[George Pazin]

That article, written for Bloomberg (so read by a lot of "rich, important people"), was like a Skip Bayless diatribe...all about the reaction it was intended to generate.  Based on the comments here and on a lot of golf boards, he accomplished his goal.

Glad to see someone else share my opinion of Skip Bayless.

I'm hoping someday the world will tire of this approach, but I'm not holding my breath.

[Dan Kelly]

That article, written for Bloomberg (so read by a lot of "rich, important people"), was like a Skip Bayless diatribe...all about the reaction it was intended to generate.  Based on the comments here and on a lot of golf boards, he accomplished his goal.

Glad to see someone else share my opinion of Skip Bayless.

I'm hoping someday the world will tire of this approach, but I'm not holding my breath.

I'm happy to say that I don't know who Skip Bayless is.

Lemme guess: Howard Stern wannabe?

(Thank you, Nick Church.)

[George Pazin]

Skip Bayless is a sportswriter who is on ESPN's FirstTake in the mornings. After you listen to him for a few days, you get the feeling - no, the hope - that he doesn't actually believe the stupid things he says, he's just saying them to get a reaction. The old "There is no bad publicity" approach. The approach seems to say, it doesn't matter what people think of you, as long as they're talking about you.

This approach seems pretty commonplace in the sports world today. I'm hoping it dies out, though as I said, I'm not holding my breath.

[Dan Kelly]

Skip Bayless is a sportswriter who is on ESPN's FirstTake in the mornings. After you listen to him for a few days, you get the feeling - no, the hope - that he doesn't actually believe the stupid things he says, he's just saying them to get a reaction. The old "There is no bad publicity" approach. The approach seems to say, it doesn't matter what people think of you, as long as they're talking about you.

This approach seems pretty commonplace in the sports world today. I'm hoping it dies out, though as I said, I'm not holding my breath.

There doesn't seem to be much of a market for calm, measured and thoughtful. Oh, well; that's why we come here, right?

Right?

[TEPaul]

"But some of you might want to give him your thoughts in a more pointed manner."

I see no point in doing that. He obviously doesn't think much of golf. So What, he certainly isn't the first.

[MargaretC]

Joel:

As I read his commentary, I could only think of this quote: Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

I enjoyed reading read Moneyball; however, now that I read this, if I do read his other books, it will only happen if I check them out of the library because I surely won't purchase them. 

[RJ_Daley]

A big thanks to Craig for the Carlin link.  Now, since the Bloomberg piece was written just a day after Carlin's passing, I gotta think Lewis got the inspiration from revisiting Carlin's work as a retrospective of Carlin for some fodder to write about and probably checked into the U-Tube selection.  It certainly raises the question of whether Lewis is just free riding an idea already done way better! 

[Michael Powers]

Irrelevant, small-minded, baseless drivel.  He should spend less time masturbating to the bird watching-tai chi chuan fetish he is obviously obsessed with.

[Rich Goodale]

Methinks some of thee doth protest too much.

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