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Woody Paige Not A Man Of The People
2008-05-16 22:34:00 Because we're Avalanche fans, we're forced to call the sports reporters and columnists at the Denver Post (Adrian Dater, Mike Chambers, Terry Frei, Mark Kiszla and Woody Paige) our reporters and columnists. Whether or not we agree with them all the time (or ever), they're part of the home team, so to speak. In the case of Woody Paige, that means we spend most of our time rolling our eyes and being embarrassed by him. He writes a lot of ridiculous, juvenile, not-as-funny-as-he-thinks stuff, and then makes a fool of himself daily on the ESPN argument show Around The Horn. He builds his puff piece columns around horrendous one-liners (like "Foppa wasn't some faux pas") and more or less dumbs down everything he talks about. But, because he's a Denver columnist and he writes about the Avalanche, he's ours. Kind of. That means that we might care about how other people, those who mostly know him from his "work" on ESPN rather than his columns about the...
By: Mile High Hockey
Woody Paige Not A Man Of The People
2008-05-16 21:34:00 Because we're Avalanche fans, we're forced to call the sports reporters and columnists at the Denver Post (Adrian Dater, Mike Chambers, Terry Frei, Mark Kiszla and Woody Paige) our reporters and columnists. Whether or not we agree with them all the time (or ever), they're part of the home team, so to speak. In the case of Woody Paige, that means we spend most of our time rolling our eyes and being embarrassed by him. He writes a lot of ridiculous, juvenile, not-as-funny-as-he-thinks stuff, and then makes a fool of himself daily on the ESPN argument show Around The Horn. He builds his puff piece columns around horrendous one-liners (like "Foppa wasn't some faux pas") and more or less dumbs down everything he talks about.But, because he's a Denver columnist and he writes about the Avalanche, he's ours. Kind of. That means that we might care about how other people, those who mostly know him from his "work" on ESPN rather than his columns about the Av...
By: Mile High Hockey
Daily Links - King Ranks Broncos 23rd
2008-05-05 18:30:00 Is it that time of the year already (meaningless power rankings time)? According to Peter King of Sports Illustrated, yes, in fact, it is. [Sports Illustrated] The best thing Woody Paige has written in recent memory. [Denver Post] I heartily disagree with this article by Bernie Linicome saying Jay Cutler will be judged by his diabetes. [Rocky ...
By: BroncoTalk
Cutler Responds to Frenzy Over Previous Comments
2008-04-10 20:37:00 Jay Cutler responded to criticism he’s received in light of his previous comments about Brandon Marshall. I have to say… I love everything Jay said here. Take a look. “If I would have known it was going to be such a big story and get picked up by the national media like it did, ...
By: BroncoTalk
Brandon Marshall Clears the Air, Calls out Woody Paige
2008-03-28 00:51:00 Brandon Marshall sounds like he’s getting tired of the entire “Big Mac Attack” charade, but he hasn’t escaped it yet. In an impromptu meeting with the press, Brandon cleared the air about why he held back the severity of his injury, and made sure to repond to Woody Paige’s recent criticism as well. The team’s ...
By: BroncoTalk
Sometimes, Honesty Isn't the Best Policy
2007-12-19 08:46:00 Woody Paige has solicited the aid of his readers as he fills out his Hall-of-Fame ballot--and not a moment too soon:I need your help. Do I vote for suspected steroid users, particularly a couple included in the Mitchell report on Thursday, or do I automatically dismiss their candidacy? Do I vote for guys I personally like, or is that not being objective? Do I vote for a creep or a man who committed suicide? Do I check 10 players, the maximum allowed, or keep it to one or two? Do I go with pitcher Tommy John because they named a surgical procedure after him? A couple of those questions are legitimate, but you really shouldn't need assistance with the others. You shouldn't resolve to check either 1 or 2 players, or 10; you should vote for as many players as you think are deserving of enshrinement. You shouldn't vote for someone because they named a surgical procedure after him. And most importantly, does voting for guys you personally like sound objective to you?Gossage ? During a...
Daily Link - Holy Crap, I Learned Something from Woody Paige
2007-12-05 21:44:00 Just one link today, folks. Everything else is about yesterday’s news on Travis Henry, Sam Adams, and Jeff Shoate. Seriously, everything. I’m not a big Woody Paige fan (some of his recent work has been particularly bad/weird), but he had an interesting take on the Henry suspension and his “victory” over the NFL. ...
By: BroncoTalk
I Dare You to Read This
2007-10-08 08:59:00 If your mind is still completely intact after finishing it, you're a better person than I. After having read the first 6 paragraphs (which are composed of 7 sentences and 4 sentence fragments, and I'm being generous) I am no longer the man I once was. Peruse it at your own risk.
Criticism Focuses on Cutler?s? Personality?
2007-10-02 18:25:00 Jay Cutler has been put under the microscope on the field. As a Denver quarterback, expectations are high, and nothing fulfills expectations like a solid win. Now that the team is on a two game losing skid, you would think everyone would be focusing on the interceptions or the red zone struggles, ...
By: BroncoTalk
"Thus," Spoke Woody Paige
2007-07-23 17:02:00 Reading a column by The Denver Post's Woody Paige is somewhat akin to listening to a William Shatner record; it sounds approximately like singing, you know that he thinks he's singing, but somehow, it's not really a song. Woody Paige's columns are indisputably composed of letters, just like other columns, and those letters do form words in the English lexicon, but something about the way they're put together makes the reader fear for his or her sanity. Of course, it's not the reader who should be afraid; it's Woody himself. Here's Mr. Paige's take on the Rockies' upcoming schedule:Thus, the preponderance of available evidence suggests that the most consequential seven-game homestand against division adversaries in the Rockies' 14(and almost two-thirds)-season history begins tonight."Thus?" The first word of your column is "thus?" A word for which the first meaning listed in the dictionary is "in the way just indicated" is the first word to appear in a column in which you ... |
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