LMAO Express-News

[EVAY]

What a COLOSSAL PR Blunder!

[Das Texan]

I go work and all for the afternoon and I miss this? Damn!


E-N is funny. A couple of weeks ago, I went into IHOP in the morning, cause I needed some time to kill and well I was hungry. I said to myself, I dont want to read with my phone right now (give it a break), so I'll buy a paper. I go and see its a buck and say wtf!

The paper is smaller, combines section and is twice as much as when it was decent.

Have their ad buys gone down THAT much in the past few years? .

Let's see how long until the join the likes of the other rags that have ceased daily publication. Wait until all the old folks die in this town. In my neighborhood I dont even know of anyone who does get delivery


What am I going to do now though? I wont have McDonald and Monroe garbage to read late at night when I'm bored. Maybe I'll have to go read something where I might learn something as a result. Damn.

[Das Texan]

ST didn't take your traffic away, Ludden did.

And yeah, I'm going to visit EN's website to see what Buck came up with after his 5th Dos Equis. Is there a more overrated columnist, ever? Well, other than Maureen Dowd.

Still, Buck is still living on the fumes of having covered the Celtics during Bird's rookie year.

I miss Ludden so much when it comes to Spurs coverage.

[Marcus Bryant]

Tony Parker is French.

Pop likes Bordeaux.

Once upon a time Stan Albeck and I had French Onion soup at a restaurant in the Denver Ramada.

And what can the Spurs get for a young budding All-Star in Samaki Walker?

[/buckharvey]

[Frenzy]

i'm going back to "the san antonio light"


screw the express!

[Dro210]

Ehhh, no big loss... basically ST can't read a recap of what ST said during the day anymore?

Too bad we can't keep their top-notch writers from anonymously browsing the board so they'd have to write their own .

off Express News, lmao... dying sack of

[Kool Bob Love]

Well duncan228, I told you so

your generic unoriginal posting style really payed off huh

I guess you'll have go come up with your own instead of posting two EN links every night at 11:58 pm

i told you so

duncan228, worst spurs poster. Like I said I saiddd

But he dose have a point...

DUNCAN228 ON SUICIDE WATCH

[objective]

This is all a sad joke, not the request for snippets +links versus full reads, but their at ude considering they rip this board off all the time.

Just the most recent example:

48MoH just posted an article en led "Mike Monroe's Depressing Insight" about the alleged 'insight' regarding Splitter being affected by a lockout. That's straight up what I've posted here and in the Think Tank for MONTHS. That's not Monroe's damn insight when it's been in the Spurs cyberverse repeatedly for months.

Monroe hasn't had any damn insight since he was a national clown, maybe not even then. The Spurs writers are clowns. They rip from this board and want credit for it (and get it from ESPN affiliated blogs like 48MoH). If they really knew what they were doing they'd just bite off everything I and others here post, because then they would have informed their readers with solid speculation that predicted Haislip asking for his release to go back to Europe and Finley asking for a buyout.

The only place someone needs to go on the net for Spurs insight and analysis is ST. The Express News had jack , they never break anything about the Spurs, it's always from national writers. If they can't do that, then all they're doing is collecting quotes and having Buck Harvey write 5 lines but with 8 paragraph breaks. And even though 48MoH has some decent coverage like interviews and stat interps, they're months behind the discussions here.

[eric365]

I don't understand all the hate on E-N.
They just ask the same thing that is done for spursdotcom and 48MoH.

For theses 2 websites we have to go on the links to see the whole content of the article.

It seems fair enough.

But the request by letter and the fact to remove all the old article is lame...

[superbigtime]

the express news. They ride the Spurs coattails more than imaginable, handing out spurs umbrellas and other spurs just to get people to subscribe to their rag, and now their stupid Spurs articles cannot be posted and discussed on a Spurs fan forum??? LAME. BOYCOTT !!!!!!!!

[objective]

you should ip ban the express news ip adress range.

That would be just fair.

this

[ShoogarBear]

The point is that, given previous interactions, they could have asked in a lot better way than have their New York lawyer threaten them.

[greyforest]

Guess this will have to be deleted.

hahahah

[scottspurs]

that is absolutely hilarious x1000

[DPG21920]

Summary:

Who cares if we can't post their articles? We as fans are not losing anything, because all their information is covered by so many other venues. I love coming to ST and getting all the articles in one place. E/N was last on that list, which is sad.

Their reasons for the request, or at least what we think their reasons are, make no logical sense. There will be absolutely 0 impact on either end because of this.

We are the biggest supporters of the Spurs and they should be trying to please us. If they are not happy with how we criticize their product, maybe they should listen and fix the problem. Now they have pissed off real Spurs fans which makes no sense. Enjoy the disconnect with the core of the fan base

[Flux451]

Paraphrase PEOPLE!

It's what McDonald does from our threads anyway.

[polandprzem]

I'm not gonna go to McDonalds ever again !!!

[spursncowboys]

news corp and hearst are going to charging for any internet service. for it to work, they have to shut down reprints. it's bullsh*t that this is their idea to make their business model successful.

[timtonymanu]

Meh this news is exactly like Finley's exit. We dont care, they think they're hot , and people hate them even more.

I don't even read their articles when they're posted here. I just read the comments posters leave and if they say the article was good enough, I'll read it.

McDonald and Monroe are ty reporters. They know they steal comments and material from ST. Just the other day when i was reading the hairston article, i even posted that Monroe took the line "Malik played better than (insert name) here did better in this month." I hear posters say that all the time and Monroe uses it to start his article. What a .

[mookie2001]

i dont think the guys are great either but i like the subjects they write about, i buy the paper and enjoy reading about the spurs. if i miss a day or a week its no big deal, online i know where to find them, that is, i dont need a thread on spurstalk.com thats copy pasted from another site, i dont see how thats convenient or informative reading gray posters


im sure 99% of fans in every pro town hate the local and beat guys, they have to write a story every day, make up, write bull , tell us we already know, bring up old , predict stupid , write off topic , etc

its the nature of sports reporting and we all like to think we know more and could do a better job

[benefactor]

I'm off to troll their game chat.

http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblog...-timber-3.html

[Cant_Be_Faded]

rofl

[DPG21920]

Sons a lot of us could do better. Also, who reads the paper still? That is estpuido

[Shastafarian]

7:14


Jeff McDonald:
I do know those sites have been stealing our work for years, though.
Friday March 12, 2010 7:14 Jeff McDonald
7:14


mookie:
i think they know more about laws up there
Friday March 12, 2010 7:14 mookie
7:14


mookie:
jeff you invented the spurs right?

[benefactor]

rofl blocking my posts now.