Bad pop culture references

[Cousin Jeffrey]

From Jay Marriotti. Ugh, this is awful:

Seems the Spurs have become the Joy Behar of sports. Everyone fusses and salivates about Rosie dissing Elisabeth and quitting, Star Jones being run off, Meredith fleeing and Barbara playing queen bee, and all the while, Joy wins because she is the constant on ''The View.''

 

[Jones]

I woke up to my hair on fire this morning, and now I know why.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Crikey.
That's awful.
Mute button, stat.

 

[Chi City 81]

Just the latest instance of Jay Mariotti and awful being used in the same sentence.

 

[dawgpounddiehard]

I take this to mean Mariotti watched The View on a daily basis during his "time off" last year? Only reason on why someone would sound so well versed on a topic only housewives and grandmothers could relate.

 

[Songbird]

Like Pacino circa '74, it was another Dog Day Afternoon at the Michael Vick estate ...

 

[Omar_dont_scare]

Much like a former boss of mine, I have never read a Mariotti column and gone, "wow, that's a really good piece of writing..."

 

[FlipSide]

I wouldn't know Joy Behar if she walked into my living room.
Why? Because I'm a sportswriter that doesn't watch the damn View.

 

[SoCalDude]

The title of this thread is redundant

 

[Trouser_Buddah]

Someone in my office wrote a lede today about a catcher who has the good fortune of playing with a pair of pitchers with dominating curveballs.

It went: "For Joe Blow, playing catcher for the Podunk Potbellies is mostly sits and giggles."

Ugh...

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

The title of this thread is redundant

Indeed. But there are cretinous editors who cream every time a writer works in a pop culture reference, as if to say, "Hey, we're not PBS!" Lame. Wouldn't it be a lot more cool if we were creating pop culture instead of copying the dimmest crap every other medium offers?

 

[Jones]

Honestly, I blame SI. They wedge that **** into every story, I think in an effort feel "current" relative to ESPN: The Magazinette.

It's a ******* plague, is what it is.

 

[John]

It is a plague. It's the Joy Behar of plagues. Other plagues may come and go, but this one, like Behar, is a constant.

 

[Songbird]

After two blowout losses, the Cleveland Cavaliers must think the NBA Finals trophy is like the group Human League singing "Dont You Want Me, Baby?"

 

[More hideous than Ben Seaver]

The always-entertaining Jay the Joke was discussing this very issue the other day. See grievance No. 3 against Mariotti.

 

[John]

After two blowout losses, the Cleveland Cavaliers must think the NBA Finals trophy is like the group Human League singing "Dont You Want Me, Baby?"

They walked off the court shaking their heads like they were watching Eva Longoria's hips bounce from side to side as she strolls down Wisteria Lane.

 

[chazp]

It is a plague. It's the Joy Behar of plagues. Other plagues may come and go, but this one, like Behar, is a constant.

Well played, with bad pop culture references.

 

[finishthehat]

If ever there was a TV show where people got voted off an island, I think that would really help spice up stories about teams who were deciding what players to cut.

 

[Songbird]

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Like Big ***** from his favorite show, The Sopranos, LeBron James is about to get mercilessly whacked for all the world to see. Just don't tell Joy Behar, panelist on The View, because she might have a few choice adjectives that Chicago Sun Times columnist Jay Mariotti would steal to use in his body of work.

 

[jgmacg]

I blame our schools.