OT: Pittsburgh Media Thread - Still the Worst | Now with Drunken Rants!

[Honour Over Glory]

What happened with that idiot, now?

 

[billybudd]

It takes a lot of self-awareness to tweet this.

Ignoring the pointlessly insulting generalization, I'd strongly recommend getting off Twitter, Pens fan or otherwise. Something about the medium drives people crazy. I don't know what the cause is (brevity leading to misunderstandings? nature of tactics needed to grow following? interacts badly with vestigial human pack animal instincts?), but the service is not providing anything healthy for anybody.

 

[Shrimper]

DK landed Molinari on his site. WOW

DK still going?

Haven't looked in a while but, don't plan too.

 

[Rossi Rat]

Ignoring the pointlessly insulting generalization, I'd strongly recommend getting off Twitter, Pens fan or otherwise. Something about the medium drives people crazy. I don't know what the cause is (brevity leading to misunderstandings? nature of tactics needed to grow following? interacts badly with vestigial human pack animal instincts?), but the service is not providing anything healthy for anybody.

The confusing thing about his random late night Twitter meltdown is that earlier in the day he tweeted:

“Back to not interacting on Twitter. It was fun while it lasted. (No, it wasn't.)”

And I actually do agree with some of his Penguins takes.

Re: the DK thing, yep, and he actually has a fairly solid trio right now in Molinari/Lolley/Perrotto. But let’s see how it lasts.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Twitter sucks, but holy hell, Madden is a thin-skinned moron without even the slightest glimmer of self-awareness. He should just retire and do something he likes instead of rushing himself into an early grave.

 

[heysmilinstrange]

Josh Yohe mentioned in the comments of his recent Athletic article that Seth Rorabaugh left The Athletic and Josh didn't want to "get into any other detail as [he didn't] think it would be appropriate." Rorabaugh seems to bounce around and leave jobs abruptly a lot. I wonder why that is.

 

[Dinfire]

I just started listening to Madden on iHeart radio and hearing the callers makes me ashamed to be a Pittsburgh fan on a daily basis. There are some really stupid people in Western PA. I can understand why Madden is a douche having to deal with those people every day. At the same time, he realizes very quickly if he’s talking to someone more knowledgeable and tries to cut off the call before getting embarrassed on-air.

Can anyone direct me to a good Pittsburgh sports podcast? There doesn’t seem to be any.

 

[billybudd]

Assuming Pittsburgh has a critical mass of sports fans who would be interested enough in a local sports podcast to make sufficient money to sustain itself and assuming there's a host who most would be happy with, how would it be publicized? Word of mouth takes too long, radio would view it as competition, local TV ads are way too expensive for a fledgling podcast budget, there are not really any operational newspapers (etc). Your best marketing strategy might be to pay Pittsburgh Dad to tweet about it, which is...yeah.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Josh Yohe mentioned in the comments of his recent Athletic article that Seth Rorabaugh left The Athletic and Josh didn't want to "get into any other detail as [he didn't] think it would be appropriate." Rorabaugh seems to bounce around and leave jobs abruptly a lot. I wonder why that is.

Because sports journalists are annoying try-hard dorks with no social skills?

 

[FlightlessBird]

Josh Yohe mentioned in the comments of his recent Athletic article that Seth Rorabaugh left The Athletic and Josh didn't want to "get into any other detail as [he didn't] think it would be appropriate." Rorabaugh seems to bounce around and leave jobs abruptly a lot. I wonder why that is.

Now that you mention that, I haven't noticed him tweeting much recently. I just went and looked and his last tweet was June 7. His bio now says he's the PWHA social media/website coordinator.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Now that you mention that, I haven't noticed him tweeting much recently. I just went and looked and his last tweet was June 7. His bio now says he's the PWHA social media/website coordinator.

The Prince William Horse Association?

 

[FlightlessBird]

The Prince William Horse Association?

I meant PHWA.

 

[HandshakeLine]

I meant PHWA.

I am suddenly a lot less interested.

 

[Beauner]

The thing is, Madden isn't wrong. He's being an insufferable douche about it, but he's not wrong. I feel like a majority of Penguins fans in Pittsburgh are complete f***ing morons

 

[Mario_is_BACK!!]

Josh Yohe mentioned in the comments of his recent Athletic article that Seth Rorabaugh left The Athletic and Josh didn't want to "get into any other detail as [he didn't] think it would be appropriate." Rorabaugh seems to bounce around and leave jobs abruptly a lot. I wonder why that is.

I have zero base for this other than my own experience and things I've seen from Seth in terms of thought processes and behaviors but it wouldn't shock me if he had some sort of mental issue. I don't mean that in a "he's insane" way by any means. I'm bi-polar and deal with things like depression, anxiety, etc that come along with it. I feel like I've seen some of that in his twitter, especially after his father passed.

 

[heysmilinstrange]

I have zero base for this other than my own experience and things I've seen from Seth in terms of thought processes and behaviors but it wouldn't shock me if he had some sort of mental issue. I don't mean that in a "he's insane" way by any means. I'm bi-polar and deal with things like depression, anxiety, etc that come along with it. I feel like I've seen some of that in his twitter, especially after his father passed.

I was thinking something along those lines too.

 

[cookthebooks]

i wish rossi was not at the athletic

 

[Coastal Kev]

I should make a note that I signed up to DK yesterday and I was impressed with his coverage of the Pens entire organization,, most notably their prospects.

Personal opinions aside, it's well worth the cost.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

i wish rossi was not at the athletic

Isn't The Athletic this Godsend to sports writing? To me it reads like some English lit reject is their editor and that they take their shit too seriously when all you want is fact. Not f***ing prose and whimsical anecdotes.

 

[Rossi Rat]

Kind of funny how predictable it is which certain media folk would like the Kessel trade (Madden) and which would dislike it (the anti-Rutherford brigade, too many to name).

 

[cookthebooks]

Isn't The Athletic this Godsend to sports writing? To me it reads like some English lit reject is their editor and that they take their **** too seriously when all you want is fact. Not ****ing prose and whimsical anecdotes.

facts are inarguably first on twitter, I like writing, your mileage may vary

 

[HandshakeLine]

facts are inarguably first on twitter, I like writing, your mileage may vary

Yeah, I like the Atlantic because I find stats analysis boring and misleading. But that's what McCurdy is there for.

 

[Rossi Rat]

Anyone else think Alan Saunders should be the Penguins' GM? Dude apparently knows everything about every sport and has a lot of opinions to offer about the Pens.

 

[Mario_is_BACK!!]

Anyone else think Alan Saunders should be the Penguins' GM? Dude apparently knows everything about every sport and has a lot of opinions to offer about the Pens.

I'd gladly take him. He's been right about far more than Rutherford.

 

[Rossi Rat]

I'd gladly take him. He's been right about far more than Rutherford.

Alright, let's get Mario on board.