Linball

The thought that Jeremy Lin is unique in sports because he praises God is enough to invalidate the entire column.

 

I have his rookie card. He was hell on defense.

 

Hard to articulate, but do you not see the difference in religious expression (articulated further in the column) that makes him unusual within sports?

 

I hated Brooks' Jeremy Lin column because it had no fucking point to it. Hey, David, I know you're trying to attract cheap clicks like everyone else, but at least have something cogent to say so the pandering for pageviews isn't so obvious, please.

 

I saw a point, seemed cogent to me. Not so easy to have something new to say afetr everyone on the planet has been writing on it for 2 weeks, but I think he found a fresh perspective. Again, I had a strong hunch that everyone here would hate it.

 

Which, of course, doesn't make any of us wrong.

So Barry Sanders never wrestled with such a thing? Tony Dungy? Sandy Koufax?

 

This is why Lin is important to some (incl. myself):

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/46428571/ns/sports-nba/

The sense that a coach/someone picking a team will look at you without the "I've got to have you" look is dead on.

 

It's too positive; religion is something to be mocked.

 

Did you read Phil Taylor's SI column recently about how politicians should pledge to stop trying to pretend to like sports?

Maybe he should have included political journalists (exception: David Maraniss.)

 

Of course not, though it doesn't make you right either.

Cherry picking 3 names over the course of sports history doesn't make it rare. There have been other Harvard grads too - it just doesn't happen very often.

 

I mean this in all sincerity: I wonder if any religious types who would love to embrace Jeremy Lin are at all conflicted because of where he went to college.

 

I hope you don't because it's a pretty stupid thought that makes you come off as if you view a large segment of our population as cartoons.