Deadspin just ripped a hole into Peter King

[heisenburrr]

http://deadspin.com/the-problem-with-peter-king-1638536051/all

Let’s begin with Peter King on Twitter last night. If you hate-follow poor Peter on Twitter, as I do, you know that his stream consists largely of mangled replies and random compliments to entire towns—Helluva main street you got there, Hanover, New Hampshire!—and last night was no different. The Sports Illustrated columnist told this remarkable non-story about Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Andrew McCutchen:





OK, now we all agree that’s the lamest story in human history, outside of Beowulf. A man went into Starbucks and got a cup of coffee and they put his name on it. Fin. You will not find anyone to option the film rights to this story. In fact, it’s not even NEW! Peter has a longer, even duller version of it here. In Peter King’s twisted mind, this story serves as a shining example of HIGH CHARACTER, the kind of shyt that old-school sportswriters never cease fawning over. No funny names for that Cutch, fella! He ordered his coffee with a splash of Jetertude and nothing else!

Since this is Twitter, people dumped all over Peter for telling such a lame, shyt-ass story. And in turn, Peter essentially waved his white flag and declared SNARK the winner:

I hope you’re happy, Internet. You broke a good man. I can picture Peter shaking his head before closing up his MacBook Air and ordering another Shock Top from the Acela attendant.

But here's the thing: Peter King's entire career has been built on being exactly this sort of Pollyanna nonsense. It's not a bad habit; it's a worldview. He is the Billy Bush of the NFL. I know this because I've been reading Peter since I was a kid, and NOTHING about his style has changed. At all. Take any MMQB column from 2003 (strangely, many links to his old cnnsi.com columns are now dead), swap out the old player names for new player names, and it'll read like 2014 Peter King. He is the league leader in glad-handing, a guy who is nice to everyone because everyone is either a contact or a potential contact, and contacts lead to precious MMQB nuggets. (Nuggets are the currency of Peter King's world, and the pursuit and acquisition of them can lead to a certain boorish obliviousness on King's part: "Rey Maualuga checking into Betty Ford later this month, by the way, according to Adam Schefter. Good nugget.")

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It's about time this douche gets called out

 

[mozichrome]

i fukks with mmqb
one of few sports sites i read
what has peter king done to deserve a story like this
u didnt like his tweets so u decide to try to crap on dude?

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

i fukks with mmqb
one of few sports sites i read
what has peter king done to deserve a story like this
u didnt like his tweets so u decide to try to crap on dude?

Heres a way to put it

Peter king is the mozichrome of SI

 

[heisenburrr]

i fukks with mmqb
one of few sports sites i read
what has peter king done to deserve a story like this
u didnt like his tweets so u decide to try to crap on dude?

Read the story.

Dude is NFL #1 cheerleader. He makes me sick

 

[Carlos Huerta]

http://deadspin.com/the-problem-with-peter-king-1638536051/all



It's about this this douche gets called out

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[calh45]

i fukks with mmqb
one of few sports sites i read
what has peter king done to deserve a story like this
u didnt like his tweets so u decide to try to crap on dude?

I agree. He's harmless. Deadspin gets off on throwing other journalists under the bus. PK has criticized the league before he just doesn't go out of his way to do it.

 

[Joe Sixpack]

Peter King has long been a suckhole. He's always just gettin off the phone with so and so GM of some NFL team.

Looks like a real privileged WASP from New Hampshire, Delaware or Vermont.

 

[aceboon]

lol @ the random diss to Albert Breer

 

[Juggalo Fred]

mike florio is worse

 

[heisenburrr]

lol @ the random diss to Albert Breer

 

[The ADD]

 

[AVXL]

Biggest problem with Peter is that he's become a company spokesman for the NFL. He goes to any levels necessary to defend the shield and it's a shame b/c he used to be a GREAT writer. Now he's a corporate shill...he's embarrassing to read now. Even his last article on the Goodell press conference in MMQB seemed to take more pressure off Goodell and almost act like the shyt wasn't a massive coverup b/w the Ravens & the league. The comments in the article destroy him and rightfully so

 

[resurrection]

LOL there is absolutely no reason to hate on a guy for having that writing style. That's how/why he gets paid. So what? Just don't read it. It's much better than getting up on the soapbox and inciting a public mob with over-reactionary hit pieces on the new scandal-du-jour target.

 

[MikelArteta]

i like peter king and always read mmqb, yes hes a nfl shill but so what

 

[Trip]

remember when deadspin was worth reading?