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Ever since I began blogging way back in the hazy, crazy days of 2009, one of my favorite writing topics has been to insult the work of others. You see, when you lack a certain talent to do something, it just becomes quite a bit easier to criticize the hard work of others.
Since I feel like we sometimes get a little too nice around SB Nation Arizona (my god, we need to acronym that), I’m going to bring some of that critical flavor here.
We begin with the Associated Press piecing together a relatively simple write-up on the Suns acquisition of Hedo Turkoglu. Yet it was a line about departed forward Amar’e Stoudemire, not Turkoglu, which left me scratching my head. Check it out:
A five-time All-Star and dominating presence in the lane, Stoudemire could score and rebound like few forwards in the league
In case you’re simple, I bolded the offending portion. Score like few forwards in the league? Check. Rebound like few forwards in the league? Wait, what?
The only possible explanation this handsome columnist can muster is that the AP writer meant that Stoudemire rebounds like few forwards in the league in that he does it worse than most forwards. That’s gotta be it.
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I also don't like
that many outlets labeled Babby as the new Suns GM. I know its a nitpicky point, but when its mentioned in the same article, or on the same day as another AP report of Dell Demps being targeted BY Babby for the Suns GM post… it nags me. What’s so wrong with being 100% accurate as an AP reporter?
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by Alex Laugan on Jul 22, 2010 9:54 AM MST reply actions
agree 100% ... totally bugged me
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by Justin Burning on Jul 22, 2010 10:09 AM MST up reply actions
To be fair
it was a new guy…lets give him a bit of a break
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by Seth Pollack on Jul 22, 2010 10:22 AM MST up reply actions
who was a new guy?
the AP reporter?
well that was just one example, or that article was posted on lots of different websites. And if that’s the case, the new guy should learn his lesson real fast.
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by Alex Laugan on Jul 23, 2010 6:54 AM MST up reply actions
Doesn't matter if he's a new guy.
If you’re hired to a position, especially with AP, you’ve got to get your stuff together.
However, maybe he meant the scoring + rebounding combination. I don’t know of any better rebounding forwards that can score as well as he does.
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by Trevor Paxton on Jul 24, 2010 12:18 AM MST up reply actions
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