Why Do I Continue to Read Peter King?
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I read in the KSK version of Monday Morning QB that that's not even the original crosswalk. It was moved 30 feet a few years back, so fat Pete is walking in a normal crosswalk acting like an asshole.
They have a live webcam on it. Was he there this past Saturday? They have stills of folks crossing on the site; I suppose the possibility of his being one is pretty slim.
I should have posted his numbers. Here's the rest of that paragraph:
these numbers tell me that Kevin Kolb and Derek Anderson are not as accurate as Kurt Warner. I'm not really sure how that means the Cardinals need another receiver, but those numbers say "it all" :blink:
Wait though...isn't the first tweet saying that's it's pretty cool that people are cheering? Am I missing some implied sarcasm in it? There's nothing in it to make me think he's being sarcastic, some word that tips you off he really doesn't like it...
If that's the case, PK says "Agreed" but then says it's gauche...which would mean he's not agreeing.
I guess I could be wrong, but I don't read sarcasm in the original tweet by the guy at the UVA graduation.
Dan Daly is the one who's comparing the hooting and hollering at a graduation ceremony to the audience of the PiR. And it's not a favorable comparison. King is agreeing with Daly's assessment and finds the whole thing gauche.
Yeah, but on my admittedly quick read I thought Daly was actually saying he enjoys it--it's loud and whatever, but hell, you're happy your kid should be on his or her way to self-sufficiency. I know this site is a bit biased against the PIR though
I figured he compared it to PIR because there's a name called and cheering, like at graduation--not because he found it annoying.
As I said, I am fully cognizant I may have read it wrong.
I read it like you, Drew, but I suppose it's open for interpretation. None of his other tweets that day added much context whether he found it bothersome or not.Yeah, but on my admittedly quick read I thought Daly was actually saying he enjoys it--it's loud and whatever, but hell, you're happy your kid should be on his or her way to self-sufficiency. I know this site is a bit biased against the PIR though
I figured he compared it to PIR because there's a name called and cheering, like at graduation--not because he found it annoying.
As I said, I am fully cognizant I may have read it wrong.
I don't walk to work because I get an extra 10 minutes to get ready in the morning if I just take the bus that takes me along the same path. I don't particularly enjoy mornings, so I avoid them as much as possible.
Heh, 'Clocks'. I seem to remember him calling it 'hypnotic', or an instant classic or something.
We had a similar thing happen at my graduation where one of the girls was like 7th generation dirt farmer from Arkansas and nobody in her family had ever graduated from high school before let alone a NESCAC school and pretty much every known relative saved to make the trip up to Massachusetts and they just erupted when she got her diploma. I don't even remember the name of the girl, but I still get chills thinking about it.
Because it was awesome. Great post Dynomite.
It never fails... each time i come in here, I laugh out loud a couple times at DrL's work... and then I read something that legitimately pisses me off. And like JtB and JMOH said, it's something about how out of touch he is with just how privileged his life is in ways that cause him to just completely miss the point, sometimes to the point that it degrades humanity.
The one difference this week was that I laughed out loud at King's own quote as I was always thinking what a tory miscreant he was... and then he says, hey, bite the bullet on a retractable roof. Like this is upgrading to the 12oz ribeye or getting the top shelf booze to celebrate.
I mean... a retractable roof?
Awesome.
I can't believe that nobody has commented on this gem:
"6. I think the person who has any association with the NFL today who I feel most sorry for is Brian Price, the promising young Tampa Bay defensive lineman. After losing two brothers to gang violence in Los Angeles while growing up, Price saw the car driven by his sister Bridget (a mentor to him) get smashed by a hit-and-run driver, then hit by two more cars, killing her and leaving his two nephews without a parent. What a tragedy. Good luck to Price picking up the pieces."
Good luck picking up the pieces? WTF? Did he break a vase? Have a business deal go south? A crappy week at work? Cripes, he writes that and the best he can come up with is good luck? UGH! And I didn't realize that you need to qualify people you feel sympathy for, as in those associated with the NFL, or crappy senior NFL columnists at SI.com.
"6. I think the person who has any association with the NFL today who I feel most sorry for is Brian Price, the promising young Tampa Bay defensive lineman. After losing two brothers to gang violence in Los Angeles while growing up, Price saw the car driven by his sister Bridget (a mentor to him) get smashed by a hit-and-run driver, then hit by two more cars, killing her and leaving his two nephews without a parent. What a tragedy. Good luck to Price picking up the pieces."
Good luck picking up the pieces? WTF? Did he break a vase? Have a business deal go south? A crappy week at work? Cripes, he writes that and the best he can come up with is good luck? UGH! And I didn't realize that you need to qualify people you feel sympathy for, as in those associated with the NFL, or crappy senior NFL columnists at SI.com.
Yea, I can't get too bent out of shape on that one. His heart is more or less in the right general vacinity, even if the wording is a little odd. King does link to a fair number of charities, and I have no doubt that he's a compassionate guy when things are laid out in an obvious fashion right in front of him ("Oh, little kids? Crippled for life? How terrible!").
The problem is that if things aren't laid out right in front of him, he's incredibly thick. And while he's at least a selectively compassionate dude, he's not empathetic at all. He makes no effort to relate any of his own experiences to others, except to generate sympathy for himself. It's never the inverse. So, something as insignificant as a loud cell-phone talker will drive him bats, and he'll publicly flog the person for it, without considering the (I'm sure) myriad times he's done exactly the same thing. Likewise, he makes no effort to remember what his life was like before he became big-dick-swining-NFL guy, so never considers how others might react to his "let them stay at the Hyatt/Have a retractable dome", Mary Antoinette-esque comments.
He's a fucking meatheaded doofus.
The problem is that if things aren't laid out right in front of him, he's incredibly thick. And while he's at least a selectively compassionate dude, he's not empathetic at all. He makes no effort to relate any of his own experiences to others, except to generate sympathy for himself. It's never the inverse. So, something as insignificant as a loud cell-phone talker will drive him bats, and he'll publicly flog the person for it, without considering the (I'm sure) myriad times he's done exactly the same thing. Likewise, he makes no effort to remember what his life was like before he became big-dick-swining-NFL guy, so never considers how others might react to his "let them stay at the Hyatt/Have a retractable dome", Mary Antoinette-esque comments.
He's a fucking meatheaded doofus.
If it's in first class maybe. Because that's where there are such expectations of decency. But why would anyone in coach expect civility? Don't they know that's a first class kind of thing?
But sometimes, the curtain isn't pulled all the way, and the proletariat stench practically oozes into my seat, and WHERE do they GET these god damned flight attendants anyway?
So I was listening to my new favorite band, the xx, who sound a little like if Adele read Christopher Pike novels as a kid ...
drleather, agreed. In retrospect, it was simply an awkward and poor choice of words--not doubting his compassion.
I only saw it through this snippet, but I can get bent out of shape by it.
The whole description I was picturing a grisly accident scene, wondering where he was going with so much detail, and then he wishes Price good luck on picking up the pieces. All I can think of is him sitting at a Starbucks across the boulevard from the accident scene sipping his coffee, pinky up, while Price is combing the wreckage literally trying to pick up the pieces of his sister off of the pavement.
Spring for a luxurious coffin, Price! It's your last chance to see her, even though it will probably be closed. And pony up for the Acela for her next time, yeah?
I'm glad I'm not even tempted to read his full articles anymore.
Clearly King doesn't lack empathy, he may be completely fucking clueless half the time, but I don't think that King is a bad person. What bugs me about the Price blurb is how matter-of-fact it is. There is barely any framing around it at all (and from a guy who will take paragraphs and paragraphs explaining his afternoon watching cricket, the time he was "fucked over" on an airline, the request of a passenger for a blanket, the taste of pedestrian beers, his weekly Starbucks experiences, etc) and the way he just signs off on the tragedy is a bit strange and off-putting.
It's almost as if he's reporting that the NFL has made knee pads mandatory, rather than hastily writing about a real human tragedy in four sentences. Two sentences are three and eight words long.
I'm not saying that a whole story should be done on Price, though it probably would be way more interesting than Peter's trip to Jolly Old England ("They drive on the wrong side of the road there! And say the name of their favorite TV show [Cheers] when they say goodbye!"). My point is this, we're in the doldrums of the NFL offseason, chances are nothing really big is going to happen (maybe something about the Saints Bounty troubles) until mini-camp. This is when King should be writing about the human interest stories of the NFL. Price would have been a good story to do.
I'm a bit surprised at King's journalism radar, unless he thinks that people really do give a shit about what happens to him. And maybe they do, I bet that he's the most clicked link on SI.com.
It's almost as if he's reporting that the NFL has made knee pads mandatory, rather than hastily writing about a real human tragedy in four sentences. Two sentences are three and eight words long.
I'm not saying that a whole story should be done on Price, though it probably would be way more interesting than Peter's trip to Jolly Old England ("They drive on the wrong side of the road there! And say the name of their favorite TV show [Cheers] when they say goodbye!"). My point is this, we're in the doldrums of the NFL offseason, chances are nothing really big is going to happen (maybe something about the Saints Bounty troubles) until mini-camp. This is when King should be writing about the human interest stories of the NFL. Price would have been a good story to do.
I'm a bit surprised at King's journalism radar, unless he thinks that people really do give a shit about what happens to him. And maybe they do, I bet that he's the most clicked link on SI.com.
"His coach looked at the big picture, and decided that he liked the other guy better, so he signed the other guy instead."
Deep.
Then he follows with like fifteen letters telling him that giving Brees everything he wants may not be the best idea. To which King basically just says: "Hey, I disagree."
I don't get it. King's position seems to be: "Brees is currently the best QB in the league. So pay him that way." And that's fine, but does he really not understand the whole process of negotiation? That it's common practice to bicker about the numbers, especially when you're dealing with a huge contract like the one here? He's so fucing naive.
I also find it interesting that he hasn't bothered to raise the point that the Saints might not want to commit that much money to a guy when their team may be on the decline, especially given that this coming year may be a lost one for the Saints. Not saying it's a key factor, but it's worth mentioning, at least.
Then we have this:
"Well, Jo...Let me tell you, I'm pretty qualified too: I've been to a few of these ceremonies, going back to MIDDLE SCHOOL, and I don't like it. And you know what? I can't tell you why. I flat out admit it. I JUST. DON'T. KNOW. WHY. I. HATE. IT.
But I do.
Not my thing.
But, I get that you might have more experience, or whatever, than I do because you're a college professor or whatever, so I won't disparage your thoughts on the matter. You're entitled to your opinion. But I'll tell you what I won't do: I won't acknowledge your opinion as valid, or even engage you on it. I'm just gonna say, you have your "qualified opinion", and I have mine. See ya....Nerd."
And finally:
Jake: "Please fucking print my letter. I'll suck your dick!"
Peter King: "See everyone? Because this one sycophant likes my trite bullshit, you all should. I like this letter so much, I'm going to post it right here in my letters column. So you can all see. And learn. To be like Jake. Jake, here you go, buddy *zzzzzp*. A labor of love...for you and me."
People like Jake are why we're going to get more Beernerdness, Starbuckery, King Family Vacation Tales and Mike McGuire Stories of Adventure. Oh yeah and random players on the Sox who are keeping lit the torch of the Boston American League franchise.
Why would being a college professor make his opinion more qualified? I mean, he's probably given it more thought, but do you need to be a college professor to know that a lot of the graduates have, like, accomplishments and have overcome diversity and stuff?
And can you imagine being Jake's Facebook friend and having to see all of his Peter King links on your newsfeed?
I would assume he's been to, and participated in more college commencements than your average Peter King. I would also assume that he has taught and advised first generation college graduates, which your average Peter King has no experience with.
No way, man. All those different classes on different topics--many not even in your chosen major. That's some tough shit right there.
Imagine someone being this picky about something! It's a good thing we have Peter king around to point it out
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Maybe Peter is trying to be funny here, but:
I think, now that Seattle has said no to Hard Knocks on the heels of about 26 other teams saying no to Hard Knocks, I'll be very happy when all the talk about which team's doing Hard Knocks ends and some team either does Hard Knocks or doesn't do Hard Knocks, and that's not to say I don't like Hard Knocks, because Hard Knocks is a great show but Hard Knocks just isn't worth the daily speculative aggravation about who's doing Hard Knocks and who isn't doing Hard Knocks.
Yes, that's 1 sentence, and he uses the words "Hard Knocks" 10 times. This coming in the same column where he praises a college writer for her abilities. Wonder what she would have thought of that "sentence."
I think, now that Seattle has said no to Hard Knocks on the heels of about 26 other teams saying no to Hard Knocks, I'll be very happy when all the talk about which team's doing Hard Knocks ends and some team either does Hard Knocks or doesn't do Hard Knocks, and that's not to say I don't like Hard Knocks, because Hard Knocks is a great show but Hard Knocks just isn't worth the daily speculative aggravation about who's doing Hard Knocks and who isn't doing Hard Knocks.
Yes, that's 1 sentence, and he uses the words "Hard Knocks" 10 times. This coming in the same column where he praises a college writer for her abilities. Wonder what she would have thought of that "sentence."
You mean the guy who had Rutgers let him build an $800,000 home on their frickin' nature preserve so that he could walk to the stadium?
Rev, football is EVERYTHING! You don't think Rutgers became a top 60 program by having a faggy nature preserve on campus do you? And fuck ziti, everyone knows that fusilli is the only type of pasta that brings you to the top 60 mountain top. And anything colder or warmer than 67.5 degrees is for pussies. If you don't control your temperature, your pasta choices and your environment how are you going to control 18-year-old men? FOOTBALL!
It's a pretty big moment when a significant U.S. City (41st largest media market in the U.S.) stops running an everyday newspaper. People, mostly poor people, will not be able to get daily local news, classifieds, weather reports, or national news. But that's not what Peter King is concerned about. No. He's concerned that people won't be able to find out who rushed for the most yards in the Superbowl. THAT is the real impact of not having access to a daily news source: every 3-to-4 years, the good people of New Orleans will have to turn on a radio, turn on the tv, or (god forbid) ask someone who won the game.
Hey, at least he cares about the people of New Orleans, right? Lord knows they need all the help they can get.
Oh. No he doesn't. He's fucking stumping for one of his buddies to get a job.
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I'm sure those were tears of joy. Right. "Oh, finally, I get to see if the Saints made any cuts in training camp!"
Does Peter King realize that the city of New Orleans is more than a conduit for a football team? I mean, fuck, that's all he can think of when he thinks of the recent history of New Orleans? That the football team lost to the eventual loser of the Super Bowl? Jesus.
Peter King: "Paying a bounty to hurt people is wrong! It should be punished! The integrity of the game...!"
Mike Tomlin: "Hell, I just tell my players to hurt opposing QBs. I don't have to pay them more than I already do."
Peter King: "What a beautiful sentiment."
I mean, what the fuck?!
Ok. I've said before I hate it when he talks legal shit, because (to summarize) he has no fucking idea what he's talking about. I mean, I graduated from law school a year ago, and have spent some time working in a public defender's office, in a plaintiff's firm, and in a transactional firm, and I don't know what I'm talking about 80% of the time. The law is complicated. You can't just read a newspaper article on an issue, or talk to someone about it for 20 minutes, and understand it intelligently enough to educate others on it. It's not like, oh, I dunno, reading the stat line of a QB and being able to say "Oh, he had a good game" and then being able to say to someone else "Hey, QB X had a good game. 3 TDs, 1 INT, 340 yards."
So, when King tries to summarize a complicated, multi-faceted, federal action, with this:
He has not explained anything. I'm a lawyer, and I have no fucking idea what he's talking about there. He's made it more confusing, because he doesn't know what he's talking about.
Peter King: You are not a lawyer. You're not a judge. You're not a legal reporter. You're not even a real reporter. Stop it. Just. Stop it. Thank you.
Then why did you decide to comment on it in your column, except to massage your fat ego with the idea that if you don't understand something, it must be unknowable.
Fuckface.
Oh, you went to London!? You don't say!
Um...Ok. I thought this was a football column. But you went to London, that's nice. I guess. Ever been anywhere else?
Oh, you went to England and live in Manhattan on the 16th floor of a "high-rise." Must be nice to be you.
Along with "the law", Peter King can stop talking about music forever.
Oh, and you know what's awesome?:
-Taylor Swift, "Mean."
What's the frequency, Peter?
Oh, finally:
That is not the correct way to use OMG. At all. FOAD, LOL.
Why did he write "radically" in quotes the second time? And then why did he write, much later in the column...
So which is it, Peter?
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Is he daft? He "fears" that Tebow will be shoved down our throat? That the world will be sick of Tebow?
Also, why would any of that other shit impact anyone's (much less King's) ability to judge Tebow's actual football ability? Is he fucking serious?
Polian is full of shit and King is either a willing dupe or he's just letting his source say self serving things. They would have traded a third for Orton after week 8 (when they were 0-8 and clearly heading for the Luck lottery) but not after week 6? Really? Then why didn't you pick him up off waivers for free after game 10 (when you were 0-10)?
They threw away the season on purpose and King is just letting Polian make bullshit after the fact excuses.
Exactly.
Once again, another indication that Peter King is a fucking chump who gets responds well to getting his ass kissed, is passively-aggressive toward those that shun him, and is either too stupid, or too dishonest, to recognize (much less admit) his own bias.
"Friendship is the booze that they feed you, to make you feel cool." - Lester Bangs (in "Almost Famous").
Peter King's problem is that he doesn't realize that he's a basically a glorified football nerd. That's all he is. And that's fine, and once upon a time his nerdness made him good at his job. But he desperately wants to be more than that: a social commentator, friends with the "cool" football players/owners, a high-powered lawyer (or judge), a professor, a coach, a normal dude, a jet-set trend-setter.
But he's not. He's an overweight football nerd who gets paid what I imagine to be an ungodly sum to have a really cool, and ultimately pretty easy, job: talk intelligently about football and write interesting football stories. But he fucks it up with all the other shit, and that's why I hate him. He's a big fucking phony.
Once again, another indication that Peter King is a fucking chump who gets responds well to getting his ass kissed, is passively-aggressive toward those that shun him, and is either too stupid, or too dishonest, to recognize (much less admit) his own bias.
"Friendship is the booze that they feed you, to make you feel cool." - Lester Bangs (in "Almost Famous").
Peter King's problem is that he doesn't realize that he's a basically a glorified football nerd. That's all he is. And that's fine, and once upon a time his nerdness made him good at his job. But he desperately wants to be more than that: a social commentator, friends with the "cool" football players/owners, a high-powered lawyer (or judge), a professor, a coach, a normal dude, a jet-set trend-setter.
But he's not. He's an overweight football nerd who gets paid what I imagine to be an ungodly sum to have a really cool, and ultimately pretty easy, job: talk intelligently about football and write interesting football stories. But he fucks it up with all the other shit, and that's why I hate him. He's a big fucking phony.