not sure why he bothered to include this question (and subsequent answer) in his column. from stewart mandel's latest college football mailbag on cnnsi.com:
Why doesn't ESPN have any respect for the Georgia Bulldog program? We want a little RESPECT.-- Kenny L. Betsill, Fayetteville, Ga.
SM: I'm not sure, sir. You're going to have to take that up with the folks in Bristol.
this has the tone of a nerdy kid asking a slightly less nerdy kid why the cool kids don't like him (the first kid). kind of sad.
on the brighter side, later on stewart delivers this zinger to a media-hating reader who wishes he were cool enough to blog here at fjm:
Is your Daddy the CEO of SI or something? The reason I ask, is because you are a terrible writer. I too am a Journalist and the only way I can fathom how you got a job at Sports Illustrated is someone knew you personally and gave you a job you weren't qualified for. You need to go back to school and re-learn how to write.-- Joe, St. Louis
SM: Would it be like Billy Madison where I get to repeat each grade in two weeks? If so, I'm in. And while I'm there I'll be sure to pass along anything I learn about run-on sentences, capitalization and dangling prepositions that you might find useful in your role as a "Journalist."
joe from st. louis just got s-s-s-s-s-s-s-SLAMMED. how does it feel to be on a stewart mandel poster, joe? facial. total facial. joe will think twice the next time he wants to write a scathing "you is bad at riteing" email to a small-time sports journalist.
Haha....it's on now....GRAMMAR STYLE BITCHES!
ReplyDelete....I guess after saying that it's pretty obvious that I still look up to the "slightly less nerdy kid".
total grammar pwning.
ReplyDeletethat should be a label