{"id":8456,"date":"2009-06-01T10:20:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T17:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8456"},"modified":"2009-06-01T10:39:47","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T17:39:47","slug":"re-ranking-the-power-ranker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8456","title":{"rendered":"Re-ranking The Power Ranker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/stab-lewis.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/stab-lewis.jpg','popup','width=520,height=260,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/stab-lewis-tm.jpg\" height=\"215\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Stab Lewis\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/stabmag.com\/jed\/Lewis-Samuels-retort-power-rankings\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stab magazine<\/a><\/em><\/strong> interviewed two of what they called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/postsurf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Postsurf.com&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <strong>Lewis Samuels<\/strong>&#8216; &#8220;favorite targets&#8221; about how it feels to be berated in the Power Rankings. Here&#8217;s a little of what <strong>Phil Macdonald<\/strong> and <strong>Drew Courtney<\/strong> had to say:<br \/>\nPhil Macdonald:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why would I care what some twerp, who just wants to be controversial, has to say? I\u2019d love for him to say some of the shit he writes to my face. I wouldn\u2019t hit him. I might word him up, but then again I don\u2019t really care. Why would I invest energy into hating some dork, two-faced prick who writes shit for the sake of being controversial?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Drew Courtney:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It doesn\u2019t bother me one little bit. But I heard a few of the Hawaiian guys are hunting around for him. I would love for him to show his face at one of the contests, instead of just watch \u2018em on the web cast. I\u2019d love to meet him face to face. It wouldn\u2019t go real good.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Turns out Lewis did meet Drew face to face: or did he not? <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/postsurf.com\/2009\/06\/01\/magical-realism-with-ben-button\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to see how it went<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/stabmag.com\/jed\/Lewis-Samuels-retort-power-rankings\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stab Magazine<\/a><\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/postsurf.com\/2009\/06\/01\/magical-realism-with-ben-button\/\" target=\"_blank\">Post Surf<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s Stab magazine interviewed two of what they called Postsurf.com&#8217;s Lewis Samuels&#8216; &#8220;favorite targets&#8221; about how it feels to be berated in the Power Rankings. Here&#8217;s a little of what Phil Macdonald and Drew Courtney had to say: Phil Macdonald: Why would I care what some twerp, who just wants to be controversial, has to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8460,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456\/revisions\/8460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}