Weekend notes: Yahoo! Sports leads the race to the bottom
by Dirk Hoag on Oct 23, 2010 11:23 AM EDT
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You've already read your Game Day Preview to set up the Predators' big road test tonight in Dallas, right? Good, so now it's time to catch up on the rest of your hockey news...
Follow after the jump as Yahoo! Sports takes their sports coverage down a very troubling road, a local reporter has some fun at the expense of The Tennessean beat writers, and we hear of troubling attendance figures in a traditional hockey market... Moscow, Russia.
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Sam highlights the steaming pile of tripe that Yahoo! Sports is now featuring as "news" on its NHL team pages. That first story you see under "Recent News"? It's just a blog post written by... well, it could be anyone. I'm all for providing platforms for input, but pushing stuff to center stage like this is a horrible decision by Yahoo.
Here's what their Predators team page looks like:
Yup, that's a (rather crappy) user-submitted "article" which is presented as the leading news story related to the Nashville Predators. Following it in the list of Recent News are several legitimate AP stories providing game recaps, injury reports, etc. If Yahoo wants to allow people to publish such content on their platform that's one thing, but presenting it in this manner is absurd.
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It's the highest compliment, sir
I tried out for Teen Jeopardy in the ancient past, and came close but didn’t make it. Passed the written test, met Alex, but didn’t get picked, to my everlasting shame.
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heh
Was once a Teen Jeopardy tryout-ee myself.
by Chris Burton on Oct 23, 2010 5:55 PM EDT up reply actions
I was on Jeopardy,
lost in Final Jeopardy (by $400), but my mother told her bridge club all about it for three years or so.
by Hockey Hillbilly on Oct 23, 2010 7:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Writing well isn't his strong suit, either...
…so he probably doesn’t even need to be blogging on that….
The typical bash Nashville....
The typical bash Nashville for having a hockey team article that gets recycled every year. The associated contributor was probably CANADIAN. And we all know most CANADIANS hate that fact that we have a hockey team. Also most Canadians have anti southern strategy bias with all the teams in the south. I hope this contributor is happy putting out this propaganda. I’ll just keep shouting “LET’S GO PREDATORS!!” and move on.
Why assume Canadian?
Sounds like he may be a Red Wings Fan.
Its not strictly a ‘canadian’ hockey fan sentiment that has anti southern bias.
Alot of folks I know from Philly (where I used to live) also believe the same.
They are free to believe what they want.
Truth is, I think some Northern fans perceive Nashville to be a struggling market like it is in Arizona
(team that’s been there for more than a decade, struggling to draw flies, even when the team is competative).
However, there hasn’t been a single game where (like in Arizona) there as ~12.000 empty seats.
I think most fans know that, now. Its not like 2006-2008, when we were the first team to be talked about, vis a vis relocation. The desert fiasco has, by proxy, shown the community of puckfans that Nashville isn’t THAT bad. And, being a Canadian who has lived in Detroit, Phiilly, Boston, and (born in) Toronto,
I think most people from up north (not JUST canada),
just want the NHL and its franchises to be healthy and (in the non-traditional markets) show the potential to stand on their own two feet. Currently residing in Nashville and being a fan of the Preds (as well as other teams),
I don’t see why fans down here are so sensitive to that sentiment, as its a reasonable one.
But yeah: that blog was absurd. Shouldn’t be portrayed on a team’s homepage like its legitimate news.
by DontfeedtheBelak on Oct 23, 2010 1:39 PM EDT reply actions
Agree.
I think the writer basically stated they were a Red Wings fan, but more importantly, they had…more passion than logic, shall we say?
I think that Nashville fans are sensitive about issues related to profits and relocation for a couple of reasons.
First, lots of people (Canadian and otherwise) express the sentiment that “Nashville is losing money, can’t support a team, etc.” Fine, whatever; we can handle this. They usually don’t have numbers to back their statements, and certainly almost never take into account the long-term plans of the league. Expansion franchises are obviously an investment for the future, and unless it has completely stagnated (as I don’t at all see the Preds doing), then it is doing just what it is intended: growing the fan base, and the market.
Then they say that their city, whichever it may be, can support a team, and deserves a team—perhaps more than Nashville does. This is also fine. If you want a team, make some noise and you might get one in the next expansion (if/when that happens). A reasonable discussion, over which team-less cities are more deserving than which current team-holding cities, is also acceptable.
They often then go on to say, or at least hint, that Nashville’s team should be taken away and given to them. This is where it gets sensitive. It looked like we were going to lose our team for a while. And not because we didn’t deserve our team—because a guy with no respect for rules or process had enough money that he was almost able to buy it out from under us, to be his and put where he wanted it.
We in Nashville were close to being on the receiving end of a great injustice, and it strikes a nerve when anyone mentions taking our team away because someone else wants it.
by Smashvillain on Oct 23, 2010 2:31 PM EDT up reply actions
Good point
“A reasonable discussion, over which team-less cities are more deserving than which current team-holding cities, is also acceptable.”
While this would be ideal, its totally understandable to see why this may never happen, say, between a fan in the "Peg who went through the Coyote relocation and a Nashville fan who went through the 2007 ordeal.
Life in the NHL went on without the Jets and Nords (or for awhile hockey in Minnesota (!)).
I can see why fans in Manitoba (or other more traditional markets) think the same would be true with Nashville. Because, unfortunately, the same IS true: its not Nashville’s right to have a team. And its not even about the fanbase ‘deserving’ a team. Its about dollars, and the potential for growth of interest in hockey locally. We unquestionably have a loyal, passionate fanbase. Many out of towners have said as much. We just, hopefully, have to continue to give the owners and NHL reason to want to have a team here.
Glendale, AZ, does not look to be doing as good a job as us. If we ever had a crowd like they did the other night, I would be embarrassed as a fan, and completely be worried about relocation.
by DontfeedtheBelak on Oct 23, 2010 4:37 PM EDT up reply actions
the only reason for the yahoo article
what adds to my hatred toward the Predators is that I have to see this team much more than any other southern team because they are in the same division as the Detroit Red Wings. I hate wasting my time or money on Red Wings games that involve this failure of a franchise that is the Nashville Predators.
he doesn’t like spending money to watch his team lose. <- i even managed to express the same idea in less words.
"It's gonna be fun on the bun."
by flyalder on Oct 23, 2010 5:24 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
What in the $%*&?
Where do I start with this load of bull!
The more I read that crock of crap the angrier i got with that fool. I am gald to know that the sell outs and over 15,000 crowds every home game this year or the fact we are atop the NHL in points means nothing to anyone other than us. I have a strange feeling that we could win the cup hell even win back to back cups and no one would respect us. The boys will just have to go out and do it for the City and prove everyone wrong and show that hockey does belong in the South and in Nashville! Go PREDS!!!
by predsfansince97 on Oct 25, 2010 12:33 PM EDT reply actions
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