I'm posting THIS link to Chuck Klosterman's running blog of practice day at the Final Four in Atlanta not because I think you check this site more often than ESPN.com, but rather because of the satisfaction it gives me to beat Brien to a post about his favorite writer.
March 30, 2007
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HA! You could at least correctly tag your post so it shows up with the rest of my Klosterman lovefest. :-)
I've having enough trouble getting over my OCD impulses every time I see uncapitalized tags.
I just started reading the Klosterman stuff, but here are some people bitching and complaining about how they hate Klosterman. I never really understood bitching about columnists. If you don't like them, just don't read them. It's not like an announcer where your choices are mute or Billy Packer. With columnists, you get to pick who you read. I really don't like Gregg Easterbrook (I used to, but now he drives me nuts) so I don't read his column.
I actually caught that anti-Klosterman rant and I agree with you. I think the problem is that he apparently took on the music industry in the past. That always brings out the whiners.
I actually really like Gregg Easterbrook, and I even bought his book "The Progress Paradox". I've started to sour a bit on him as well though now that I have seen enough of his columns to know how formulaic they are. To make matters worse his brother Frank Easterbrook is a brilliant judge (ok, brilliant opinion writer. I've never met him) on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (IL, IN, WI) -- chief judge in fact. That's even more impressive when you consider that Richard Posner, a potential Supreme Court nominee for either party and the figurehead for the law and economics movement, also sits on that circuit.
I used to really like Easterbrook, and some of his stuff is really good. What made me stop reading his columns was that he has a few pet theories that he cherry picks evidence for. In the rare cases when he gives you evidence that contradicts one of his theories, he makes his joke about a "money back guarantee." I also can't stand his economic reasoning. But some of his football arguments are pretty good, I just wish he wasn't so annoying in making them.
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