Category: Cleveland Chatter (Page 4 of 5)

Note to sports bloggers. Don’t try to blog anything in the PD before….let’s see, what time is it now….8.30 am, because as of this ungodly hour, Cleveland.com still has YESTERDAY’S sports content at the sports page.

I’m now writing a post or two a day over at our sister site, The Scores Report. Today, I slam NFL refs, and talk a bit about college football. Add it to your favorite list…unless, of course, you don’t like me.

What do you write about on a Sunday when there’s no Browns game, replaced by a Tribe game that I can’t even bear to watch? How about how shitty the PD is? Endless supply of content there!

First of all, memo to sports bloggers. If you wake up on Sunday and look at the PD, and wanna quote and link to the PD in your early Sunday blog posts, you won’t be able to. PD’s stories aren’t online at 9 am Sunday morning…at least not this Sunday. Cleveland.com must be a union shop….either that, or the shittiest website on the planet…I think the latter is more likely.

Second, if the Browns aren’t playing, the Sunday sports section guys must take the weekend off. Their NFL preview column leaves out the teams’ won-loss records. So you look at this big list of game previews, with “The Skinny”, “Grossi’s Picks”, but to get the teams’ won-loss record, you gotta search through the rest of the paper. Nice editing, fellas. How can you tell how important the game is without the won-loss records?

Third….did I mention I love having coffee and reading the sports page on Sundays?

Why does every sports talk show in Cleveland use the same 1980’s music for lead ins? You got the Van Halen, the George Thorogood, even the Don Henley!?!?! Don FUCKING Henley? Guys, this music is so old your kids probably never heard of them. Dirty Laundry was overplayed to death about three weeks after it came out, why would anyone ever want to hear it again? Let alone over and over. Have you guys listened to any music in the last 20 years?

This is fucked up…

FBI special agent Scott Wilson, speaking by phone from Cleveland, confirmed the bureau’s probe Monday, saying “we have an ongoing open investigation into racially threatening letters to Jeter and others across the country.” He declined to comment further….In an interview broadcast Sunday on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” Jeter said that he and his sister were taunted for being bi-racial while growing up in Michigan. But the soft-spoken, cool-headed Yankee said that he has never heard any racial epithets from the fans at Yankee Stadium in his 11 seasons as a Yankee.

St. Ignatius and St. Edward, two Roman Catholic high schools in Cleveland with well-known sports programs, received threatening letters addressed to student athletes last fall.

If the guy writing that hate mail is reading this blog, let me tell you something, asshole. You are a disgrace to Cleveland, and you’re going to deserve everything that you’re gonna get when they find your sorry ass.