It's sad how the media doesn't take responsibility for turning on Lache Seastrunk

man twitter sucks … i have no idea what that says, and/or who said what

That is apparently his way of gauging success. More is always better.

I cannot even begin to imagine how annoyed and frustrated I would be if columnists were pouring over all the private details of my own life.

That’s the real issue here. I feel like you went a tad over that Matt, which is why some guys might take offense. I can’t imagine having the national media poking prodding and pouring over my life for months on end as an 18/19 year old. It’d emotionally and mentally drain me.

I’ve been scouring message boards and tweets trying to find examples of Oregon fans bashing Seastrunk. I’m coming up empty — unless observations like “he didn’t seem to want to hit the holes hard enough” are considered matters of personal treason.

There have been numerous posts, both here and on the other sites, by those following fall practice, stating Lache was going to have lots of competition for the #3 RB spot. But nothing that I’d come close to interpreting as “turning” on Lache.

We have jerk fans — all teams do — but in my experience we’re pretty selective on the players we dump on. Masoli comes to mind (and lord knows we gave him a lot of rope).

I’m still looking, because I’d hate to think that a writer would just make up an observation to fit the angle of his column.

We can’t put the genie back in the bottle, the world is what it is and it’s a world where journalists break news via Twitter, the same place that 13 year old girls go to talk about what they ate for lunch.

I believe the problem is guys like Canzano who take the story and make it personal, both about their subject and as a writer. An impartial journalist can write a personal side to a story, and a columnist can write his personal opinion on the goings on of a sports team. But the columnists are now going inside that person’s life, while at the same time using that access as a tool or weapon to sell their own agenda instead of the subject. The story of “Chip Kelly has done A, B, and C, what do you think it means?” is drowned out by “Chip Kelly is a terrible man, an awful coach, and his father smelt of elderberries. I site examples A, B, and C as proof that my opinion is fact.”

The Howard Stern’s of sports are not going to go away. There will always be someone looking to make a name for himself, or make a buck, by saying something stupid or controversial. There’s no such thing as bad publicity and these days having attention is considered success, even if the attention comes from everyone pointing and laughing at you, or just shaking their heads before they change the channel. The balance is the world of AtQ and similar sites, with a dash of Yahoo Sports and Rob Moseley out there to remind us that real journalism is endangered, not extinct. All we can do is offer a balance to the stuff we disagree with and do our best to avoid crossing the line, even as we watch others do so. Besides, once they start playing football games we won’t be talking about this garbage anyway.

If you stop talking about him, he will be gone in no time folks.

I think sadly we are in an abusive relationship, we hate each other, but one of us needs the other, while the other hates them but can’t let them go. I’ll be honest and say I have stuck up for Schroeder a few times, the stuff with his kid, new guy on the block, but I see him falling under Senator Palpatano’s long reach. Why I also see a difference with Mosley and Schroder is it feels local coverage and Op-Eds should generate comments and responses by us.

But if what your saying is, that if we really want to play a part in not feeding the troll, and see this guy fuck off back to CA, then a true boycott is what we need. Then I’ll sign off on that and never utter his assness’ name again, but just like a strike, its all or nothing and can we truly, honestly, never mention him again? (Genuine question not statement)

i wish UW was good so we’d actually talk about them instead like they do us.

Successful Troll Canzano is Successful.

Shit. I was thinking about changing my name to Bill Ballgame. But apparently that name is taken.

I have no idea what this post is asking for. It seems like it might be referring to me and challenging me to do something, but in truth I don’t have a fucking clue what you are trying to say, or if it actually refers to me at all (I have heard of the real Musgrave referred to as Billy Ballgame) or someone else, or an imaginary unicorn like creature.

As such, so far I have done nothing as usual, please clarify if I am supposed to do the dishes or something.