Carl Spackler

February 23rd, 2016 at 1:00 PM ^

Most of It truly is a barren wasteland.  My dad visited and his comment was "Is it law here to have a junk car sitting in your front yard.?"  And he's from Howell.  

My favorite saying was "There's a good looking girl behind every tree."

 

 

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Avon Barksdale

February 23rd, 2016 at 12:43 PM ^

What in the actual fuck has happened to investigative journalism? It's as if it doesn't exist anymore. These imbeciles now with their fancy laptops will type up anything and publish it. Jesus Christ, man. I guess we just should not have recruited another QB until 2019 when the greatest QB in New Mexico High School history leaves the program.

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Blue_sophie

February 23rd, 2016 at 1:41 PM ^

Do you understand that the world does not revolve around you and your "do whatever it takes, ruin as many people's lives, so long as you can make a name for yourself as an investigatory journalist, no matter how many friends you lose or people you leave dead and bloodied along the way, just so long so you can make a name for yourself as an investigatory journalist, no matter how many friends you lose or people you leave dead and bloodied and dying along the way"?

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1329 S. University

February 23rd, 2016 at 12:44 PM ^

Gentry. He admits he cannot get a comment from Zach or his dad. Then he writes an entire article about how Zach probably can't sleep well at night because he moved to tight end? Even though he says that he could end up the next Antonio Gates or Gronk.

And he writes almost the entire "article" in one sentance paragraphs? Can you tell me again why newspapers are dying?

 

 

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mGrowOld

February 23rd, 2016 at 12:52 PM ^

They are a news website that refreshes it's home page once a day and when they do so they use content from 8 hours earler.  I mean fucking baseball has a younger average fan base than your average newspaper subscriber right now.  I'll bet you anything that the same people who subscribe to newspapers today also have land-line phones, use a travel agency to book trips and actually set foot inside of banks to conduct financial transactions.

I wouldnt worry about the writer much.  Employees at actual newspapers are like the characters in "The Sixth Sense".  They are dead but they are the only ones who don't know it.

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901 P

February 23rd, 2016 at 2:56 PM ^

I also like the local paper for local news. I can get national news elsewhere, but it's nice having an actual paper "newspaper" to read. On a related note: I'm a teacher, and I've started trying to catch myself if I tell my students to read something in the newspaper. It won't be too long before the word won't have any relation to the physical object.

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SAMgO

February 23rd, 2016 at 12:46 PM ^

This guy is a terrible writer and openly admits to knowing nothing about the situation. Then he suggests that Gentry should transfer to play for the New Mexico Lobos instead of staying at Michigan. All for the kid's best interests, of course.

Disregard.

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GoBlueinMN

February 23rd, 2016 at 12:46 PM ^

The article is completely based on assumptions of the author and one tiny quote from Gentry's grandfather, who admits to knowing nothing about the move.

The author didn't talk to Gentry or his father and knows absolutely nothing about how they feel about it or how it came about it.

Just pure fabricated outrage.

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LSAClassOf2000

February 23rd, 2016 at 12:49 PM ^

I may very well be clueless about the entire situation. And admittedly, I have zero inside information. I’ve never seen a Michigan football practice, and have no idea how Zach Gentry looked in drills last year.

But I do know that moving former the Eldorado High sensation from quarterback to tight end has my dander up.

That final sentence in the above passage had my dander up, but only because he first admits to being clueless and having zero inside information. It seems like it would be difficult - logically speaking - to be upset at something you knew nothing about, but OK, keep writing.....and he did. Remarkable.

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MAZandBLUE

February 23rd, 2016 at 12:50 PM ^

Can we get a standard "who are you and why should I care about you?" rating on all of these random ass authors that have and will continue to write HOT TAKES on Harbaugh? I'm sure there's a continuum of whose opinion we should actually value, and this guy's from New Mexico strikes me as one that will fall on the lower end.

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gord

February 23rd, 2016 at 12:52 PM ^

The guy seems to be angry that Harbaugh recruited Peters for the 2016 class and McCaffrey for 2017.  Yeah, great idea, recruit one QB every 3 years and hope they develop, don't get injured and don't transfer.

"Harbaugh, however, signed Brandon Peters, the nation’s No. 3 ranked prep quarterback from 2016, earlier this month. And last week, Harbaugh got a verbal commitment from Dylan McCaffrey — the nation’s top-ranked prep QB in the class of 2017. McCaffrey is the brother of Stanford superstar Christian McCaffrey and the son of former NFL receiver Ed McCaffrey.

It was a head-scratcher."

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