This week's SI (and Newsweek?)

[broadway joe]

I was underwhelmed by the Michael Phelps piece. No offense to Susan Casey, I think that's who wrote it, but for an event of this magnitude wouldn't SI choose someone more notable?

I'm sure it'll be one of the biggies for the Sportsman of the Year piece. Casey wrote the pre-Olympics Phelps piece and the one last week so it seems like he was her beat. I thought she did fine, although I'm sure the story at the end of the year will be more big picture.

Susan Casey is a pretty accomplished author and journalist. I don't think she's an SI staffer, so I figured she's been doing the Phelps stuff for them maybe because she's working on a book on him or something. I agree that SI's Phelps coverage hasn't knocked me out, but that might just be because I'm tired of the subject.

 

[UPChip]

Maybe they sent your magazine to the same place where the fused-together jellybeans I always got at Easter come from.

Then again, maybe we can use the Next Generation excuse and say there was some sort of temporal anomaly at the print shop?

 

[SoCalDude]

I was wondering why I didn't get my SI this week, until I discovered my daughter got it first and tore off the cover for her Phelps Phan scrap book.

 

[Shaggy]

Do you think it's possible I'm the only subscriber in America to get 16 pages of Newsweek in my SI? If so, I'd be more impressed than irritated.

 

[schiezainc]

I just checked my SI because when you mentioned your problem I thought I had it too. I remember going "WTF is this?" to a good portion of pages. Just checked. It was a 14-page tailgating advertisment that I was thinking of. **** that ****. Give me more of what I paid for. If I want ****ty ads that I'm not going to pay attention to, I'll pick up a copy of my newspaper, thank you very much.

 

[Huggy]

I'd like to know why my neighbour gets his SI before I do. I picked up his mail yesterday because he's away and there it was. I'll get mine Monday.

 

[Joe Williams]

I just checked my SI because when you mentioned your problem I thought I had it too. I remember going "WTF is this?" to a good portion of pages. Just checked. It was a 14-page tailgating advertisment that I was thinking of. **** that ****. Give me more of what I paid for. If I want ****ty ads that I'm not going to pay attention to, I'll pick up a copy of my newspaper, thank you very much.

I looked really hard this morning, but I had a difficult time finding any ads in my newspaper to ignore, ****ty or otherwise.

 

[beardpuller]

I just checked my SI because when you mentioned your problem I thought I had it too. I remember going "WTF is this?" to a good portion of pages. Just checked. It was a 14-page tailgating advertisment that I was thinking of. **** that ****. Give me more of what I paid for. If I want ****ty ads that I'm not going to pay attention to, I'll pick up a copy of my newspaper, thank you very much.

I looked really hard this morning, but I had a difficult time finding any ads in my newspaper to ignore, ****ty or otherwise.

BTW, the tailgating ad section had this odd lead photo of a barbecue that seems to be taking place in the middle of a street in Brooklyn or Greenwich Village or somewhere, with two really strange looking guys, i don't know if they're celebrity chefs or what, I wasn't interested enough to read. But the chubby one looked like he was wearing eyeliner, and the other one had sort of a maniacal, tweaking-while-I-grill aspect to him. Just thought I'd throw that in.

 

[Dyno]

I just checked my SI because when you mentioned your problem I thought I had it too. I remember going "WTF is this?" to a good portion of pages. Just checked. It was a 14-page tailgating advertisment that I was thinking of. **** that ****. Give me more of what I paid for. If I want ****ty ads that I'm not going to pay attention to, I'll pick up a copy of my newspaper, thank you very much.

I looked really hard this morning, but I had a difficult time finding any ads in my newspaper to ignore, ****ty or otherwise.

BTW, the tailgating ad section had this odd lead photo of a barbecue that seems to be taking place in the middle of a street in Brooklyn or Greenwich Village or somewhere, with two really strange looking guys, i don't know if they're celebrity chefs or what, I wasn't interested enough to read. But the chubby one looked like he was wearing eyeliner, and the other one had sort of a maniacal, tweaking-while-I-grill aspect to him. Just thought I'd throw that in.

It was chef Bobby Flay and a couple of players from the Giants. The chubby one was David Diehl and yes, it looked like something was wrong with his face.

 

[Leo Mazzone]

Write a letter. At least you'll get an ''SI regrets the error.''

 

[beardpuller]

I just checked my SI because when you mentioned your problem I thought I had it too. I remember going "WTF is this?" to a good portion of pages. Just checked. It was a 14-page tailgating advertisment that I was thinking of. **** that ****. Give me more of what I paid for. If I want ****ty ads that I'm not going to pay attention to, I'll pick up a copy of my newspaper, thank you very much.

I looked really hard this morning, but I had a difficult time finding any ads in my newspaper to ignore, ****ty or otherwise.

BTW, the tailgating ad section had this odd lead photo of a barbecue that seems to be taking place in the middle of a street in Brooklyn or Greenwich Village or somewhere, with two really strange looking guys, i don't know if they're celebrity chefs or what, I wasn't interested enough to read. But the chubby one looked like he was wearing eyeliner, and the other one had sort of a maniacal, tweaking-while-I-grill aspect to him. Just thought I'd throw that in.

It was chef Bobby Flay and a couple of players from the Giants. The chubby one was David Diehl and yes, it looked like something was wrong with his face.

Thanks Dyno. That's ironic. Many years ago, when I was an SI correspondent, the mag had a few of us out to dinner while we were covering an event in New York. The restaurant we went to was ... A Bobby Flay place. From the looks of him, I'm glad David Diehl wasn't there that night!