David Shoalts Must Really Hate the Phoenix Coyotes - Part 3 of ?
by Travis Hair on Feb 19, 2009 7:00 AM MST
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Well shortly after some good news finally comes out about the Coyotes financial situation, Five for Howling's favorite North of the Border Globe and Mail hockey writer with a last name that rhymes with... I dunno...Blowalts, writes yet another crappy article. This one sounds quite a lot like he's saying "Are you friggin kidding me? This is what I devote a third of my time writing about! What am I going to do now?" Those that have read my previous posts about Davey know that one of my biggest beefs with him is that he has rarely, if ever cited a named source about anything other than Paul Kelly saying Scottsdale is far from Glendale. (Good catch there Davey) Well our bestest buddy doesn't fail to disapoint this time either. Also, if you look at the article everything that could be construed as positive is put in "quotes" and makes the article read like everytime he gets to something good he's doing airquotes to make it seem like crap. For example "potential investors", enough about that though. How about we go to the highlights sports fans...
When sources familiar with the Coyotes' situation were asked about yesterday's reports, all said they had heard nothing about any serious interest in the team.
"Who would make an offer on that team?" one source said, referring to the total losses of the Coyotes, said to be as much as $250-million since Moyes took control of them in 2001.
Now, see how he doesn't really cite anything of consequence there? Here, let me make something up and see if it really reads with any more or less credibility:
When I shouted across the newsroom to Stephen Brunt, who is familiar with the Coyotes situation, "Hey Steve! Have you seen that report about the Coyotes getting new investors?" He replied, "Nope, I haven't heard anything about it. Who would make an offer on that team? Aren't they losing a bunch of money?"
Do either of those really sound better than the other? Not really. Bang up job of reporting there Davey.
Also, as I said before, there are a ton of "quoted" bits that sound like "airquotes" or Davey "being a prick", here's a look
...the surfacing of other "potential investors."
The report did not identify the potential buyer and said the offer would only lead to "dialogue and further negotiations."
The report also said there were two other "serious parties" interested in the team...
How can he quote that? You're asking? All he did was take the very brief press release from the team found here and the TSN report found here and chop them into bits to sound as negative as he wanted. I really don't get why that paper can't write a straight story about this instead of filling space with badly cited junk and misleading text. Maybe everything isn't roses, but Davey if you think the Coyotes or the league is full of crap about these investors, say that instead of airquoting and pulling quotes from nowhere. At least that I could have some respect for.
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I'm not sure
he used enough of the phrase “financially crippled” or its derivatives.
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Yeah.
I really should have put that in. He didn’t mention that we were losing money more than 5 or 6 times. he’s slipping a little.
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"Hemorrhaging cash"
is another great phrase that he left out.
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by DbacksSkins on Feb 19, 2009 11:21 AM MST up reply actions
Honestly, I could see him stamping his little feet. Bob McCown, one of the main sports talk radio guys up here who has been adamant about the supposed inevitability of a bankruptcy filing (among other things), had an interview with Nick Kypreos the day before the story broke, and lit into Kypreos for suggesting that the team would be successfully sold and the lease renegotiated. Shoalts (and Brunt, BTW) is a frequent contributor to Mccown’s show, so McCown may have been the “source” (see how i did that?) as well.
Gotta love it.
I have to admit i’m biased against the guy, But As I read the article I could totally envision Shoalts throwing a tantrum. And screaming Nooooooo! As his stories go up in smoke. I don’t know who his “sources” are, but by “investment banking” and “hockey community” in that article I think he probably just means his banker who plays in the adult C league at the local rink.
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by Travis Hair on Feb 19, 2009 10:45 AM MST up reply actions
Really tired of the talk...
Agree that a sale should quiet some of it down, but I have no idea if it will. All you need to do is check the comments on any TSN story about the yotes and every response is about how the team needs to move back to Canada…blah, blah, blah.
The only real way this team gets these talks to disappear is to make the playoffs and then win a round in the playoffs. Show the fans that we have one of the most exciting, young and talented teams in the league and the fans will come. My wife and I took a vacation to see her folks in Baltimore in December 2007 and took in a Capitals game while we were there. The place was about 50% empty, akin to a standard mid-week Coyotes game. The team had struggled early in the season and was looking dead in the water, but they still had Alex Ovechkin, the greatest player in the world and easily worth the price of admission every game regardless of anything else. Now, just a short year later, after turning the season around, making the playoffs and pushing the Flyers to 7 (including 4 games in DC) in the first round, Verizon Center is sold out EVERY NIGHT and it is a consistent sea of brand new red jerseys (many bearing an “8” on the back). Now the Coyotes don’t have anyone nearly as exciting as AO (neither does any other team save Pittsburgh maybe), but winning will get the fans to come out…and these young guys are going to sell jerseys by the barrel-full once they do…
But it all starts with winning, and right now, the Coyotes are struggling to do that…need to start tonight.
Be Kind to Toronto
Toronto is the home of the first Tim Horton’s. Did you know that Tim Horton also played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, the most storied English-speaking franchise in the NHL? Did you also know that Toronto is home to the Hockey Hall of Fame and has Detroit as one of its suburbs?
Toronto is the largest city in the province of Ontario. The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) is home to many grow-ops, or as the G&M might call them “residential marijuana farms”. Some of the larger producers have moved west of Ontario to Manitoba, whose provincial capital is located in Winnipeg.
I hope you can all see the chain here. The people of Phoenix stole a perfectly good hockey team from Winnipeg, leaving a recreational vacuum in Manitoba that has been filled will an increase in pot production. This excess production is being shipped by the Ontario pot cartels to Toronto to be comsumed at 444 Front Street, West Ontario. It also helps them get over the fact they don’t publish the Sunshine Girl pictures.
So please, be kind to Toronto.
Um... Okay...
I don’t really get what you’re going for there, but welcome to my site? I think?
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Nevermind...
Now I get it. It just took a little extra effort to get that funny. LOL
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Hamilton had the first Tim Horton's
Which ties in even better because Stephen Brunt is from Hamilton. Beautiful blog Odin, I’m glad to see someone going after these so-called journalists who have had an agenda for years. But don’t cry for them because now that Nashville is reportedly going to turn a small profit for the second straight year, which has not “been reported” by certain people, and once the Coyotes situation is settled it will be all guns blazing for the Atlanta Thrashers.
by Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo on Feb 19, 2009 1:44 PM MST up reply actions
Hey!
THanks for joining up and for the nice comments about the blog.
Hopefully they learn their lesson once this is fixed… right, i’m not even buying that. WHatever happens i’ll be there to help out whoever needs it in debunking and shredding these “reports” and the “stories” they “write”
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Seriously
I don’t think it’s Winnepeggers whining… I think its a base attempt to keep readership by two fumblebutts stirring emotions without thought or care of consequences. Pressing hot buttons (and what hockey fan doesn’t have a few of those?) and driving hits so he (they) can justify their continued existence.
The thing that bugs me the most about Stoat and Butz is that they make no attempt at unbiased journalism. There is plenty of information/statistics on teams that faced these circumstances before, that actually filed bankruptcy and survived. But do they make any attempt at bringing some of those solutions to bear on the Phoenix situation? No. It won’t push any buttons, won’t sell as well as the sensationalism of Phoenix in even deeper trouble blasting across their headlines.
Amazing how bloggers have such a bad rep for accountability and bias when these 2 dunces just say whatever comes into their tiny little craniums, no citation, no accountability and with not only bias, but malice as well, yet THEY are journalists?
The Globe and Mail can bite me and those two pseudo-jounalists aren’t even good enough to do that much.
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Hear Hear!
I think Odie should apply to the Coyotes for a press credential so that he can go mainstream and deal with these clowns at the G&M on a journalist-to-journalist basis. What say you Odie?
by Jordan Ellel on Feb 19, 2009 1:18 PM MST up reply actions
Sure
If someone will pay me more than in nachos. :)
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Hmmm...
The wife and I are willing to chip in for some of the candied pecans and almonds they sell at the stadium…
by Jordan Ellel on Feb 19, 2009 4:28 PM MST up reply actions
Oh man...
I’ll write an article about you for that. A better STH profile at least ;-) I always love the smell but can never get myself to shell out the 8 bucks for them.
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Yeah...
That smell must be how an addict feels about his drug of choice…it is dangerous. We’ve succumbed to temptation once or twice this year and they are as good as they smell. They need a better name than AZ Warm Nuts though…for obvious reasons…
by Jordan Ellel on Feb 19, 2009 4:54 PM MST up reply actions
They also need to not wear jerseys that say the same. THat’s just terrible. “AZ Warm Nuts” /headdesk
btw, working on gamethread, though most should be at the game for it :)
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Z, ya gotta stop holding back
and tell us how you really feel…however, fumblebutt is nearly as good as used douche nozzle and much stronger than chowderhead…all in all, one of your better rants…keep it up…1 blocked dumbass newspaper article at a time…
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huh... If I tell ya how I REALLY feel
Odie’s page will get shut down and he’ll be banned for life from accepting any contact with me. So I gotta be nice or at least socially acceptable over here.
Odie is keeping me relatively sane and helping me refrain from goin totally ghettofabulous ONYX-style over at my place. But if these 2 keep jumpin up and down on my last nerve, they may get one soon.
Seriously, I understand sriving the numbers but these 2 are just about hysteria. If I didn’t know so many nice Canadians, I’d ask Obama to bomb the place just to get rid of those 2. But I just can’t bring myself to consider 1/2 my NHL family as collateral damage to be rid of two cankers on my butt cheek.
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by Monique Reaux on Feb 19, 2009 1:40 PM MST up reply actions
i guess
those two fumblebutts are the Terence and Phillip of canadian journalism
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McClown Shultz tonight
McClown started his show this way tonight
“Have the Phoenix Coyotes found a sucker, a sap, have they stuck the hook in somebody? Somebody willing to throw some of their hard earned money into the abyss? We’ll find out David Shoalts of the "Globe and Mail” has a story on that."
Sergeant Shoalts
“Don’t think anyone with real money
Strong suspicion this report was put out by the league because they’re desperate not to be embarrassed
Bettman allowed an underfinanced guy to buy them
Rink out in the middle of nowhere because hillbilly politicians gave them $180 million
Complaining about not giving a name of investor
Got to fish or cut bait
Same investor that Reggie Dunlop had for the Charlestown Chiefs
Gary’s going to have to admit and to throw in the towel and say hello to Jim Balsillie”
McCown says “there ain’t no there there”
by Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo on Feb 19, 2009 10:05 PM MST reply actions
Oh good grief.
What an absolute tool. I get that this crap sells papers, but really why does he have to be such an ass about it for? WHat does that accomplish? It looks as though “Debunking Shoalts” Will be a continuing feature.
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by Travis Hair on Feb 19, 2009 11:12 PM MST up reply actions
I wonder if the Kostitsens
will loan me their mob connections? Obama isn’t taking my calls about those bombs I wanted to borrow. But something needs to be done about these hosers… hmmm wonder what Tonya Harding is doing these days? Think she could hook a sista up w/ a guy and a bat?
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by Monique Reaux on Feb 19, 2009 11:50 PM MST up reply actions
large caliber rifle, big scope,
hot loaded ammo and a high place some where in downtown toronto…what was the address of that place, again?
the yotes 3rd uni sucks
ROFLMAO
thanks… its good to know I have friends like you… much better than enemies like you LOL Need a spotter?
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by Monique Reaux on Feb 20, 2009 3:16 PM MST up reply actions
Large caliber rifle?
Naaaah… all you need is a nice, compact, folding AR-7. Easier to escape that way.
We are truly in the presense of greatness here…-- unnamedDBacksfan
naah..
large caliber, high place, hotloaded highvel ammo, big scope…1000 m+, reeeeeal easy to get away if you are nowhere in the vicinity lol…and you’ve had lots of practice…….
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by goldenbear64 on Feb 21, 2009 9:51 AM MST up reply actions
Still.
AR-7 is so much easier to pack away — and you can use subsonic ammo and get real close. (If you couldn’t tell, I’m a big fan of my AR-7)
We are truly in the presense of greatness here…-- unnamedDBacksfan
yeah,
the nice thing about the upclose and personal is watching the lights go out….tres cool
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