes to the press and makes a big stink. You know, I remember when football players were football players, men were men, and this sort of thing would never happen. This is ridiculous."
On a deeper level, I am certain that Peter King subconsciously sides with Martin, and with socially-santioned bullying, because I am confident that he is a weak man who thinks that, by approving of such behavior, he is more of a "real man" or whatever. You know the type; tough-guy-by-association.
But even putting all that aside: King doesn't take a stance on this. In a previous section, here's what he says:
Basically, King says, "Shit happens." He then focuses exclusively on the "Pay for my trip to Vegas" angle, as if this whole thing boils down to money. It doesn't. Incognito is a fucking asshole. Why is this so hard for King to say?
Ah, so...that's ok? Because it's a way of life in the NFL?
"That SEEMS unfair...But it's the NFL!"
Is it, or is it not, unfair?
I guess what I'm saying is: for a guy who has strong opinions from everything from coffee to beer to airlines to hotel pillows to Amtrak quiet cars, King seems awfully meek on this issue that seems pretty cut and dried to me: Incognito was an asshole. There.
For a guy who has no problem letting Riley Cooper off the hook, nay no problem giving Riley Cooper credit, for being a racist asshole, King sure is slow to come out in Martin's defense.
He's a fucking phony.
Excuse me?
Fucking...Excuse me?
The Red Sox won the World Series in 2004 behind two guys named Pedro and Schilling, and another guy named Foulke. In 2007, Josh Beckett was unstoppable.
I just...Holy fucking SHIT.
And it was a stupid thing to do, because those walks resulted in runs that lost the Cardinals the World Series.
Jon Lester has been good in the postseason for several years now, assface.
THIS MAN IS NOT A RED SOX FAN! HE CANNOT BE! This must be some elaborate hoax.
This is just over-the-top bad:
When something like the Jonathan Martin story happens
[[literally, nothing like this has happened in the NFL in my memory]]
—a perfectly normal football player
[[This seems pretty obviously to be a back-handed description]]
cracks under some pressure
[[this guy is the king of hyperbole, and yet describes something that drove an NFL player to leave a team as "some pressure"]]
, walks out on his team
[[this is pretty clearly pejorative - walking out on your team is about the worst thing you could do - he could have gone with "escapes to protect his sanity" or "seeks help" or any of a number of other phrases that wouldn't make him the bad guy]],
then has his representatives forward charges of what they claim document harassment
[[this is just bad writing: "charges of what they claim document"? That's not English]]
—the first instinct is to blame someone
[[classic projection - actually, your first instinct is to blame someone, Pete, but way to speak for everyone]].
But I don’t think there’s a single person or entity at fault
[[i.e., no one is at fault? How is that possible? A guy gets bullied and the bully is not at fault? Explain that one.]].
When something like the Jonathan Martin story happens
[[literally, nothing like this has happened in the NFL in my memory]]
—a perfectly normal football player
[[This seems pretty obviously to be a back-handed description]]
cracks under some pressure
[[this guy is the king of hyperbole, and yet describes something that drove an NFL player to leave a team as "some pressure"]]
, walks out on his team
[[this is pretty clearly pejorative - walking out on your team is about the worst thing you could do - he could have gone with "escapes to protect his sanity" or "seeks help" or any of a number of other phrases that wouldn't make him the bad guy]],
then has his representatives forward charges of what they claim document harassment
[[this is just bad writing: "charges of what they claim document"? That's not English]]
—the first instinct is to blame someone
[[classic projection - actually, your first instinct is to blame someone, Pete, but way to speak for everyone]].
But I don’t think there’s a single person or entity at fault
[[i.e., no one is at fault? How is that possible? A guy gets bullied and the bully is not at fault? Explain that one.]].
This either the worst case of trolling ever or the most sports related tone-deaf thought any human being has ever devised.
Either way, this is all anybody ever has to know about Peter King. Drop the mic, Peter, you've done it.
He's making a joke about it and a pretty bad one at that. "It was spaghetti! Ha!" and he's insinuating that Martin is acting like a little baby because (and this may be a reach, but this is PK we're talking about here, so probably not) little kids love spaghetti and little kids love to have temper tantrums and smash food on the tables when they don't get their way or when things go south. Therefore, Martin is a baby.
Incognito? If you read King's wishy-washy report it boils down to, "Hey, Incognito's just a guy with a non-PC sense of humor ribbing his teammate. If Martin can't see that, then that's Martin's fault."
Last year when some NFL players did some "It Gets Better" videos, King wrote about how great this is for the league, etc (and he was right). I know that there are some major differences between the Martin/Incognito dust up and IGB, but where is King's consistency here? Why should Martin have to put up with this kind of bullshit because Incognito is a knuckle-dragging moron?
Or may not. Pitying Peter King is the worst Peter King.
joe dokes said:
King has a habit of ignoring things like that.
Magary did what I wanted, I just want some humanity behind the incident. Too many writers love taking up the Shield and parrot the NFL line about how football players are "men" and "warriors" and "soldiers" and essentially forget that while it's really cool to see someone get their ass kicked on a big hit, there's a dude that's getting popped and he is going to have some real consequences on Monday morning. They swept those consequences under the rug for so long and that is why the NFL has a concussion problem. I don't want to equate concussions to bullying, because they're not in the same league, but quit making hackey bullshit jokes about spaghetti and write something with some feeling for once.
God, I hate King and his just-scratch-the-surface, cliched bullshit writing.
John Marzano Olympic Hero said:
The bolded part is a great observation. King's writing has no soul. He desperately wants to be perceived as the "feeling" sort, but when the time comes, he usually fails. Just as he tries to put himself out as a devotee of fine beer, coffee and hotels, yet anytime he writes more than a line or two about any of them, his shallowness is revealed.
That's why King's writing is so hollow because whether it's football, beer, coffee, the Red Sox, books, whatever, he writes about his "passions" sloppily surgically. What I mean by this is that he writes without any sort of passion and each view is from 30,000 feet up. He describes why he like Alegash beer the way that a (very dumb) surgeon would describe his latest patient. There's no passion, there aren't any real stories, it's just really boring observations. And he's completely clueless as to how he sounds too.
One other thing: there are a million dumb, douchey travelers in this great country of ours, but only Peter King makes me side with each and every one of them. And it's because King has Bill Simmons syndrome where he's never in the wrong and the other guy is always the jerk.
Combine the latter with the boring observations and you have Peter "Vanilla" King.
One other thing: there are a million dumb, douchey travelers in this great country of ours, but only Peter King makes me side with each and every one of them. And it's because King has Bill Simmons syndrome where he's never in the wrong and the other guy is always the jerk.
Combine the latter with the boring observations and you have Peter "Vanilla" King.
I'd be willing to bet that in a consequence-free environment PK would refer to both Magary and Martin as pussies.John Marzano Olympic Hero said:
Reading this has taken me from thinking Peter King is shit to actually thinking he's a fucking asshole.
Actually that's not true, I just thought about it some more, I already hate him - I forgot how much he likes boasting about treating minimum-wage employees like shit.
Now he's defending bullies just before saying racists are misunderstood.
Fuck this fat piece of shit. Seriously, fuck this guy.
Now he's defending bullies just before saying racists are misunderstood.
Fuck this fat piece of shit. Seriously, fuck this guy.
@JayMags--I disagree. I think even in a consequence-free environment, he makes some long-winded, poorly written point created to give the impression the speaker is "a stand up guy" w/r/t Martin but still reiterating clearly, without saying the word, the exact sentiment you refer to. So I think even without consequences Peter King is a weaselly little fuck.
Definitely. For me it was the EvoShield/ NFL's handling-of-the-concussions-issue apologias he throws out.
He's a sad little shit.
SydneySox said:
Definitely. For me it was the EvoShield/ NFL's handling-of-the-concussions-issue apologias he throws out.
He's a sad little shit.
JohntheBaptist said:
With King, it seems like its all about "the impression." His writing seems to be that of a person who writes what he *thinks* a person with certain feelings [beer and coffe nerd, lover of urban living, hater of bad things, marathon bombing affectee, person offended by something] would feel, rather than someone who actually has those feelings.
