Voisin: I Demand a Sexier Coaching Search
by Tom Ziller on May 13, 2009 10:14 AM PDT
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PrintLadies and gentlemen, Ms. Ailene Voisin:
This isn't the ideal way to approach a coaching search, with Paul Westphal scheduled to interview today. It's not sexy enough for me. It certainly isn't sexy enough to sell season tickets.
Sorry about her, Paul and Eddie. We think you're sexy enough.
Well, sexy enough for Sacramento.
(Seriously though, I'd have a treatise on how incredibly bizarre this column is if I weren't too busy trying to figure out how Bill Laimbeer, Jeff Van Gundy, Mike Fratello and Dwane Casey register higher on the sexy scale than Eddie Jordan. Also, I'm hunting down the mythical Fan Who Buys Season Tickets Because of the Coach. No leads so far. Maybe Ms. Voisin can help us locate one in her next column.)
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Voisin and sexy do not go together.
Ick. Eww. Ailene Voisin? Not bringing sexy back, she’s sending it running and screaming for it’s life
Speak for yourself, bro
I think Voisen is dreamy. I want to disappear in her mane.
Apparently
John Burton is contributing to Sactown Royalty under the pseudonym DustyG
And yes I realize only Ziller and myself will probably get that joke.
So whose John Burton?
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
You're not missing much
Basically, she says that Eddie Jordan should be the next Kings coach because he’s Petrie’s guy. Then she lists some more candidates that should be considered for the job. Then she finishes up reaffirming that the Kings should offer the job to Jordan. I’m not sure how that logic works.
Here’s the guy you should hire → the Kings are doing this all wrong for not talking to more candidates → in the end it has to be the first guy
Dear Ailene,
Waste more of my time with your circuitous writing, please.
by #12Pick...who? on May 13, 2009 10:51 AM PDT up reply actions
The bee needs to search for a Sexier kings writer
And i think StR has the individual for the job. Can we as an online community push for Ziller to replace Voisin? I know old media is a sinking ship, but Ziller already writes about the kings… why not get paid for it? The Bee could use some better content and a little humor.
There isn't enough ink in the world.
Ok, people, let's generate all the good Karma we can until May 19. Then you can go back to your shallow and empty lifestyles.
by LeaguePassAddict on May 13, 2009 11:55 AM PDT up reply actions
Or potentially enough space on the harddrive
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
Visions of Benjamin Franklin spending three months placing letter tiles.
Hot dogs, get your hot dogs.
they can't afford to add that many pages to the paper :p
With the fourth pick of the draft the kings select...
Brazilian forests
share a collective shudder.
Donte? Donte'! Donté?!?!
'spect da 'xtra E'
by iashwash on May 13, 2009 1:20 PM PDT up reply actions 6 recs
I'm with you on that one
I too believe in saving the rain forest.
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
Lots of that going around
StR: Where comics unite to thrash Ms. Voisin.
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
"I'm hunting down the mythical Fan Who Buys Season Tickets Because of the Coach"
Talk to the folks in NY or Phoenix for that matter.
by passionforPERPS on May 13, 2009 10:51 AM PDT reply actions
Voisin is an idiot
This is just the latest in a long series of moronic columns by Ms. Voisin.
What is really needed is a coach that will help to change the culture of this team for the positive. Winning 50+ games is the sex appeal, which ironically makes Rick Adelman pretty darn sexy. (insert “Ewww” here).
And enough about potential nepotism/cronyism with the Jordan pick please. Jordan is a prgmatic, practical and affordable choice at this point.
Have we not been down this road?
SACTOWN ROYALTY - Try our thick creamy shakes!
by section214 on May 13, 2009 11:27 AM PDT reply actions 5 recs
Maybe we should sign an all sexy team.
Jim Jackson
Michael Jordan
Vince Carter
Bill Walton….wait a second…
Hot dogs, get your hot dogs.
Tyrone Hill
Popeye Jones
McGrady
Nash
T-Mac and Nash have such amazing court vision because of their lazy eyes.
m*****f***ing c***s***ing peanut butter and jelly!! f*** f*** f***!!!
I nominate Gwyneth Paltrow for the Kings next coach.
Dont confuse activity with achievement.
by ridnour8 on May 13, 2009 11:44 AM PDT reply actions 3 recs
I'll be honest...
I slept with a sexy head coaching search once (it was Oralndo’s if you must know) and it was nothing but vacuous post-coitus conversations, crying and std’s.
by rbiegler on May 13, 2009 11:58 AM PDT reply actions 5 recs
STD's?
I thought it was SVG’s.
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by section214 on May 13, 2009 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Don't tip your waitress
She doesn’t deserve you. :P
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
Who made Ailene the arbiter of sexy?
Sadly, it seems that she believes her own self-generated hype.
The idea of rating the success of a coaching search on its sex appeal is stupid beyond all rational thought and it makes me endlessly annoyed that this perpetrator of dreck and drivel is still employed while actual journalists are subsisting on freelance work.
She keeps perpetuating the “women don’t really get sports” stereotype with her comments about sexiness and her fauning over attractive, successful men.
There are not enough bad words in the English language to scream at the top of my lungs after reading a column like this one.
Ok, people, let's generate all the good Karma we can until May 19. Then you can go back to your shallow and empty lifestyles.
by LeaguePassAddict on May 13, 2009 12:46 PM PDT reply actions
Note
I think Ailene is actually using “sexy” where means “high profile,” an unfortunate linguistic tic of recent years. I used this tic for a laugh.
You can't have a high profile coaching search
When you’re the only team searching. There’s only big coverage of stories with conflict, and in this case there isn’t any.
I’m not saying her use of sexy means that she’s looking for a hot guy to coach (though she probably is). But, rather that she has absolutely no idea how to make her point without resorting to the lowest common denominator of journalism, which is that sex sells.
Tell me that if she were a man and wrote this kind of pap she’d still have a job.
Ok, people, let's generate all the good Karma we can until May 19. Then you can go back to your shallow and empty lifestyles.
by LeaguePassAddict on May 13, 2009 1:07 PM PDT up reply actions
This is why
While I agree with you TZ that I never would campaign for a person to be fired, I do go upset when other writers have been let go while Voisin stays on. Print media probably won’t survive, but if it does it will only be done by keeping the best writers on staff and getting rid of lesser talents. Tenure be damned.
Never forget: I am a complete idiot
Amen
It doesn’t help that, ahem, long-tenured columnists are generally the highest paid editorial-side employees.
She had more tenure than Scoop did?
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
That's what I thought
I remember Scoop from the very beginning I really started to pay attention to the Bee in 1994, and he was there then. So was Mark Kreidler and Marty Mac as the beat writer. (Wow, things have changed.)
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
I remember
Kreidler and Voisin more than anyone else, but I couldn’t put a date on it
Never forget: I am a complete idiot
Kinda sorta on topic
Has anyone been catching Kreidler on the Rise Guys? Muy Bueno!
SACTOWN ROYALTY - Try our thick creamy shakes!
I don't ever listen to them
I hate talk radio in general. I try to avoid commercial’s on any radio station I listen to.
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
Yes, he makes the show almost tolerable
Is he on there permanent now, or just for the week?
Question: What kind of bear is best?
I put some sexy tires on my car a while back
Oh, and I played the electric glockenspiel for the Unfortunate Linguistic Tics back in ’85
m*****f***ing c***s***ing peanut butter and jelly!! f*** f*** f***!!!
Purposeful incendiary incompetence?
This has the haphazard, nonsensical composition feel of a 9th grader who slaps together an essay in the back of the class just before homework is due.
At this point, we have to consider the “Howard Stern” theory: that editors keep her around to piss everyone off in the misguided sense that having people talking (even if they’re hating what’s written), is better than having no one pay attention to it at all. Except Stern is talented.
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