Comments for Online Sports Watch http://onlinesportswatch.wordpress.com No celebrities. No bimbos. No snark. Just the best reads about the games -- period. Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:13:34 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on The NHL’s lost cause in the South by whitsport http://onlinesportswatch.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/the-nhls-lost-cause-in-the-south/#comment-305 whitsport Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:13:34 +0000 http://onlinesportswatch.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/the-nhls-lost-cause-in-the-south/#comment-305 Couldn't agree more. Who wouldn't want to go to a hockey game in June? it's hot in the South during the playoffs, i'd go for relief too (if the local team was miraculously in the postseason) I smell and exodus of "trimming" the fat in the coming years. http://whitsport.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/2009-nhl-predictions/ Couldn’t agree more. Who wouldn’t want to go to a hockey game in June? it’s hot in the South during the playoffs, i’d go for relief too (if the local team was miraculously in the postseason) I smell and exodus of “trimming” the fat in the coming years.

http://whitsport.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/2009-nhl-predictions/

]]> Comment on Economy could stunt coaching raises by darren rovell http://onlinesportswatch.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/economy-could-stunt-coaching-raises/#comment-149 darren rovell Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:56:37 +0000 http://onlinesportswatch.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/economy-could-stunt-coaching-raises/#comment-149 Wendy, it's a blog. I gave my opinion about what was going to happen and why it was going to happen. It seemed pretty complete to me. Wendy, it’s a blog. I gave my opinion about what was going to happen and why it was going to happen. It seemed pretty complete to me.

]]> Comment on Economy could stunt coaching raises by Wendy http://onlinesportswatch.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/economy-could-stunt-coaching-raises/#comment-145 Wendy Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:09:11 +0000 http://onlinesportswatch.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/economy-could-stunt-coaching-raises/#comment-145 Thanks for responding Darren, but I meant no shot and it wasn't ridiculous. I would have liked to have seen a little more reporting on a topic that I think is a very topical and timely one, that's all. Thanks for responding Darren, but I meant no shot and it wasn’t ridiculous. I would have liked to have seen a little more reporting on a topic that I think is a very topical and timely one, that’s all.

]]> Comment on Economy could stunt coaching raises by darren rovell http://onlinesportswatch.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/economy-could-stunt-coaching-raises/#comment-144 darren rovell Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:26:54 +0000 http://onlinesportswatch.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/economy-could-stunt-coaching-raises/#comment-144 Wendy, This is a ridiculous shot at me. If my stuff is "typically thin" why don't you pull me down from your blogroll since I obviously provide little value to your readers. Refresh my memory: Does a blog have to have a quote in order to be good? Darren Wendy,

This is a ridiculous shot at me. If my stuff is “typically thin” why don’t you pull me down from your blogroll since I obviously provide little value to your readers.

Refresh my memory: Does a blog have to have a quote in order to be good?

Darren

]]> Comment on NFL cuts 169 jobs, Goodell takes pay cut by Wendy http://onlinesportswatch.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/nfl-cuts-169-jobs-goodell-takes-pay-cut/#comment-82 Wendy Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:03:43 +0000 http://onlinesportswatch.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/nfl-cuts-169-jobs-goodell-takes-pay-cut/#comment-82 It would have looked pretty bad for the NFL to cut more jobs while their suits suffer very little. It would have looked pretty bad for the NFL to cut more jobs while their suits suffer very little.

]]> Comment on NFL cuts 169 jobs, Goodell takes pay cut by niclake13 http://onlinesportswatch.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/nfl-cuts-169-jobs-goodell-takes-pay-cut/#comment-81 niclake13 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:47:56 +0000 http://onlinesportswatch.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/nfl-cuts-169-jobs-goodell-takes-pay-cut/#comment-81 I'm glad to hear that Goodell did this... I made a post about this a few weeks back. I'm curious to know what all the excess money is going towards. Hopefully not more Bruce. -Nic http://wordstoplayby.wordpress.com I’m glad to hear that Goodell did this… I made a post about this a few weeks back. I’m curious to know what all the excess money is going towards.

Hopefully not more Bruce.

-Nic
http://wordstoplayby.wordpress.com

]]> Comment on Baseball deluding itself over steroids by niclake13 http://onlinesportswatch.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/baseball-deluding-itself-over-steroids/#comment-80 niclake13 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:28:03 +0000 http://onlinesportswatch.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/baseball-deluding-itself-over-steroids/#comment-80 Bud Selig is doing a good thing here, by trying to take the topic of conversation *away* from steroids. However, he has to address it and solve the issue first. Otherwise, everyone will view him as "the commish that turned a blind eye". -Nic http://wordstoplayby.wordpress.com Bud Selig is doing a good thing here, by trying to take the topic of conversation *away* from steroids.

However, he has to address it and solve the issue first. Otherwise, everyone will view him as “the commish that turned a blind eye”.

-Nic
http://wordstoplayby.wordpress.com

]]> Comment on D’Backs’ exec: Let’s out steroids cheats by mdbirdlover http://onlinesportswatch.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/dbacks-exec-lets-out-steroids-cheats/#comment-78 mdbirdlover Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:41:26 +0000 http://onlinesportswatch.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/dbacks-exec-lets-out-steroids-cheats/#comment-78 Hi Wendy, I'm Molly aka, mdbirdlover. I apologize if I was short in that reply but I wasn't sure if this site was a collection of links and some opinion to draw traffic to the big dogs of sports, as if they need it. I'm sorry but am I going blind? I do not see the ABOUT page. Anyway about your point on sports writers, very well taken. A lot of them thrived and made their names and careers during those "glory days" and turned the other cheek. Playing devil's advocate here, maybe they feel betrayed? For Whatever this is worth, I do not fall in this sports writing category, I started in sports a few years back. 05. How about you? Also, and this is not an excuse, the national past-time desperately needed CPR after the labor disputes; Cal Ripken breaking Gehrig's record sort of set the standard. Baseball is so much about it's number and its rich history. This helped ignite it and in my opinion, accentuate the McGuire/Sosa thing. It got everyone all mushy! But nobody could have gotten mushy without the media...so you are very right. I don't know, I could write forever about this. I am a sucker for bseball. And this is such an arguable topic. The media is most definitely complicit... The Olympics have always been a litmus test for keeping sports clean, would you agree? Hi Wendy,
I’m Molly aka, mdbirdlover. I apologize if I was short in that reply but I wasn’t sure if this site was a collection of links and some opinion to draw traffic to the big dogs of sports, as if they need it.
I’m sorry but am I going blind? I do not see the ABOUT page.

Anyway about your point on sports writers, very well taken. A lot of them thrived and made their names and careers during those “glory days” and turned the other cheek.
Playing devil’s advocate here, maybe they feel betrayed?
For Whatever this is worth, I do not fall in this sports writing category, I started in sports a few years back. 05. How about you?

Also, and this is not an excuse, the national past-time desperately needed CPR after the labor disputes; Cal Ripken breaking Gehrig’s record sort of set the standard. Baseball is so much about it’s number and its rich history. This helped ignite it and in my opinion, accentuate the McGuire/Sosa thing. It got everyone all mushy! But nobody could have gotten mushy without the media…so you are very right.

I don’t know, I could write forever about this.
I am a sucker for bseball.
And this is such an arguable topic.
The media is most definitely complicit…

The Olympics have always been a litmus test for keeping sports clean, would you agree?

]]> Comment on D’Backs’ exec: Let’s out steroids cheats by Wendy http://onlinesportswatch.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/dbacks-exec-lets-out-steroids-cheats/#comment-77 Wendy Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:29:33 +0000 http://onlinesportswatch.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/dbacks-exec-lets-out-steroids-cheats/#comment-77 I think the rhapsodic feeling many sportswriters (my profession) and others have for baseball is clouding their perspective on steroids. We get worked up when Olympic athletes and cyclists test positive for steroids, but that's nothing like the caterwauling over baseball. It's a sacrosanct thing, that baseball, and the zeal for purity is foolish and sentimental. I wish athletes wouldn't use steroids, but we need to get over this and understand that our thirst to see greater sports accomplishments is a factor. For too long we look the other way or don't want to believe baseball players were pumping up. When Sosa and McGwire were in that great homerun chase, this was the case. Ditto for Clemens, Bonds and now A-Rod. Once the truth about them comes out, we lash out. But not until then. I do have an About page, in the top middle of the site, and you can find my e-mail address there. Thanks for taking the time to comment. I think the rhapsodic feeling many sportswriters (my profession) and others have for baseball is clouding their perspective on steroids.

We get worked up when Olympic athletes and cyclists test positive for steroids, but that’s nothing like the caterwauling over baseball. It’s a sacrosanct thing, that baseball, and the zeal for purity is foolish and sentimental.

I wish athletes wouldn’t use steroids, but we need to get over this and understand that our thirst to see greater sports accomplishments is a factor.

For too long we look the other way or don’t want to believe baseball players were pumping up. When Sosa and McGwire were in that great homerun chase, this was the case. Ditto for Clemens, Bonds and now A-Rod. Once the truth about them comes out, we lash out. But not until then.

I do have an About page, in the top middle of the site, and you can find my e-mail address there.

Thanks for taking the time to comment.

]]> Comment on D’Backs’ exec: Let’s out steroids cheats by mdbirdlover http://onlinesportswatch.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/dbacks-exec-lets-out-steroids-cheats/#comment-76 mdbirdlover Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:19:16 +0000 http://onlinesportswatch.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/dbacks-exec-lets-out-steroids-cheats/#comment-76 Good point about juicing and football. Clearly you have your eyes one the sports media, what is the word on the street? Completely disagree with you on the "foolish" and sentimental part of baseball being the problem behind steroids. Are you serious? Its' all about money, money, money? Wish you had an about page so I could address you personally. Good point about juicing and football. Clearly you have your eyes one the sports media, what is the word on the street?

Completely disagree with you on the “foolish” and sentimental part of baseball being the problem behind steroids. Are you serious?
Its’ all about money, money, money?

Wish you had an about page so I could address you personally.

]]>