OT: When did Michael Silver become such a jerk?

[Rob0729]

Has anyone else noticed that Michael Silver has become the Pete Prisco of Yahoo Sports. I used to enjoy his writing when he was with SI, but now he is very confrontational and biased to the point of stupidity with Yahoo Sports. If you listen to him on the WBCN pregame show, he usually comes off as a huge ass. Granted, I might be a little surley if I had to be be interviewed by Andy Gresh.

I don't know if SI forced him to turn down his rhetoric when he was there or he is trying to be controversial because he wants to draw attention to Yahoo Sports and his pieces, but he has become almost unreadable.

 

[Fixit]

I'm not quite sure. When's his birthday?

 

[Rob0729]

Here is his weekly bash the Pats segment from his "Morning Rush" Column today:

Far be it from me to question anything about the 2007 Patriots, who've clearly got this whole pro football thing completely wired. But this whole pit bull persona they've got going is starting to creep me out. In general, I tend not to get all worked up about teams who get accused of running up the score, believing that if it bothers the opponents so much, they should consider trying to stop it from happening as a handy remedy. But I was on the sidelines when New England scored its gratuitous touchdown against the Cowboys last weekend with 19 seconds to go, and the intensity with which the Pats celebrated going up by 21 was a bit unnerving. Watching the highlights of Sunday's 49-28 thrashing of the Dolphins, complete with the hurry-up offense and fake spike in the final seconds of the first half (en route to taking a 42-7 lead into intermission) and the reinsertion of Tom Brady into a 42-21 game with 11 minutes remaining, I got a similar vibe. Maybe the Pats are trying to protect their BCS standing, or perhaps they've decided that winning big in October is the best preparation for a possible fourth Super Bowl championship. Or, more likely, they're mad at the world because their coach got caught videotaping the Jets' coaches sending in signals and some journalists and opponents had the gall to question whether such behavior had given the Pats a competitive advantage. "They're running it up," says Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Ty Law, a former Patriots All-Pro. "I know what's in their mind, that people are saying they cheated. Cause even I take offense to it, having been part of the three Super Bowl champions. (Bill) Belichick and the rest of the boys are trying to send a message: 'We'll beat y'all anyway."

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_y...slug=ms-morningrush102207&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

Bashing the Pats for a fake spike and trying to score in the first half? Come on! You can't run up the score in the first half.

 

[STFarmy]

I'm not quite sure. When's his birthday?

PWNT. .

 

[upstater1]

Criticizing the Patriots for running it up when a team came back from 35-7 down in the 4th quarter this week, AND then lost the game.

That's the textbook definition of stupid. Thanks David Silver.

 

[NYCPatsFan]

Criticizing the Patriots for running it up when a team came back from 35-7 down in the 4th quarter this week, AND then lost the game.

That's the textbook definition of stupid. Thanks David Silver.

Exactly! I continue to be baffled why many of the 'experts' don't even bother to take a step back to inquire if what they are suggesting makes any sense at all. I am prepared to give a pass to unprepared comments or off-the-cuff remarks made on air. But these guys write!

 

[PatsRI]

He's been a Colts buttboy since back in his SI days.

 

[Bobs My Uncle]

If the Pats truly wanted to run up the score in yesterday's contest the scoreboard at the end of the game would have read 70-21.

 

[letekro]

Michael Silver = Yahoo Sports writer

David Silver = The Jewish Keven Federline. LOL.

 

[letekro]

If the Pats truly wanted to run up the score in yesterday's contest the scoreboard at the end of the game would have read 70-21.

Yeah, how is 7 second half points running up the score?

 

[Rob0729]

Michael Silver does realize that Sage Rosenfeld threw for four TDs in the fourth quarter yesterday for the Texans while the Texans only scored 7 points the rest of the game doesn't he? The Titans almost lost that game. Anything can happen in the NFL.

 

[captain stone]

Michael Silver is, and has always been, the ideological half-brother to Dan LeBastard.

 

[xmarkd400x]

"They're running it up," says Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Ty Law, a former Patriots All-Pro. "I know what's in their mind, that people are saying they cheated. Cause even I take offense to it, having been part of the three Super Bowl champions. (Bill) Belichick and the rest of the boys are trying to send a message: 'We'll beat y'all anyway."

Arrogance is a good trait in sports. :rocker:

 

[ALP]

Arrogance is a good trait in sports. :rocker:

if law takes offense to it...it REALLY bothers the team

 

[MoLewisrocks]

if law takes offense to it...it REALLY bothers the team

You got that backwards. That was Law standing up for his boys...

As for Silver, he went over the cliff when Bridget made her announcement. I don't know if he was jealous that Tommy didn't confide in him or what, but thereafter he seemed to go on a vendetta - his rant about how disappointed he was that Tommy lobbied for that stiff Moss and then on to the implications of spygate. He either had a mid life crisis or a Felger epiphany where he decided he was blocked behind Peter King and a second fiddle at SI so he started positioning himself as another off the wall attention grabbing contrarian to secure a new platform from which he may land some loudmouth multi mediot gigs.

 

[patpatriot]

Ty's got it sussed out. By December Goodell is going to be under pressure to stop the Pats from continuing to embarrass the rest of the league. He'll be lobbying Kraft to have Belli call off the dogs. But it ain't going to work. If he wants the Pats to start backing off, he's going to have to very publicaly apologize for not sticking up for them when the witch hunt was at it's height.

Something to the effect of

"Anyone who thought that any of the Pats previous achievements was under any kind of cloud, and I'm thinking especially about Peter King here, doesn't know anything about football. Quite frankly this was the shallow-minded bleating of defeated opponents and jealous aspirants who want to be where the Pats are but can't achieve it on the football field."

Yes , there! I like it. That should do the trick. What do you think?