Spaceman Spiff Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 A few excerpts from my email exchange with her: Me: Another day, no new article? Come on Sally, Redskins nation is eagerly waiting to see what you have to say! Or are you waiting for daddy to write the article? SJ: Hi First, thanks for reading the Washington Post. Dude, you don't WANT me on the Redskins. Every time I go to a game, they lose. I'm the official kiss of death. However, I may well be at the Eagles game. They lose that one, we'll know for sure it's me. As for my father, he's just fine, thank you for your interest, and I'd be proud to write anything he tells me, since he's far and away the best writer in the family. I'll tell him you asked after him. Enjoy the holidays. Best, Sally J --------------------------- SJ: Extreme Skins is the house organ. They get pissed when I report the final score. I write plenty of positive things about the coaches and players. I almost never write positive things about management -- for the simple reason that I think Snyder and Cerato have done a lousy job these past five or six years, as their record attests. That doesn't make me a Skins hater. It just makes me observant. Maybe Joe Gibbs is good enough to overcome them. He may be. I certainly hope so. Anyhow, whatever I write is just that, my opinion. There are three other superior columnists you can read if you don't like mine. (Poor Danny. The girl columnist thinks he's a bad owner. How will he ever pick up the shattered pieces of his life?) And if I don't write about the Skins every week, it's because it's just not my job to be as intensely interested in the Skins as the fan boards. ------------------ SJ: Contrary to your impression, I'm not self employed. My editors call up and say, "Can you write a Giants column this week?" And since they pay my salary, I say, "Sure." I suppose I could have written about the Skins some time in the last three weeks if I chose to, but frankly, the BCS, and the Colts trying to go undefeated were just as important and interesting. Like I say, we have three other columnists who are all over the Skins. I think the franchise will survive my opinions, or non-opinions. Anyhow, if I am in attendance at the game this weekend, I will certainly write about them. But like I warned you -- every time I show up, they go down. Cross your fingers I get pulled off the game. Nice talking with you. ------------------- Shed a little light on why she hasn't written anything about us lately....I guess you guys can blame the post for that stupid coughlin article. Sounds like she is rooting for the team to do well though, like where she points out that she hopes gibbs does well and she realizes she jinx's the team so she hopes she wont be there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevenaa Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 HEHEH. That's great. At least she's a good sport. And she's man enough to defend her self, unlike many others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyZeb Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 Did she call you Dude? :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsHokieFan Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 Thats not bad. And Sally, all hexes are meant to be broken. My Redskins hex got broken at the Giants game (I never did tell anyone I had not seen the Redskins win at FedEx since Dallas 2002, and this includes preseason games, and 3 games last year) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gortiz Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 Well now you went and did it, I see her different now ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monte51Coleman Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 Well, the Post hatred of Snyder even comes across in this exchange. It must be hard to enjoy your life while being so filled with hatred for the owner of a football team. They all need a little perspective in their lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted December 30, 2005 Author Share Posted December 30, 2005 Did she call you Dude? :laugh: Haha, yeah, she did. Pretty funny stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BD Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 This is totally what I expected: the Post only asks her to do a piece only when it's negative, in part because she's not in town. It's not that she hates the franchise, she just hates Danny and Cerrato... something she's hardly alone in. I just have no idea why she writes for the Post. I wouldn't mind it if she was a New York person exclusively. BD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubba9497 Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 Extreme Skins is the house organ ? which organ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sisko Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 Wow, amazing what happens when you actually see someone as a person:rolleyes: Now you've ruined hating her for half the board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirk Diggler Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 If the poor results on the field "speak for themselves" as to the ability of Snyder to own/manage the team, then success would do the same wouldn't it? Unless you are a bitter *****. Then when you win, it can only be "in spite" of the owner. Sally Jenkins is most definitely not "alright." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonnyRules Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 Geez, no one left for me to spew my venom.....oh wait, I still have Lenny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCRoughrider Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 This hardly improves my opinion of her because the tone of her "burgundy colored glasses" column was beyond the pale and it had little to do with the management. She made direct attacks on the coaching staff and players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scskin Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 She needs to do two separate articles each time she writes. One about the team, and then one about how she hates the ownership. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsNumberOne Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 Wow, amazing what happens when you actually see someone as a person:rolleyes: Now you've ruined hating her for half the board. Well, for those who were reactionary and emotional enough to hate her, I certainly hope so. That doesn't change the idiocy of her article. It doesn't change the fact that she had little basis provided for her claims. It also doesn't change that Boswell provided a negative article with factual basis that was well received here. I'm not trying to inspire anyone to dislike Sally Jenkins the person, but I don't admire Sally Jenkins the writer anymore than I did before I read this thread. Your opinion of her should never have been personal anyway (and by "your" I of course don't mean "you" Yusuf, just the board in general). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 "I write plenty of positive things about the coaches and players." When? Where? Show me. Eff her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McMetal Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 Nothing I just read changes my opinion of her one iota. She openly reveals that she has an axe to grind by sharing her views on the FO. It's just ridiculous to pay someone to write the trash pieces in which she delights. Why would anyone in DC want to read that garbage? Either hire someone who understands the meaning of "objective" or find someone with enough respect for the franchise and fanbase to entertain the readers without resorting to relentless pessimism and vague half-truths. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krsone Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 Either hire someone who understands the meaning of "objective" or find someone with enough respect for the franchise and fanbase to entertain the readers without resorting to relentless pessimism and vague half-truths. how about just hiring someone that knows football period. as for her stating she writes about the skins every 3 weeks or so, she must be on crack because i recall her writing about the skins in consecutive weeks when weve lost 2 or 3 straight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubba9497 Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 Spiffy has a girlfriend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Brown #43 Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 This is SJ's attempt at backtracking, now that we're on the verge of winning the 5 straight games she said we wouldn't win. Now that we've beaten her beloved Giants, she's grasping for ways to rationalize her position. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-Dog Night Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 That's great. I think - check that - I know Sally Jenkins is an excellent sportswriter, but I don't bother trying to defend on this board anymore because I know the response will be nothing but hate and word vomit. Every time someone posts one of her articles on this board, one of the local geniuses will likely respond with: "Written by Sally jenkins"I stopped reading right there. And then another poster will respond with a ":laugh:" or some such inspired agreement. You may not like what she says, but she's damn good at what she does. If you don't agree with her opinions, it doesn't make her a "b!tch [who needs] to go get laid or something" as one so eloquent poster once put it. If I searched I'm sure I could find many more similar responses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TODD Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 So Sally reads us too... and considers us when writing (or not writing) her Skins articles? Interesting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiefhogskin48 Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 She's still horrible. An email exchange doesn't make up for the poor quality of her articles. I'm offended that they allow a carpetbagger like her to write for our newspaper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Chaos47 Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 The fact that she called him "dude" raised my level of respect for her. Forgive my feeble 20-something mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulane Skins Fan Posted December 30, 2005 Share Posted December 30, 2005 Extreme Skins is the house organ? which organ? the testicles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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