March 16, 2009T.J. SIMERS OBSESSED WITH BOSTON SPORTS
Los Angeles -- The often cynical sportswriter T.J. Simers has been suffering for years from what many knowledgeable sports fans call, "growing up chubby," insinuating that his cynicism is derived from being picked last in kickball. Now he is simply suffering from lack of readership.
In order to combat this downward trend, Simers decided to borrow a tactic from the City of Champions' most beloved--sarcasm--sportswriter Dan Shaugnessy: antagonize your readers to get more readership. Simers attempts this transformation in his recent article, Boston Obsessed with Manny.
In the article, Simers uses stereotypes in not-so-subtly implying that Bostonians are self-infatuated, obsessive compulsive morons with funny accents; also, that they have no lives. But the man fails on one major account: credibility. He is a hypocrite in every aspect of the word: borrowing from a Boston sportswriter, to garner Boston readership. Did he accidentally prove that Boston is the best sports city in the world? After all, he had to get readers from somewhere outside the land of athletic indifference.
"Noooo," Simers says. "It's just that I hate them so much that I have to write about them every day."
So who is obsessed with who again?
Editor's Note: The caption in the picture was translated by RadishBlog expert translator Hai Min from LuangDong province. He says that this lady said the following: "I sreep wiv chubby white man cuz he have smarr penis and gimme green card." How do you like stereotypes now Simers? Shaugnessy also enlightened us on the tactic used by Simers. He says that, "the stereotypes are all Manny stereotypes: funny accent, moronic, etc. He just flipped those around, and it worked on the Bostonians. I do it all the time."
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