> I am a big fan of Will Leitch (who wrote the item, even though it's on
> JoePo's website). In this case, he's spectacularly full of shit.

The website is a USA Today production that will be Sports on Earth,
where Posnanski is the big name, but other writers like Leitch and
Mike Tanier will be on staff as well.

> Everyone seems to be putting the onus on Twitter here, when it's
> really the entire Web.

Twitter makes it easy to complain, and the complaints multiply on
themselves. Grumbling on a list like this is unlikely to have an
effect unless someone in a position to address a complaint happens to
see it.

As it happened, Tuesday night exemplified the problem perfectly. I was
watching the Pirates-Cubs game, where A.J. Burnett had a no-hitter
going. During breaks, I'd flip over to NBC, which usually had
gymnastics when it didn't have its own commercials. I knew that
[SPOILER ALERT] the USA had won the gold, and then I'd switch back to
the ballgame, where I didn't know what was going to happen. I much
preferred the live broadcast.

> The catch is that NBC wants to play both sides of the fence here.
> Their official site, nbcolympics.com, is a full spoiler. There is to
> the best of my knowledge no way to avoid that.

Seems easy to me. I've avoided it, not because I care about spoilers,
but because I don't care about that site. The major result of all this
is that I find I don't care much about the Olympics, either.

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