Jeff Pearlman finds Sports by Brooks, scraps article

This seems to come up in every book discussion on this site. (Glenn Stout's was the most recent.) People appear to think books just sell themselves to passersby walking past the Barnes & Noble at the mall.

I get that if you're older than a certain age (maybe 30-35), journalism teaching was that the writing stands on its own merit and it speaks for you. It takes some willful ignorance to maintain that belief these days.

 

If that is true, LMAO.

 

Jeff was nice to me when I was a young writer looking to break into magazines. Gave me a lot of time one afternoon on the turf in Philadelphia. He has no recollection of our conversation, I don't think. I do. It meant a lot. He's taking a bit of a pummelling here, so I felt the need to say that he was a generous guy when he didn't have to be, and it made a difference to me.

 

2009 Why I dig Jason Whitlock | Jeff Pearlman

2015

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Trash journalism and Jason Whitlock's poisonous bullshit | Jeff Pearlman http://ish.re/T155

 

Never allow for the potential to change your mind or evolve. It's not worth it.

 

And in that particular case, absolutely nothing changed about Whitlock's personality or delivery in those six years, right?

 

Want to read a fun blast from the past?

piling on whitlock

Let the record show I once wrote a fawning 1500-word post about him.

 

You're bound to that forever.

Wow. That was fun.

 

Some nights I plug random words or names into the search engine here, and go back and read posts I wrote from 10 years ago, just as a nice wake-up call to the person I was at 28. It's kind of fascinating, actually. In a way, it's more insightful that reading old stories. It's a hell of a time capsule at least.

 

"I hope it works out, and that he does well at AOL as proof that you don't have to take ESPN's money to matter."

 

Except designers. Man fuck those guys.