This guy says he means no disrespect to the Zips — while he tears them into little shreds of tire scraps.
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In light of the quality of most tires that come out of Akron, how do you know they weren't already shredded when he got there?
And now we return to a previous topic: The Way West. Pat you might want to read a story in Sunday's Wash.Post about traveling cross country.Just came across it tonight and thought it worth your while.Of course the author was traveling with a dog rather than kids but still…looks like another vote for driving. I almost suggested driving a Van[get it?].
That's an interesting topic, Tbomb, but I want to write about a topic having to do with the continued existence of the Beacon Journal. Because if the Beacon Journal dies, then Pat might have to move into a teepee on an Indian reservation before his trip concludes.
Why in the world is Marla Ridenour, the Beacon Journal's Browns beat writer, getting her information from some site called profootballtalk.com? She wrote that she learned from this site that some stiff cornerback was just signed by the Browns to a one-year contract. Some guy by the name of Poison Oak, or something.
This is precisely what I'm talking about when I say this is more than just about the budget cuts at the Beacon Journal. It's also about folks at the paper who are just playing out the string, and simply don't care anymore. This is not why I buy the print edition, for their reporters to dig up their news from others' amateur (and amateurish) blogs.
Precisely why is a professional sportswriter, one who has talent and numerous years of newspaper experience going all the way back to when I used to read her stuff in the Columbus Dispatch, reporting Browns news obtained from some online blog site that includes, and I am not making this up, an ongoing feature entitled "Turd Watch."
I know this is way off-topic, but this bothers me. A lot.
I'm sorry, again way, way off-topic, but this is now just too much … the Beacon Journal's editor won't send George Thomas, the Beacon Journal's Cavaliers beat writer, on the Cavaliers West Coast road trip, and instead has the Associated Press' Cavaliers beat writer do the Cavaliers reporting. Several days ago Yahoo Sports reported that Dante Stallworth will have criminal charges filed against him. Then I see a video obtained by the Miami Herald showing Stallworth immediately afterwards at the accident scene. Then I read a Browns report swiped by Marla from an amateurish blog site that has a special feature on its site named "Turd Watch." Then today, I read a report swiped by Marla from the Fox affiliate in Miami stating that Stallworth was legally drunk when he killed that guy.
Is there anything the Akron Beacon Journal actually DOES report that isn't ripped off hook, line and sinker from somewhere else? Why have I been paying to buy this lousy newspaper? Not anymore. I'm dumb, but I'm not stupid.
I hereby vehemently protest Pat's prior promotion to sports columnist, even though his sportswriting is light years superior to the guy he replaced. I hereby *demand* that he be returned to the Cleveland Browns beat. Marla once was a hard worker and a very good reporter, but this has officially become a joke, and not in a ha-ha kind of way.
Put the dumpy Irish guy back where his work will give something back to the Beacon Journal's readers. If I teach my two parrots how to type, they could easily report the sports news every bit as competently as the Beacon Journal is now reporting it, and for far less money. Indeed, they would both figuratively and LITERALLY work for peanuts.
Although, seeing they've now added a brand-new pets section to the online site, and are actually touting this as a monumental addition to their publication, the newspaper's editors obviously care about as much as their reporters now do.
Go Zips. I guess.