Big Lead bags John Feinstein

I thought Feinstein boycotted ESPN, not the other way around, and that his boycott was over. (I've seen him on some relatively recent ESPN productions, sometime within the past year or two.)

 

Everyone in that comments thread is bagging his golf books, but those are the only Feinstein books I really like. (And I really really like the golf books.)

The basketball ones, though, are filled with too much praise toward the coaches. I read the first few pages of the ACC tournament book and couldn't go any further. With the exception of 'Brink', Feinstein treats them too reverentially.

 

Get XM and listen to TK when he returns after MNF. Junior still comes on weekly. The show was also available as a WaPo podcast, although I don't know what will happen now that WaPoRadio is dead. (I think they pulled the plug officially. His show was the only one that generated any ratings whatsoever.)

 

Tony's show will stick around on the new WTTT.

 

Feinstein was banned by ESPN, not the other way around... I remember TK talking about it... I seriously doubt he was losing sleep over it...

I remember the Lubbock paper having a story where Feinstein ripped the shit out of Season on the Brink and I think that was the major reason they banned him. I don't know if the ban has been lifted, I think it has...

I also remember one time where TK and Feinstein were making fun of DJ Stewy so much that the next day, TK was no longer allowed to mention Stewy by name... This was about 6-7 years ago so I don't know what fences have been mended...

 

"Season on the Brink" is one of the top five sports books ever written.

But I haven't been floored with the rest of Feinstein's work. (Only read about half of his books.) "The Punch" was extremely repetitive and boring in spots. The Ravens book wasn't so bad. I just get the feeling that he hurries his way through most of them.

That said, I love listening to the guy on television and the radio.

 

Right, 3WT. Should've known.

 

You really think so? I dunno. Tony the K seems to be working awfully hard (by his standards), and enjoying himself a heck of a lot, for the plug already to have been pulled on MNF.

 

Loved "The Civil War" (Army/Navy)

Many of the most recent efforts have been largely distinguished by tremendous quantities of sheer padding.

 

I would say that Season on the Brink is my favorite sports book ever... Ball Four would probably be a close second...

 

"Sheer padding." New oxymoron?