Comments on: The most important thing you’ll read about hot stove rumors today http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/14/the-most-important-thing-youll-read-about-hot-stove-rumors-today/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Mon, 20 May 2013 06:16:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: ncphilliesguy http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/14/the-most-important-thing-youll-read-about-hot-stove-rumors-today/comment-page-1/#comment-222419 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:11:30 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=98081#comment-222419 Incredibly interesting thought. From Wikipedia:

Simulacra and recreation: Eco also refers to commentary on watching sports as sports to the power of three, or sports cubed. First, there are the players who participate in the sport, the real; then the onlookers merely witnessing it; then, the commentary itself on the act of witnessing the sport.

]]> By: foreverchipper10 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/14/the-most-important-thing-youll-read-about-hot-stove-rumors-today/comment-page-1/#comment-222381 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:57:29 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=98081#comment-222381 I made a twitter account so I could ask you questions. I have yet to use it at all. Maybe I should learn how and learn who to follow on there….*hint hint*

]]> By: The Dangerous Mabry http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/14/the-most-important-thing-youll-read-about-hot-stove-rumors-today/comment-page-1/#comment-222333 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:33:34 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=98081#comment-222333 I’m just happy that Timex Social Club gets the nod for the Rumors album instead of Fleetwood Mac. Well done, sir.

]]> By: CJ http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/14/the-most-important-thing-youll-read-about-hot-stove-rumors-today/comment-page-1/#comment-222331 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:31:58 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=98081#comment-222331 we can only hope…

]]> By: cur68 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/14/the-most-important-thing-youll-read-about-hot-stove-rumors-today/comment-page-1/#comment-222328 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:29:00 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=98081#comment-222328 I learn more random and neat stuff on this website in an hour than I do in my University library in one week. Consider yourself ripped off of that Jean Baudrillard quote, MKD sir. No credit will be given to you, but know that you are being hosed for the credit with my gratitude; silent and cheap, that’s me.

]]> By: badmamainphilliesjamas http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/14/the-most-important-thing-youll-read-about-hot-stove-rumors-today/comment-page-1/#comment-222304 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:02:17 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=98081#comment-222304 …which likely also include at least some rumors which will prove false.

]]> By: bigxrob http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/14/the-most-important-thing-youll-read-about-hot-stove-rumors-today/comment-page-1/#comment-222279 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:10:19 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=98081#comment-222279 Reading about rumors that will ultimately prove false is far better than the stories from the sports world last week.

]]> By: mkd http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/14/the-most-important-thing-youll-read-about-hot-stove-rumors-today/comment-page-1/#comment-222274 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:57:30 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=98081#comment-222274 This reminds me a lot of Jean Baudrillard’s stages of simulacrum:

(1) basic reflection of reality
(2) perversion of reality
(3) pretence of reality (where there is no model)
(4) simulacrum, which “bears no relation to any reality whatsoever.”

Most news stories follow these stages, but the Doumit rumor is a beautiful micro-example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacrum

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