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We've noticed lately, during our daily readings of the New York Daily News, that Mike Lupica is writing as much about politics as he is about sports. It makes sense; why can't blowing-with-the-wind "conventional wisdom" apply as well to Hillary Clinton as it does to Jason Giambi?
We've always imagined Lupica must look at the "success" of Mitch Albom and slam his tiny self into a wall. That was supposed to be him! He's the saccharine guy who says nothing!
Hopefully writing this post won't cause Lupica to do some backroom maneuvering to have us fired.
So: Do you like the Mike Lupica? Do you not like the Mike Lupica? Let us know.
Comments
Boo-urns! Boo-urns!
Oh God No.
Never for this sanctimonous prick.
Approve. He reminds me of a real life Miles Silverberg.
Absolutely, positively, disapprove. Good for him that he has been on Sports Reporters long before every sports reporter was on ESPN in some capacity, but his holier-than-thou articles are extremely grating and condescending.
If this falls below 95% disapproval, I will be sorely disappointed. Worst of the worst.
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Douchetool. Disapprove.
Is there any way to, by voting, kill him?
worst sports writer in NY
A FUCKING MILLION TIMES DISAPPROVE. WORST. JOURNALIST. EVER. A WHITE STEPHEN A. SMITH. A DRUNK MITCH ALBOM. A COKE-BOTTLE GLASSES BERMAN. THE ABSOLUTE FUCKING WORST EVER.
The end.
I love the smell of vitriol in the morning. This should be a fun comment thread...
/disapproves, but not nearly as strongly as most folks here
Wonder how Lisa Olsen is going to vote on this one?
I disapprove, but my younger brother swears by his early-teen sport books, kind of like a more mature Matt Christopher.
13 approves? I'm speechless
Disapprove
This isn't going to be pretty.
Albom: 86.5% Deadspin Disapproval.
Here's another thing for Lupica to best him at.
He writes with the velveteen touch of a dandy fop. Disapprove!
Self-important blowhard. Disapprove
Release the Lions!
/Romanized
@Jehovahs Witness Protection Program: Someone was waiting for this post for awhile...
Mike Lupica, I'm coming for you, man. My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat your children. Praise be to Allah!
I could disapprove just because he ran off Lisa Olson, who was several times the journalist he is.
I could disapprove because he ran off Whitlock from The Sports Reporters.
I could disapprove because he's weaseled his way into a Wednesday politics column.
But instead I disapprove because he thinks Shooting from The Lip is an actual piece of journalism instead of something a high-schooler could do.
Mike Lupica has clearly found himself 17 separate IP addresses to vote with.
Can the powers that be at Deadspin track the IP addresses of those who voted to approve and ban those people from ever posting here again?
Or is that not enough?
If ever there was a media approval rating that shuold be 100% diapproval, this is it.
@Pittsburgh Sports and Mini Ponies: If I could vote an extra disapprove for every negative thought I've had about Lupica, I think I would break the internet.
...And we've finally given Billy Packer some competition for the bottom dweller spot.
HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE
Surely Lupica must have came here at voted approve 20 times right?
@UpstateUnderdog: I don't know; as much as I hate Lupica (and boy do I!), Steve Serby really pisses me off.
Crash into a bridge embankment
But he's travel-size! He takes up very little overhead storage space. That's a positive.
Update the chart, we have a new loser.
@Summer-of-George: You trying to find a group of people worse than Lupica? The Lions would fit that description..
Disapprove
I really want to hear from one of the "approve" voters.
No.
@DennyCrane: Wow, I thought someone would have mentioned Mushnick before Serby.
@CharlesBronsonPinchot: +1
@TheVaingloriousKeithOlbermann: Gawker Media should certainly find the people who approved of both Lupica and Albom and send them back to elementary school, Billy Madison-style.
This sanctimonous little prick is the reason why we now cringe everytime we hear that an otherwise decent sportswriter is joining the four letter - because we are afraid that it will only be a matter of time before they become another Lupica.
@PeteJayhawk:
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I'm supposed to approve people shorter than me, but fuck the rules.
I wish Mike Lupica would get Lupus of the eyes, mouth, and fingers, and then be shot straight into the heart of the sun.
KILL IT
@Pittsburgh Sports and Mini Ponies: You have no idea....
Rabble Rabble Rabble Rabble.
I, for one, will withhold my vote until I hear StopMikeLupica's position on this.
@PeteJayhawk:
I assume they all work on the set of Sports Reporters. Approve or be fired. Only thing that makes sense to me.
He's too short.
@UpstateUnderdog:
Wally Matthews is the only one I find worse.
@PeteJayhawk: Ok.
I will come out of the closet.
I voted approve.
Note: I don't read his writing, just used to watch the Sports Reporters.
I admired the fact that he would call out Albom and, the biggest douche of them all, John Saunders for backing the BCS and other Disney entities.
I think he's a douche, too, but approved him by a very slim margin.
@CharlesBronsonPinchot: +1
@UpstateUnderdog: No, I hate Serby because every year he writes the same exact column about why the Giants are going to win the Super Bowl. Then every time they get into the playoffs, he writes another column about how the Giants are going to win the Super Bowl. The fact that they actually won this year means he will never shut up. A bigger, more blatant homer cannot be found in print journalism, I am certain.
It's amazing just how much more insufferable this fucknozzle became when Dick Schaap died and could not verbally bitch-slap Mr. Napoleonic Complex himself down on Sunday mornings.
Every time I look at him I want to give him the swirlie he so rightfully deserves.
Napoleoncomplexsaywhat?
His complete and utter contempt for anyone who isn't named Mike Lupica warms my heart.
Disapprove, mostly because he's pals with another douchebag, William Goldman.
Anybody who knows anything will not vote approve for this dickwad.
"I like Mike Lupica. I find his columns to be very insightful."
ummmmm no.
Hammer to the back of the head. And Matt Chistopher wrote better sports novels for kids...40 years ago.
Mike Lupica:Sports Journalists::Tiny Lebron: The Lebrons
Can't spell Mike Lupica with out the P, U, K, or E.
@ILovePaleHoseandPaleHos:
/virtual gang beating
Disapprove, can we just torch the ESPNZone where the Sports Reporters is filmed?
This is probably going to the be the benchmark of hatred until the inevitable Simmons post
@DennyCrane: Peter Gammons on line 1, sir
I guess if there is one nice thing I can say about him its that thanks to him I get to sleep in on Sundays now because I no longer get up to watch the Sports Reporters. It takes Isiah longer to ruin a franchise than it did for him to ruin that show.