The Official "Pile On The Thrashers" 2009-2010 Media Bash
Please post all your Thrashers bashing and Thrasher-bashing-related links in this thread. There's no sense in us having to look through tons of threadsd to be reminded of how much we suck. Let's at least make our loathesomeness easire to find.
That moron Adam Proteau has the Thrashers finishing 14th in the East, without spending a single sentence talking about our team and how we managed to get worse this offseason(that is a Canadian media trend BTW)
Apparently we're one step behind Phoenix from closing our doors and mercifully asking some Canadian city to take this abomination which is hockey off our poor dumb southern redneck hands.
Barry Melrose called us the worst team in the division, and that it would take a miracle to be in the playoff hunt on the ESPN SE Division podcast.
Scott Burnside of ESPN(Atlanta resident), said we were much improved but would still be last in the division as everyone else in the division got better.
I'd think as long as the Islanders are around we're safe from that "worst" distinction. We have improved but we were awfully bad last season. Pavelic is a question mark. Our 3rd pairing is a question mark. Our penalty kill is a question mark. Our captain making it through the entire season is a question mark. Be real kids. We are not the steadiest of franchises and those pundits that call for us to do something are stepping out on a limb. I'm sure your feelings get hurt when the big bad media calls us names but they have had every right to do so. With that said the media is the most fickle of all ladies and will fall in love with you after your first 5 game winning streak. You want respect? Earn it.
So you think that is an acceptable excuse for mutiple outlets simply not even bothering to preview the Thrashers team during their season previews, just taking pot shots at the teams ownership and viability in the market or talking about Ilya's contract?
So you think that is an acceptable excuse for mutiple outlets simply not even bothering to preview the Thrashers team during their season previews, just taking pot shots at the teams ownership and viability in the market or talking about Ilya's contract?
That explains the "fickle" part of the comment. Everything in sports media is built around "what have you done for me lately".
While I completely agree that all the season previews for the Thrashers have been crap, it's all based on the fact that the Thrashers haven't won a thing in their 9 year history...why would they start now? If we somehow get off to a 8-2 start, all the sudden our off season moves were genius and we have a shot at the playoffs.
With that said the media is the most fickle of all ladies and will fall in love with you after your first 5 game winning streak. You want respect? Earn it.
Sure, to a certain extent.
It's one thing to sit back in your cushy chair and churn out more filth than a water spout at a sewage treatment plant, but it's completely different to actually look at what the team accomplished in the offseason (you know, actual work. Gasp!) and write out an article that actually takes everything into account.
The media isn't so much fickle as it is lazy, anymore. A vast difference, to be sure. Seems that it takes a keen eye to recognize the difference, I suppose.
So you think that is an acceptable excuse for mutiple outlets simply not even bothering to preview the Thrashers team during their season previews, just taking pot shots at the teams ownership and viability in the market or talking about Ilya's contract?
Truthfully? Yes. We're a footnote at this time. Would I like to see modern media regain their journalistic integrity and actually report news instead of pandering to the salacious and trendy? Do some homework instead of generating a sound byte? You bet. Do I think we'll ever get back there? Hells no.
Then what?
I guess that leaves me with fan sites where everyone overrates their own, perceives every negative comment as an attack, and goes on manic depressant roller coaster rides following every piece of news released. Or find some blogs that can offer subjective opinions on the Thrashers and NHL in general. And there is always like minded friends that you can talk with about the game.
Such is the life of the Thrasher fan. Getting worked up because some mullet thinks we stink? Not on my agenda especially since we've had what? one draft pick outside the top 10 in our history?
I gotta say this is a great thread, If i ever need to get pissed off to be motivated for a college project or i need to get something done around the house, I come here and read a couple of these articles. they instantly make my ears turn red and shoot out steam and I end up getting a lot accomplished on those days. =)
