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PostPosted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 4:55 pm 
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Irish Boy wrote:
My complaints about Rovell are even simpler. I love sports economics stuff. Hell, I wrote a book on it. He is just painfully insipid on the topic. His analysis rarely rises above just dividing numbers by other numbers.

He's also, by all accounts, a turd of a human being.


Is THAT what your book is about? Cancel my order.

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 12:28 am 
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Irish Boy wrote:
My complaints about Rovell are even simpler. I love sports economics stuff. Hell, I wrote a book on it. He is just painfully insipid on the topic. His analysis rarely rises above just dividing numbers by other numbers.

He's also, by all accounts, a turd of a human being.


Please expand. I cannot stand this smarmy SOB (starting w/the reasons you cite) & would love yet more reasons to dislike that bastard.

Yes, the hate train picks up speed as one ages :lol:

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Well, there's the playboy party thing, the lack of attribution for stories, and the "technically American" flap just off the top of my head.

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I'd agree with him on the Sandusky stuff. I'd rather watch highlights and thought the whole affair should be handled of the News desk... not a Sports desk. But that's just me.

And when you put the volume of stuff out there, you're gonna have more than a few duds like the "technically american" thing. IB, I'm sure you have a few posts you'd like to take back in your time. I'd cut him some slack.


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You've chosen an odd hill to die on here.

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My_name_1s_MUD wrote:
I'd cut him some slack.


That is pretty well understood

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 9:24 am 
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Curious Hair wrote:
You've chosen an odd hill to die on here.


Agreed... i'll stop. Not sure why I started. I should just stick to Cats stuff. :D


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My_name_1s_MUD wrote:
Curious Hair wrote:
You've chosen an odd hill to die on here.


Agreed... i'll stop. Not sure why I started. I should just stick to Cats stuff. :D


We all have our thing. I've gone pages defending a guy in a bar fight.

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Here's a good column on not so much Rovell being a creep (though he is), but his job "repurposes journalism into another spam funnel" requiring him to be that way:

http://theclassical.org/articles/brand-upon-the-brain


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Reared on the Score wrote:
Here's a good column on not so much Rovell being a creep (though he is), but his job "repurposes journalism into another spam funnel" requiring him to be that way:

http://theclassical.org/articles/brand-upon-the-brain


"...the majority of Rovell's communication takes the form of a blurt/burp in which the name of a well-known brand appears somewhere near the name of a famous person and, if possible, an implausibly precise dollar figure that assesses the value of that relationship."

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