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Orlando Sentinel: On changing Stevie etc

Discussion in 'NBA Dish' started by xiki, Jan 17, 2005.

  1. Clutch

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    Did Ford even mention the Orlando Sentinel article? He certainly didn't in his "story". They need to come up with a Chad Ford converter for the web. It would take the contents of any newspaper article URL, re-word it slightly, slap "Chad Ford" at the top and at the bottom it adds a sentence, started by one of the following random phrases:

    "According to one league source..."
    "Insider has learned..."
    "As first reported by Insider last week..."
    "All 30 league GMs have confirmed to Insider..."
    "God told me..."

    then adds to the sentence by using a google-like algorithm to pull random "on the block" players out of a database, pair them up in an offer, match it against ReallyRealGM and then finish the sentence with one of the following phrases:

    "...was offered last week."
    "...was never offered."
    "...was shot down."
    "...could be discussed at some point."
    "...was recently invented without validity to get message board posters to credit us as selling super-duper secret info."

    and voila... your newspaper article has been Chadfordinated.
     
  2. xiki

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    I noted, I chuckled -- and remembered I pay for the links not the insight (sic).
     
  3. Oski2005

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    I'm pretty sure I read that Steve wanted to be called Steve-O instead of Stevie Franchise from now on.
     
  4. solid

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    I wish I had a dollar for everytime I got "flamed" for saying that Francis had few qualities usually associated with All Star point guards. I always knew I was right, but public vindication is sweet.
     
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    Tell it to Francis -- he came up with it himself. Following off of Cato and Cuttino, he started on one team flight out west calling himself Steve-o. The Orlando media picked up on it and that's why you've been seeing it ever since. They did a feature on this during one of the Magic telecasts about a month ago.
     
  7. Fegwu

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    Calling Steve a loud mouth?

    .....that Wesibrod dude has got some balls and no manners. Promptly Francis held true to form by stating he disagrees with JW's philosophy and opinion.

    The plot tickens.....
     

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