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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will have a news conference today at 3 pm ET at the NY Hilton Midtown on the domestic violence issues, etc
Maybe he will post his time.Corsi said:
Our hero should be able to waddle right over.
ifmanis5 said:Will there even be questions? If there are, King's will be "hey, Rog, where we going to eat tonight?"
joe dokes said:
"Mr. Commissioner, is it true that you've been working tirelessly on this issue?"
Jed Zeppelin said:"Mr Commissioner, did you hear about Indian mandolin player U. Srinivas? Died. Liver failure."
i. Ran the 6.2-mile Central Park loop, with the half-mile hill I dread, in 59:23 Saturday. Now that’s a sentence I never thought I’d write, running that course in less than an hour. Last week, I cut off the toughest mile on the run, the northern hill at the top of the park, and substituted that mile with a run on the flat streets of midtown Manhattan. On Saturday, I included the hill. Glad I did—but I paid for it when I woke up Sunday.
It is not impressive or something you should even want to brag about. You did not do the loop if you did not do the half mile hill that is the hardest part of the run.Corsi said:Couldn't make this up if I tried.
Silverdude2167 said:It is not impressive or something you should even want to brag about. You did not do the loop if you did not do the half mile hill that is the hardest part of the run.
Ran the 6.2-mile Central Park loop, with the half-mile hill I dread, in 59:23 Saturday.
This really is how Peter King works. He quite literally cannot conceive of having his own thoughts: If the things he thinks he thinks are not to be rote transcription of inside-NFL talking points, then the only alternative is for them to be rote transcription of outside-NFL conventional wisdom. This is what it is to be Peter King, unmoored from the sheltering harbor of Roger Goodell's pendulous wattle, as he assuredly is, now that the NFL cast him and his reportorial credibility adrift on the "NFL sources saw the video" flotilla: grasping for things to think he thinks, opinions maybe to have, judgments uncritically to repeat.
Goodell needs to get out of the morass of this issue and leave it to an expert or small group of experts to handle. Too many women’s groups—and women—won’t trust him no matter what the NFL does with domestic violence going forward.
With the Steelers’ season at a crucial early-season point because of an awful loss at Baltimore last week, Bell and Blount absolutely smoked the Panthers on Sunday night
I really don't care that he's slow. If he was fast it would be just as irritating. Unsolicited sharing of your fitness accomplishments online is pretty pathetic regardless of whether they're impressive or not.drleather2001 said:I don't understand it.
It would be one thing for him to say "I ran the 6 miles loop in Central Park yesterday for the first time, what a great run!" or something. Sure, it would be typically irrelevant and boring and totally useless to 99% of his audience, but whatever.
But to talk about his slow-as-fuck-for-a-10K time of 9:40 per mile, and then to make this "Wow, look at me!" statement about it, is really just perplexing. Is he really so obvious about demanding praise from readers ("I bet my readers will be impressed and tell me how fast I am!")? WTF?
MarcSullivaFan said:I really don't care that he's slow. If he was fast it would be just as irritating. Unsolicited sharing of your fitness accomplishments online is pretty pathetic regardless of whether they're impressive or not.
All that said, 9:40 miles aren't too bad for a 57 year old dude running a 10k.
Well, that was exactly my point.johnmd20 said:
It is a bad enough pace that he shouldn't bother to note it. In fact, he shouldn't note his pace no matter what. It is self serving and needless. I guess like PK himself.
joe dokes said:And still the optics & ignorance:
1. No, Peter, it not the fact that those pesky "women's groups" -- AND "women" -- won' t trust him. It's that they have good reason not to trust him -- having demonstrated either incompetence, ignorance or malfeasance.
2. ITS NOT JUST WOMEN YOU ASSHOLE.
There is no Rev said:
This is exactly right. It's a bit like a few years back when some people were saying either the NBA or the NFL--I can't remember which (that's sad)--"had an image problem with respect to guns" and others pushed back with, "No, they have a fucking gun problem."
The problem is not that some people won't trust him; the problem is the underlying reason as to why he is unworthy of trust.
MarcSullivaFan said:Well, that was exactly my point.
How is this nefarious? Getting 50-year old guys to go jogging and drop a few pounds can only be a good thing.nattysez said:As much as writers whine about twitter trolls and abuse, I think an equally nefarious issue is the positive feedback they get from idiots. I'll bet you $100 King hears from a few people each week who say something like, "Your running updates are really inspiring. I am a fifty year old guy in Danvers who has always wanted to exercise but didn't think I could do it. I've taken up running and have lost five pounds this year."
NW Sox Fan said:How is this nefarious? Getting 50-year old guys to go jogging and drop a few pounds can only be a good thing.
King's columns provide sufficient fodder. This forum's recent focus on his running notes only makes us look bad, not him.
I'm a 58 year old male who is about 25 lbs. overweight and run 20-30 miles a week and if I posted that time in a 10K, I'd throw up in my mouth. I entered his time in an age graded calculator and it rates out at the 33% percentile which means he's in the bottom one third percentile. He's just so tone deaf and the fact that he has to post his time publically as some sort of badge of honor shows it. He's looking for an atta-a-boy, but anyone who runs would snicker and wonder what the fuss is about.drleather2001 said:I don't understand it.
It would be one thing for him to say "I ran the 6 miles loop in Central Park yesterday for the first time, what a great run!" or something. Sure, it would be typically irrelevant and boring and totally useless to 99% of his audience, but whatever.
But to talk about his slow-as-fuck-for-a-10K time of 9:40 per mile, and then to make this "Wow, look at me!" statement about it, is really just perplexing. Is he really so obvious about demanding praise from readers ("I bet my readers will be impressed and tell me how fast I am!")? WTF?
Your point was, as I understood it, that he is a jackass for bragging about his "slow as fuck" time.drleather2001 said:
Which was my point as well, but thanks for sharing!
i. Ran the 6.2-mile Central Park loop, with the half-mile hill I dread, in 59:23 Saturday. Now that’s a sentence I never thought I’d write, running that course in less than an hour. Last week, I cut off the toughest mile on the run, the northern hill at the top of the park, and substituted that mile with a run on the flat streets of midtown Manhattan. On Saturday, I included the hill. Glad I did—but I paid for it when I woke up Sunday.
Jogging Update: There is a route I sometimes run. I've never completed it in less than an hour. It's a loop that includes a half-mile hill that I dread. Last week, I cut the toughest mile out of the loop to avoid that hill. This Saturday, however, I included the hill and completed the entire loop in 59:23, my best time. Small accomplishment but I was happy with the achievement.
I paid for it when I woke up the next day.
Nooo, I don't mean to suggest that he's encouraging guys to go jogging. And I'm not defending the guy. He writes uninteresting stuff about all aspects of his life, so the jogging note seems harmless. However, the assumptions and inferences drawn by some, as well as the critique of his times, comes across as petty.drleather2001 said:
Please. Like King's recent running discussions are anything more than a way to shoehorn a reference to his proximity to Central Park (in Manhattan!) into his column.
If he was really interested in "getting 50 year old guys to go jogging and drop a few pounds", he'd be far, far, more sanctimonious about that endeavor.
NW Sox Fan said:Nooo, I don't mean to suggest that he's encouraging guys to go jogging. And I'm not defending the guy. He writes uninteresting stuff about all aspects of his life, so the jogging note seems harmless. However, the assumptions and inferences drawn by some, as well as the critique of his times, comes across as petty.
I merely suggest looking elsewhere. Take, for example, a tweet from yesterday: Russell Wilson, to me: "The NFL needed this game."
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Russell Wilson, to me: "The NFL needed this game."</p>— Peter King (@SI_PeterKing) <a href="https://twitter.com/SI_PeterKing/status/513924566855716864">September 22, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Implications of the tweet go from the mildly annoying, a reminder that King gets to speak directly with NFL players like Wilson, to the more concerning, that players like Wilson don't care at all about addressing the league's current problems and just want people to watch the games. Clarification on suspensions, the task force on domestic violence, the overall outreach (and hyprocrisy) to women... all trivial. What matters is a good game.
By tweeting this without comment, King shows tacit agreement. None of this is truly surprising, of course.