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( Well, I had meant to put this simply as a response to my own post. However, googleminds does not allow more than a few phrases, so I have to go this way, and create a separate post.)
But I guess there’s the rub.
Sportsnet Magazine, or
whatever it’s called, then added the Yankees, the Celtics, the NZ All-Blacks,
Real Madrid, the Packers, etc. In other
words, the “greatest uniform” issue wasn’t really about that at all; rather, it
was about: “what is the most successful franchise so that we can say they have
the best uniforms?” Sad. Even their also-rans (Flyers, Cardinals) are
teams that had more success than most teams.
So, if the point of your exercise, unlike mine, is simply to say “which
franchise made the most money”. . . well, ok, it’s Rogers, Rogers
Sportsnet. Put a picture of Ted Rogers
and his kids on the Blue Jays uniform and it’s #1, uniformly. The Toronto Teds’ kids—that’s the best one of
all. Yes.
Oh all right, I also justified some of my own choices that
way. Oh all right. It’s just how they had to copy _everything_!!
-zr
( Well, I had meant to put this simply as a response to my own post. However, googleminds does not allow more than a few phrases, so I have to go this way, and create a separate post.)
Man, did this post go viral, or what. I got a lot of hits, but. Only a few weeks after I posted it, I heard
the guys on my “sports” radio station going over the same topic exactly. Then lo,’ today I’m waiting in line at the
supermarket, and I see the *cover story* is my topic—greatest uniforms—for the
still relatively new Rogers Sportsnet magazine. You’re welcome, mainstream media. I think I even heard some bit of piped-in
American media on this topic, too, but I can’t remember now. Back in the day, a “magazine” would have some
new idea to break, but the best Rogers
Oh, it’s not an original idea, and it’ll come back again
soon, but it’s nice to know I gave the mainstream media some ideas they’d
otherwise be without and searching for like car keys under a brass rail.
You could say, if you don’t like the blog, “No, dude, it’s
just this unusually major coincidence,” but then you’d be faced with names and dates and this huge
logic mountain to have to climb and get up over, and you’d need Lance on steroidal
steroids to do that.
Anyway, whatever your perspective, it is an interesting
object lesson in how the mainstream media, which always complains that the web
and the blogosphere and so on have no credibility, are now beholden entirely to
the very media they revile. Mainstream
“journalists” will often bemoan that webkids just repeat and retweet and don’t
really have to ‘work’ like them. I’m
quite sympathetic to this mainstream media argument, really. I do think that there’s such a thing as a
journalist, but it’s becoming increasingly vestigial. Take Mags Wente--holds a dinner party and writes about it and calls it work. Gets a hip replacement and it's "news." Take Christie Blatchford--Obie won't sleep with her and it's news. Friend's in tough with a hockey rink and it's "news." In fact, it could be that these so-called "mainstream" journalists were just the canaries in the coalmines. By refusing actually to do any journalism, but rather have dinner parties and talk about dog parks, they inspired people to say, well, if that's what it is, I can do that, too, and better.
These gals could get a job, but they don't have to--all they have to do is *just be right-wing enough.* Brains checked at the door. What a sad retroversion for women everywhere.
Anyway.
First of all, media and journalism is
disappearing into partisan entertainment.
Second of all, there is no spectrum, owing to corporate mainstream media
concentration, so if you want to work, you have not only to have Stalinist
sensibilities, but to anticipate them.
And thirdly, media organizations and journalists themselves believe that
they just don’t have the money or the time any more (in reality, they do) to
actually do journalism, so they just
end up like the boys at Rogers sportsnet, sitting at their computers reading my
blog and riffing on it. Back in the day,
a Rogers Rogers could hire journalists, to do a
job, but instead Rogers
I know where I got the idea for the topic, but one sort of
subliminal reason I must have come up with it for is precisely because, in
relentless marketing pushes, so many once-proud franchises have introduced more
or less a new jersey
In the grocery-store lineup, I saw that Rogers Sportsnet magazine
placed the Habs first. Well, this is Canada
Like me, the magazine also referred to jerseys of days gone
by, but people, honestly, I only had really a couple of minutes before my
groceries just advanced too far down that black rubber conveyor belt and there
were other people behind me. If I see a
left copy of the magazine at the gym, I’ll look at it.
If you want to find out which teams in history have made the
most money and won the most championships (but you don’t really care one way or
the other about uniforms)—then go check out Rogers Sportsnet magazine after
you’ve found your way to my blog that came out months earlier.
-zr
