Grantland so far

Brilliant!....I'm in....if ever a thing needed a home with no editors, our baby's the one...

 

They wouldn't know what hit 'em with that novel.

 

At this point it's a race to see whether we actually finish it someday, or MLB gets antsy about all the broken-down 'roid-free homerless stars spending entire seasons on the DL and invests in a Super Secret hormone that speeds recovery, multiplies power, and saves the game.

Love that book.

 

Is that the one with Terry Haute?

 

No, although that remains the all-time greatest. That was the first one. Then there was the story of Bianca Macedonia, the nurse who was offering steroid injections during sex with ballplayers.

The story we're talking about dealt with a baseball scandal and a newspaper scandal and Cuba and mysterious drug cartel, written by (in random order and I apologize if I forget some of the writers): Kindred, Jones, jgmacg, Bubbler, Double Down, Pete, BYH, Ragu, Moddy, Spaceman, fotf, & 21/Boom.

 

Bottom line on Grantland right now: Sometimes several days go by without me bothering to even look.

 

It's my second look Mon-Fri after this place.

 

I rarely look at the site -- and I don't think that will change -- but I really liked this oral history of the Hagler-Leonard fight in 1987.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6983512/hagler-vs-leonard

The oral-history format worked well, I thought -- perhaps even moreso because a Grantland writer got out of the way.

 

Saw this thread was updated and it reminded me I haven't visited the site in weeks. So I head on over, start scrolling and stop to ponder, "What the fuck is Humblebrag?" I click on the link and read "The Emmy's were Sunday night ..." I stopped right there. What a joke.

 

It's low on the rota for me, too. It's a mishmash with little definition or cohesion and while there's some good on there, it's amid the extremely average.

 

I also never look at the site, only at this thread. But to someone who pays attention, doesn't it seem like they have more than filled their quota of oral histories lately?

 

What would you consider a standard quota? They've only had three in four months. And they were all great.

--The National
--Friday Night Lights (TV series)
--Hagler/Leonard