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Just starting Out Of My League by Dirk Hayhurst (The Bullpen Gospels) and World War Z by Max Brooks.
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I've been reading the New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract. For the last month.
It's a bit wordy.
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This has made me wonder, actually: if I got a job in another city covering the local sports teams (let's say Minneapolis for the sake of not having any strong feelings about any of those teams), how much would I talk about Baltimore? How much would any of us talk about Baltimore?
This isn't really about Royle or Marks or anything, just something I'm pondering.
Joe Posnanski used to write about Cleveland (and Charlotte, and Augusta, and Cincinnati, where he also lived and worked) all the time with the Kansas City Star, to give one example. However, he knew when to use it to provide background on why he thought and felt certain things. Where you come from is important in shaping your world view, as we all know.
However, he also took the time to understand Kansas City and its culture. For example, he became heavily involved with Buck O'Neill and the Negro League Museum. He never acted like being from Cleveland and its long and varied history in sports (longer than Kansas City) made him somehow better than his audience.
That's the difference, and why Royle failed.
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What she ignores in that answer is that Joe Flacco can think anything about himself that he wishes. However, he isn't the ultimate judge of his abilities on the field. That falls to how he performs and how those performances are perceived by the fans and media at large. So she can believe anything she wants about herself, but when she manages to create an environment where the overwhelming majority of potential consumers dislike what she provides, and then refuses to understand why the dislike is so strong, why would anyone outside of her immediate family declare her a "damn good reporter"?
If Flacco played mediocre football, actively worked against the media and acted negatively to the fans, no one would ever consider him a damn good quarterback.
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If Jen Royle is (was?) paid for the job she does (did?) here, any of us could do it infinitely better.
Yeah, but there's only a few of us with a big enough "jackass" gene to pull it off like she can
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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.
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No one will ever be worse than Jen Royle.
Even Britta Perry thinks she's the worst.
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Yeah, that's a terrible article by Zurawik.
Just the idea that she "used social media as well any sports reporter in Baltimore" is ridiculous. When you are blocking people on Twitter simply for subscribing to particular accounts, you are failing at using the service well.
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She posted on here once-- some over-the-top self-inflating comment that was made to seem like some random supporter. I think it was BaltSportsFan or something like that. We instantly called her our on it and she never returned as a poster.
Looks like she's up to her old tricks again.
When you have to manufacture a fan base it is time to go.
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I think she was following up this.
Jen Royle @Jen_Royle
I find it so disrespectful that a reporter publicly says the only reason male fans stick up for me is bc they think I'll date em. Speechless
That's completely false. Male fans have standards.
Yeah, low-hanging fruit...
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I'm reading The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough. It's good.
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I'll consider the Mobbies a success if I finish ahead of her.
I'd consider the Mobbies a failure if anyone doesn't.
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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
I also love Big Trouble, but I've always been a bit too much of a Dave Barry fan for my own good.
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I read this over the weekend. Having recently read the Adams book by McCullough and the Hamilton book by Chernow, I was somewhat familiar with most of the events discussed in this book, but it is interesting to get the perspective of a different historian. I feel like the main thing I'm missing now is a good perspective on Franklin, so I guess that's my next big project.
The Isaacson bio on Franklin is very good. Its the one that really started me on historical biographies.
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I started to make the thread title "funniest book you have ever read?" but decided to limit this to novels only, for now. Here are some of my favorites, and they include some books that didn't go 100% for humor but contain parts that are hysterical:
The World According to Garp, by John Irving
The Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe
Empire Falls, by Richard Russo
The Great American Novel, by Phillip Roth
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
In each of these cases, I have read multiple books by each author, and they are are very gifted at humor and satire when they bend that way.
The only one of those I've read through is Hitchhiker's Guide, and that's one of the funniest I've read. I've tried twice but haven't been able to make it through The Great American novel, though.
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I've been meaning to get to a bio on Jefferson, as well as Robert E. Lee (so if anyone has a recommendation for Marse Robert, I'll take it).
Right now I'm reading The Tudors. It is providing a lot of insight into that era in English history, not only with the royals themselves but also chapters on different aspects of the society and culture of the time.
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The "hegemony" is over. There can be little doubt about that. However, it isn't for the reason we expected.
For years, the thought was that the Yankees and Red Sox would get too old and too overloaded with poor contracts, and their fall to the pack would even out the field for the Orioles, Jays and Rays. What has happened, though, is that instead the Rays have already risen to the level of the Yankees and Red Sox, and the Jays are positioning themselves to do the same. So while the era of the two-team AL East is over (at least for a time) it is in a way that leaves the Orioles in a worse position.
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But Jen Royle gets it...
Yeah, but how does anyone know?
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Hunter S. Gurgi
Fear and Loathing in Birdland?
(Oh no, here comes another Photoshop :laughlol:)
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LMAO she blocked all followers who also follow the Not Jen Royle account.
What do you call a reporter that isn't able to report things?
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I know it's been said before but Britt Ghiroli is a perfect example. She's nothing but professional, never injects herself into the story, and is all around one of the better reporters to cover the O's in a while.
Exactly. And Amber, of course.
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I'm sure it's tough being a female in a male's world, but she's ENTIRELY too defensive. She'll be run out of town soon, I'm sure.
She's the kind that actually makes it more difficult for women in sports. I'm perfectly happy to read or listen to or watch a woman report or comment on sports, as long as they are good at it. If not, I'll dislike them just like any man that isn't any good at their job. But there are still people that fit a whole range of misogynistic beliefs in the world, and doing as poor a job as she does with the attitude she has can only reinforce such beliefs.
I insulted Laura Vescey earlier with that comparison, because even though she was a questionable hire from the start and never really moved above mediocre here in Baltimore, I don't remember hearing of her acting in such a way even to those who deserved it. Maybe it was partly because social networking in all online forms was still in its infancy, but I think she really was a more professional person.
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While Jen Royle has brought virtually nothing to the sports conversation in Baltimore, she has been a lot of fun to joke about.
She's the Laura Vescey of this new decade.
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I'm reading Baseball in the Garden of Eden by John Thorn. Basically follows the early history of the game from the various theorized beginnings through the beginning of the twentieth century. Much of it involves an extremely in-depth explanation, through various parts of the book, of the foundations and spread of the Abner Doubleday story (spoiler: it involves patriotism, capitalism and a particular religious sect (seriously)).
Highly recommended.
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