Grantland so far

Deadspin readers tee off on Grantland

http://deadspin.com/5826047/dear-grantland-have-you-never-heard-of-motorhead

 

Hard to believe Grantland doesn't have an MTV retrospective up today ...

 

Glad to asee

Glad to see Deadspin readers rip Simmons a new one for his dismissal of the immortal Lemmy as "just someone screaming in a raspy voice" in his column on wrestling entrance songs.

The Deadspin rips are more entertaining than much of what is on Grantland.

 

Bravo, Deadspin reader Max. Bravo.

 

The APBA ads in Baseball Digest, depicting a sample superstar's card, made it sound like the coolest, most realistic thing in the world. And frankly, the game did not disappoint. Played it solo and in a draft league with buddies. Even dug out old game and played wife, a baseball fan who retired un-APBA-defeated after a single game.

 

"We" is the new "I" today at Grantland:

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6822219/yoknapatawpha-wake

Our friend, Dean Faulkner Wells, died last week. We got the call: a stroke, then life support, then gone. Come quick, we were told. Something is ending. We stood in the summer haze, the people of Oxford, gathered like a tribe. We sweated through our collars. Our tears escaped the tint of dark glasses. We manned the kitchen like only a bridge club could. We preheated the oven. We were young and old, writer and homemaker, churchgoer and hell-raising bastard. We brought a bottle of Four Roses, because that's what Dean's uncle drank. He's been gone a long time, and now she was gone, too. We raised a plastic cup to both.

 

I played APBA so often with such concentration that I didn't need the boards. I knew what every roll of the dice meant to every player in every situation. Then I discovered girls.

 

Then it became a real crap shoot.

 

I think my mom sold the game a yard sale years ago, but I still have the playbook.

 

Still have it. Still the best non-computer NFL game for sheer amusement/play-value, with two minor nits to pick:

(1) Scores tend to run VERY high, and

(2) The spring play-determinator tends to become more erratic with excessive use.

 

Bas-Ket. Somewhat amusing, but most editions I ever encountered were fatally-flawed, in that one side's shooting mechanisisms were typically meaningfully-superior to the other's. In other words, skill and dexterity were not prime keys to game-by-game success. And no sour grapes, here . . .
I can't play golf or pocket billiards worth a lick, but enjoy them for what they are, and bow down to superior talents in each.