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    The Worst American Sports Writing: Greg Bishop

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    Image of Chamomiles Davis Chamomiles Davis
    08/14/09

    In reply to The Worst American Sports Writing: Greg Bishop
    Gosh, Mr. Bishop, you use your tongue prettier than a $20 whore.
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    08/14/09

    In reply to The Worst American Sports Writing: Gene Wojciechowski
    However, he was great on Barney Miller.
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    Image of Kid Canada Kid Canada
    08/14/09

    In reply to The Worst American Sports Writing: Steve Yanda
    Is this the guy who wrote an Opening Day piece for the Baltimore Sun about a black kid in a wheelchair named E.J.? I heard that guy won the Pulitzer Prize.
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    Image of Tiger_Tanaka Tiger_Tanaka
    08/14/09

    In reply to The Worst American Sports Writing: Gene Wojciechowski
    Nobody tell him about Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny either. He can't handle it.
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    Image of MattinglysSideburns MattinglysSideburns
    08/14/09

    In reply to The Worst American Sports Writing: Steve Yanda
    Randle squirted through the lane and finished layups with a flick of his wrist.

    Oh, so he finished them normally, then? I bet he dribbled with his hands, too.
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    08/14/09

    @MattinglysSideburns: I'd love to see him write soccer. "Using his leg as a sort of pendulum, he made contact with the round soccer orb."
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    Image of roland_t_flakfizer roland_t_flakfizer
    08/14/09

    In reply to The Worst American Sports Writing: Steve Yanda
    The loss to Virginia (10-17, 4-12) instead created a situation Williams did not want to acknowledge, but one of which his players were painfully aware.

    I can only assume Yanda is referring to Gary sweating down an entire necktie.
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    Image of ArkansasFred ArkansasFred
    08/14/09

    In reply to The Worst American Sports Writing: Steve Yanda
    Uh-oh. I hope you don't get a hold of any of my college or law school papers. Minimum word counts are a bitch.
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    Image of MarkKelsosMigraine MarkKelsosMigraine
    08/14/09

    @ArkansasFred: You went to law school, huh? I am building a case against those bastards at Selsen Blue. I have never once felt any tingling. How am I supposed to know it is working? Do I have a case??
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    Image of Theodore Donald Kerabatsos Theodore Donald Kerabatsos
    08/14/09

    @MarkKelsosMigraine: Your flakes is my case.
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    Image of Bobby Big Wheel Bobby Big Wheel
    08/14/09

    @MarkKelsosMigraine: You have the best case I've seen since my suit against the film The Neverending Story
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    Image of Karlifornia Karlifornia
    08/14/09

    In reply to The Worst American Sports Writing: Steve Yanda
    Randle squirted through the lane

    The male lead in Unfaithful was named Randle? I thought he was French or something.
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    Image of Gourmet Spud Gourmet Spud
    08/14/09

    In reply to The Worst American Sports Writing: Steve Yanda
    ...writing of an ex-con who whiled away his prison time by drilling a hole in an old Roget's thesaurus and humping it under the covers at night.

    Ironically, "Roget's thesaurus" is itself a synonym for "bookish cellmate".
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    Image of MarkKelsosMigraine MarkKelsosMigraine
    08/14/09

    In reply to The Worst American Sports Writing: Steve Yanda
    Boy, it is such a fine line between pretentious and beautiful. Like in a movie where a policeman is partnered with a chimp, why do they inevitably have a scene where the chimp is wearing a smoking jacket and an ascot?
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    Image of dont-forget-where-you-came-from-cheese mac dont-forget-where-you-came-from-cheese mac
    08/14/09

    In reply to The Worst American Sports Writing: Steve Yanda
    I usually don't do this, but what the fuck is the point of these posts?
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    Image of Bobby Big Wheel Bobby Big Wheel
    08/14/09

    @dont-forget-where-you-came-from-cheese mac: Taking shit writers down a peg?
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    Image of Karlifornia Karlifornia
    08/14/09

    @dont-forget-where-you-came-from-cheese mac: You're telling me your jaw didn't drop at least once at some of that garbage writing?
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    08/14/09

    @Karlifornia: Just seemed like par for the course to me.

    It just comes off as a guy who does not like the way the media covers his favorite teams and/or their rivals. Shocker.
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    Image of Quake 'n' Shake Quake 'n' Shake
    08/14/09

    @dont-forget-where-you-came-from-cheese mac: I have the intellection that these posts are, in fact, the crux of Deadspin's raison d'etre.

    / Steve Yanda'd
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    Image of dont-forget-where-you-came-from-cheese mac dont-forget-where-you-came-from-cheese mac
    08/14/09

    @Quake 'n' Shake: Which is exactly why a series of posts dedicated to it seems redundant. We all get it, these guys blow. Do we need a review of each city's sports section?
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    Image of Karlifornia Karlifornia
    08/14/09

    @dont-forget-where-you-came-from-cheese mac: It seems strange to me to suddenly call out somebody for doing what Deadspin has done since its inception.

    I'll just go ahead and assume this is just hazing the new guy, in which case, good job.
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    Image of dont-forget-where-you-came-from-cheese mac dont-forget-where-you-came-from-cheese mac
    08/14/09

    @Karlifornia: Maybe you're right, I dont know, but I think generally sports writers are attacked here for the stupid substance of their articles not just the bad form.

    This just seems like "Here, look at this terrible writing, isn't terrible?"

    And then what?
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    Image of Tracy Ham and Eggs Tracy Ham and Eggs
    08/14/09

    In reply to The Worst American Sports Writing: Steve Yanda
    If this guys bothers you that much thank god you don't read the Sun
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    Image of jfruh jfruh
    08/14/09

    In reply to The Worst American Sports Writing: Gene Wojciechowski
    I'm frankly most concerned about the phrase "attached to the hip of performance enhancers." Is this supposed to be some variation on "joined at the hip," only making significantly less sense?
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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    08/14/09

    In reply to The Worst American Sports Writing: Gene Wojciechowski
    I'd rather read Jason Whitlock's ten-part series on foundation garments for the Rubenesque gentleman than another article about athletes on the juice, but the generational conflict between the old sportswriters who prefer to write about athletes in reverence and younger sportswriters who want their jobs is getting a little tedious.
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    Image of Bobby Big Wheel Bobby Big Wheel
    08/14/09

    In reply to The Worst American Sports Writing: Gene Wojciechowski
    This isn't the first time a captain would let Wojciechowski down. Gene still hasn't recovered from his 1989 article "Hazelwood: Sober as a Judge."
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