{"id":386,"date":"2012-09-26T18:29:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T01:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/?p=386"},"modified":"2020-06-20T16:52:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T23:52:37","slug":"the-inaccurate-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/26\/the-inaccurate-reception\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inaccurate Reception"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Jeffrey Carl <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bloggers To Be Named Later, September 26 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Bloggers To Be Named Later<\/a> was Paul Caputo’s fabulous sports-blogging empire of the mid-2010s. My role in the enterprise was to promise to write humor articles and then not do that, or at least not remotely on time. Ultimately, after a flirtation with viral Internets fame, the site basically turned into an excuse for Paul to get free baseball tickets, which is actually about the only good reason to run a blog of any sort. After the BTBNL site wound down, I realized that I hadn’t kept local copies of most of the stories I had written, so I ended up scouring through The Internet Archive<\/a> to find as many as I could in order to prevent a tragic loss to the world’s cultural canon of blog posts complaining about the Seattle Mariners. You’re welcome. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike other sports blogs, only BTBNL has the courage to a.) take on hot topics like the controversial call that gave the Seahawks a victory over the Packers Monday night, and b.) do it after everyone else has stopped caring and moved on to other topics. That\u2019s the kind of quality journalism that explains why we have gotten fewer hits in the site\u2019s entire history than pictures of Pokemons drawn as sexy Anime girls or Overly Attached Girlfriend got in the last 10 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Touchdown! Or maybe not.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s important to send a message not to bow to peer pressure, like everyone else in the country thinking you were wrong about it being a touchdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BTBNL set up an exclusive live chat session to answer questions from its literally hundreds of avid readers who do not technically exist. BTBNL Grand Poobah Paul Caputo decided that the best person to give a reasoned, unbiased response to all these reader questions was the site\u2019s lone Seattle blogger resident\/sportsfan, me. Which should tell you all you need to know about Paul Caputo\u2019s editorial judgement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BTBNL Blogger Jeff from Seattle<\/strong>: Hi everyone! Looking forward to answering your questions about the exciting Seahawks win from last night. Here we go!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BTBNL Reader Neil from Chalfont, PA<\/strong>: What should the NFL do after such a terrible call ruined the game by giving the Seahawks an undeserved win on an purported Hail Mary touchdown from Russell Wilson to Golden Tate that was really an interception by M.D. Jennings?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeff<\/strong>: Assface says what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neil<\/strong>: What???!?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeff<\/strong>: Exactly. Next question?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Look, they are working as hard as they can, so BACK OFF. Okay?<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

BTBNL Reader Amy from Baltimore, MD<\/strong>: Should Golden Tate be fined for his egregious pass interference that wasn\u2019t called on the final play of the game?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeff<\/strong>: Only if by \u201cegregious pass interference\u201d you mean \u201cunbelievable awesomeness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amy<\/strong>: No, I don\u2019t mean that at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeff<\/strong>: I\u2019m pretty sure you do. And he shouldn\u2019t be fined for it, he should be awarded this nation\u2019s highest honor, the Congressional Not Being Arrested For Stealing Donuts Medal. Next question?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BTBNL Reader Branden from Atlanta, GA<\/strong>: We all saw the replays, and the facts are very clear about what happened. Let\u2019s be fair and put our team affiliations aside here to discuss the issue rationally like adults. Can\u2019t we just logically agree to the obvious statement that this call was incorrect and the Seahawks didn\u2019t really deserve to win?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeff<\/strong>: What color is the sky on your planet? Is it green? That seems lovely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the spirit of compromise, I will agree that you blow goats during your free time when you are not actively assisting Al-Qaeda and\/or selling crystal meth at preschools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BTBNL Reader Greer from Mobile, AL<\/strong>: Shouldn\u2019t we all be boycotting NFL games with these terrible scab replacement referees?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Do these ladies deserve the best in referees? We think they do. And we are ready to volunteer any time necessary.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Jeff<\/strong>: I think these replacement referees are just fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greer<\/strong>: But it was revealed recently that some of these referees actually got fired for not being good enough for the Lingerie Football League<\/a>. Not that this is any kind of linkbait to get people to read this article due to a question on the LFL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeff<\/strong>: First, I am going to say \u201cshame on you,\u201d and link to the Lingerie Football League website as an apology. Second, I am not going to dignify your slurs on the Lingerie Football League. That would be almost as bad as casting aspersions on the Canadian Football League cheerleaders of the British Columbia Lions. Third, I have forgotten what the original point was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The CFL British Columbia Felions being cheerful. And you know what? There\u2019s nothing wrong with that.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Also, we have a picture of the CFL British Columbia Lions \u201cBC Felions\u201d here, which is somehow related to something in this post about the Seahawks\/Packers game. It has nothing to do with driving hits and trying to make this website profitable. Just saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s all the time we have for tonight \u2013 join us again next week when we answer nobody\u2019s actual questions about the Philadelphia Phillies or the Washington Nationals!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Jeffrey Carl Bloggers To Be Named Later was Paul Caputo’s fabulous sports-blogging empire of the mid-2010s. My role in the enterprise was to promise to write humor articles and then not do that, or at least not remotely on time. Ultimately, after a flirtation with viral Internets fame, the site basically turned into an … Continue reading The Inaccurate Reception<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,62],"tags":[47,53,22,46,40],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers-to-be-named-later","category-humor","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-nfl","tag-paul-caputo","tag-seahawks","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}