Anybody else perplexed by the following quote? Aside from the fact that Roy plays shooting guard and not forward, this is a wildly innacurate statement that seems totally disconnected from any reality that Im aware of. http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=290227016
Re: Roy has been disappointing? Maybe the writer meant disappointed (in not having made the playoffs). Who knows, it's only some AP writer in Minny.
Re: Roy has been disappointing? Thyts the moust bizzar thyng eyve EHVER red. "WTF" dozount du et juztuze
Who writes this stuff? A mind boggling excerpt from the AP game recap: http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=290227016 Somebody explain to me how being a rookie of the year and two time all-star in 3 years is 'disappointing' ... and how the hell do you mistake Roy for a forward, and since when is Roy just a scorer? Fuck's sake, who writes this shit?!
Re: Roy has been disappointing? Maybe, but if he meant "disappointed," it's a very vague statement. Disappointed in himself? In his team? In the team's record? In not making the playoffs?
Re: Who writes this stuff? Well it's bad enough it probably deserves 2 threads ... Seriously, who do they have writing this shit?
Presumably the AP has decided to outsource their sports coverage to China in light of the slow demise of the newspaper business.
Re: Who writes this stuff? Agreed. It's one of the most nonsensical sentences I've ever read. Very poorly written.
Hmm..I imagine that this writer was actually thinking of someone else? Like Marvin Williams or Martell Webster? I guess two-all star apperances and winning Rookie of the Year is getting off to a bad start.
Sour grapes over the Roy/Foye trade. If they call Roy a disappointing forward, maybe T-Pup fans won't feel bad because they could have had him instead of a different, vastly inferior, guard. BNM
Yahoo noticed it was ridiculously written as well, so they edited it: http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/recap;_ylt=AlKoeQySTiUJrJxScFbhpVWK0bYF?gid=2009022716&prov=ap
At least somebody took the time to hire an editor. Anyway, skipping the faux pas, I really like his "man the fuck up" sentiment towards his teammates when they are screwing up ... he can buy them a beer later and apologize after the game if needed.
My bet is it's Jon Krawcyznski, who's written all of the other Minnesota home games for the AP if you look at bylines from other games.
God. That edit is even worse writing. "He hasn't left much to be desired". It was probably written by some young intern in the Life Department in Minnesota because the Sports dept was out sick? Maybe she read the quotes Roy said, "something in me has to get better" and assumed he was disappointed in his career. I used to work at a Newspaper(not as a writer), and can tell you that the people who write stories are not necessarily knowledgeable in what they are writing about. The articles they write are then uploaded into a large AP pool, where some sleepy head person slaps it onto the website. It's the same deal with those Bo Outlaw incidents. They have a bunch of pictures in a database. So some kid probably searched for a basketball related picture with the name Outlaw, and chose the first one to come up.
