Yes, that's right, their big, juicy lead-in photo is...A big blank space. A square of nothingness. Kind of symbolic of everything the PDN does, eh?
Meanwhile, like many of you, I continue to be baffled by the naming of the "Port Angeles Lefties." It seems a wildly obvious mismatch for the town. I mean, can you really see any of the right-wing realtors (like Doughy Dan Gase or Dinky Dick Pilling) signing up to sponsor a team called the "Lefties"? I think not!
No, they want something less, you know, lefty, and probably something more manly, more attuned with the (supposedly) rugged, life-on-the-frontier nature of Port Angeles. Something like the "Port Angeles Bulldozers." Now, that's got some oomph! Or maybe the "Port Angeles Sand Pounders"? What about the "Port Angeles Opiates"? Personally, I still like the "Port Angeles Grant Grabbers," but again, that might not capture the spirit of rugged individualism that sponsors would be attracted to.
In any case, given the misstep in naming, and the cultural mismatch it represents, I'm going to predict one of two things: Either a team that lasts for one season, then phfft, or, there will be a renaming and rebranding.
Say...Rebranding...Why, it's so obvious! The "Port Angeles (Baby) Branders"! Now there's a name with some sizzle!
Fun facts for the day: About 25% of major league players are left-handed, versus 10% of the population. Leftie batters hold 2/3 of the top batting average records. It's much harder to steal second with leftie pitchers. There's a baseball thing there, anyway, even if not a PA thing.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the background info. It's interesting, and possibly even pertinent. Play ball!
Deletetypical though. They solicited names from the residents of PA, and went with their own direction, from a name that was (probably) never even submitted by anyone.
DeleteSeems to me they're right in the swing of things for Port Angeles.
Blank? Why not.Little better than what the leadership of the town come up with.
ReplyDeleteReally. Look around, and what do you see? With all the obvious problems, what do you see?
Apologize if double sent. Pushed preview and disappeared...While I am loathe to disagree with you about Microcephalics who run this place and their Millbilly and Tree Mugger minions have to recognize chauvinist (original meaning) Trump is butt buddy with Putin, so perhaps the naming is more farseeing than usual. Certainly watching the Trump banner on the dead tree reality show failed candidate semi at the 4th of July parade nails the deficit trade chronic unemployment idiocy these gulag afficionados aspire toward.
ReplyDeleteSo this represents a future where the Olympic Peninsula dumps the chumps who stump for Trump? We'll see about that. In the meantime, I really like your phrase "gulag aficionados." That's a keeper!
DeleteSo, you are saying that Trump and those that support him are Lefties?
DeleteBecause the US military/industrial machine has cranked up the Cold War rhetoric against Russia and Putin, we all should believe what we are told?
Might as well be citing what you read in the PDN.
Notice the page 2 puff piece about the EDC. The EDC that has worked hard to keep average wages at the minimum wage mark for 35 years. PDN is a member of the EDC and wants to keep their wages as low as possible so more of his advertising dollars can be shipped over to Canada where his masters live. Can't they find anyone to praise the EDC except the EDC and its members. Remember the bogus "praise" the EDC sent to the Department of Commerce which got repackaged in an email from Commerce and sent back to EDC so they could put it in the pdn as if the state was praising the efforts of the EDC. This is such an obvious scam but the county commissioners will probably lay out another few hundred thousand to keep wages at the minimum wage level for another 3 decades. Oh, by the way, the president of the board of EDC is now running for county commissioner. That should wrap it all up in a bow for the EDC.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you expect from a group that can't even get its own name right?
DeleteOn its web site, it inconsistently identifies itself as "Clallam County Economic Development Corporation", "Clallam Exconomic Development Corporation", and "Clallam County EDC", none of which are its true name.
But hey, when you're in cahoots with not just county, but state-level corruption, why should petty details like your own name matter? After all, words and their common meanings don't mean a damn thing to white-collar thugs.
...And now the PDN has done a bait and switch on us. They've moved another article - with an actual picture - up to the "above the fold" spot on their website.
ReplyDeleteBless their black, bleak little hearts.
The Lefties article has the same number of comments as the hate crime article. Zero.
ReplyDeleteThe Port Angeles Zeroes, perhaps?
Deletehttp://portangelesunearthed.blogspot.com/2016/07/play-ball.html
DeleteDid we mention the Port Angeles Grantwhores?
Yes, we tried to help them, but they didn't listen. Stupid Lefties! Sad!
DeletePort Angeles Pushers
ReplyDeletePort Angeles Posse
ReplyDeleteA saw a friend had posted the article about the team on facebook with a comment on how their town just keeps getting better. I didn't have the heart to quash her little fantasy. I'm not sure what version of PA she lives in but everything I can see points to continued decline and failure.
ReplyDeleteOh god - I just re-read the article and it says a logo is still in the works. How much do you want to bet that the honor goes to Laurel Black? I can already anticipate the colors, icons and leaves that will go into that one - looking like every single other logo she has created here. Why can't we reach outside for some new talent?
ReplyDeletePDN is infected with malware. Beware when you click on it. My anti-virus goes nuts.
ReplyDeleteFigures.
Same with Scott's World, and, back in the day, Tom Harper's blog. Infectious sites run by sad, sick minds. Par for the course for Port Angeles.
DeleteI think Tom Harper is infected with malware. He's about as credible as a "long lost African prince" who needs your help getting his millions of dollars back.
DeleteTom Harper...Oh yeah, him. The mention here made me look up his remaining blog. It was a reminder of why his PA blog bit it. He's still obsessed with Max Mania. There don't appear to be more than one or two people who read and post there, other than Tom. Kinda creepy and sad.
DeleteIt's been over a year since this blog essentially rolled over his Port Angeles blog. I haven't heard anyone lamenting its demise. And, yeah, his obsession is pretty, well, OBSESSIVE and weird. I'm going to hazard a guess that things like that are why his Port Angeles blog died, and why there doesn't appear to be more than a couple of people reading his "national issues" blog. He's just shy of being as whacked out as Scott T. Collins, AKA, "Mr. Everything."
DeleteI didn't know he was still on the 'net.
DeleteTotally bummed that they didn't want to go with the Port Angeles Aggressive Panhandlers...
ReplyDeleteI was just on the PDN's website. Their "Latest News" tab has stories that are all four or five days old featured. That "newspaper" really has more than a whiff of decay about it.
ReplyDeleteYes, but until the advertisers stop writing their checks, Mr. Black's rag will, in spite of itself, continue to avert its debut on the long list of defunct newspapers.
DeleteComment from Victoria: Mr. Black is a wacko!
DeleteHe published a piece in Victoria News (one of his papers) a couple days ago "Treating Victoria's Sewage Affordably", and describes himself as a "Civil Engineer".
He states in part: "The operating cost would be negligible, because there would be no need to collect and remove the treated sludge to a landfill (which drives the operating cost of the currently proposed sewer plants up to $25 million per year). It would be deposited on the sea floor just like the silt from every creek and river flowing into the ocean. It is all natural." Never mind that sewage sludge is comprized of all the nasty chemicals that go down the drain, and environmental laws prohibit that kind of pollution.
As a "journalist", you would think he would know this by now? And as a civil engineer, you would think he would know the regulations he has to design to?
One online comment stated: "I think David Black has been secretly listening to too much Heavy Metal and should stick to his community newspapers which, one of his top executives said not that many years ago, are little more than wrap around the advertising flyers -- a correct assessment."
Tyler
This morning's PDN has a *new* article on how we have an anything goes forecast for winter. But it's a reprint and I read the original article as early as last Thursday or Friday.
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