CBCer @JeffMarek considering renaming self @CrosbyFluffer
by TylerG on Sep 16, 2009 9:10 AM EDT
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Given how extensively the Canadian hockey media is in the tank for Pittsburgh forward and oiled-up barely-legal model Sidney Crosby, it would take truly remarkable Crosby-worship for one Canadian journalist to rise above the rest. And yet Jeff Marek, a CBC radio host and tweeter, has managed to differentiate himself from his peers. His Crosby-fluffing medium of choice: Twitter.
Marek's Crosby worship took off during the Canadian Olympic orientation camp when his Crosby-obsessive Tweets spawned a mini-competition to see who could RT them and make fun of them first and best. Here's a quick recap:
- @JeffMarek started slowly -- "Crosby looks excellent. But then again, didn't he just win the cup yesterday?" -- but quickly ramped up;
- "Crosby leading the stretch at centre. Very exciting tweet that was";
- "Team White skate over. Crosby was the class of the skate again. Wash - rinse - repeat.";
- "I should have the new line combos in a couple of hours. Will be curious to see if the keep crosby/nash together. They've been magic." (Magic? In a pre-season, pre-camp, pre-practice practice? Is Marek 12 years old? Does he believe in dragons?);
- "Crosby is killing everyone in the faceoff drills. So much for that being a weak part of his game."; and
- "I hope you all get to see this pass Crosby made to Derek Roy tonight at the scrimmage. Best pass of the camp hands down." (Seriously? Rating passes at pre-season, pre-camp, pseudo-scrimmages?)
@JeffMarek's fluff job became so epic in the Twittersphere that even NHL public relations staffers have piled on. After @JeffMarek tweeted this last night -- "Crosby w/a pair tonight vs Jackets. I'll repeat again, he was the best player at [Team Canada] orientation camp." -- Caps PR chief Nate Ewell couldn't take it anymore and tweeted back: "Heard you the first 457 times, Jeff."
Amen.
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Careful, the kid might get a swelled head.
Oh wait ….
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." - Delores Ibarruri
by gotsparkly on Sep 16, 2009 9:23 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Innuendo aside, I actually think Sid is rather humble considering the attention he gets.
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by J.P. on Sep 16, 2009 9:45 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
You mean he doesn’t have a white Lambo?
by TylerG on Sep 16, 2009 9:52 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think that the effect of all that attention has manifested itself in a slightly different way with Crosby, actually. I think that might be where the whining and diving comes from – he’s been told he’s a star player so many times that he expects to never get hit and expects all the calls.
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." - Delores Ibarruri
by gotsparkly on Sep 16, 2009 10:41 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
We’re getting dangerously close to glass house territory here – our superstar likes getting calls too.
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by J.P. on Sep 16, 2009 10:54 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah. But there’s no player in the entire NHL who bitches and begs more than Whiny Diver. I mean, like @JeffMarek inadvertently pointed out, it’s so ingrained into his make-up that he whined during a frickin’ pre-season, pre-camp, orientation scrimmage.
by TylerG on Sep 16, 2009 11:05 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Careful; the first half of this sounds like a CI poster.
"Why the [frak] would I live to 100? I'm 73 and [stuff's] starting to get boring. By the way, there's no money left when I go, just FYI."
by Bald Pollack on Sep 16, 2009 11:27 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I concede that on occasion the mere recitation of fact can be provocative.
by TylerG on Sep 16, 2009 11:29 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Crosby has improved, and no one questions his work ethic. Not as if Ovechkin doesn’t do the same thing either.
by red army line on Sep 16, 2009 12:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
The complaining level (+ diving) of AO and WD is not comparable.
by TylerG on Sep 16, 2009 12:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Crosby whining is a valid complaint if the year is 2005 or 06. He’s settled down a lot since he was 18.
Does he communicate a lot with the refs? You bet. Does he look for a lot of calls that he doesn’t get? Of course.
But he is the captain, and a function of that is to interact w/ the refs. And as a superstar, that’s a pre-req to look for some calls. The abuse that superstars take (from opponents to the fans) also merits a little lee-way, IMO.
On the original topic: Marek’s praise does border on over-excessive, but Crosby’s an exciting player. He has that effect on non-jaded observers, just like the guy in Washington does too.
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by Hooks Orpik on Sep 16, 2009 1:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
the whining about the hats set his maturity back several years.
by RedBirdie on Sep 16, 2009 1:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yet his backing of the AO’s Sochi move and his joke at the WH last week seem to redeem that to some degree, to say the least that he’s still got scoreboard bragging rights.
Can we get back to the unbelievable Schrute-baggery of Marek, as opposed to this being yet another boring-ass “Cindy Whines!” circle jerk?
"Why the [frak] would I live to 100? I'm 73 and [stuff's] starting to get boring. By the way, there's no money left when I go, just FYI."
by Bald Pollack on Sep 16, 2009 1:57 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
So good.
A man must have a code.
by Fehr and Balanced on Sep 16, 2009 3:22 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
The hats thing is a non-issue, to me.
- he had a point, there were some late hats being thrown. I’m not gonna be a high-brow prick and talk etiquette, everyone deserves to celebrate….I’m just sayin, it would have perturbed about anyone.
- You’ve got an emotional guy very fired up and eager to get back out there and score (which he did 4 minutes later). I’ll be the first to admit, it’s a little much to ask for an announcement over the PA, but he’s fired up and in the heat of playoff hockey. Weirder things have happened.
Given the circumstances, I don’t see that as a major stain against maturity.
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by Hooks Orpik on Sep 16, 2009 2:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hooks sees WD more, so I defer, with doubts. But I half-live on Center Ice and WD dives more than any player in the league. It’s not close.
by TylerG on Sep 16, 2009 2:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
However, Eric Staal deserves a place in the conversation.
by TylerG on Sep 16, 2009 2:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Indeed. I’m on record as saying he’s the biggest diver in hockey.
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by J.P. on Sep 16, 2009 2:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Crosby does fall a lot, but I don’t think it’s to draw calls and dive. He plays down on 1 knee a lot, he looks to shoot/pass from weird angles and is all over the place. He even trains for explosiveness coming out of awkward positions and stuff, part of why he’s good on the puck down low.
But then again, I’d expect you to have a different perspective than I do. FWIW I don’t think Crosby got a diving minor all season in 2008-09 (could be wrong). Ovechkin, I believe got 2 or 3 — one of which still stands out in my memory as a flagrantly terrible call.
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by Hooks Orpik on Sep 16, 2009 2:39 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
When Brooks Laich cross checked him in the playoff series Crosby went down way too easily for a guy who is a tank on his skates. When that guy sets his feet he’s on rails, but when Laich gives him a shot to the side it’s like he’s Happy Gilmore. Like BP, I don’t really want to turn this into an old hat debate, I just want to point out that just because he doesn’t get called, or isn’t as obvious as he used to be, doesn’t mean he’s changed that much.
A man must have a code.
by Fehr and Balanced on Sep 16, 2009 3:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
If there’s one thing that’s ZERO indication of whether or not a guy dived it’s a referee calling diving. They’re awful at it. When a zebra calls diving you pretty much know the guy didn’t dive. Insert standard NHL officiating beefs here.
by TylerG on Sep 16, 2009 4:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
If you say so, Tyler. Since this isn’t the point of the post, I’ll agree with you guys and drop the subject as well.
But I think your Crosby hate is getting in the way of reason if you think he’s bad when this clown is around.
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by Hooks Orpik on Sep 16, 2009 4:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
fortunately, that clown is in Siberian exile.
by RedBirdie on Sep 16, 2009 5:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Avery is in a League of his own. We’re talking about hockey players, not sideshows.
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by J.P. on Sep 16, 2009 5:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
damn, and here I thought that clip was supposed to be about Jagr!
by RedBirdie on Sep 16, 2009 5:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
The extra little kick he gets with that one leg before going into the swan-dive is impressive.
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by winterion on Sep 16, 2009 5:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hooks: Wouldn’t you agree that the NHL has yet to solve the diving issue? And that on-ice officials aren’t especially good at making that call?
by TylerG on Sep 16, 2009 5:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
That is, I wasn’t taking a shot at Crosby, I was raising the point.
by TylerG on Sep 16, 2009 5:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
In some ways he reminds me of Jim Carrey as Truman in The Truman Show. Raised in a fishbowl, with the whole world watching, 24-7.
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by Your Nation's Capital on Sep 16, 2009 9:53 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Raised in a fishbowl, living in a basement, fluffed by @JeffMarek. Very San Fernando Valley.
by TylerG on Sep 16, 2009 9:59 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
hmmmmm, true. And they’re both kind of wonderbread-bland and emotionally stunted.
by RedBirdie on Sep 16, 2009 10:00 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Don’t ruin that movie for me. It’s still one of my favorites!
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by winterion on Sep 16, 2009 12:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
…but back to this @Sycophant. CBC is cheapening itself by letting such lewd peeping persist. At least Marek could attempt to hide it with, say, a snuggle photo with Nash. Or something.
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by bigonetimer on Sep 16, 2009 10:01 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Rick Nash doesn’t gear nearly the press he deserves. I could watch the highlight goal where he undressed two Phoenix defenders, and the goaltender, scoring with 20 seconds left, over and over.
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by winterion on Sep 16, 2009 12:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Phoenix got burned for the goal of the year two years in a row. Last year the Canadiens were O’Burned twice for top-5 goals of the year.Coyotes, Canadiens, next up Bs?
by red army line on Sep 16, 2009 12:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
This means that the Canadiens are moving to Hamilton, I think.
by TylerG on Sep 16, 2009 12:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Actually, it would be the Canucks, Capitals, or if you want to stretch, the ’Canes.
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by winterion on Sep 16, 2009 12:31 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I wouldn’t mind seeing Cam Ward O’Burned.
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." - Delores Ibarruri
by gotsparkly on Sep 16, 2009 1:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I would have gone with Cam Burn Ward, but the Irish thing seems to be in this decade.
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by winterion on Sep 16, 2009 1:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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