Comments on: The Spectacle of Spector http://www.oscargamblesociety.com/the-spectacle-of-spector/ People don't think it be like it is, but it do. Sun, 20 May 2012 09:06:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Cliffy http://www.oscargamblesociety.com/the-spectacle-of-spector/#comment-1368 Thu, 22 May 2008 18:22:38 +0000 http://www.oscargamblesociety.com/the-spectacle-of-spector/#comment-1368 The local talkradio guys have an obvious bias, I concede that. But Fred Smerlas and Steve DeOssie (i.e. ex-players) come on and are apoplectic that ESPN's ex-players are so clueless and/or prostituting themselves to try and extend the story (as Jakes notes) by forgetting how things work in pro sports. Teams try to steal other teams signs. Thus, teams try to switch up signs, and disguise signs, to prevent that from happening. A rule states you can't videtape the other team doing that (i.e. you have to steal them other ways) - and the Patriots (arrogantly) broke that rule (that's right, I don't buy Belicheck's "I misunderstood" explanation either). They got punished (harshly) as a result of breaking a league rule. It's over. Btw, by Walsh's own testimony, he gave the tapes to Belicheck at the *end* of the game i.e. even if you wanna take a leap of faith that the Pats had time during the game to break down the tape and then use it in the same game... that's not what happened, according to the Patriots *and* Specter's star witness. So I get back to what I consider a key point for all the morons who make this out to be something akin to the 1919 Black Sox Scandal: If an opponent is stupid enough *not* to change signals the next time they play the same team (nevermind during the course of one game), then they *deserve* to have their signals stolen. Shame on ESPN for not having even *one* "analyst" who is willing to point that out on national television. The local talkradio guys have an obvious bias, I concede that. But Fred Smerlas and Steve DeOssie (i.e. ex-players) come on and are apoplectic that ESPN’s ex-players are so clueless and/or prostituting themselves to try and extend the story (as Jakes notes) by forgetting how things work in pro sports.

Teams try to steal other teams signs. Thus, teams try to switch up signs, and disguise signs, to prevent that from happening. A rule states you can’t videtape the other team doing that (i.e. you have to steal them other ways) - and the Patriots (arrogantly) broke that rule (that’s right, I don’t buy Belicheck’s “I misunderstood” explanation either). They got punished (harshly) as a result of breaking a league rule. It’s over.

Btw, by Walsh’s own testimony, he gave the tapes to Belicheck at the *end* of the game i.e. even if you wanna take a leap of faith that the Pats had time during the game to break down the tape and then use it in the same game… that’s not what happened, according to the Patriots *and* Specter’s star witness. So I get back to what I consider a key point for all the morons who make this out to be something akin to the 1919 Black Sox Scandal: If an opponent is stupid enough *not* to change signals the next time they play the same team (nevermind during the course of one game), then they *deserve* to have their signals stolen.

Shame on ESPN for not having even *one* “analyst” who is willing to point that out on national television.

]]> by: Jakes http://www.oscargamblesociety.com/the-spectacle-of-spector/#comment-1365 Sat, 17 May 2008 20:56:17 +0000 http://www.oscargamblesociety.com/the-spectacle-of-spector/#comment-1365 I think what's worse is what ESPN is doing these days. They are desperately trying to keep the whole spygate thing going, which I get from a selling ratings persepctive, but at this point their commentators are sreaming bloody murder about the Pats based on what Walsh has reportedly said either to Goodell, Specter or Andrea Kramer, and "reporting" it as fact, without so much as a slight mention of the possibility that maybe, just maybe, Walsh is a disgruntled previously-fired employee with an axe to grind who is taking the opportunity to kick his former employer when they are down...oh by the way with the benefit of a full indemnity that covers him even if he's lying. It's pretty gross at this point. I think what’s worse is what ESPN is doing these days. They are desperately trying to keep the whole spygate thing going, which I get from a selling ratings persepctive, but at this point their commentators are sreaming bloody murder about the Pats based on what Walsh has reportedly said either to Goodell, Specter or Andrea Kramer, and “reporting” it as fact, without so much as a slight mention of the possibility that maybe, just maybe, Walsh is a disgruntled previously-fired employee with an axe to grind who is taking the opportunity to kick his former employer when they are down…oh by the way with the benefit of a full indemnity that covers him even if he’s lying.

It’s pretty gross at this point.

]]> by: Tank http://www.oscargamblesociety.com/the-spectacle-of-spector/#comment-1360 Sat, 17 May 2008 00:55:58 +0000 http://www.oscargamblesociety.com/the-spectacle-of-spector/#comment-1360 Well one has to have some level of sympathy for Specter; he is on a Judiciary committee that refuses to debate or vote on judicial nominees, so he's got to find *something* to keep busy with. And honestly, wouldn't the country be far better off if our political class spent more time arguing over sports instead of devising new ways to foul up the economy? Well one has to have some level of sympathy for Specter; he is on a Judiciary committee that refuses to debate or vote on judicial nominees, so he’s got to find *something* to keep busy with. And honestly, wouldn’t the country be far better off if our political class spent more time arguing over sports instead of devising new ways to foul up the economy?

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