In Which Ron Wilson Trolls Damien Cox

WARNING: Really stupid/dumb.

Howard Berger is irrelevant these days. Although it wouldn’t surprise me if they laughed at him. lol.

When they got on Twitter I thought they’d just be regurgitating media lines. Turns out they’ve figured out how to use Twitter with alarming speed

Exactly, Cox is an idiot. The Bruins didn’t tell anyone Rask was starting either, OMG JULIEN IS MORALLY EVIL!!

Remember how Steve Simmons was censured for his piece about Sundin’s hip? The media are a role model for accountability.

two mismatched mittens and a Twix bar in net.

milk snort

To laugh at how deluded those guys are thinking they’re relevant? That’s the only reason I can think of. They’re becoming more like clowns and less like journalists every day.

that about sums it up

It’s crazy. In an era where media personnel should be trying to convince readers that they can provide both unique content (access) and interesting analysis, too many seem to try and hold the access hostage. If I want to know what’s happening in the press conference, or in the locker room, I need to sit through Cox’s berating “if you like the Leafs, you’re an unabashed homer and you’re an idiot.”

I just don’t understand why Damien – or the Star – are so interested in spurning their own readers. I guess it’s an attention thing.

Because there is still a generation of people (like my father) who has no interest in doing any of the things you just suggested. Sports news to my father is what he watches while he exercises before work, reads in the paper over breakfast, and hears on the radio while he is driving.

The closest thing he does to a “new media” approach to getting sports information is checking sports scores live on the TSN app.

While sports jounalists like the guys you mentioned are becoming increasingly irrelevant there still is a market for them. Just much smaller than before.

Given the transformation of sports coverage, why should I, or anyone else, read the likes of Cox, Simmons, Berger etc.? I can’t think of a single reason.

Someone may be hearing footsteps, but I don’t think it’s Wilson.

I think he is refferring to Gus, as a justification for his tantrum

Or, you know, a coach’s right to make roster decisions in the days leading up to a game.

Not to get into moral relativism, but the coach changing starting goalies three days later doesn’t seem to be of the same magnitude as other “lies”

Cox’s outrage seems out of scale with Wilson’s fib.

That 13-4-2 stat is pretty awesome.

14-6-2 against teams not named “Bruins” is crazy in and of itself.

Wilson and Burke often engage in tactics that they think will take media attention away from their players, especially their goalies. Wilson has repeatedly (and successfully) been deceptive about which goalie was starting in order to draw the media away (Reimer’s first game last year, Scrivens first game this year, Reimer’s return last night). I think that’s smart management. I don’t particularly care whether I’m being lied to about a topic as meaningless as who’s going to start in goal during a hockey game. People should be reading between the lines anyway, there’s no point in taking a GM or coach at his word all the time.

Everyone knew who was actually starting 7 hours before game time. Who, exactly, got hurt by Wilson saying he’d told Jonas to be ready, days beforehand, when it was possible for Reimer to have a setback?

I can’t be blocked by him because I don’t follow him, and I’d rather stick my head in a blender than follow him.

Exactly. The media should gather information objectively and not consider it personal when they are given incomplete or inaccurate information. No reader of the Star or any other outlet is going to be like “the Star is giving me inaccurate information”. They know that these outlets are literally just a mouthpiece of the players and coaches.

Again Mirtle raised the good point that it isn’t that they need to tell them anything. Its that when they do, they should be honest.

WHOOSH?

Were really good at making a gigantic controversy out of nothing. Such fanboys.

Unfortunately this is true; more often than not, it does seem like athletes get criticized when they give honest answers. It absolutely forces them to revert to the tired cliches and boring answers.
I thought Franson’s response was refreshing; he didn’t strike me as whining, he was basically just angry about being benched and wanted to prove himself. GOOD! You’re SUPPOSED to be angry! Now go out there and kick some ass!
(which he didn’t, of course, but the sentiment at the time was admirable.)

Side note: I originally found this site directly because I was sick of Damien Cox and needed some alternative form of Leafs coverage.

and reply play fail and spelling fail and I’m out.

Tip for NYTimes if you’re over your limit: google the article title.

yadda yadda yadda, something about a book being released.

Where did you get this gif? Did you make it? It’s so smooth..

well the book is out on his glove hand

Before we had internet, blogs and Twitter, we had a lot less competition for the dicks. Everyone got the newspaper and would just read it and say “What a dick!”

Now, we’ve got all this choice out there and, not surprisingly, we’re choosing not to read Cox, Berger, Simmons etc. If anything, this tells us there are more better choices out there.

And maybe, just maybe, Ron Wilson and Brian Burke are helping us find them (deliberately or not…)…

BB and RW now tag teaming Cox. Beauty

I totally would have taken the boy to see this. Blargh. Oh well. Next year (or the year after that… or some day, assuming they ever do this again.)

DAMN IT.