spmack wrote:
Not saying that I agree or disagree with his thoughts, it's just the matter in which he talks. I think The Score teaches their people to condescend.
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Adam Hoge @AdamHoge 10m
To #Bears fans bitching to me because I respect the #Packers, you should too. Your organization is trying to emulate them.
man, where the fuck did adam hoge come from? clearly he was hired to be some sort of an "expert" or "authority" as opposed to another "reporter" or "columnist" because they literally had russ mitera record a big-voiced 30sec intro like we're having a signature segment every time he's on.
bigger picture, i think with the proliferation/ubiquity of the internet/social-media in our day to day lives, there's so much information out there readily available to us laymen that the old media's traditional role of being gatekeepers of sports information has been challenged by the aforementioned ubiquity of easily/freely-accessible-information that you no longer have to be a "professional" to have access to. and thus when we see some jamoche like "adam HOG" (cue curious hair's 2013 avatar of the year) prattling on like he's the be-all/end-all of information simply because he gets to hang out in the occasional locker room/press-conference, it's like "dude, wtf makes this guy anything special?"
from there, i would conjecture to guess that ppl who have these now-less-mighty/prolific jobs have some sort of an inferiority complex to deal with in the wake of knowing that some random asshole in libertyville (or wherever that soundbite-heralded stat geek who always calls/e-mails b&b is from) with nothing better to do has better information than they, the paid "professional" "journalist", has. it's gotten to the point where hub's legendary question of "where'd ya coach yer football?" actually carries legit weight because given that anyone with 5+ mins to burn looking up a certain pertinent stat likely has the same exact "research" that they have, if not better, well then having some sort of a formal title based on experience/merit is the only thing left to differentiate the elect (think oldschool puritans here) from the great unwashed (people like us, you know, the type that matt abbatacola openly laments being able to freely express their opinions without some sort of mandatory filter cuz "no matter how many games [we've] watched [our] opinions are meaningless [...unlike his]"
and thus you're left with some likely low-paid overglorified professional web-browsers who cop an ego because they're formally "in the industry" and left to validate their menial existence by virtue of the fact that we're all inconsequential wannabes while they're the real deal because they go to the games and hang out in the pressbox... nevermind the massive irony of the score/bernstein's longtime crusade to devalidate anyone who wants to qualify their thoughts with "so yeah i was at the game and....."
so yeah tl;dr (the antithesis of me --- aka my autobiography title) basically adam hog is likely chippy because he gets inundated with countless tweets asking him things like "who the fuck are you and why should [we] listen to you?" and quite honestly, he doesn't have a good answer so basically all he's left to do is clutch his "professional" status as the be-all/end-all means of being right by default, even tho we're all operating with the same exact input/information and the only difference between us is that he gets some modest checks from CBS/Radio, Inc. for his troubles while we get slagged off to hell and back because we have the audacity to question the unequivocal righteousness that is the thoughts and FACTS (not opinions) of old-media-tapped luminaries like matt abbatacola and adam "high on the" HOG
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Curious Hair wrote:
Les Grobstein's huge hog is proof that God has a sense of humor, isn't it?