Old-fashioned beat donnybrook in Philly

[SF_Express]

Eagles beat writers go at it, here:

http://www.crossingbroad.com/2011/09/jeff-mclane-launches-counter-assault-on-les-bowen.html

and here

http://www.crossingbroad.com/2011/09/les-bowen-punched-jeff-mclane-today-according-to-howard-eskin.html

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Reporters from sister papers went at it? Awesome. And sad.

 

[SF_Express]

Reporters from sister papers went at it? Awesome. And sad.

I dunno, Inky ... it's just old guy babble, but I miss those days when everybody wasn't nice and polite when venturing out of their offices (now cubicles) or looking up from their iPads.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Want me to Teleram your iPad, for nostalgia?

 

[Point of Order]

Don't know either one of these guys but count me as a member of Team Les based on what I read. Great stuff!

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Reporters from sister papers went at it? Awesome. And sad.

I dunno, Inky ... it's just old guy babble, but I miss those days when everybody wasn't nice and polite when venturing out of their offices (now cubicles) or looking up from their iPads.

The "sad" comment was because they work for the same company. In-house fights should never be done in public - Twitter or fisticuffs.

 

[black dude with pompano]

Don't know either one of these guys but count me as a member of Team Les based on what I read. Great stuff!

Don't know 'em either, but I'm a Les fan now.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

Oh, for the days when something like this would be settled over tumbling bar stools instead of social media....

 

[maberger]

Want me to Teleram your iPad, for nostalgia?

Hah! How about AmFax or CanFax? And as an old hockey guy, I'll take Les.

 

[SF_Express]

Want me to Teleram your iPad, for nostalgia?

I don't have an iPad, but might have the former in a closet somewhere. More likely there's a Trash 80 in there somewhere, though.

 

[Double J]

Go Les!

 

[Ace]

You reap what you Tweet.

 

[Drip]

Enough.
Jeff, with his ego, and Les, with his crap, should both take a dose of STFU and go in their neutral corner.
The crack by Jeff was not called for but Les doesn't get a free pass either.

 

[Ace]

Enough.
Jeff, with his ego, and Les, with his crap, should both take a dose of STFU and go in their neutral corner.
The crack by Jeff was not called for but Les doesn't get a free pass either.

Les made a crack. Jeff responded with a screed.

 

[Moderator1]

Of all the points drip has made on these boards, the one above is by far the best one.

Behave, you know? Or as others have noted, yell at each other and smack each other around in a bar.

 

[Drip]

You reap what you Tweet.

Which is all that is wrong with Tweeting, IMO. Many tweets are knee jerk reactions and they never end well.

 

[playthrough]

Twitter is such a cowardly medium. We're so quick to jump all over athletes for chicken**** tweets, so heck yes reporters doing the same deserve whatever they get. If it's a punch upside the head, well, maybe next time they'll use their brains first. #hatetwitter

 

[Versatile]

Vick started. Take that, Les.

 

[Double J]

Take what? Did Les ever actually say Vick wouldn't start?

 

[Elliotte Friedman]

Tough for me to see this. Les was very friendly to this out-of-town reporter, who dropped in on the Flyers several times. (Bowen covered hockey then.)

Really thought McLane went way over the line. I can understand why he might have done a slow burn over what Bowen wrote, but that response direct and personal. I've always felt that if you need to do that, you don't feel good enough about yourself.