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If I order a bowl of soup and take two spoonfuls and it tastes like ass, I'm not hanging around for the main course.

That movie thing was bad. Dreadfully bad.

 

That was really long.

I fear Grantland will go the way of the original 'Cold Pizza.' Sounds good when you explain it, only to be crushed by disasterous execution.

 

Mark Ames already kicked the shit out of Klosterman years ago.

http://www.nypress.com/article-8054-the-flip-flop-king.html

 

You mean actual cold pizza in your refrigerator. Not the espn show. Right?

 

And that piece is as ridiculous today as it was eight years ago.

 

This.

I mean, there's not getting it, and then there's deliberately not getting.

And then there's deliberately not getting it to be douchey in accusing someone else of douchedom.

 

Yes, it is ridiculous. A cartoonish piece for an alt weekly in a major world city.

Almost as ridiculous as proclaiming that a movie character from a piece of '80s flotsam ruined it for otherwise well-meaning guys.

 

Perhaps, but at least Chuck didn't spend 20 percent of that essay saying Cusak looked like an old man's fleshy ass, or that he "looked" like a child molester, or that he'd like to fight him for his stupid ideas. Some bold criticism, that.

 

They are blaspheming Grantland Rice's name, I fear. I'm from his hometown and take that kinda personally.

 

That opening was absurdly bad. I can't believe someone could write that and think they were coming up with something fresh and interesting.

 

Round 2, where Daulerio sends a gorilla singing telegram to bust up a Walsh/Craggs meeting.

http://deadspin.com/5807569/albino-man-pink-gorilla-singing-sportscenter-theme-song-a-story-about-deadspin-and-espns-grantland-project

 

Chris Jones just confirmed on his Twitter account that he'll be writing for Grantland.

I know they are getting a nice stable of writers, but still color me skeptical that there's a big audience for long-form sports writing.