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When is MORT getting fired? (Porter to play Thursday)

Discussion in 'Miami Dolphins Forum' started by Section126, Nov 17, 2009.

  1. Section126

    Section126 We are better than you. Luxury Box

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    Self explanatory.

    Just reported on 560 WQAM.

    Porter will Play on Thursday.

    Anderson and Wake will also see action.



    Mort is a joke.

    I am going to fire off an email to Lebatard asking him if he will call Mort out on this crap on his show (Mort show with Lebby)
     
  2. 2k5

    2k5 I miss Ted Ginn Jr.

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    B.. B.. But Mort is Parcell's best friend in the world I thought?? I thought he knew it all?
     
  3. ATVZ400

    ATVZ400 Senior Member

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    Porter in versus Panthers
    http://miamiherald.typepad.com/dolp...e-45-minutes-in-the-dolphins-locker-room.html

     
  4. Pennington's Rocket Arm

    Pennington's Rocket Arm New Member

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    Mort was just giving his opinion.
     
  5. GARDENHEAD

    GARDENHEAD Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    If everyone who was wrong got fired, no one would be employed. Settle down there, fella.
     
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  6. HardKoreXXX

    HardKoreXXX Insensitive to the Touch

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    Meh, he got some bad info an reported what he heard from a so-called "reliable" source. It happens.
     
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  7. padre31

    padre31 Premium Member Luxury Box

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    Yah!

    Now 2 sacks in 2 months is starting...brilliant.
     
  8. GISH

    GISH ~mUST wARN oTHERS~

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    Looks like Porter was simply benched to give him time to rest for a short week. Mountain from a mole hill.
     
  9. Section126

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    what if you are wrong consistently for years?

    YOU settle down there, fella.
     
  10. Section126

    Section126 We are better than you. Luxury Box

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    .Spurrier to be Dolphins coach.

    .Saban is NOT leaving.

    .Taylor will be traded. (He was trade 2 years after Mort said so.)

    .Dolphins will sign Drew Brees.

    .Ronnie Brown will be traded.

    .Porter will not play Thursday.

    That is just recent history with the Dolphins.

    he is making crap up.
     
  11. DolfanTom

    DolfanTom Livin' and Dyin' w/ Ryan!

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    Exactly!

    Also, if you all remember, it was Mort who kept telling everyone Saban was headed for Alabama when everybody else, including Saban, kept saying he was staying with us.

    I'd say Mort isn't going to lose any sleep about being wrong on Porter!
     
  12. DolfanTom

    DolfanTom Livin' and Dyin' w/ Ryan!

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    He was the one that said Saban WAS leaving ....
     
  13. Section126

    Section126 We are better than you. Luxury Box

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    That was the opposite.
     
  14. Section126

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  15. Paul 13

    Paul 13 Chaotic Neutral & Unstable Genius Staff Member

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    The report that I saw yesterday was that Porter was kept out because he ignored a team order to go home and get some rest (last week, while rehabbing). Instead he went out... probably on the town and partied it up... with Ted Ginn...
     
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  16. DolfanTom

    DolfanTom Livin' and Dyin' w/ Ryan!

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    I don't think so. I distinctly remember - I think - seeing Mort on TV saying "there's still a chance he could go" even when all other signs pointed to him staying after he said "I'm not going to be the Alabama coach," etc. etc.

    Anyways, who cares, it happens.
     
  17. Section126

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  18. DolfanTom

    DolfanTom Livin' and Dyin' w/ Ryan!

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  19. Section126

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  20. CitizenSnips

    CitizenSnips hmm.

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    Mort gets paid to say something interesting and relevant to football, even if hes got almost no real sources, that gets people riled up and talking about, watching, or clicking to, ESPN.

    Doesn't matter if you're talking about how he's always wrong, you're still talking about him. And that means he's done his job. he's not really a journalist, his priority isn't to the people. (I'm not really sure how sports writers got the term journalist added into their title to begin with, but that's another story..) It's to be a face on tv, or the internet, that people pay attention to. And even though people are paying attention just to find out what he's wrong about next, their still paying attention.

    it's like Howard Stern, the guys biggest ratings came from people who hated him most. And the irony is that major news publications don't care if you like a guy or not, they just care if your tuning in. The higher the ratings, the more money they can get from advertisers, the better business goes. By posting links to articles that Mort has written, you're providing more clicks to his stories, even if it's to laugh at how wrong he is, which in turn helps him solidify his importance to ESPN.
     
  21. the 23rd

    the 23rd a.k.a. Rio

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    only the Tuna knows
     
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  22. GARDENHEAD

    GARDENHEAD Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Hey man, I'm not the guy frantically scouring the internet for anti-Mort articles. He gets some right. He gets some wrong. He covers his *** by using the qualifiers "likely" and "I've been told that...". Big whoop.
     
  23. Section126

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    he gets ALOT wrong. as demonstrated.

    that was my point. I wasn't the guy that defended him.

    I guess you are retracting your defense. So it is all good.
     
  24. the 23rd

    the 23rd a.k.a. Rio

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    Friend GardenHead:
    got a good feeling about Ricky getting this start.
    what happens if he blows the game wide open like he's done so many times before?
    Brown is no match for Ricky @ his best & we'll see how Williams runs carrying the load

    might prove to be an interesting side bar. I think he still has tread on those tires
    Run Ricky Run!:dolphin:
    wouldn't be the first time he's carried an offense :yes: somebody has to step up against the Panthers
     
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  25. GARDENHEAD

    GARDENHEAD Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Hahaha. My only other post was: "If everyone who was wrong got fired, no one would be employed."

    If you want to feel better about yourself by claiming there are inconsistencies in my statements, that's cool. But you'd be wrong. Again.
     
  26. Stringer Bell

    Stringer Bell Post Hard, Post Often Club Member

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    I don't understand this obsession with the media...
     
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  27. Section126

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    You defended him.

    isn't that a fact?

    or is there nuance to that as well?

    or are you doing what you claim MORT does?
     
  28. the 23rd

    the 23rd a.k.a. Rio

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    the media will suck up to us plenty when we establish ourselves as perenial contenders
     
  29. jetssuck

    jetssuck I hear Mandich's voice...

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    Mort started off really well and then someone gave him the title as the top NFL Insider.......it's been downhill for him ever since.
     
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  30. GARDENHEAD

    GARDENHEAD Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    You're like a little dog that won't let go of my ankle. My posts are consistent and speak for themselves. They all revolve around the the idea that we all get stuff wrong and that its not really a big deal. If you want to characterize that as a defense of Chris Mortenson, that's cool with me.
     
  31. Section126

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    Now why is that **** neccessary?

    THAT is what I am talking about.

    your first post in this thread was snarky.....and this one is no better?



    a word of advice: keep your ****ing political hatred's in the POFO.
     
  32. GridIronKing34

    GridIronKing34 Silently Judging You

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    That's the first thing I thought of I heard that Porter is playing Thursday too...

    Mort is a tool, IMO.
     
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  33. GARDENHEAD

    GARDENHEAD Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Keep your hatred of the media in the POFO.
     
  34. Clipse

    Clipse mediocrity sucks

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    As I said. The same Mort who said Ronnie will be traded and Pat White would be throwing a lot. Mort is wrong more often than he is right.
     
  35. djphinfan

    djphinfan Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    he also said ricky would be traded during training camp last year.
     
  36. GISH

    GISH ~mUST wARN oTHERS~

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    link?
     
  37. Section126

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    This Thread was to pass on the story of PORTER PLAYING contrary to what Mort said.

    it is VERY relevant to this forum.

    your insistance on baiting with snarky comments is NOT.
     
  38. cnc66

    cnc66 wiley veteran, bad spelur Luxury Box

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    Fella's... cmon, leave each other alone if you can't be civil.
     
  39. djphinfan

    djphinfan Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Hey GH, i hear what your sayin, my take is that irresponsible reporting just to throw stuff out there, can affect peoples families..

    If i was a reporter i would have more integrity, and try to earn a reputation correctly...he's a reporter, not an analyst.....report, dont analyze and project.
     
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  40. Section126

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    hey...2 out of 10 isn't bad.
     

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