Yao Ming in Chinese group trying to buy Golden StateWarriors

[rly723]

This is an interesting development, does this conflict with his own career and future with the rockets?

http://www.mercurynews.com/columns/ci_1 ... ck_check=1



Last week it was revealed that Ellison is one of four finalists in the bidding for the Warriors. One foe is Mark Mastrov, the East Bay resident and founder of 24-Hour Fitness, a company that sold for $1.6 billion and gave Mastrov the financial ammunition to battle Ellison for our NBA team. The other two parties have not been identified, but one may be a group of Chinese buyers that has enlisted 7-footer Yao Ming, who appears to have seen his last NBA playing days.

[Ribalding]

I spent 30 seconds on the guy's Twitter page. He's a two bit huckster, just trying to increase page views. (And what better way to do that than send the entire country of China into a collective tizzy?)

Don't sweat this. Drew Voros is a hack.

[Guy986]

viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1016286 <------answers to life the universe and everything

[Ribalding]

Lets use this as a teachable moment, by going back to that "news item" in the thread non-starter. Sounds like fun.

Here we go. It's Journalism 1201. If you remember your syllabi (which you don't, because you never read them, do you? You entitled little...ok, moving on.) The sentence in question:

"The other two parties have not been identified, but one may be a group of Chinese buyers that has enlisted 7-footer Yao Ming, who appears to have seen his last NBA playing days."

There are 4 verbs in that awkward sentence. Count them, won't you? Here they are:

1. not been (it's crappy prose, but unobjectionable otherwise.)
2. may be (again with the passive verb tense. But the interesting part here is the word "may". Does a journalist with properly sourced material EVER use the word "may"? EVER? The answer is no, unless he's writing about something that happened in the month preceeding June.)
3. has enlisted (okay. Unimaginitive, but acceptable journalism.)
4. appears (This is just a fancy "may". He's saying he doesn't know. He's saying "doctors don't know what happened to the dead woman, but I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say she was eaten by wolves." This guy makes Fox News look like Edward R. Murrow. This guy should die. He's making things up out of whole cloth.)

I'm too pissed to type any more. The funny got washed away by anger. Sorry.

[Moreyball]

My dream of Yao as owner, Morey as GM and Battier and Hayes as coaches diminishing.

[Mr. E]

My dream of Yao as owner, Morey as GM and Battier and Hayes as coaches diminishing.

Shane Battier will be the Commissioner of the NBA, but he may take a break from that to be President of the United States.

Daryl Morey is actually Cobra Commander. He's behind everything!

Chuck Hayes & the Autobots are too busy fighting the Decepticons to coach.

And Yao, as we've covered in another thread, is actually a 5' 5" Irish lad named Shaemus McGillicuddy.