Dan Snyder, Apprentice Media Mogul
Dan Snyder might oneday achieve his goal of controlling the whole message. But for now he's got a lot of work to do on his delivery systems.
Saturday's telecast of the Redskins/Carolina game, produced by Snyder's Redskins
Broadcasting Network, was an old-school disaster.
Local viewers on WUSA-9 missed a huge chunk of the first quarter -- the most important portion of any preseason game -- while Snyder's TV people ran a loop of commercials for the World Wildlife Fund, the Navy Federal Credit Union, some tax-subsidized nutrition outfit called Smallstep, the USO, John McCain, and "The Doctors," Dr. Phil's new show for housewives and shut-ins.
Meanwhile, as things went bad on the field and in TV Land, they went worse at Extremeskins.com, the formerly vibrant fan message board that Snyder took over in 2005. Anybody who tried to log on to vent about the Redskins performance during the game was likely to get a message that the board was undergoing "ROUTINE MAINTENANCE."
Nobody was buying that, of course. So when Snyder's IT staff was able to get the board back up and keep it up, posters complained about the embarrassment of an NFL team running a site in far shoddier fashion than it was run when the fans ran it. (Apparently Snyder's board crashes whenever anything worth commenting on is taking place.)
So Snyder's moderators --– a bizarro bunch of grownups willing to defend the owner to the point of silliness for no pay and no obvious benefit -- stifled the masses by belittling and even banning posters.
With or without Jason Taylor, these guys better win.
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12:35 pm
Have been away for a while and recently just re-tuned into Sports Talk 980...are people on vacation or did Dan get rid of them? A lot of the regulars seem to be gone.
1:07 pm
Adams Morgan:
snyder hasn't gotten rid of many weekday folks. Fired Phil Wood so there'd be no baseball focus, fired Jerry Coleman, the redskins beat reporter, so there'd be no real redskins reporting, and gave Czaban's morning slot to ESPN's Mike & Mike probably to pay czaban back for the Mark Brunell interview from a few years ago.
That's all the major programing shifts. The psychic shift, alas, has been quite pronounced.
Or maybe it's just me...
1:28 pm
Thanks...
9:38 pm
the broadcast came back at 12:21 of the first, we missed 2:39 (about 17%) of the game. not exactly a "huge chunk". and honestly, based on the performance, i'm glad i missed it.
9:38 am
Dave:
What is the difference between the moderators over at ExtremeSkins defending Dan Snyder and you finding any reason to bash him?
I would imgaine the Washington City Paper website would crash with 1/10th of the traffic ExtremeSkins gets, but then again, we both know the WCP would never acheive that.
9:57 am
Mayor:
This hurts. I'm a man of few goals, but, damn, I want to win you over. Someday, I pray. Someday...
But thanks for playing the feud!
10:08 am
You already have Dave. I linked you on my blog, http://www.f-51.blogspot.com
But a disagreement is a disagreement.
While I am banned from Extremeskins, I will still defend Dan Snyder until I die.
12:00 pm
What happened Dave? And to think I had such high hopes for you.
12:27 pm
Dave, when is the last time you wrote about either Dan Snyder or the ExtremeSkins website without taking great joy in reporting any shortcomings, perceived or otherwise? If you only ever focus on the negative, then you lose whatever credibility you may have.
Maybe if you didn't jump up and down like a kid on Christmas any time you saw an opportunity to write about your two favorite obsessions, then people would actually begin to take you serious.
12:29 pm
McKenna's College Journalism Professor:
You had me going, up until "High hopes"!
But thanks for playing the feud!
12:36 pm
Homer McFanboy:
my college journalism professor always used to tell me: "Dave, be careful what you write, or oneday you won't be 'taken serious' by a grown man who calls himself 'Homer McFanboy.'"
Now that day has come.
Darn it!
But thanks for the words of wisdom, Homer McFanboy!
And thanks for playing the feud!
2:01 pm
Dave,
I was unaware that Snyder could contol all of the fiber optic cable in the US as a fiber cut was the culprit the other night.
I participated in the thread that likely spawned a large part of this post and I think that, once again, you're misrepresenting the tone of it. Sure there were some frustrations with the technical aspects but all the merger talk was more about content and terrible posters with a clear cut agenda like you than it was hate for Snyder.
Get over it already!
2:33 pm
Dave:
i apologize for misrepresenting the tone of the thread, which was called, um, what was it called again? um, geez, it's on the tip of my tongue...oh, that's right! the thread was called "Dear [Extremeskins] Mods: TIME TO CUT THE CORD WITH THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS AND REDSKINS.COM!"
oh,geez, Dave. Upon further review, I'm gonna have to retract my apology!
you say you participated in this thread? well, let me redirect you to your own thread then, dave:
http://extremeskins.com/forums/showthread.php?t=256689
i mean, what part of "TIME TO CUT THE CORD WITH THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS AND REDSKINS.COM!" don't you and your like-minded pals understand?
Misrepresented, Dave? what the hell are you talking about?
Let's go over my paragraphs together, Dave!
Board crashed? Check. Crashed a lot? Check.
Posters complained about the crashes? Said it was better run in the pre-Snyder-owned days? Got mocked by Snyder's mods? Got banned by Snyder's mods?
Checks all around, Dave! Checks all around!
i gotta say, Dave, misguided as so many of you are, you extremeskins types NEVER bore me. Keep the faith!
To all: Thanks for playing the feud!
2:51 pm
Hi Dave,
Hope you're doing well since our last visit. What's it been, Dave, 3 months? I fear that all of the great work we'd done in therapy is coming undone. Please Dave, come back.
I understand the everyday pain you feel. Seeing the likes of Jason LaCanfora, Nunyo Demassio, and even Jason Reid working for credible news organizations. Oh how you've longed to join the ranks of the respectable, even though you now so resent the establishment and what it has stood for. Like the fox you've now rationalized that to taste some small piece of professional success and/or credibility would be sour anyways. I'm sorry to see this Dave, I truly am.
Remember the session where you told me about your childhood, and your dreams of someday being a journalist? Remembmer, Dave? It was wonderful to hear about how you someday hoped to break real news stories and command the respect of your peers. Dave, please... don't forget your inner child.
So please Dave, please... stop with the pettiness. I know you've talked about quitting the WCP in the past, even though you have nothing to fall back on. I fear though that you've come to rationalize your stay with this unworthy news organization as a way to support yourself and those you love, financially. Dave, Dave, Dave... the things we do for money.
Please Dave, come see me. Your comments such as "thanks for playing" and trivializing usernames are cries for help. We know you're embarassed on so many levels to be doing this as your job... trading jabs with internet fan sites under the guise that you're increasing web traffic.
Dave, I can help you sleep again. And I'll give you 50% off your first session back.
Respectfully Yours,
Dr. Lecter
3:23 pm
McKenna's Psychologist:
i take back that part about you extremeskins types never boring me. seriously, Doc, that was awful.
3:27 pm
Actually...
That was the most entertaining thing I have seen in this whole blog...
3:35 pm
The sense of humor is gone too? Dave... this is worse than I thought.
75% off next visit, that's my final offer.
3:42 pm
McKenna's Psychologist:
please, go get the ex-King of Extremeskins, Art Mills, out of retirement before I nod off. that dude was never this bland.
3:47 pm
McKenna's Psychologist:
The next time you actually spend more time writing a comment than the author spent writing the story, please use better spelling.
Trying to talk down to someone usually works better when you dont make so many spelling mistakes.
3:47 pm
Wow, it looks like McKenna's Psychologist exposed a deep nerve. Now we now McKenna's true dispair about his current situation.
4:11 pm
Sorry about the spelling mistakes, I was having a friend for lunch
4:34 pm
Bravo, Dave! The fanboys at ExtremeSkins like "Homer McFanboy" are bashing you for speaking the truth, but Danny's running an unprofessional operation. Some things never change.
ExtremeSkins has gone way downhill -- they've banned the better posters for criticizing the death spiral Snyder has locked the team into.
And it's hilarious that they come here and call you a wannabe journalist when one of their mods, a self-important blowhard named Art, fantasizes about being a journalist when he grows up. I hear he begged to be Snyder's "official blogger", an ass-kissing propaganda role Snyder created, but Snyder turned Art down cold because Art writes like a 3rd grader.
When they bash you, just ask them one simple question: what's the Skins record with Danny at the helm?
4:43 pm
From Dave: "So Snyder’s moderators –– a bizarro bunch of grownups willing to defend the owner to the point of silliness for no pay and no obvious benefit — stifled the masses by belittling and even banning posters."
They have banned a lot of posters for no reason other than criticizing front office blunders. Take EvenMadder. That guy correctly predicted the Skins record three years in a row -- in July. Almost to the game. Look it up. But they banned him -- his last post was the one correctly predicting last season. Last July he pegged the team at 9-7 and making the playoffs through some Gibbs magic. But that post criticized Dan Snyder and the front office, and boom, EvenMadder was gone.
Everyone knows EvenMadder actually is a writer for ESPN, which is the real reason he was banned, but it's just more in Dan Snyder's attacks on the media.
4:49 pm
Yeah, missing like 3 minutes of the game is totally completely unacceptable. In the real media, someone would be fired for that crap. But if he treats all his guys like he does Vinny Cerrato, he probably promoted someone for that massive goat-screw of a broadcast.
4:52 pm
Dave, don't you know that reading this stuff will make the fanboys at ES start crying and whining? They're such babies.
4:53 pm
LOL Danny Snyder is a turd
4:55 pm
I don't know why everyone picks on Dan Snyder. He's doing his best. He spends money to win. Sure, he's made a lot of mistakes, but he's learning. Now he's got his front office, his coach, his players. No more excuses. He's had over a decade to build exactly what he wants, and now he has it.
They'll probably go 2-14, but that's OK as long as Dan Snyder makes money.
4:58 pm
Man, the turds on ExtremeSkins are actually defending Snyder by saying missing 3 minutes of the game is no big deal. Imagine if ESPN or one of the real networks missed 3 minutes of a Redskins game -- these same little Snyder sack suckers would be bitching like 8th grade girls.
It amazes me how much they love Snyder and defend everything he does. Why? What has Snyder ever done except lose?
5:02 pm
ES is completely lame. The Skins got their asses thoroughly and completely stomped last week, and these ES halfwits are still predicting a Superbowl win.
5:04 pm
ES is just a message board. Like the rest of the internet, 90% of the posts are by morons. It's just that in this case, the 10% that aren't by morons are written by the Skins marketing department.
5:06 pm
They have a thread up about this article on Extremeskins. Naturally, every one of the fanboys is just soooo mad that they almost broke their keyboards.
They're just a bunch of zit-faced kids sitting alone in the mom's basement jerking off to pictures of football players.
5:07 pm
Yeah, I work for Danny Snyder. Mostly I shine his shoes and give him the occasional tug job, but the world needs ditch-diggers too, you know.
5:13 pm
They won't win.
5:16 pm
"Snyder sack suckers"!!! LOL!! They should change Extremeskins.com to snydersacksuckers.com.
5:29 pm
Dave McKenna is one of the last journalists willing to report the truth about the Redskins house of cards. Most of them, including the Washington Post reporters, are so worried about access that they write what Danny wants -- even Jason LaConforrraaboring sucks up to that little toad.
Here's the truth: the Redskins are a crappy team, and they're going nowhere. Their front office, led by Snyder and his moron bug-eyed yes-man Vinny, have destroyed the team. Pure and simple. They will continue to suck as long as those two butt-darts are here. Period.
5:46 pm
I forgot to mention... I love the way he spoons with me.
5:50 pm
Thanks Way to Go, Dave!
But nothing beats your reach-arounds!
6:14 pm
Faux Dave McKenna:
"Reach-around" is as good as it gets. Keep 'em coming! this is getting as fab as the Mayor's online tussles, and that's the highest praise!
to all, thanks for playing the feud!
7:06 pm
I wish I worked for Dan Snyder.
I don't shine shoes, not even my own. I leave that to Sparky at the Dulles Nordstroms.
Never dug a ditch either.
And I have never used a fake screen name to talk shit about somebody either.
Haters used to be so much more orginal back in the day.
7:28 pm
I see Snyder's foot soldiers are here in full force. Tote the company line like good minions.
10:07 pm
the mayor is a punk bitch
10:37 pm
Even I'm impressed with you Dave! Nice job
10:40 pm
Thanks for your work Dave... it's nice that even us folks at The Enquirer have someone to look down on.
10:48 pm
So Dave, how's it feel to be the ghetto version of your American Idol, JLC?
10:59 pm
Dave, as always, another great article. Be well....
-"Eric"
11:30 pm
Even Madder didn't get banned because he's in the media. He got banned because he slept with a certain mod's wife. That's a big no-no. The guy couldn't keep his dick in his pants.
And ExtremeSkins rules. We have the access to the team, and we have the power to decide what fans can say. What else could you want?
11:31 pm
I've never dug a ditch because my arms aren't long enough to handle a shovel. It sucks to be a dwarf. But at least Danny Boy looks up to me.
11:32 pm
The fanboys from ES drop in like the flying monkeys from the wizard of oz. And they smell about the same.
11:36 pm
As a Redskins fan, the thing that amazes me about ExtremeSkins is that the more you read what gets posted there, particularly by the mods, the more you conclude you'd never want to have to watch a game with those tools. I'm pretty sure I'd have to crack a beer bottle over some skulls before the end of the first quarter.
Douchebags, every one.
11:38 pm
Which mod's wife did EM sleep with? That guy was hilarious! Whatever happened to him? Does he post somewhere else now?
11:42 pm
Why would anyone complain about missing 3 minutes of that game? It was a total disaster. Maybe that's Danny's brilliant new marketing plan -- he'll turn off the feed whenever the Skins are losing, and all his fanboys on ExtremeSkins will think they're playing in the Superbowl. Can you imagine those tools showing up for the Superbowl in their Skins uniforms with "Snyder" on the back... only to find out the Skins went 1-15?
8:19 am
It may be true that the Redskins will win fewer that 5 games this year, but that doesn't change the fact that Mr. Snyder is one of the great humanitarians of our time who has made our beloved Redskins into the pride of the entire NFL - and the world. Mr. Snyder didn't have to buy those radio stations or build his own media delivery empire, but he did it so the little people have a little joy in their lives. They can hear about their Redskins without the unnecessary interference of outsiders like the media. They get their information straight from the source -- and from the heart.
Instead of criticizing Mr. Snyder, we should all drop down on our knees and thank him for his generosity. He's a great American!
10:06 am
Snyder is a moron. This year we have Vinnie Cerato in charge of the draft & cutting players, so he keeps everyone he drafts & releases better players.
The Whiteskins will never win a Super Bowl with the little sawed-off punk in charge.