(no subject)

[somedaybitch]

The real e-mails were often more than 1,000 words long, each containing schedule breakdowns, game-by-game analysis of the weakside linebacker, and historical PROOF that the Big 12 and Southeastern conferences are heads and shoulders above the Big Ten and Pac-10 conferences.
We're talking geeks here.

Giant, boring, absolutely no-chance-of-getting-a-life geeks.

Dozens of them a day.

uhm, 'scuse me, but isn't that the kind of analysis that you should be doing, Mr Sportswriter?

For future reference, in case you're ever unemployed with a lot of time to kill and tempted to do this yourself, let me share what your average Top 25 voter does with these e-mails: Immediately deletes them, and then makes fun of the people who send them to anyone who will listen.

glad to see there's someone out there getting paid to do nothing. how do i get that kind of job?

got the link from the Vodka Pundit. here's the part of his post i loved best:

Memo to the sportswriters, as well as everybody else they work with: Insulting your best customers--i.e., the people who read your work the most carefully--is a really dumb way to do business. It tends to get subscriptions cancelled and your stuff ignored. More importantly (especially for those of you who hide behind stock phrases like "journalistic integrity"), it devalues your work and your reputation.

It also makes you look like a bunch of jerks. Columns like Carty's and Gattis's are among the major reasons why most people can't stand the press.

yeah, that'd be my reason.