I finished this book yesterday. It is a wonderful book. Joe Posnanski is my favorite sports columnist. His stuff is always funny and has a certain 'wonderment' or 'rosiness' or 'epic-ness' about his writing which is right down my alley. I, of course, know him because of my KC Royals ties. I often wonder why no national sports website has picked him up. I mean the worst sports writer EVER (Jason Whitlock) wrote for ESPN for quite some time before blowing that gig.
A small diversion.... Speaking of Whitlock I have to admit his last article was just awesome, IMO. A complete surprise for me. It's about the Don Imus situation but don't be afraid to read it, it went in a direction I never thought I would see Whitlock go in.
Back to the book, READ IT! It will put a smile on your face and a tear in your eye. Well maybe not a tear in your eye if your the hard bitten, Dirty Harry type baseball commissioner named Gary. But the rest of you it might. I admit, the last chapter had me choking up. I then tried to get my kids to read it but they weren't interested so I read them the first chapter... I had to 'clear my throat' a few times to get through it. Not that it was especially moving but I was already a basket case from the last chapter.
Friday, April 13, 2007
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Why did Whitlock ever leave the world-wide-leader?
He got into a tiff with Scoop Jackson I believe. I didn't read much about except for Soop's 'response'.
Whitlock normally infuses race into everything. I understand his being of a minority would enhance that but I thought he took it too far most of the time. He loves to be righteously indignant. It just wears thin after awhile. He is much better with football than baseball though.
I looked up that article I read. It is now an 'insider' article of which I am not. If you are, here is the link.
http://proxy.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=jackson/061006
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