2005 Point & Laugh At The taterskins Thread

[phattymatty]

I don't see how any of you fools doubt that he did it.  Did you not see the guilty look on his face on the sideline.  It was like a 3 year old who just got scolded.  If he really didn't do it, he would have at least put up a little bit of a fight.

[MDS]

By the hammer of Thor Art is gay

[archer]

I don't see how any of you fools doubt that he did it.  Did you not see the guilty look on his face on the sideline.  It was like a 3 year old who just got scolded.  If he really didn't do it, he would have at least put up a little bit of a fight.

You're correct, good point, I agree. If he didn't do it he would have been irate. He didn't argue.

[General_Failure]

Love your kids? Prove it by beating them.

[LBIggle]

wow what a suck fest of a game.  like 7 fumbles.  i think portis has more rushing yards then brunell did passing.  and where was the godly moss at.  he probably had like a good something teen good yards of offense as well. 

i can't wait for next year to bring these retards back to earth.

Come on guys, a little support for your fellow NFC Easters. We will be toast next week if we can't generate any offense, we did beat Seahawks this year already, it is really tough to beat the good teams twice.




All hail Gibbs

stop smoking your product.  or smoke way too much of it.  whichever prevents more retarded posts like that.  show support? haha im sure you guys were rooting the birds on in the SB last year.

[SunMo]

Love your kids? Prove it by beating them.

careful now, you might offend somebody. 

[PhillyPhreak54]

Art's little experience with Lenny P has sportswriters blasting ExtremeSkins



I found this linked on ES and read the posts. Apparently they all know all about the ES boys and they detest them.

[Wingspan]

I couldn't give a shtein of what you philly fans think

Total number of posts since bigskinbauer posted this?

6

[PhillyPhreak54]

This is REAL good

Some media-bashers aren't so loath to be outed. The poster who goes by Art is the Wilt Chamberlain of ExtremeSkins.com—he now claims more than 21,000 posts to the Skins site alone. Art has positioned himself as more of a media attack dog than a watchdog; he goes after any journo who utters a negative word about Snyder's operation with the fervor of a scorned Scientologist. Art is the guy responsible for the Nunyo Files, and he says he'd be doing it even if the taterskins hadn't acquired the site.

"My name is Art Mills, and everybody there knows that 'Art' is Art Mills," he says. "I've been attacking bad journalism for years, before the taterskins ever knew my name, and I'll be attacking bad journalism for years to come."

Demasio says he gave his enemies fuel by erroneously reporting that the taterskins were going to cut Ryan Clark before the 2004 season, but he finds the continued attacks against him on ExtremeSkins.com rather amusing.

"As a journalist, every mistake hits like a dagger," Demasio says. "So I wish I never gave one bit of ammunition. But I still can't figure out how [the Nunyo Files were] supposed to smear me, especially after the team bought the site. If anything, it made me realize that the Washington Post got under their skins, no pun intended."

Eric Leichter, a North Dakota urologist and one of the board's previous owners, declines to discuss the financial terms of the taterskins' takeover of his board. But Leichter says he supports the site's tone just as much now as he did before it fell under Snyder's management umbrella. In fact, he joined Mills and andyman in crashing Demasio's going-away party at SportsJournalists.com. Posting on the site as "SkinBlade"—he uses "Blade" while bashing at ExtremeSkins.com—Leichter prodded anybody saying nice things about Demasio to "stop swinging from Nunyo's sack."

The Skins have rewarded Mills, who lives in Minnesota, for his anti-media venom in a very weird way. Along with getting paid for his contributions to the taterskins Web site, since Snyder's takeover of the site, Mills now gets to watch the team's games from—you guessed it—the press box, and all on the team's dime. He recounts his experiences on the site, which leads to such journalism as the following, from the press box of Texas Stadium in Irving, Texas, posted just after the Skins completed their Monday Night Miracle: "Monday, Sept. 19, Brunell to MOSS TD—Now we're obnoxious. Mediamembers looking at us. Screw them. YES BABY!!!! We sprint down to sidelines now."

Allowing representatives from the fan site, let alone brash media-bashers, to sit alongside working media in the press box troubles Dave Elfin, the longtime Washington Times reporter who now serves as president of the Pro Football Writers Association.

"I wish they were not there," says Elfin. "They have cheered in the press box, which is against every tenet of the press box. There are already disputes over fan Web sites [being given press credentials] in other markets. But in those other cases, the sites aren't owned by the team. Here, the site is owned by the team, so we really have no say who gets in the press box. It's up to the team, and they choose to let in fans disguised as journalists. It's a distressing trend."

Mills, who says he used to be a working newspaperman before going into medical-equipment sales, is the opposite of apologetic when he hears that some journalists question the validity of a paid fan reporting on games.

"We give fans an eyes-wide-open, aw-shucks view that they can't get anywhere else," he says. "Our presence is every bit as appropriate as the traditional media."

And the sportswriters views on Art and his boys

[SunMo]

oh my, i never, ever realized he was that much of a toolbag

[PhillyPhreak54]

Oh, yeah. He's a grade A douchebag...

He has 52 posts that media MB...here's one of them;

Perhaps the most disturbing thing is fans at Extremeskins, myself included, hold you gentlemen in as much disdain as you hold us.  The difference being you are supposed to be serving, at least in a small way, us.  We are your audience.  In the end, you need us to survive.  In the end, we do not need you for the same.  Perhaps the fact that it's so clear you don't like fans of the beats you may cover contributes to the fact fans of those beats don't like you.

It would probably be a nice effort on your part to get as angry about factual errors among those in your profession as you get with those fans who might recognize they exist.  But, that is up to you.  It would probably be of benefit to you to realize when covering a sports beat, the most interested, potentially devoted audience you serve are those who actually follow the team.  It is probably a poor position to hate us so and expect to be taken seriously.

As I told Moddy, I will not make a presence here, as I don't believe some large component here is willing to engage in an honest, reasonable exchange of ideas.  Some might be, and to you I apologize.  But, trust me when I tell you, as amused and disgusted as you are with us for liking the teams we follow, we're equally amused and disgusted with you for the failure of many of you in your field.

And we're talking about you as well.

http://www.extremeskins.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121789

I have a $100 bet with a couple members of my board that not a single ONE of you will engage in conversation as yourself in an honest, open way I have with you.  They seem to think you just might.  I look forward to losing the bet.

[MDS]

This just adds to his ego....of being popular on an internet message board. What a pathetic loser.

[rjs246]

Can we stop talking about this douchebag? Please. Everyone outside of that web site knows that he is a joke. Half the people who go to that site know that he's a joke. we all certainly know he's a joke. I can't handle reading about him anymore and it infuriates me that his unparalleled level of blind homerism has earned national recognition. People shouldn't be talking about his stupid ass. Us included.

In other words, lets put all Art-related posts in a different thread so that when I make fun of the Skins I don't have to hear about how every sports journalist in the country knows who Art is. I dry heave enough as it is.

[phattymatty]

A co-woker just bet me $50 than the Skins will win.  Straight up, no points.  The homerism in this town has reached an all-time level of the 4 years that I have lived here.

[MadMarchHare]

Win what?  The Hawks game, or the SB?