Comments on: Costas on the Ball http://sportsmediajournal.com/2008/06/02/costas-on-the-ball/ Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:24:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: Keith http://sportsmediajournal.com/2008/06/02/costas-on-the-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-1100 Keith Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:07:42 +0000 http://sportsmediajournal.com/2008/06/02/costas-on-the-ball/#comment-1100 Thanks for the lesson. My high school English teacher would be proud! Thanks for the lesson. My high school English teacher would be proud!

]]> By: Chitown Chick http://sportsmediajournal.com/2008/06/02/costas-on-the-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-1099 Chitown Chick Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:00:54 +0000 http://sportsmediajournal.com/2008/06/02/costas-on-the-ball/#comment-1099 Whoever is transcribing the broadcasts needs to work on their idioms. "Ad HOMINEM" is what Costas meant, a Latin phrase basically meaning to the person, to the body. Interestingly, homonym is a homonym for hominem. I don't like the talk radio culture, so I don't listen. I do like blogs, so I do read them. Maybe I'm oversimplifying it, but the best thing to do to help stymie that culture is to vote with your ears and eyeballs. Whoever is transcribing the broadcasts needs to work on their idioms. “Ad HOMINEM” is what Costas meant, a Latin phrase basically meaning to the person, to the body. Interestingly, homonym is a homonym for hominem.

I don’t like the talk radio culture, so I don’t listen. I do like blogs, so I do read them. Maybe I’m oversimplifying it, but the best thing to do to help stymie that culture is to vote with your ears and eyeballs.

]]> By: Mac G http://sportsmediajournal.com/2008/06/02/costas-on-the-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-1097 Mac G Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:21:19 +0000 http://sportsmediajournal.com/2008/06/02/costas-on-the-ball/#comment-1097 Costas did not know the simple basic difference between commenters on a blog and the author of a blog. Should we really listen to his opinion on the new media and sports blogs? Are people really more mean now than other generations? Or does better technology make it seem that way? It is hard for me to believe that sports fans in the 60s-90s were not be just as vicious as they are today. Jim Brown, Hank Aaron, and Bill Russell are just three sports figures off the top of my head who might agree with me. Costas did not know the simple basic difference between commenters on a blog and the author of a blog. Should we really listen to his opinion on the new media and sports blogs?

Are people really more mean now than other generations? Or does better technology make it seem that way?

It is hard for me to believe that sports fans in the 60s-90s were not be just as vicious as they are today.

Jim Brown, Hank Aaron, and Bill Russell are just three sports figures off the top of my head who might agree with me.

]]> By: Extra P http://sportsmediajournal.com/2008/06/02/costas-on-the-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-1096 Extra P Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:14:53 +0000 http://sportsmediajournal.com/2008/06/02/costas-on-the-ball/#comment-1096 I agree with Bob. I hate the "talk radio" vibe that some blogs operate by. Because long before blogs came along, callers were spouting venom on the radio. And it all comes down to that nice anonymity that allows people to put on a persona that the majority of people never display in public. I agree with Bob. I hate the “talk radio” vibe that some blogs operate by. Because long before blogs came along, callers were spouting venom on the radio. And it all comes down to that nice anonymity that allows people to put on a persona that the majority of people never display in public.

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