Grantland

[Skeleton Jelly 2]

I keep forgetting that Michael Schur is Ken Tremendous.Really funny read about a cricket match.On the Weirdness Scale of Referee Signals, it's halfway between "Illegal Man Downfield" in football and "Crazily Rush Forward and Hold Out Both Arms Like a Human Forklift" in Australian Rules Football.The announcer now says, in re: Tendulkar's back-to-back luck-outs: "I can't think of another moment in cricket where more people had their hearts in their mouths on consecutive balls." Which is the dirtiest non-dirty thing ever said.

[Voldemort 0]

[Mercury69 3]

This site has some terrific writing: classically styled in a pastoral, "stalk of grass in the mouth while watching the wind blow" kind of way, the words flow off the page and into your brain like a soothing ointment, rather than a glove slap to the face. Points and opinions expressed seem void of the badgering so common today in sports writing. Even if you don't agree with a point of view, the method of expression makes you think, I mean really stop and think, that the writer's view is valid and it usually is. Taking a stance, a strong opinion, an unflinching stare-down of the writer's fact vs your fiction, yet offered in such a generous way as to expand not just one's sports universe, but the meaning of one's existence.

[BigDMcGee 3,352]

This site has some terrific writing: classically styled in a pastoral, "stalk of grass in the mouth while watching the wind blow" kind of way, the words flow off the page and into your brain like a soothing ointment, rather than a glove slap to the face. Points and opinions expressed seem void of the badgering so common today in sports writing. Even if you don't agree with a point of view, the method of expression makes you think, I mean really stop and think, that the writer's view is valid and it usually is. Taking a stance, a strong opinion, an unflinching stare-down of the writer's fact vs your fiction, yet offered in such a generous way as to expand not just one's sports universe, but the meaning of one's existence.

[Mercury69 3]

I like that you use the same old picture to express your lack of understanding of a post. It keeps things clear. Thumbs up!

[brvheart 1,752]

Mercury. Seriously. You are the worst. And I'm not talking about your hippy/weed induced paragraph about Grantland. You just have the wost responses ever to criticism. The. Worst.

[Suited_Up 2]

I do like the articles for the most part though.

[BigDMcGee 3,352]

I like that you use the same old picture to express your lack of understanding of a post. It keeps things clear. Thumbs up!

I hate to break it to you Merc, but I understood it just fine. you ain't joyce. Would anyone else like to try to guess what I was expressing?

[SuitedAces21 2,722]

big d was saying, and i quote, "mercury is a faggotous douchebag."

[digitalmonkey 929]

The sharks are gathering. Or is it the Jets? I've lost track.

[Mercury69 3]

The sharks are gathering. Or is it the Jets? I've lost track.

Something like that...Regardless of the minor effort I put into that post, to receive such critique from a pair of douches like that really doesn't faze me. I'm not trying to be Joyce (the style is nothing like it, BigD, so your comparison means less than nothing); I'm simply trying to convey a remembrance of a time when the internet wasn't full of rabid retards who shit on things they don't like for no reason at all (ie: Grantland has some inspiring, old school writing).And Brvhrt, you have no sense of humour whatsoever. I feel sorry for you. So pathetic. At least BigD has some semblance of one, but he's still a dick, albeit a tiny one. BigD Littledick would be your GoT name.

[BigDMcGee 3,352]

Regardless of the minor effort I put into that post, to receive such critique from a pair of douches like that really doesn't faze me. I'm not trying to be Joyce (the style is nothing like it)

You don't say?

I'm simply trying to convey a remembrance of a time when the internet wasn't full of rabid retards who shit on things they don't like for no reason at all

I know what you tried to convey. It's not what you convey'd, tho.

And Brvhrt, you have no sense of humour whatsoever. I feel sorry for you. So pathetic. At least BigD has some semblance of one, but he's still a dick, albeit a tiny one. BigD Littledick would be your GoT name.

Yeah brv, you need a more evolved sense of humor.. Try making a few dick puns, it will impress the ladies.

[El Guapo 8]

I thought it was goat bleating that really got the ladies going.

[digitalmonkey 929]

I thought it was goat bleating that really got the ladies going.

Only the horny ones.

[frautotenkinder 1,025]

I liked this article about LA Noire. The main character is a jerk.I like what I've read at the site, but I wonder if anyone is trying to write a good, thoughtful article thats >5000 words.

[Dubey 1,035]

It's been a little NBA heavy for my tastes this last week, and nothing has come close to the greatness of a few of the articles that came out in the first two days of the site, but I am still really enjoying it.

[brvheart 1,752]

Dang it SJ, I can't believe you aren't already discussing the multiple articles that were posted lately. First up, let's talk about Will Smith and QT,"Just last month, a story circulated around Hollywood that Quentin Tarantino was desperately pursuing Smith as the lead for his next movie, Django Unchained, in which a freed slave teams up with a German bounty hunter to find his wife and ends up killing a bunch of plantation owners along the way. Supposedly the script is incredible. Supposedly Smith's agents at CAA and even his manager begged him to play Django. And supposedly, Smith turned it down. He didn't want to risk what he had. He didn't want people to meet Angry Slave Will Smith. He didn't want to mess with a sure thing."I mean, I'm sure it's a great script... but seriously? It sounds like an exact replica of Inglorious Basterds. I'm not happy about that.BTW, QT is now going to sign Jamie Foxx.... http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/06/22/jami...ango-unchained/

[El Guapo 8]

brvhttp://www.fullcontactpoker.com/poker-foru...t&p=3487826

[Dubey 1,035]

I'm going to ignore my trepidations about that movie and just trust in Tarantino to deliver something awesome.

[brvheart 1,752]

brvhttp://www.fullcontactpoker.com/poker-foru...t&p=3487826

haha. That's my boy. I knew it.

[DinkDonk 1]

This site has some terrific writing: classically styled in a pastoral, "stalk of grass in the mouth while watching the wind blow" kind of way, the words flow off the page and into your brain like a soothing ointment, rather than a glove slap to the face. Points and opinions expressed seem void of the badgering so common today in sports writing. Even if you don't agree with a point of view, the method of expression makes you think, I mean really stop and think, that the writer's view is valid and it usually is. Taking a stance, a strong opinion, an unflinching stare-down of the writer's fact vs your fiction, yet offered in such a generous way as to expand not just one's sports universe, but the meaning of one's existence.

Can't tell if serious.

[brvheart 1,752]

Can't tell if serious.

Just do what everyone else does and move along.

[Mercury69 3]

Can't tell if serious.

Just do what everyone else does and move along.

At the risk of drawing more wrath upon myself from assholes like Brv, Theraflu and the rest of my hate club, I will say this about what I wrote:It's serious, in terms of me trying to express my appreciation for the generally good quality of writing on Grantland. It reminds me of things that don't exist any more and keeps me hopeful that certain elements of perception are never lost. My words are meant to be allegorical and allusive. My words may not be great, or even good, but at least I had the guts to put a little style into my post, instead simple facts or statements like "Good article" or "I thought that was well written". If only one person read my words and said "I think I get it", then I am happy. I don't need unoriginal, gutless chumps like Brvhrt to like me or my posts.

[DinkDonk 1]

At the risk of drawing more wrath upon myself from assholes like Brv, Theraflu and the rest of my hate club, I will say this about what I wrote:It's serious, in terms of me trying to express my appreciation for the generally good quality of writing on Grantland. It reminds me of things that don't exist any more and keeps me hopeful that certain elements of perception are never lost. My words are meant to be allegorical and allusive. My words may not be great, or even good, but at least I had the guts to put a little style into my post, instead simple facts or statements like "Good article" or "I thought that was well written". If only one person read my words and said "I think I get it", then I am happy. I don't need unoriginal, gutless chumps like Brvhrt to like me or my posts.

Fight the good fight, brother.

[BigDMcGee 3,352]

At the risk of drawing more wrath upon myself from assholes like Brv, Theraflu and the rest of my hate club, I will say this about what I wrote:It's serious, in terms of me trying to express my appreciation for the generally good quality of writing on Grantland. It reminds me of things that don't exist any more and keeps me hopeful that certain elements of perception are never lost. My words are meant to be allegorical and allusive. My words may not be great, or even good, but at least I had the guts to put a little style into my post, instead simple facts or statements like "Good article" or "I thought that was well written". If only one person read my words and said "I think I get it", then I am happy. I don't need unoriginal, gutless chumps like Brvhrt to like me or my posts.

Gosh, you are brave, Merc. A true hero.