Linball

Shorter Brooks: Golly gee, I think I'll use this athlete suddenly exploding into the zeitgeist to expand a two-paragraph point about religion into an entire shitty column. Religion and sports! They're complicated!

 

Shit

I would rather see a question like...

Q: You were dating Secaucus sevens last week, how does it feel to be in the rare air of Manhattan 10s with Jeter and Sanchez?

A: I thank God every night. Every night.

 

He does ask about dating:

Q: Do you have a girlfriend?

A: No.

Q: Describe your ideal mate.

A: First she would really love God and be a faithful Christian, and then after that, I think, a desire to serve other people, to help with the underprivileged, do a lot of social work . . . great personality and easy to be around. Someone that’s definitely chill, low key, low maintenance.

 

Q: You were dating Secaucus sevens last week, how does it feel to be in the rare air of Manhattan 10s with Jeter and Sanchez?


haha, I laughed.

 

BTW, this tweet from political comedian Andy Borowitz is pretty much the best thing ever.

@BorowitzReport Jeremy Lin may be the first person with an economics degree from Harvard who is doing something positive with his life.

 

That's tremendous.

 

Nice

 

Excellent synopsis.

Another excellent synopsis: The New Yorker's Alex Koppelman, in a blog post titled "How You Know David Brooks Doesn't Watch Sports," quotes this passage:

Tebow H. Christ.

 

Brooks needs to be more dismissive of Lin and people like him if he wants to get published in Grantland.

 

My father -- lifelong liberal -- expressed to me recently that he enjoys David Brooks' columns, and that he finds him to be a reasonable, must-read. It's the first time in my life I've ever wished, even for a second, that I was adopted. He may be capable of making interesting points occasionally, but I don't think anyone writes as much dumb or flat-out haughty dishonest nonsense as frequently as David Brooks.

Imagine if I wrote this: Rick Santorum is anomalous in all sorts of ways…. But we shouldn’t neglect the biggest anomaly. He’s a religious person in politics!.

If David Brooks can tell me what position Jeremy Lin plays without looking at ESPN.com, I'll eat a copy of The Social Animal with nothing but a fork and plum sauce.

 

It'd be a lot better than dating Joe Taub.

 

I came here knowing that the Brooks column would be unpopular here (and I get annoyed by him all the time), but I liked this one. Maybe it was just the reference to Rabbi Soloveichik, a hero of mine.