Let's have a Harty Party
by Oops Pow Surprise
on Oct 1, 2007 2:38 PM CDT
in News
The week of pain continues with an excerpt from our old hated friend Pat Harty.
With just seconds remaining in what now might rank as the worst loss under Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz, a distinguished member of the media said what most of you probably dread hearing.
He explained Iowa's startling decline by bringing up a depressing part of history. He said the pendulum had turned the other way, the way that has haunted this program off and on for years.
What he basically meant is that the Iowa program is fragile and when things turn bad, they sometimes spin out of control.
The Harty Party, of course, declines to name that member of the media or issue an exact quote, because that would be too easy. The Harty Party doesn't do "easy."
"My leg was feeling really good this week and then on Wednesday during practice I guess I tweaked it a little bit coming back from an injury I had," Stross said.
This might sound like an excuse, but the fact that Stross has been hampered by injuries for most of the season might have contributed to his emotional blunder. And perhaps he was just sick and tired of watching his team suck the life out of the homecoming crowd.
Seems like "the life out of the homecoming crowd" is an unnecessary modifier.
Regular OPS fans (read: my parents) may remember that I have a certain defense mechanism whenever I'm confronted with a Harty article (Harticle) that is as dreadful the season itself: The Pat Harty Avalanche. Run and hide.
WHEEEEE WE'RE HAVING A HARTY PARTY HAHAHAHAHAAAA WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
(muffled weeping, then a single gunshot is heard.)
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that is too painful
You're piling on, and that's an ugly pile.
I love these "historical imperative" analyses. Like we're just corks on the ocean of history. Then add a dose of Jenni Carlson I-Heard-It-Through-The-Grapevine unattributed horseshit. Either he made it up because he's too lazy to do any reporting, or we have yet another suck-up "reporter" who doesn't want to lose favor with the coach, whispering to the pile.
How is it a newspaper prints columns in which a columnist writes about another columnist, phantom or not?
by Bellanca on Oct 1, 2007 3:32 PM CDT 0 recs
hi, Pat!
You do realize you're comparing apples to assholes, right? As soon as we start referring to anonymous sources (members of the media, no less!) all while earning our living doing this shit, your point will become valid.
The likelihood of this becoming our job? Un-fucking-likely, lawya.
by Oops Pow Surprise on Oct 2, 2007 2:10 PM CDT 0 recs
The anonymity itself isn't a problem
Look, if Harty's divulging sensitive information and he can't reveal sources, that's fine. That's part of journalism, both in sports and elsewhere.
But it's both lazy and lame reporting to lead an opinion piece with an oblique reference to an anonymous source. It's somewhat understandable if the gentleman, whose livelihood depends on covering and interacting with the Hawkeyes, doesn't want to be associated with such a gloomy quote, but why does that make it okay for the Harty Party to run with it? And why not at the very least contact him to get an exact quote? That'd at least be readable, and it would give PH a better sense of whether or not it belongs in the paper.
I'll never hammer a reporter for being too secretive. I absolutely will if he can't write for crap, but gets paid to do it anyway.
by Oops Pow Surprise on Oct 2, 2007 4:15 PM CDT 0 recs
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