Comments | urbaniak: Sports Talk!

urbaniak

Sports Talk!

Jul 08, 2010 22:43

I have close to zero interest in sports but this LeBron James thing is crazy and fascinating. And the font choice is just one remarkable element of this statement.

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noskilz July 9 2010, 06:17:31 UTC

That is peculiar - reminds me a little of Aquateen Hunger Force's Carl - although losing a major draw might be something someone one of the team's owners might feel particularly keenly. Still, I'm a bit startled by this person's choice of wording in that setting - it doesn't come across as very well-considered or professional.

Really sounds more like someone trying to cheer someone up after a botched romance - he wasn't good enough for you anyway, and there are plenty of other nice young men out there who won't treat you badly - he'll get his, just you wait and see.

box_in_the_box July 9 2010, 06:41:48 UTC

I'm getting a similar read off of it myself, except that I'm not nearly as surprised by it, because the reason that most people with titles have other people who handle their communications is because most people suck at actually communicating on their own.

That being said, Nate Silver just posted an excellent take on how badly LeBron might have screwed himself over.

OF COURSE IT'S IN COMIC SANS box_in_the_box July 9 2010, 06:34:43 UTC

And what the fuck is up with his "random" quotation marks around certain "words" for no discernible "reason"?

I feel like I'm reading a Kirby-scripted Darkseid with that shit.

Then again, I know even less about sports than you do, so this entire affair has me feeling about as out-of-touch as the Doctor in "The Lodger."

Re: OF COURSE IT'S IN COMIC SANS medusacascade9 July 11 2010, 04:42:19 UTC

I like the fact that he's a younger man than ever (looking). Yet seems even older than William Hartnell. NOT in the nastiest department but almost in ever other way.

box_in_the_box July 11 2010, 04:44:25 UTC

I love that he's so utterly perpendicular to humanity in general.

wring July 9 2010, 12:47:46 UTC

how did I know it was Comic Sans?

berkeley314567 July 9 2010, 19:00:56 UTC

Because Papyrus just isn't professional.

wring July 9 2010, 19:18:36 UTC

why is Papyrus getting so much credit? Curlz is more vile.

hat_fm July 9 2010, 14:27:52 UTC

That particular missive made me facepalm on so many levels. The only way it could be more annoying is if it were in bright pink. (Seriously? Comic Sans?!? What the ever-loving hell?!)

sentroid91 July 10 2010, 06:09:45 UTC

I second that... Comic Sans? Really??? What about Impact or Verdana?

hat_fm July 11 2010, 02:53:36 UTC

I would have gone with a nice Helvetica myself. Comic Sans is the font of angsty teenage girls.

prog July 9 2010, 14:55:46 UTC

I am really keen on someone please summarizing this story for me; I'm finding it hard finding the info-payload beneath all the emotional responses.

I have tweaked that a sports guy is switching teams. But don't sports people switch teams constantly? I mean, I live in Boston, and a major Red Sox player bailing for greener pastures makes the news every year or two. Maybe this never happens in basketball? I don't know, I'm asking.

Is this just a Baby Jessica-style media feedback loop, or is there something actually novel happening here?

urbaniak July 9 2010, 22:57:09 UTC

My understanding is it has to do with the way his decision was announced-- with an unprecedented, self-produced ESPN special. (That combined with a sense that he was stringing along his hometown the whole time.) This opinion piece suggests it was a new low in corporatized soullessness.

James medusacascade9 July 11 2010, 04:37:39 UTC

"a new low in corporatized soullessness"
The reason I don't care, don't understand why anyone does and hope horrific things happen to him. THEN at least we can focus on the positive.