Sunday, March 27, 2011

Ah. Sportswriters.

For the sake of your health, please do not read the link from whence this sports story took place. Only read these two paragraphs, which I've hand-selected for your dining pleasure.
So doubtful were the Rams of even making the tournament that they watched the Cartoon Network and went out for fast food instead of watching the selection show two weeks ago. Now, they’re Houston-bound after an incredible takedown of the last No. 1 seed.

“Those people (the doubters) don’t matter,” VCU coach Shaka Smart said. “The only people that matter is the 14 guys on our team, and they never stopped believing.”
Hmm. So "doubtful" that they ate junk food and watched TV. Those "doubters" don't matter. The team never stopped believing.

What am I missing here? How is it possible that a writer and an editor used the same language — dichotomously — from paragraph to paragraph, to illustrate both-sides of the same nonsense as it pertains to these juxtaposed, but analogous thoughts. In other words, WTF.

How can the team believe in something when just two weeks ago they were "doubtful?" How can the "doubters" be bad guys, when you were one of them just two weeks ago? How retarded do you have to be to talk out of your head and ass at the same time?

Jesus Christ! There is so much money in sports and sport entertainment, would it really break the bank to hire an editor? On yahoo sports? WHAT THE ****.

UPDATE: No sooner did I post this, yahoo sports updated where the link goes. And now it's to an article written by a non-ape. Sigh. The annals of the internet will miss that big dumb article.

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