Patriots News Bomb Incoming? SCUD!

[fnordcircle]

In terms of Patriots football talk, it's significantly better on here.

r/NFL has some great posts. Normally when people rag on the more cosmopolitan sports sites in comparison to here it's because they don't like anything but a pro pats echo chamber, imo.

 

[maust]

GAYYYYY

Just my opinion but that seems a hasty conclusion, maybe it's more akin to a just watching a movie together kind of like...

 

[IcyPatriot]

 

[supafly]

No! I like @fnordcircle. He has a no trade clause per me.

GAYYYYY

I wouldn’t even trade him for @Gunnails, and he’s a real man’s man.

 

[supafly]

I wonder if Miguel’s wife is as...open about her love for Gronk as mine is. Let’s hope not, for his sake.

 

[fnordcircle]

I wonder if Miguel’s wife is as...open about her love for Gronk as mine is. Let’s hope not, for his sake.

A friend of mine and his wife did that 'celebrity hall pass' thing where you each pick out 10 celebs that you're allowed to bang if the opportunity presents itself.

She picked big name actors.

He picked local Maine TV news anchors and female disc jockeys.

Just never dawned on me how easy it must be for a woman living in the region to fck a Patriot if she wants. You guys got some loyal wives...

 

[supafly]

You guys got some loyal wives...

Don’t be fooled. All of my possessions would be out on the sidewalk if Rob Gronkowski ever stepped foot in the neighborhood. She’d literally find a way to sniff him out.

Sadly, I’m somehow accepting of this.

 

[DarrylS]

Missed all this "brouhaha" yesterday, was not listening to Sports Talk Radio.. noticed it last night on twitter...

Thank god for small favors... this one was better than most as it involved not only Gronk... but Kraft, Brady and BB as well..

"Social Media has become the problem to the answer"....

 

[Miguel]

I wonder if Miguel’s wife is as...open about her love for Gronk as mine is. Let’s hope not, for his sake.

She is. It is a running gag between us.

 

[Ian]

Good stuff from Mark Daniels:

 

[Ian]

More:

 

[Ian]

That whole thing is a mess and it's gotten worse over the last five years. I used to post something on the site if there was at least a credible beat writer with something and given that guys make mistakes, now I don't unless more than one has something and it really is legit. Honestly, Reiss remains the guy who is the tipping point given that he once told me that he absolutely won't post something unless he knows it to be accurate. There are just too many stories that have come out that turned out to be wrong and it seems to be a problem that continues to happen. I wonder if it's this bad elsewhere (obviously we follow things closely here, but I wonder if other markets/fans deal with it this often)...but yesterday's fiasco was just crazy. The worst part is, things like this don't just die, they live on with some hoping it to be true and it will likely be referenced by someone later.

 

[Triumph]

Hahahahahaha
You are amusing.
Nothing like that ever happened and you have absolutely nothing ever aidvor written anywhere to back it up.
As always you have no clue so you just make things up.

Didnt your imaginary friend inside the walls of 1 Patriot Drive tell you?

 

[Triumph]

People making things up. Welcome to being a patriot fan.

You make things up everyday here.

Dont throw rocks from your glass house.

 

[Ian]

One thing I will say is Adam Kirkjian is a good guy, so I'm going to hold judgment because he's not one to make things up just for attention. I know someone who spoke to him and he msgd him last night and he's standing by it.

Edit - nevermind on the photo - I didn't realize the underscore was part of her account and it didn't come up when I first tried it on my phone. But the photo is also gone - which is odd.

 

[maust]

I wonder if it's this bad elsewhere (obviously we follow things closely here, but I wonder if other markets/fans deal with it this often)...but yesterday's fiasco was just crazy.

It's probably a matter of degree elsewhere. Our little team that couldn't went from locally lovable losers to The Evil Empire during the same time period electronic media has taken off. The nonsensical envy & jealousy fueled hatred of them bothered me at first, after 40 years in the wilderness we'd paid our dues. I thought we deserved some success and to me it was small of anyone to begrudge it, of course as the winning continued it became apparent we were getting to witness the kind of success no one deserves. But when you look at what's happened over the same time period from a societal perspective and view the foolishness in that light well then as a Pats fan...

 

[Ian]

But the whole thing with Reddit, other reporters who have taken shots and been wrong, etc. That's really the frustrating part and it makes it tough to make sense of what's true and what isn't. And that's what puts us in this position when things like this come out.

 

[Mike the Brit]

But the whole thing with Reddit, other reporters who have taken shots and been wrong, etc. That's really the frustrating part and it makes it tough to make sense of what's true and what isn't. And that's what puts us in this position when things like this come out.

When he started out, Florio performed a useful service. He stuck to rumours and everyone really knew where they were -- take it for what it was. What's more, he had some good sources. There's so much internal political conflict in so many of these clubs that someone more often than not has an interest in getting a bit of news out there. Not to mention the agent community. Now he thinks he's a news source/football expert/moral authority and he's not worth bothering about.

 

[patfanken]

To me the worst part of it isn't that they get things wrong all too often. The worst part is that they take no ACCOUNTABILITY when they do. THAT's the reason why things like this continue to happen over an over again. They are never called to task for THEIR mistakes. Its why guys like Tomasi and Borges still have jobs in this market. They can say whatever they want, whenever they want, and if they are wrong, all they have to say is "oops" and its forgotten in a nanosecond, while the damage they have done lingers on.

THAT is why it doesn't matter to most if they get it wrong as long as they are first, because there is no CONSEQUENCE for being wrong, just being second.
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[PatsWickedPissah]

That whole thing is a mess and it's gotten worse over the last five years. I used to post something on the site if there was at least a credible beat writer with something and given that guys make mistakes, now I don't unless more than one has something and it really is legit. Honestly, Reiss remains the guy who is the tipping point given that he once told me that he absolutely won't post something unless he knows it to be accurate. There are just too many stories that have come out that turned out to be wrong and it seems to be a problem that continues to happen. I wonder if it's this bad elsewhere (obviously we follow things closely here, but I wonder if other markets/fans deal with it this often)...but yesterday's fiasco was just crazy. The worst part is, things like this don't just die, they live on with some hoping it to be true and it will likely be referenced by someone later.

So, is sports journalism an outlier, the worst offender, or is regular news journalism in the same ballpark (Heh!) quoting un-named sources?