Didn't another Seattle writer (Art Thiel?) do something similar a year or two ago?

Me thinks someone in Houston needs to get a sense of humor.

oops. maybe the article in question wasn't funny enough. or funny at all.

Purpura was even more offened at the column from the week before, the one that said he had signed Carlos Lee for 6 years and 100 million

We haven’t had any contact with his agent (and) don’t have any interest in him in the least

This is not what I like to hear other GMs saying about a guy the Red Sox just signed for real.

Uggh.

“I just wanted you to know that I didn’t appreciate your column on Pineiro. We haven’t had any contact with his agent (and) don’t have any interest in him in the least."

I'm not interested in the Alabama job! I'm going be back here next year in Miami! STOP ASKING ME!

Reminds me of all the concerned letters "The Onion" received after they printed the headline "Chinese Woman Gives Birth to Quintuplets - Has One Week to Decide"

Moore needs to leave the fake news to the Onion, Sports Pickle, and the NY Post.

Note to readers:

The Seattle P-I is such a mickey mouse paper in a shitass town that we print pretend stories rather than actually report the news. The Mariners suck so you don't actually want to read about them anyways.

Now, go drink some coffee in the rain.

Love,
Your ####### columnist

Hmmm. Maybe the Purpura e-mail is the real spoof! Suckers!

Didn't another Seattle writer (Art Thiel?) do something similar a year or two ago?


Yeah. He wrote that a draft pick injured his arm while answering the phone call saying he'd been drafted.

(And these writers probably injured their own arms, patting themselves on the backs for their cleverosity.)

And I believe that blogger did a fake-o about Cleveland a few years ago. I agree, dry humor doesn't work well. Leave it to the Onion and the Pickle.

The original column can be found here:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/baseball/296856_moore22.html

When I read Moore's column about Purpura's email, my reaction was that Purpura needed to grow a sense of humor. After reading the original column, I'm more sympathetic. The Go 2 Guy depicted him a total buffoon, and it's not entirely clear why he picked on him.

What is it recently with all these attempts at satire? Xrist Almighty, have a freaking <u>real</u> point first, then write. "People I wish I was as rich as are spending their money differently than I would have" does not qualify as a candidate for satiric commentary.

And I believe that blogger did a fake-o about Cleveland a few years ago.

Yeah, the guy who ran the Cleveland Indians Report (which had been a pretty reputable blog until that point) wrote a long post about how the Indians had signed Vladimir Guerrero. But if you read the first letter of every line of the post, you'd have known it as a joke.

Ha! Funny joke! And so obvious, too! What a witty guy!

Yeah, that was pretty much the day I stopped visiting the Cleveland Indians Report.

The Go 2 Guy depicted him a total buffoon, and it's not entirely clear why he picked on him.

Maybe because he is a total buffoon and picking on Littlefield is too easy and Bavasi hits too close to home.

This is the Vlad Guerrero hoax. It was the first letter of every paragraph that allegedly gave away the "joke", not the first letter of every sentence.

I'm surprised at the lack of love for a little satire and light heartedness, especially given the current state of baseball contracts that everyone loves to bemoan.


I mean, I guess it's not particularly good satire or anything, but it's better than reading an analytic column on why Joel Pineiro is a bad pitcher or something. Because, yknow, it doesn't take too much analysis to exactly tell you that.

I'm surprised at the lack of love for a little satire and light heartedness, especially given the current state of baseball contracts that everyone loves to bemoan.

I'm all for light-heartedness, but satire is overworked and lazy in the hands of hacks.

hillenbutt

But if you read the first letter of every line of the post, you'd have known it as a joke.

We did something like this the first year in medical school. After a particularly brutal neuroscience exam, a friend and I took down the grade sheet and made an exact replica with much lower grades and a note explaining that the computer answer key had been misentered initially but these were the real grades. We thought it was hilarious. Down the left edge of the sheet, we had written "Ha ha ha! April Fools from [our names]." It really was April 1st, too. We figured it might fool a couple of people, and then someone would figure it out and we'd all have a good laugh.

You've never seen so many unhappy people. Freaked out students went to see the professor, who tore the grade sheet off the wall and took it to the dean. The dean interrupted one of our lectures to let us know that whoever had "hacked into the school's computers" to change the grades was in big trouble. We felt bad enough about it that we told a few classmates, some of whom remained pissed off even after finding out it was a joke. I don't think the dean ever figured it out - in 3+ additional years, we never heard anything more about it.

He and I still see each other every year or so, and the retelling of that story never fails to crack us up.

Rather read Moore's satire -- which was primarily a smack of Seattle management, KC for signing Meche for that ridiculous contract, and the crecked reasoning of GMs who dole out those contracts (and which he plainly announces as such in the opening paragraph) -- than "hack envy" on these pages.

Which Med School, UCCF? I think something similar will be pulled this year, ;) and I was curious whether your school was a comparatively laid back or high-strung place...

Anyway, thanks for sharing that story, it really made the day over here :)

Nothing Jim Moore writes is perceptive enough, sharp enough or witty enough -- or indeed, in any way at all good enough -- to qualify as satire. The man's a freaking idiot, and I have no earthly idea how the heck he managed to earn himself a column, even as cash-strapped as the P-I is these days. His sole purpose for existing in the newspaper world is to remind Seattle readers that as lousy as Steve Kelley is, it could always be worse.

And just FYI, the Thiel piece was this summer -- the pick in question was Brandon Morrow.

Which Med School, UCCF? I think something similar will be pulled this year, ;) and I was curious whether your school was a comparatively laid back or high-strung place...

University of Arkansas.

All first-year med students are ridiculously high strung when it comes to grades. Plus we'd all been severely ############ by the exam (which many people thought had been unfairly difficult because he had the gall to test on things that were only the reading but not covered in class), and the spirit of desperation was already in the air. It wouldn't have taken much to push people over the edge at that point.

Yeah, the guy who ran the Cleveland Indians Report (which had been a pretty reputable blog until that point) wrote a long post about how the Indians had signed Vladimir Guerrero. But if you read the first letter of every line of the post, you'd have known it as a joke.

Ha! Funny joke! And so obvious, too! What a witty guy!

That was funny. Get a sense of humor.

Yeah, my wife's doing fine, but still is convinced that she's failed every test. I thought she was too high-strung and then I met some of her classmates.

The worst part is that a lot of think they are some type of law school debate champions.

The only thing worse than a crowd of lawyers is a cloud of doctors who think they are lawyers.

*ducks*

An unoriginal line I use often --
"I like teaching 1Ls because the only group more insecure than first year law students are first year med students."

With the follow up, "The worst student at either place is good enough to be there. Do the work and all y'all will be fine."

I wouldn't say the same for baseball bloggers.

I'm undecided about GMs.

"I like teaching 1Ls because the only group more insecure than first year law students are first year med students."

Having done both, I can say that's probably true.

Of course, I also thought the first year of medical school was 10x more work than all three years of law school combined, and there was so much material you never really felt like you had mastered it before an exam. So the insecurity (and the frenzied grade fevers) was well-earned. Not to mention being told from day 1 in medical school that grades were all that mattered, that without good grades the first two years you'd never do well on the boards and never get into a decent residency.

We freaked out at times, but with good cause.

That was funny. Get a sense of humor.

Yeah, it was hilarious how his joke made me spend about half a day at work calling sources, trying to confirm the story.

I didn't have any actual work to do that day, it was fun.

Yeah, it was hilarious how his joke made me spend about half a day at work calling sources, trying to confirm the story.

What, Dan, you don't see how saying something that isn't true = teh funny?

I must've missed that day of comedy school.