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Originally Posted by AC
It really is amazing when you see what the Edmonton "professional" writers throw up.
Mark Spector, Jim Matheson, and Rob Tychkowski are all emotional, pissy fanboys who throw embarrassing tantrums publically non-stop. Hell, until very recently Mark Spector was the President of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association.
They all make Eric Francis look like a Pulitzer prize winner.
You can even extend it to their TV crew of Gene Principe, Kevin Quinn, and Drew Remenda who are all equally amateur-hour.
Compare their crew of embarrassments to actual professionals like Scott Cruickshank, Darren Haynes, Kristen Anderson, Wes Gilbertson, Jermain Franklin, Ryan Leslie, Rick Ball, and Kelley Hrudey. It's completely night and day.
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Amen.
Never heard Rick or Kelly act like these Edmonton guys do during/after a loss. They take it like grown men and professionals, do their job and acknowledge where the team came up short, where the other team did well and from my recollection never have gone on reaching for every excuse or injustice they can find when it doesn't go the Flames way. And it never seems like they have a hard time doing that.
In no universe will you see them post the kind of stuff current floating (fitting word) around on Matheson or Staples' feeds right now.
Steinberg and Haynes will do some ribbing from time to time but its usually from a factual, quotable or statistical standpoint without their personal fanboyism woven in.