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    Dating An Older Woman

    in Off the Wall Archives

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    Didn't get laid after the dinner date. We made out, but I had her engage in contact. We made out for 5 minutes and she was cooing. I know she wants it, but she is making sure I'm not in to it for just that.

     

     

     

     

    I do want to see her again. Just need to know how to keep intriguing an older woman who is out of my league.

     

    Bro, she'd be out of your league if you were the same age. The age difference knocks you up a couple of pegs and pretty much puts you on even footing. Don't ever go into a relationship, serious or otherwise, with a chip on your shoulder. You want to find a way OUT of a relationship quickly? Project a lack of confidence.

    Walking Dead

    in Off the Wall Archives

    Posted

    Now that it seems like most of the main players in this thread have chimed in, let me ask:

     

    Did anyone else get the feeling that Shayne wanted Rick to kill him? The writing on this show is pretty erratic so it is hard to tell what the motivation is of the characters sometimes...but you remember that (awesome) scene a few weeks ago, where Shayne was just staring out the window at the business-man "walker" in the field...was that a euphimism for Shayne realizing that he is no better than a zombie at this point, always on the outside of the group? The proverbial "man standing in the field"? When Shayne talks to Randy (the names on this show kill me) in the barn, he seems to be going through some inner-turmoil. Was it Laurie givning him some "false hope" that they could be together again, or was it the realization of how miserable his existence was in this world? Don't know why he just didn't try to stay hooked up with the blonde lady...as annoying as she is!

     

    Anyway, if you are an original "Star Trek" nerd like I was (as a lad) hard not to draw a parallel between Kirk/Spock/McCoy and Rick/Shayne/Dale. On the old Trek show, it was more obvious, but Spock was supposed to be the logical, rooted one, while McCoy was the emotional, humanist...Kirk was supposed to embody the best of both of them. Shayne, for as unstable as he was, was more often right than wrong, and focused...Dale was always concerned about the group losing their humanity...while Rick tries to balance what is best for the group, and what is best for the individual. Well, Spock and McCoy are now dead!

     

     

     

     

    If spoiler guy was right, and 3 regular characters die before the end of the season, could T-Dog be the third? Would anyone notice? Or will it be Herschel?

     

    The chick who plays Maggie said the same thing on that Talking Dead aftershow. She thought Shayne wanted Rick to shoot him and put him out of his misery

    I'm tired of mistakingly clicking on Bob Matthews editorials

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted

    Ok, so I see the article entitled "Bills will watch their wallet" on TBD this morning and think to myself, "that's interesting; I've heard from Buddy that they'll be aggressive in FA, so I wonder if anything new was reported."

     

    Of course, after clicking on the link I see it's nothing more than horse-racing expert Matthews opining about what players the Bills will target, with absolutely no news of any sort to back it up.

     

    As a potential TBD upgrade, could we possibly get the author's name added to the article description so we know whose trash we're about to read?

     

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    New Bleacher Report

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted · Edited by ndirish1978

    Okay... I've seen it over and over on this thread. Nobody reads Bleacher Report, nobody trusts Bleacher Report and when people post something from Bleacher Report, most everybody on this forum blasts it as B.S. I'm not here to start arguments, because I've read The Stadium Wall for the better part of 10 years and believe that Bills fans that post and reply here, are for the most part, intelligent and engaging. But as a guy who's been paid as a sports journalist and covered the Bills, Redskins and Ravens as a credentialed beat reporter, I feel obligated to speak my mind here.

     

    First of all, breaking into sports journalism is incredibly difficult. Always has been and always will be. But it's even harder now... When I started out in the business 15 years ago, all I could do was beg for an internship, in hopes of making a resume tape to send out on VHS. I would send out the tape for a year or so, and if I didn't get a job offer, I'd find another internship and make another tape.

     

    Now-a-days, there are similarities, but getting that "big break" is even more difficult. There seems to be a lot less of "what-have-you-done-for-me-lately?", and much more of "what did you accomplish yesterday and today?

     

    With electronic and mobile media, you've got to be CURRENT as a journalist. You have to be proactive with story ideas, aggressive with breaking news and write creatively, quickly and concisely. You also have to be engaged in social media and be ready to prove it. Sports executives in PR, Marketing, TV, Radio and Newspapers don't want to see what you've accomplished in the past. They want to see what you're doing NOW and how you're interacting with your audience!

     

    And that's what's so impressive about Bleacher Report. It offers a place to learn, improve and get noticed. Writers who seek employment with other media outlets can instantly show results of their work and the feedback that it earned. And that's huge for those trying to break into a field that normally chews you up and spits you out.

     

    In its infancy (2008), BR offered a platform for fans to speak their minds. But as time has passed, it has become a much more competitive place, where fans have to be serious about their writing. If facts aren't correct, columns get rejected. And in case you're wondering, opinion and speculation are WELCOME on Bleacher Report, not because the website is a joke, but because users of online media flock to opinion and speculation. They love to read about it and they love to react to it.

     

    I personally busted my ass to break into sports journalism and like many writers on Bleacher Report, I appreciated the places that allowed me to do it. I eventually interviewed Hall of Famers, World Champions and Olympic Gold Medalists, but I never cared about the small towns I lived in, or the pennies I made. I was a journalist, it was in my blood, and I loved every minute of it. Still do.

     

    So, before you start trashing a website that offers a unique platform for both, veteran AND aspiring journalists, get your facts straight and stop ripping it, because everybody else does. Better yet, register for the site and write a Bills story of your own. I guarantee you that you'll find it pretty damn difficult to gather information, find sources, link to those sources and build a story from start to finish. And if you complete the task, your story will be analyzed by senior editors. If your grammar and style don't cut it, you WON'T get published. And if you make it past the editors, you can be certain that your story will be correct, from a FACTUAL and grammatical standpoint. If you screwed up somewhere, they'll send you a note and tell you to fix it, in order to get published.

     

    Here's what most of you don't know about Bleacher Report... 1. BR has a board of directors, a team of editors, lead journalists, senior writers, IT engineers, and sales & marketing divisions. 2. Many of the writers GET PAID and are just as professional as the ones at Yahoo Sports, Fox Sports, and ESPN.com. Many writers and editors receive credentials by BR to cover teams and events. This year's Super Bowl? 100 representatives of BR attended. 3. BR is a NATIONAL MEDIA PARTNER of many of the sports sites that you consider legit. CBSSports.com? Media Partner. USA Today? Media Partner. Comcast SportsNet? Media Partner. Coincidentally, some of the columns you read on these sites are written by BR writers, because BR shares its most popular stories with media partners, who re-publish them on THEIR sites. 4. You may not care to read BR, but the site gets approximately 25 million hits per month, which literally trounces ESPN.com. If you don't believe me, here's a link that proves it. 5. BR doesn't accept anybody and everybody. And if you wish to be paid, you have to build a large portfolio of articles that are reviewed by senior staff. A lot of applications for paid spots get rejected, but writers are encouraged to reapply. 6. BR is not run out of somebody's house, basement or back patio. In fact, it has an executive office in San Francisco and another one in New York City.

     

    And please be patient, because before you know it, you might change your mind about the legitimacy of Bleacher Report. Last August, BR received $22 MILLION of income from investors, who believe the site has a bright future in the sports reporting business. Have you ever read ProFootballTalk.com? It was a start-up as well, back in 2001. But now, its creator (Mike Florio) chats with Bob Costas on the set of NBC's Sunday Night Football. How did that happen, you ask? Well, because he and his "news and rumor" website got bought out by NBC and he now works for them!

     

    As for the $22 million BR got in August... It's being spent wisely, as BR continues to expand into new verticals. Next time you're on YouTube, look closely, because Bleacher Report just signed a new deal to provide sports video content FOR YouTube.

     

    Thanks for letting me share and please feel free to respond. I'm sure my post won't change a lot of minds, but I hope some of you will reconsider BR's authenticity, because it isn't what it used to be and it sure as hell isn't what most of the posters here think it is.

     

    And if you still don't care to read or trust the site, it's okay, because 25 million other people do, each and every month.

     

     

    Let me get this straight. Because it's "hard" to be a sports journalist and some of these guys get kicked a couple of bucks to write for the site, we should count BR links as genuine journalism? It's a blog. An organized blog, but a blog nonetheless. I appreciate your frustration, but I'm not interested in how hard things are for journalists, I want a source that is credible. Please let me know how many stories have been broken on BR. Your soapbox argument, though understandable, is completely out of place here. I want to spend my time reading credible sources for stories, not patting some guy on the back who dreams of making it big someday. I have no desire to coddle writers and elevate BR as a source just to coddle egos.

    Cowboys and Skins hit hard

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted

    Interesting, the fines violate the CBA but the Player's Association agreed to allow them.

     

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    Looks like they agreed to it to avoid a lowers salary cap number this year (looked like it was going DOWN to 113). The league agreed to help them finesse the numbers to bump it just north of 120.

    http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/nflpa-agreed-to-cowboysredskins-salary-cap-sanctions/

     

    Take that and the fact that 28 other teams stood to GAIN cap room at the detriment of two of the more free spending (thus resented) teams in the league and it makes sense they agreed to it. De Smith's contract is also up for renewal soon and I don't see him getting re-upped if players saw the cap go down.

     

    Florio thinks the teams should sue and cite that the punishment points to collusion (which it kind of is), but I doubt anything will get done in time for them to actually make a splash in FA first. 36M is an awful lot of money to get taken away. We may be players for VJax if we pony up 11M+. That said, I doubt we offer him THAT much. If he wanted to take 10M plus I think he'd just re-sign with SD.

    Cowboys and Skins hit hard

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted · Edited by ndirish1978

    The league can't not approve a contract that doesn't break the rules of the uncapped year. What they did do was warn the owners on six separate occasions that, while the contracts would not be voidable because in fact the year was uncapped, the teams would face repercussions should they attempt to take advantage of the year and use it as a year to dump salaries and front-load contract to circumvent the cap in the next year.

    (http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/12/nfl-warned-teams-at-least-six-times-about-not-dumping-salary-in-uncapped-year/)

     

    In the Cowboys case, they give a WR $17M in the FIRST year of his contract in the uncapped year so his cap number would be negligible for the duration of the contract. The Redskins dumped Haynesworth's $100M contract and several other players and front-loaded their contracts in a way that was structured so that when the cap kicked in they could hide large contracts. Obviously I love it when bad things happen to teams I hate (schadenfreude). In this case, the Redskins and Cowboys totally ignored instructions from the league and tried to exploit the uncapped year despite warnings that there would be consequences for doing so. Let's be clear, only TWO teams in the league are being penalized for this. The Saints and Raiders are not being punished, they are simply not receiving a windfall from the other 2 teams' abuse of the rules. Does it really surprise anyone that Snyder and Jones are the 2 owners who ignored the league's instructions and did whatever the hell they wanted?

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