In praise of the Browns front office… so far
October 10, 2013
While We’re Waiting… Quick like a bunny
October 11, 2013
This week was light on podcasts because my life got in the way, but I still got Casual Friday in with Denny.
Field Turf fields and how novel they were when Denny was in high school
The cost of putting in a field turf field
Co-ed sports and rag-tag teams that are tossed together
Denny’s egregious foul
Denny getting chippy with the competition
Playing rec leagues for charity
Pink in the NFL for awareness
The awareness arms race
The ribbon shaped bagels at Panera
The Microsoft Office Live yellow commercial scroll looked like flags
XBox and video game platforms
Mobile gaming vs. MP3 players
FLAC files and OGG Vorbis files
The console gaming industry that slows down the PC gaming industry
Diablo 2 and Medal of Honor
Chief Wahoo article on WFNY by Andrew
Denny and why his not understanding Craig’s post about Stevie
Facebook commenters don’t read posts and just comment
The cost of changing with the Indians
The Rock and Roll Half Marathon and being pumped up for your friends
Denny’s lack of marathon training
Matt Schaub and fans chasing him down
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You really can’t use the phrase “the natives are restless” to describe the Cleveland response to the Chief Wahoo post. But it does show how ingrained the negative attitudes & stereotypes towards native Americans are in our culture. And that helps demonstrate why the Chief has to go.
I have to admit that I was in the same boat as Denny, I just didn’t get it. That’s not a criticism, we were just on different wavelengths, and I had a hard time telling how much was real and how much was made up. And that kind of made me uncomfortable reading it. You pretty ruthlessly attacked this character, and I couldn’t tell when you were attacking the actual person, or attacking the fiction. As you explain that you were pretty much making up everything, I can appreciate the piece more as a work of art, but the fact remains, that’s still an actual, real-life, human out there, and you assumed the worst about him to denigrate him. That’s just . . . rough.
Craig, I know we’ve had our issues here, and we disagree on a lot of things. I know I frequently come off as overly-critical, but I’m saying this as someone who enjoys the site, and comes here because I enjoy the work and commentary.
I appreciate the comment. I realize that’s a real person and that’s why I did everything I could to make him fake. I didn’t do any searching to find out who he really was. I took it to a really superficial, fake realm. I wanted to play to my angry, irrational, negative side. I thought it would be instructive that I would only do that to what amounts to a made up caricature.
I fully admit it’s a weird post and self-indulgent. I specifically posted it at the end of a day so it wasn’t in “prime time”
In all reality, I’m the guy who always says people who fight on the Internet should meet up for a beer and talk.
I’m still happy I wrote it, but I can’t imagine writing anything similar again.
twice…freaking twice they ran us down hill just to run back up hill in Tremont.
3 times they threw in completely unnecessary hills. I suspect they did it because it was “cheaper” for them to run you down and then back up in the first 3 miles than closing the Detroit superior bridge. Same thing in Tremont. It was cheaper to run around clark fields than it was to close 10-20 additional blocks in Detroit shoreway or Ohio city.
Very unhappy with the experience. Certainly unhappy with how much that cost Vis a vis what they delivered.
The Map is not the Terrain…. It was like an intern put the course together as their “project”. They heard that D/S, Ohio City, Tremont, and Downtown were the “cool” neighborhoods, lets put a course connecting all of them. How cool would that be!!!
Stev EEE’s bro buddy Chip or Sorority girl friend Britnee put this stuff together
Its not like we haven’t had a marathon here for what the last 20? 30? years, why not use their work? why are you re-inventing the wheel?
So am I a racist because I am part (50%) Indian but don’t mind the Indians logo?
Just a field conversion from natural to synthetic should only cost $600,000 – $800,000. There are a lot of “vendors” out there but only a few true “manufacturing” turf companies that make and install the turf. Vendors are risky as they don’t have the financial strength to stand behind the warranties they offer. The product is called “synthetic turf” or “artificial turf”. “Field Turf” is a name brand like “Astro Turf”. These two companies have been in the business the longest. The third big turf company, probably the most complete manufacturing company, and definitely the most financialy sound (warranty) is Shaw Sports Turf, a division of Shaw Industries (Subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway).
Good to have feedback from someone who has run races in downtown before. Great point about cost / value. I am sure it was an expensive race to hold, but the pre-race shenanigans in the convention center were overblown, and I really didn’t feel like there were that many bands on the course.
That is a really good point, and honestly isn’t even a thing that I’d thought of. And you’re right.