Typical Peter King

[Boom_70]

Written in June 2002

"Memo to NFL owners: Rick Spielman is not just Chris' unknown brother. He's a darned good personnel man who will make one heck of a GM. Soon."

Written Septermber 2007

"The incompetence of the Miami Dolphins front office cannot be overstated. At least the incompetence between 1998 and 2003."

Important to note that during that time Rick Spielman was director of Pro personal and became Dolphins GM. A fact that PK forgot to mention.

Peter must have forgotten all the praise he heaped on Spielman.

 

[goalmouth]

How I long for Boom's vintage undressing of MMQ, a la King. What's Mary Beth up to these days?

 

[hockeybeat]

Boomski, do you post on the South Florida message board? They, too, have a thread on PK being a twit.

http://thebullspen.com/index.php?topic=40960.0

 

[Shaggy]

Typical Peter King would be to write everything you can possibly write in the first person because of a misguided feeling of self-importance.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Written in June 2002

"Memo to NFL owners: Rick Spielman is not just Chris' unknown brother. He's a darned good personnel man who will make one heck of a GM. Soon."

Written Septermber 2007

"The incompetence of the Miami Dolphins front office cannot be overstated. At least the incompetence between 1998 and 2003."

Important to note that during that time Rick Spielman was director of Pro personal and became Dolphins GM. A fact that PK forgot to mention.

Peter must have forgotten all the praise he heaped on Spielman.

Nice catch.

 

[DanOregon]

I recall King had Aaron Brooks pegged as a perennial All-Pro as well. Good thing he's not voting for the Hall of Fame. Oh that's right, he does.
It's easy to knock King, I'm sure there are weeks he's got to come up with a dozen observations and insights other than the Patriots are good, Peyton Manning is a great qb. I think the big problem with the Dolphins was bringing in Jimmy Johnson, whose heart wasn't in it, allowing Wannstedt to take over and then bringing in Saban. Kind of hard to blame the front office when you have coaches with that much power coming and going.

 

[LiveStrong]

It's easy to knock King, I'm sure there are weeks he's got to come up with a dozen observations and insights other than the Patriots are good, Peyton Manning is a great qb.

Well, yeah. There's Brett Favre, youth sports, Brett Favre, baristas, Deanna Favre and Mary Beth. And some quarterback in Wisconsin.

 

[Double Down]

I was wondering if this might be one of King's oddest non sequiturs ever:

3. Tony Romo, QB, Dallas. Is it my imagination, or does Romo lead the league in smiling?

 

[jgmacg]

I was wondering if this might be one of King's oddest non sequiturs ever:

3. Tony Romo, QB, Dallas. Is it my imagination, or does Romo lead the league in smiling?

That one reads a little like Larry King.

"....Is there anything better than a chocolate chip cookie? With a tall glass of milk?....There is no more polished entertainer working anywhere today than Tony Danza....I like the feel of cashmere....The Yankees don't look so good....Ben Bernanke says half a point and no more. Suits me....Airlines need to widen their seats...."

 

[Captain_Kirk]

I always like to see Boom take on PK, but from this thread I must make one of two inferences:

He has a complete catalog of every Peter King column ever written

or

He has a staff of librarians whose full time job is to analyze PK's writing for inconsistencies, inanities and other boorish material.

Either way, the time and/or expense is appreciated.

 

[Joe Williams]

I was wondering if this might be one of King's oddest non sequiturs ever:

3. Tony Romo, QB, Dallas. Is it my imagination, or does Romo lead the league in smiling?

That one reads a little like Larry King.

"....Is there anything better than a chocolate chip cookie? With a tall glass of milk?....There is no more polished entertainer working anywhere today than Tony Danza....I like the feel of cashmere....The Yankees don't look so good....Ben Bernanke says half a point and no more. Suits me....Airlines need to widen their seats...."

Favorite Larry King-ism of all-time: "... Is there any better-named fruit than banana? ..."

(well, yeah, actually, Larry, there is. Orange, since it is orange!)

 

[Boom_70]

I always like to see Boom take on PK, but from this thread I must make one of two inferences:

He has a complete catalog of every Peter King column ever written

or

He has a staff of librarians whose full time job is to analyze PK's writing for inconsistencies, inanities and other boorish material.

Either way, the time and/or expense is appreciated.

Really it's not all that complex. When it comes to stuff I read I have almost total recall.. I take everything I read at face value until proven wrong by writer.

In this case I rembered King talking about Chris Spielman's brother as up and coming GM.

To find story all I needed to do was type in Peter King/Rick Spielman in google and bingo the MMQB column in question appears.

I will admit that I do have this funny vision of King trying to "boom proof" his MMQB columns. In his mind he is thinking "he is not going to get me again.

For me King has become like that Coyote in Roadrunner.

Well Peter - better luck next week.

 

[Stone Cane]

this is sad

Peter writes, what, 3000-5000 words a week? and you're going to kill him for praising somebody several years ago who has now been revealed to be inept?

and how many of us here have never done that?

show of hands?

thanks, didn't think so.

you guys come off as jealous and petty.

 

[I love puppies!]

this is sad

Peter writes, what, 3000-5000 words a week? and you're going to kill him for praising somebody several years ago who has now been revealed to be inept?

and how many of us here have never done that?

show of hands?

thanks, didn't think so.

you guys come off as jealous and petty.

Exactly. Finding contradictions betwen predictions and what actually took place is easy. Pick up any NFL/NHL/NBA/MLB preview in any newspaper or website and compare and contrast to the actual results.

Then do the same for either sport's draft. People hit and miss all the time.

 

[Boom_70]

this is sad

Peter writes, what, 3000-5000 words a week? and you're going to kill him for praising somebody several years ago who has now been revealed to be inept?

and how many of us here have never done that?

show of hands?

thanks, didn't think so.

you guys come off as jealous and petty.

Yea but many writers who render strong opinions like King , if proven wrong will admit their error before they write a contradictory one.


Just because he writes 4000- 5000 words a week it is not an excuse. I prefer writers who take their writen word as seriously as I take it when I read their work.

Now it makes you wonder if the original quote was just to blow smoke up Spielman's ass to develop a contact within Dolphin organization.

 

[MacDaddy]

this is sad

Peter writes, what, 3000-5000 words a week? and you're going to kill him for praising somebody several years ago who has now been revealed to be inept?

and how many of us here have never done that?

show of hands?

thanks, didn't think so.

you guys come off as jealous and petty.

Yea but many writers who render strong opinions like King , if proven wrong will admit their error before they write a contradictory one.


Just because he writes 4000- 5000 words a week it is not an excuse. I prefer writers who take their writen word as seriously as I take it when I read their work.

Now it makes you wonder if the original quote was just to blow smoke up Spielman's ass to develop a contact within Dolphin organization.

And it doesn't help that PK gets a little carried away praising people sometimes.

 

[playthrough]

this is sad

Peter writes, what, 3000-5000 words a week? and you're going to kill him for praising somebody several years ago who has now been revealed to be inept?

and how many of us here have never done that?

show of hands?

thanks, didn't think so.

you guys come off as jealous and petty.

Yea but many writers who render strong opinions like King , if proven wrong will admit their error before they write a contradictory one.


Just because he writes 4000- 5000 words a week it is not an excuse. I prefer writers who take their writen word as seriously as I take it when I read their work.

Now it makes you wonder if the original quote was just to blow smoke up Spielman's ass to develop a contact within Dolphin organization.

Probably. On the flip side, how many young GM's are not called "up and coming"? OK maybe not all of them have smoke blown up their rears, but few national guys like King will say "new GM Joe Smith is in over his head and unqualified." They're not going to alienate an entire organization.

 

[Boom_70]

this is sad

Peter writes, what, 3000-5000 words a week? and you're going to kill him for praising somebody several years ago who has now been revealed to be inept?

and how many of us here have never done that?

show of hands?

thanks, didn't think so.

you guys come off as jealous and petty.

Yea but many writers who render strong opinions like King , if proven wrong will admit their error before they write a contradictory one.


Just because he writes 4000- 5000 words a week it is not an excuse. I prefer writers who take their writen word as seriously as I take it when I read their work.

Now it makes you wonder if the original quote was just to blow smoke up Spielman's ass to develop a contact within Dolphin organization.

Probably. On the flip side, how many young GM's are not called "up and coming"? OK maybe not all of them have smoke blown up their rears, but few national guys like King will say "new GM Joe Smith is in over his head and unqualified." They're not going to alienate an entire organization.

But then as a reader why should we trust anything that King writes?

 

[playthrough]

this is sad

Peter writes, what, 3000-5000 words a week? and you're going to kill him for praising somebody several years ago who has now been revealed to be inept?

and how many of us here have never done that?

show of hands?

thanks, didn't think so.

you guys come off as jealous and petty.

Yea but many writers who render strong opinions like King , if proven wrong will admit their error before they write a contradictory one.


Just because he writes 4000- 5000 words a week it is not an excuse. I prefer writers who take their writen word as seriously as I take it when I read their work.

Now it makes you wonder if the original quote was just to blow smoke up Spielman's ass to develop a contact within Dolphin organization.

Probably. On the flip side, how many young GM's are not called "up and coming"? OK maybe not all of them have smoke blown up their rears, but few national guys like King will say "new GM Joe Smith is in over his head and unqualified." They're not going to alienate an entire organization.

But then as a reader why should we trust anything that King writes?

Exactly.

 

[leo1]

this reminds me of when i worked at a paper in the deep south and we'd get letters to the editor every single week saying something like 'if i were wrong in my job as often as [carl columnist, fred football pickin' guy, etc] i'd get fired.

it's apples to oranges.