You Got That Heather Dinich Haterade? The Key Play Sure Does
by Winfield Featherston on Sep 21, 2011 1:08 PM EDT
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PrintI don't know what to say other than thank you Joe of The Key Play for absolutely making my day. Joe may argue that Heather Dinich hates Virginia Tech. But Tech fans ALL KNOW that she truly maxes out at incompetence when it comes to Georgia Tech.
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I think every team can agree on only one thing about Ms. Dinich...
…she hates your team but adores FSU.
It's like a harping mom playing favorites...
“FSU is really an elite program capable of winning any title they want…they’re just misunderstood. So much potential. Why can’t you be more like your sister and finish out all 4 quarters of a game?! Ugh, I’m picking against you this week in my predictions…don’t get upset. FSU wouldn’t get upset…”
Guys, get serious for a moment.
@Winfield: I don’t think HD really cares about any of the ACC schools very much. She’s an Indiana grad and long-time Big 10 fan. She has a job writing about ACC football and she is merely OK doing it. Critiquing her job as a writer is fine, but it makes no sense to attack her personally. That is what you do when you say she “hates” some schools and “loves” others.
Having been a writer in my youth, I can attest to the low wages of that profession. The fact that she is doing a blog on ESPN gives her a lot of visibility, and that may be a nice entry on her resume, but not much else.
All the talk about her in the blogs just makes her better liked by her bosses. What you are doing is showing ESPN how much you pay attention to what she writes. See loves it! You may be helping her at salary review time.
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca
"We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal." - Tennessee Williams
They took the bar! The whole fucking bar!
by Profoundly Vague on Sep 21, 2011 9:19 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I like Dinich
I’m with Oriental. At least someone is writing about the ACC. If someone wasn’t paid to do it, how many people would voluntarily write about ACC football as a whole?
I write stuff From the Rumble Seat.
Let me put it this way. I don’t hate her. I don’t even dislike her. Sometimes her analysis bothers me when I think she has it all wrong but I certainly don’t feel comfortable with making it personal or turning it into name calling. Good-natured ribbing should be the goal here.
by Atlanta's original team on Sep 22, 2011 9:57 AM EDT up reply actions
I agree with not reading her work
I don’t and haven’t for a couple of years now. I’m the same with other writers too. If I don’t like your style, I’ll quit reading. If you are constantly a dummy with your content (Hinton & Chase), then I will stop reading. I have no need to support you and your work if you show no need to provide reasonable and worthy content.
However, I have no problem with people expressing their opinions. I don’t see how commenting an opinion that a certain writer comes off as hating your team or loving other teams is attacking them personally. To me, that is simply critiquing the perception of bias found within the content. That’s no different than me calling out the companies that make products clearly for right-handed individuals with no option for those of us who are left-handed. A personal attack would be in the form of name-calling or making derisive comments about their appearance, their families, the way someone speaks, etc.
My opinion is that her writing stinks, regardless of the fact that I believe ESPN writers publish things that stir the pot. She doesn’t even do that well enough to get my attention. I say simply ignore her.
From The Rumble Seat -Drinkin' whiskey clear since 2008.
"You could spend the next fifteen seconds of your life watching a man and a tiger scream together, or you could be an idiot."
Fact.
I agree. It was the name calling and derisive comments about appearance etc. that I am uncomfortable with.
by Atlanta's original team on Sep 22, 2011 1:49 PM EDT up reply actions
Agree.
For those who think she hates GT, here is her post this afternoon. Very positive about GT: http://espn.go.com/blog/acc/post/_/id/29478/gt-offense-to-challenge-unc-d
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca
"We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal." - Tennessee Williams
I don't trust...
….a graduate from any conference that can’t correctly count the number of teams in their conference.
From following her blog for 4 years (or 3) I can tell you one thing – more often than not, she incorrectly picks the winner of the game. And she doesn’t even pick on the Vegas spread!
She interviews these coaches and athletes, and that gets her caught up in the hype. She picked Duke to be better than GT!!! DUKE!!! I mean, I could believe that we’d be a middle-tier team…but DUKE!!! She bought in hard-core on David Cutliffe’s BS.
That right there told me she knows nothing of ACC football.
I quit reading her a while ago
I skim her headlines through the RSS feeds, but I rarely read the stories. The most useful thing she posts is her links post, and I’ve replaced that with a superior Google Alerts email*.
I think her heart is in the right place, but she spends far too much time making predictions. I think predictions are a waste of time from anyone, but that’s no secret. I don’t really give a rat’s rear who someone thinks will win games, or how someone ranks teams relative to each other, or what bowls someone thinks teams will go to. Nobody knows for sure, and none of this affects the games, which is what I care about.
- I’m very satisfied with Google Alerts, which basically gives me a list of all the news stories out there. My string is
“georgia tech” football -site:bleacherreport.com
because I can’t stand reading anything from bleacherreport.com. If there are people who post there with a basic understanding of either the English language or the game of football then I’ve somehow missed them.
If you search for stories without that restriction
you end up with a bunch from Bleacher Report, which is basically a collection of articles written for free by people who think they can write and think they know sports.
The slideshows aren’t as horribly written, but they are just as devoid of accuracy.
I have to exclude them from the search because sometimes I won’t notice the URL and the headline won’t be bad enough and I’ll waste a few precious seconds of my life following the link.
you dont like slideshows?
Better to have died a small boy than to drop this football - John Heisman FromTheRumbleSeat
by Winfield Featherston on Sep 21, 2011 6:11 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I totally agree with you about Bleacher Report.
That’s one of the lamest sites on the Web. I can’t stand it and avoid it like the plague. I wasn’t aware of Google Alerts but after checking into it, I don’t think I want my e-mail inbox flooded by them. I just wish there was a way to block Bleacher Report from my Google News feed. Thanks for the tip on Google Alerts though, esp how to block Bleacher Report!
by The Bamboo Shaft on Sep 22, 2011 10:57 AM EDT up reply actions
I've got my alert set up for once a day
I get an email with a list of articles every morning. It’s very handy. It looks as if I’ll have to add a “-site:isportsweb.com” to it for the same reasons.
The Yahoo Georgia Tech feed has starting including fan-written crap, so I may have to ditch that. The AP stories end up in the google alert, anyway.
Thanks again for the info.
I may give it a try.
by The Bamboo Shaft on Sep 23, 2011 11:10 AM EDT up reply actions
More Haterade for Ol' GiraffeNeck...
The spoof has GT and UNC backwards. She has been crushin’ on Butch Davis since day 1, and still has feelings for UNC. Somebody oughta tell her that Davis is no longer at Carolina.
More accurate might be a love-hate with Tech. She hates Tech until she’s about to get run over by the bandwagon, and then she’s on it until it hits a bump and she falls off. Not sure where the author got CPJ “can do no wrong”. But then again, maybe I have been reading too much Jeff Schultz.
FSU and VT is spot on. She lurves FSU, hates VT.
She loves Duke. BC is 100% meh.
UVA might be a hate…never any love from her.
She might not like NCSU…but she has a Russell Wilson Wolfpack jersey in her hope chest.
Not to pile on Dinich..
which, BTW, I agree with most of the comments posted so far, but the last few times I tried to read her ESPN ACC blog, it was unreadable b/c the site kept constantly auto-refreshing as I tried to scroll down. I think it was a sign not to read it anymore, which I haven’t.
by The Bamboo Shaft on Sep 22, 2011 11:02 AM EDT reply actions
I think TKP got Tech and Miami backwards
Heather always seems to be talking about how FSU and Miami need to get good again to get the ACC back to prominence. Or, at least, she did all the time back when I still read her blog.
As for “loving” Tech…. she picked us to lose against MTSU a couple weeks ago. Enough said.
My years in marching band have made me an authority on football.
Oh, and I have a Twitter.
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