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Columnist: Josh Hamilton lacks mental toughness

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Dick Whitman, Sep 24, 2012.

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  1. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    What player jakes it in the final month of his contract?
     
    YankeeFan, Sep 24, 2012
    #37
  2. YGBFKM

    YGBFKM Guest

    A player with questionable character?
     
    YGBFKM, Sep 24, 2012
    #38
  3. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Maybe he's trying to bamboozle management.
     
    Azrael, Sep 24, 2012
    #39
  4. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Other famous jakers:

    Stevie Wonder
    Helen Keller
    Ray Charles
    Oedipus
     
    Dick Whitman, Sep 24, 2012
    #40
  5. Elliotte Friedman

    Elliotte Friedman Moderator Staff Member

    Columns read like the writers know something/have been told something and can't/won't come right out and say it.
     
    Elliotte Friedman, Sep 24, 2012
    #41
  6. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Then they are being played by the teams, don't you think? Seriously. Particularly nowadays, where readers are savvier and more distrustful of media than they have ever been, particularly and counterintuitively embedded media, "just trust me" isn't good enough. Shit needs to be backed up. And backed up some more. And a third time.
     
    Dick Whitman, Sep 24, 2012
    #42
  7. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    The last one I can recall falling under this theory is Jere Longman on Lolo Jones, and damned if that didn't play out exactly as scripted after the race.
     
    LongTimeListener, Sep 24, 2012
    #43
  8. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Sounds like JJT got hoodwinked.
     
    Azrael, Sep 24, 2012
    #44
  9. Elliotte Friedman

    Elliotte Friedman Moderator Staff Member

    Dick,

    Honestly can't answer that question, because I'm not there. It is possible, maybe even likely, that you are right. But I've been in that position before, too, where there's information you just can't use, but you have to write something.

    And, even though you have to tiptoe, you try to do the best you can. Now, as a guy who's suffered from sinus infections, I know they're brutal. All I can say is I hope the two columnists know what they're doing.
     
    Elliotte Friedman, Sep 24, 2012
    #45
  10. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    This isn't to say that the team and, by extension, the columnist, isn't correct in a given circumstance. But as a standalone argument, it doesn't hold together when you have to withold key information.
     
    Dick Whitman, Sep 24, 2012
    #46
  11. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    I would say that instead of driving down the Hamilton price tag, they're laying the foundation for explaining why they didn't re-sign him.
     
    LongTimeListener, Sep 24, 2012
    #47
  12. Elliotte Friedman

    Elliotte Friedman Moderator Staff Member

    That is probably the right answer.
     
    Elliotte Friedman, Sep 24, 2012
    #48
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