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Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Fri Dec 08, 2017 12:17 pm

wtf is voy

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Postby willeyeam » Fri Dec 08, 2017 12:23 pm

Seems like a totally normal human

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Postby MR25 » Fri Dec 08, 2017 12:44 pm

She "didnt know hockey" but wrote for NHL.com...

K.

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Postby dodint » Fri Dec 08, 2017 12:46 pm

Yeah, puckeyball is market neutral, not sure what the problem was.

(I have no idea, was that the same person?)

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Postby MR25 » Fri Dec 08, 2017 12:49 pm

Yeah, puckeyball is market neutral, not sure what the problem was.

(I have no idea, was that the same person?)

Different person.

But this situation seems classic DK.

Don't want to say I called it, but I **** called it.

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Postby llipgh2 » Fri Dec 08, 2017 1:04 pm

I don't know what voy is so I'm not buying that version of the story.

I think it was more a case where she was a far better writer with more contacts than anyone on his staff, and they were jealous. Or at least a certain someone was.

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Postby Dickie Dunn » Fri Dec 08, 2017 1:11 pm

Voy is pretty much the place to be

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Postby RonnieFranchise » Fri Dec 08, 2017 1:16 pm

Hey Craig if we do an ask Craig anything thread will you answer our questions on your show?

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Postby LITT » Fri Dec 08, 2017 1:16 pm

Hahahaha someone just called Gene Collier "Bernie Sanders" on the Nightly Sports Call (It's what my dad is currently watching).

lol nice parenthetical. way to give yourself an out.

high performers dont make excuses.

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Postby MR25 » Fri Dec 08, 2017 1:23 pm

Hahahaha someone just called Gene Collier "Bernie Sanders" on the Nightly Sports Call (It's what my dad is currently watching).

lol nice parenthetical. way to give yourself an out.

high performers dont make excuses.

The last thing I want to see on the TV is Richie Walsh's smug prick face.

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Postby Nittany Ned » Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:37 pm

Anyone else follow Steelers Depot/their guys on Twitter?

It’s good material, but I swear those dudes come off a bit too know-it-all and condescending. Dave constantly quote-retweets idiotic tweets to put them down and yeah, we get it, people on Twitter say dumb things. But dude just literally only responds to those and not actual insightful/constructive stuff.

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Postby willeyeam » Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:40 pm

You don't say

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Postby Morkle » Tue Dec 12, 2017 9:40 am

I don't know what voy is so I'm not buying that version of the story.

I think it was more a case where she was a far better writer with more contacts than anyone on his staff, and they were jealous. Or at least a certain someone was.
Voy is basically the dirtrags for media people around town. It bears truth as people post anon there.

I don't feel bad about Yohe quitting via e-mail if DK is firing people via text.

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Postby pens9192 » Tue Dec 12, 2017 11:55 am

I don't know what voy is so I'm not buying that version of the story.

I think it was more a case where she was a far better writer with more contacts than anyone on his staff, and they were jealous. Or at least a certain someone was.
Who knows the truth but I went back and re-read DK's intro article on her: https://www.dkpittsburghsports.com/2017 ... ey-writer/

"....she wrote 400-plus pieces in that time ranging from news to features to in-depth hockey analysis. She moved back to Western Pennsylvania this summer to be closer to family.

I could go on and on about the countless recommendations sent this way on Katie’s behalf, some of those having begun earlier this summer when she moved back, but let’s just say they came from across the continent, as I’m betting you’ll see for yourself on social media following this announcement. But what I’ve found out myself in interviewing her over the past four days is that she lives and breathes the game, she’s hyper-intelligent on a lot of levels, she’s got the approachable personality to match, and she’s very much a match for what we specifically need on our hockey coverage team."

If that voy post is true, how did she (and I guess all those countless recommendations he received) mislead him?? I mean if she didn't fit his format of the site, you could say that I guess. But misled him on what grounds?

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Postby Joegap » Tue Dec 12, 2017 12:33 pm

Gatjka probably didn't like her because she didn't put the correct umlauts on player's names

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Postby Morkle » Tue Dec 12, 2017 12:39 pm

I mean couldn't he just confirm that those articles were written by her, and seen her work? He seems dumb.

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Postby MR25 » Tue Dec 12, 2017 12:56 pm

She probably told him she didn't like Starbucks and he got pissy and fired her.

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Postby Nittany Ned » Tue Dec 12, 2017 2:03 pm

A 4-day interview for that Mickey Mouse level job? Lmao

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Postby Morkle » Tue Dec 12, 2017 2:51 pm

But what I’ve found out myself in interviewing her over the past four days is that she lives and breathes the game, she’s hyper-intelligent on a lot of levels, she’s got the approachable personality to match, and she’s very much a match for what we specifically need on our hockey coverage team.
If she bamboozeled DK over four days, he's a really dumb person when it comes to hiring people.

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Postby pens9192 » Tue Dec 12, 2017 5:24 pm

She probably told him she didn't like Starbucks and he got pissy and fired her.
Hah, wouldn't be surprised. To go from singing praises and reading everyone's else praises to firing her in a span of two months? She either really pissed him off...or lied? cheated? stole? harassed? I can't think much else to get you canned in that short amount of time. Plus he added that the "full support of the staff (or whatever he said)" something he hadn't done with other firings. I mean maybe she didn't fit with the live game files and the multimedia content but they have others that can do that and that is something that a somewhat half decent employer would work with her to be better. Instead it seems like with DK you look at him wrong on the wrong day and you're gone, except if you are Gajtka apparently.

Speaking of him, he has nowhere near the experience of Brown but somehow when the dust settled he is the Pens beat writer? Just weird.

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Postby Dickie Dunn » Tue Dec 12, 2017 6:31 pm

I think it's pretty obvious that Gajtka is a company stooge who will go along with anything to stay employed. No one outside his immediate family even knew he existed until DK hired him.

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Postby NailedPenguin » Tue Dec 12, 2017 7:22 pm

This type of stuff is going to be unbearable over the next couple of days.

Gize! Fleury offered us the most bare minimum basic human interaction when he saw us. LMAO Classic MAF

https://twitter.com/JMackeyPG/status/940655951106863104

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Postby Nittany Ned » Tue Dec 12, 2017 8:22 pm

This type of stuff is going to be unbearable over the next couple of days.

Gize! Fleury offered us the most bare minimum basic human interaction when he saw us. LMAO Classic MAF

https://twitter.com/JMackeyPG/status/940655951106863104
All we need is for Yohe to be reunited with Dad.

It’s a possibility!!!

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Postby shafnutz05 » Tue Dec 12, 2017 8:24 pm

This type of stuff is going to be unbearable over the next couple of days.

Gize! Fleury offered us the most bare minimum basic human interaction when he saw us. LMAO Classic MAF

https://twitter.com/JMackeyPG/status/940655951106863104
This is pathetic even by his standards.

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Postby NailedPenguin » Tue Dec 12, 2017 9:10 pm

Here's another gem.
We chatted with Fleury for 15-20 minutes this morning. Every bit as nice, funny and personable as he was in Pittsburgh.
He left 4 months ago Mackey. He's not going to do a WWE heel turn just because he's on another team.

https://twitter.com/JMackeyPG/status/940672832371015681

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