fuck off rick reilly

i realized that we somehow don't have thread for telling rick reilly to fuck off

fuck off rick reilly

dont know if he's done anything recently to provoke this but I cosign 100%

YESSSSSS

http://frontrow.espn.go.com/2014/03/rick-reilly/

omg i did it

http://deadspin.com/rick-reillys-latest-self-plagiarism-is-the-worst-1519836119

"presenting his weekly four-minute human interest features as well as other features and essays for SportsCenter and Sunday NFL Countdown."

This could be awful.

His "human interest stories" are just pathetic.

reilly's written some of the best sports journalism ever. kind of mailed it in toward the end, but hey, people get old

This could be awful.

Not if you don't ever watch those shows!

reilly's written some of the best sports journalism ever

right up there with 'leno used to be a good comic'

i wouldn't credit simmons -- he totally cares about who's going to win the nba title, and some boston stuff, and bro joeks, but that's it -- but: Why the ESPN columnist couldn't survive in the era of Bill Simmons and Nate Silver

that makes me pine for the days when Hunter S Thompson was the resident espn.com columnist

reilly signing and simmons annoyance at that ridiculous deal they gave reilly was definitely a factor in espn giving him grantland. thompson was part of that initial page 2 crew w/ halberstam that simmons came right after, ralph wiley was the best of that bunch and the only one who wasn't cashing an easy check.

hi, i know nothing about rick reilly except that during one soccer world cup he essentially dismissed the entire sport as unsophisticated & primitive because it employs the use of legs, which are in evolutionary terms mere transportation devices, and then claimed that american sports were far the superior in every regard because they depend on manual dexterity, which is the mark of an intelligent hominid

obviously it was one of the most profoundly stupid things i've ever seen

classic reilly then

the main problem reilly has, as far as i can tell, is that he doesn't seem to like sports that much. he was a great writer of features that happened to include sports, but that's abt it.

I quit reading Reilly after his ESPN magazine column lamenting how much white guys/athletes get made fun of

the evidence: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/inside_game/magazine/life_of_reilly/news/2002/01/30/life_of_reilly/

the basic problem is that no one has an endless supply of interesting things to say -- even in sports, where there is constantly new material to work with. columnists need term limits

reilly's been pretty open about not even liking sports that much, that he just wanted to be a writer and he ended up a sports writer the same way cowherd is pretty upfront about not even liking sports that much he just wanted to be a radio man.

reilly's been pretty open about not even liking sports that much

so rough, being forced to write about something you dislike for 30 years. go write tuesdays with morrie *and* gtfo

This is a guy who responded to criticism by tweeting a picture of his wife and saying "scoreboard"

his human interest stories kinda remind me a bit of the saccharine weeper pieces that walking creepshow bob greene used to specialize in when he wrote for the chicago tribune.

reilly's written some of the best sports journalism ever. kind of mailed it in toward the end, but hey, people get old

― k3vin k., Thursday, March 13, 2014 7:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nope not even close. He may have had some decent articles in the 80s or 90s but that work has been completely obliterated by his stuff since.

some of his old stuff was more than "decent" but I agree with Bill, no way will I be able to look at the career of Rick Reilly with anything more than a *wanking motion*

some of his old stuff was more than "decent" but I agree with Bill, no way will I be able to look at the career of Rick Reilly with anything more than a *wanking motion*

― frogbs, Friday, March 14, 2014 2:48 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not sure this made the point you intended it to

haw

oh, I think it did :D

http://i.imgur.com/rXL16Tr.jpg

I'm sure kaymer really appreciates that. Jesus, what could Reilly possibly be thinking.

http://deadspin.com/rick-reillys-still-got-it-1783153148

https://twitter.com/craigcalcaterra/status/750445443381882880

When I was the only person I knew who read Sports Illustrated cover-to-cover (for the writing! I couldn't care less who won what) I had to assume, based on his prominence as the author of the last page of every issue, that the guy had interesting things to say, or knew what he was talking about. So much "old media" got consumed in isolation like this, in my experience anyway, and if nothing else one of the genuinely great things about blogs and social media is getting to have nationwide network effects to help remind each other that no, this guy sucks, and all the other ones like him, it doesn't matter who they work for.

^^^

yeah totally OTM, esp true in sports but in general local newspaper columnists who because i simply grew up in Minnesota so we read the Star Tribune, i had some kind of respect for and now the ones who are still legging it out are like good lord this person is a fucking idiot

so many reheated hot takes from guys like him all the time, 24/7, in every newspaper in the country.

this is great - seeing all those tweets one after the other is like taking a sewage shower

http://awfulannouncing.com/2016/rick-reilly-continues-tarnishing-legacy-one-tweet-at-a-time.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

that Isis Cafe tweet!

kate upton should file a restraining order