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Look who his competition is... Of course they will make Armondo look somewhat intelligent.
ckparrothead said:
Tell you the truth, Armando often has the most realistic sense of what's going on with the team and what is likely to happen. He's been at this a long time, the most tenured of Miami's local media...so he often just 'gets it'.

But I would say he still shows kind of loose morals/ethics.

My one major run-in with the guy, at the time he was employing this guy named Chris Cordero to go to All Star practices and report on the Draft for Armando's blog. It looked like a not-so-veiled response to what Dave Hyde has with me and Simon and Richard in the Draft Winds series. Success breeds competition, I get it. But then Cordero ripped us off the week of the NFL Draft. Simon goes through a lot of pain-staking research to put together a list of players Miami has shown interest in. He often speaks directly to the players or their agents. It ends up being a pretty wide list but it also is pretty accurate. During the Ireland era, I think he's only ever drafted two guys who weren't on the list. The week of the Draft, Cordero submitted his last draft oriented blog post to Salguero, who posted it. Cordero had literally cut and paste our list from Draft Winds, and plopped it in his post. It was obviously cut, pasted and then edited. Certain ways of writing the names of the schools were exact (e.g. "Louisianna-Lafayette" versus "Louisianna Lafayette" or "UL-Lafayette"), there was even several unique typos that Simon authored in the original list that Cordero also had. All he'd really done to the list was accidentally leave off the secondary, add I believe it was three of his own names, then delete enough names to make it total 100 names.

So of course Simon comes at the guy (Salguero) guns blazing and using the dirty p-word (plagiarism). Armando comes right back at him very insulting, very haughty, denying everything even the obvious stuff. Armando's editor rushes to his defense and essentially tells us to **** off. I came back to Armando more amicable because Simon was pissed and his communications weren't helping. Armando and I got along well enough, but the fact of the matter is he continued to deny the OBVIOUS. That's when the Sun Sentinel stepped in, flexed a little muscle and told the Herald people no, you guys ripped off original content posted on our website, you had better retract it. The Herald meekly complied.
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Volin, Darlington, I dont have a problem with them.. When you have guys like Omar and Berirdino (sp), and then others like Cote and Williams chiming in, youre going to look like Einstein.
ckparrothead said:
While that's a good point, I do have a lot of respect for some of the guys. Ben Volin, for instance. He's good people.
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Now that Darlington is gone, I think Ben Volin is the best Dolphins beat writer left...
 
ckparrothead said:
While that's a good point, I do have a lot of respect for some of the guys. Ben Volin, for instance. He's good people.
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Volin's a little too much in love with Matt Moore. On twitter a few months back he said Moore had the ability to become a franchise quaurterback, I lost respect for him after that.
 
Not sure what has happened to Armando, but he has been on "vacation" for a few weeks and the guys that took over his blog don't really seem to know when he will be back. Assuming he is actually coming back. Who takes a two month vacation from their job? Sounds fishy.

It isn't like he is out of the country, because I still see him oin PFT live every once in awhile. In fact, I think he was on last week. Those segments usually consist of Armando laughing at everything the Dolphins do. Would love to see him get canned from the Herald, or at least reassigned to another job at the paper. He is famous for the "Some people in the organization are not on board" when some sort of news on the Dolphins comes out.
 
Nublar7 said:
Not sure what has happened to Armando, but he has been on "vacation" for a few weeks and the guys that took over his blog don't really seem to know when he will be back. Assuming he is actually coming back. Who takes a two month vacation from their job? Sounds fishy.

It isn't like he is out of the country, because I still see him oin PFT live every once in awhile. In fact, I think he was on last week. Those segments usually consist of Armando laughing at everything the Dolphins do. Would love to see him get canned from the Herald, or at least reassigned to another job at the paper. He is famous for the "Some people in the organization are not on board" when some sort of news on the Dolphins comes out.
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He'll be back. Same thing happened last year. He took a paycut from the Herald which is resulting in less work.
 
ckparrothead said:
Tell you the truth, Armando often has the most realistic sense of what's going on with the team and what is likely to happen. He's been at this a long time, the most tenured of Miami's local media...so he often just 'gets it'.

But I would say he still shows kind of loose morals/ethics.

My one major run-in with the guy, at the time he was employing this guy named Chris Cordero to go to All Star practices and report on the Draft for Armando's blog. It looked like a not-so-veiled response to what Dave Hyde has with me and Simon and Richard in the Draft Winds series. Success breeds competition, I get it. But then Cordero ripped us off the week of the NFL Draft. Simon goes through a lot of pain-staking research to put together a list of players Miami has shown interest in. He often speaks directly to the players or their agents. It ends up being a pretty wide list but it also is pretty accurate. During the Ireland era, I think he's only ever drafted two guys who weren't on the list. The week of the Draft, Cordero submitted his last draft oriented blog post to Salguero, who posted it. Cordero had literally cut and paste our list from Draft Winds, and plopped it in his post. It was obviously cut, pasted and then edited. Certain ways of writing the names of the schools were exact (e.g. "Louisianna-Lafayette" versus "Louisianna Lafayette" or "UL-Lafayette"), there was even several unique typos that Simon authored in the original list that Cordero also had. All he'd really done to the list was accidentally leave off the secondary, add I believe it was three of his own names, then delete enough names to make it total 100 names.

So of course Simon comes at the guy (Salguero) guns blazing and using the dirty p-word (plagiarism). Armando comes right back at him very insulting, very haughty, denying everything even the obvious stuff. Armando's editor rushes to his defense and essentially tells us to **** off. I came back to Armando more amicable because Simon was pissed and his communications weren't helping. Armando and I got along well enough, but the fact of the matter is he continued to deny the OBVIOUS. That's when the Sun Sentinel stepped in, flexed a little muscle and told the Herald people no, you guys ripped off original content posted on our website, you had better retract it. The Herald meekly complied.
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Agree that Saguero has one of the more realistic, long-term views when it comes to the decision making on the team; and for that, I still read his blogs/stories. But he has a bad habit of tooting his horn a little too often on obvious predictions and posting other scoops that turn out to be false. That said, being the senior writer that he is, he shouldn't be trying to protect his 'boy' by lying for him about an obvious plagiarism case. Having run a news center while in the Navy, I can empathize with how much this must have pissed off Simon. In fact, I can remember the report you are talking about, and remember being impressed with how detailed it was. Hopefully Cordero is in another line of work these days.

One of my favorite Miami-based blogs right now is Barry Jackson's. He regularly posts daily bulletized news bits that are usually interesting, if somewhat random. Also a big fan of Ben Volin. Darlington flew the coup for bigger pastures, so he's not as prevalent in the Miami sports arena any more, but he was great back when he wasn't national.
 
Casas9425 said:
Volin's a little too much in love with Matt Moore. On twitter a few months back he said Moore had the ability to become a franchise quaurterback, I lost respect for him after that.
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I have a lot of respect for Russ Lande, and he thinks the same about Matt Moore. You learn that just because you disagree with people on things is no reason for you to toss them out.
 
Bagga-Viagra said:
Agree that Saguero has one of the more realistic, long-term views when it comes to the decision making on the team; and for that, I still read his blogs/stories. But he has a bad habit of tooting his horn a little too often on obvious predictions and posting other scoops that turn out to be false. That said, being the senior writer that he is, he shouldn't be trying to protect his 'boy' by lying for him about an obvious plagiarism case. Having run a news center while in the Navy, I can empathize with how much this must have pissed off Simon. In fact, I can remember the report you are talking about, and remember being impressed with how detailed it was. Hopefully Cordero is in another line of work these days.

One of my favorite Miami-based blogs right now is Barry Jackson's. He regularly posts daily bulletized news bits that are usually interesting, if somewhat random. Also a big fan of Ben Volin. Darlington flew the coup for bigger pastures, so he's not as prevalent in the Miami sports arena any more, but he was great back when he wasn't national.
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Darlington went national but it still seems like he's covering the Dolphins, which is very strange.
 
He said he was taking a break until the summer when TC's start.
 
ckparrothead said:
I have a lot of respect for Russ Lande, and he thinks the same about Matt Moore. You learn that just because you disagree with people on things is no reason for you to toss them out.
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Whoever says that about Matt Moore is an idiot.
 
ckparrothead said:
I have a lot of respect for Russ Lande, and he thinks the same about Matt Moore. You learn that just because you disagree with people on things is no reason for you to toss them out.
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High-quality professionals in all fields have disagreements. As long as they have integrity they can at least be considered to have "temporary insanity" if they disagree with you. ;)
 
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