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OgtheDim
06-29-2015, 06:56 PM
Not sure where this exactly goes but we are losing one of our current cast of TFC beat reporters

Armen Bedakian ‏@ArmenBedakian (https://twitter.com/ArmenBedakian) Jun 27 (https://twitter.com/ArmenBedakian/status/614933737235582976) Also... This was my last home game with http://MLSsoccer.com (http://t.co/JFI1xfjuMy). In two weeks, I will be joining theScore as a soccer news editor!

Armen Bedakian ‏@ArmenBedakian (https://twitter.com/ArmenBedakian) Jun 27 (https://twitter.com/ArmenBedakian/status/614934294956355584)
I'll still be around for the next two games. Then it's European/International football time!

Now who's going to do those long verbatim accounts of the end of season press conferences? :)
Pint
06-29-2015, 08:15 PM
Damn.. well good luck Armen have always liked your work and you deserve the shot you are getting
__wowza
06-30-2015, 01:26 AM
congrats jimmybald!! :wink5:
brad
06-30-2015, 08:29 AM
But the burning question - will he still get to follow the career of Jacob Peterson closely :-)

Seriously though - congrats.
MartinUtd
06-30-2015, 09:50 AM
Congrats! A former college of mine is doing the online NFL stuff for the score and he loves it.

Also, does this mean Richard Whittal is gone and the score's soccer content will be digestible again? That guy ruined their blog.
PopePouri
06-30-2015, 10:00 AM
Congrats! A former college of mine is doing the online NFL stuff for the score and he loves it.

Also, does this mean Richard Whittal is gone and the score's soccer content will be digestible again? That guy ruined their blog.

He's been gone for a while now.
MartinUtd
06-30-2015, 10:22 AM
He's been gone for a while now.

Oh thank god, I had just stop reading their site altogether. It was like a high school creative writing class was being asked to cover a sports beat.

"It was a cold and rainy night at BMO field, the birds were absent from the sky and in the distance a child cries out for his mother. Were these cries that of hunger or was I hearing the personification of a young club crying out for success."

Okay I made that up, but that's what reading his shit felt like.
OgtheDim
06-30-2015, 10:28 AM
Hmm.....that sounds like a lot of the crud that has been on the Guardian this season, except couple it with a blatant inaccuracy.
MartinUtd
06-30-2015, 10:31 AM
Jesus, he got promoted? That's it, I'm becoming a writer.

Too bad Armen didn't get his foot in the door sooner. Considering Whittals rate of trajectory, Armen would be at the Economist by now.
ArmenJBX
06-30-2015, 04:17 PM
Just saw this... thanks guys <3 I... don't know what to say, which is a first!

I'll be doing EPL/La Liga/Serie A/Bundesliga/MLS news from now on, but that means I won't be on the TFC beat any longer. Thank you for reading my stuff - hopefully only the good articles - and for helping me grow when I was but a bald Jimmy ~5 years ago!

I owe you all a pint! :drinking:
Ivy
06-30-2015, 04:40 PM
hollar when you're ready, we'll go pick up some girls in Colombus together. ;)
ensco
06-30-2015, 05:29 PM
This is great. Congratulations Armen.

I don't know Armen at all, but remember when he was on here as a kid just looking to get involved. He has plugged away, and off he goes.

I am sure our anonymous, snarky, yet overall, strangely accurate version of TFC reality, will suffer for his loss.
Pookie
06-30-2015, 09:52 PM
A road filled with thankless hours and putting yourself out there looks to be heading to green pastures.

A virtual toast of congratulations and best of luck in your new opportunity. :drinking: