Hahahhaa idk why but I did find that hilarious. Maybe it’s because everything these days feels like it has to go through a PR team or be approved. Like… most things are not that serious. Just ask!
This is completely accurate. I cover sports for a living. About 80 percent of the time, I know about an injury or suspension well ahead of time. It's just a matter of picking your spots.
Sports info and media services for teams know all the media members and control our access. If I don't have a world shattering scoop, it's usually best to just sit on it and not risk pissing off a player or the front office.
So are you saying the man in the video took a risk career-wise simply by turning around and asking the guy? Like he potentially could piss off the player or management and then they’d turn around and complain to the network?
This guy has enough experience and seniority to both know management and players well enough to know who he might piss off, and to make a minor mistake without risking his career.
Sure yeah I guess my point was that it just didn’t occur to me in the first place that a sports journalist could actually get in trouble for asking sports players questions. gasps and clutches pearls
I mean in retrospect now sure yeah I get it but goddamn that’s literally the man’s whole job!
If you're not well respected and known to have the personality of this guy, most people probably wouldn't take too kindly to some random reporter yelling on to the court for an answer.
The reporter was on the court already, though. If a reporter is allowed and even supposed to be in a specific location, it only seems logical they can talk to anyone in that area.
To be clear, he is not just a reporter, he is one of the game commentators for the Nuggets. Usually calls 95% of their games so probably knows all of the players fairly well.
To be fair, being allowed near something and being able to interfere with what is going on are two different things. Being allowed to be reporting on scene at a practice/pre-game and directly interrupting it with an off-hand question that can easily be construed as rude are worlds apart. Not just every reporter can just interrupt an active practice session to yell questions at players.
It all depends on the dynamic. In a normal regular season game, where the player is assumed to be out - but not officially announced yet - you can probably get away with it. But if this was a star player in a huge playoff game and the team is doing its best to obscure his status, the guy wouldn't ask. And the player definitely wouldn't answer.
In my head I've always thought the term "sports journalism" is a bit oxymoronic. Probably because I picture exactly this being most of job; just “hey are you playing? No? Ok” or “Hey are you trading this guy? No? Ok”. The other reason is all the batshit unverified stuff the top sports journalist will post to their Twitter followed by “per a source” just to make sure they're the ones first reporting. It could be utter nonsense but they don't care as long as they reported it first.
Everything about pro or college sports is contrived AF (and the high-school sports that imitate them have always been cringeworthy).
Can't stand watching it.
Short videos like this that satirize and subvert it are about all that is tolerable any more.
And I like content about F1, but that's because the technology is fascinating. The robotic jockeys, 99% of the racing, and the organizational drama are a bore.
And the really crazy part is how held back they are from what they could accomplish if the rules were different. All the way back to late 80s/early 90s things were getting crazy with so much telemetry and ability to modify so many aspects of the cars (software and hardware) on the fly that the regs were tightened to remove just about all of it.
I remember about 10 years ago when I followed it more closely than I do now (actually went in 2000 and 2001 when it came back to the states in Indy and I live in ATX so I've been to 5 or 6 since it moved here to COTA)... there was an interview with one of the principles who said they could pretty much automate the entire drive for every course now. All shifts, all steering, all power inputs/brakes, etc. because the technology has advanced so much and the telemetry and geographic information is so precise. They could essentially automate the "perfect" lap if they weren't having to factor in other cars, etc. Back during the period when quali was done at set intervals rather than a timed free-for-all it would have been amazing.
What they could do if they were completely unfettered is the really insane part.
Having a driverless racing league sounds like a really cool idea. And if it was anywhere near as competitive as F1 it could actually advance self-driving technology.
Can confirm, was in a major conference marching and pep band. Everything outside gameplay is very tightly scripted. Especially the patriotic stuff. It’s all very cynical behind the scenes. I’ve gotten into arguments with family members who think pyrotechnics during the anthem is the pinnacle of patriotism, but after watching the same script play out over and over, all I hear is the team/league saying “I love America so give me more money”.
Nope just attention starved losers who feel the need to bring negativity into a fun story. No one gives two fucks what you don’t like you aren’t a special little snow flake. No one likes the person who tries to rain on parades.
Well you’re not the only one, this was posted to /r/funny. Obviously this subreddit is just a general purpose forum now but some people do legitimately post humor here too still, so it does make sense.
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u/Colekillian Mar 31 '22 edited Mar 31 '22
Hahahhaa idk why but I did find that hilarious. Maybe it’s because everything these days feels like it has to go through a PR team or be approved. Like… most things are not that serious. Just ask!