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I just got Scott Raab's "The Whore of Akron" from the library. Alongside Bill Plaschke's book about Tommy Lasorda, it is easily the worst book I've ever read. Not even halfway through, and amongst other things, has talked about his wife giving him handjobs, the smell of his wife's vagina, how he is going to commit violent acts against LeBron James (kicking him in the nuts, hitting him with a chair), and a paragraph describing LeBron's penis size. He also likes to use the word "gently caress" in every conceivable way possible. It's like he thinks he's David Milch.
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:For those of us who missed it, could you give a brief rundown of what Plaschke's Lasorda book was like? It wasn't the content as much as it was the writing style. I got halfway through the book thinking I had gone full retard because I couldn't understand a word he was saying.
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Jan 3, 2012 19:39
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There were tons of three or four word sentences waxing philosophical about Tommy Lasorda. "And then, he was" or "For him, to be." I mean, it was about 7 years ago that I read it, and to this day I remember it just for the terrible writing.
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Jan 3, 2012 20:14
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It was so long ago and such a confusing book that I seriously don't remember. It went back and forth between the present and the past, so you never knew where you were in relation to time. He might be talking about Lasorda eating a hot dog, and then talk about a game in 1978, and then a piece of pizza, and you had to figure out which timeframe he was using. I'm going to the library after work. I might try to check it out again and relive the danger.
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Jan 3, 2012 22:54
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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:Atlanta is a loving awful sports town but that has nothing to do with deserving to win anything Never having been to Atlanta, but following the Braves my entire life, I was wondering if the story about the Ted having no public transportation to it has anything to do with the Braves' lack of support. I would hope it was that instead of taking all the winning seasons for granted in the 90s.
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Jan 12, 2012 22:59
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So Deadspin is basically the National Enquirer at this point.
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Feb 2, 2012 21:41
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haljordan posted:Hey AJ, I got a pair of Joe DiMaggio's slacks in my closet too. I swear they belong to him. Maybe you can write a piece on that too. I think at this point even TMZ has more credibility. Christ. Yeah, but do you have Joe DiMaggio's toothbrush? I didn't think so.
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Feb 3, 2012 15:25
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Bigass Moth posted:Cubs fans aren't bad at all. They have zero to brag about and their wining is easily understood by a Cleveland fan like myself. I would add, "Girls who like an entire team just because one of the players 'is a hottie'."
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Feb 7, 2012 17:44
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Crion posted:Uh huh. How do you feel about the US Women's Curling Team, out of curiosity Gonna have to go with, "Is there a US Women's Curling Team?" Let me go check it out. Eh. Wouldn't convince me to watch curling.
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Feb 7, 2012 19:38
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Speaking of Adrian Wojnarowski, I just got finished reading his book about the 1992 Duke/Kentucky game. Really really good book. Has the book been mentioned in this thread and I missed it? If so, I'm sorry.  But if it has, it bears repeating: Really solid book. It'd be especially good to read right before March Madness starts.
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Feb 27, 2012 22:50
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I'm about halfway through Dwight Gooden's newest autobiography. It is pretty good, nothing spectacular or new to report, but a light and easy read. The only thing I read that I didn't know about/remember was that during 1987 when people were questioning whether he was on coke he denied it and then told everyone to test him daily if they thought he was on drugs. Something that, given the fact that he was on drugs, wasn't the smartest move. Also he was asked by Strawberry to write an introduction to his (Strawberry's) biography (published in the 1980s) and he did without reading the book. Of course, Strawberry then went ahead in the book and said that Gooden was doing drugs during the World Series. Whoops.
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Jun 13, 2013 15:47
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So he isn't allowed to talk politics at all? Doesn't that give him an out when he gets bored and wants out of his contract? Just start talking politics and then they let him go?
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Jul 17, 2013 18:14
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Let's pay Little Leaguers Dan Wetzel wrote an article saying that kids in the Little League World Series should get paid. His reasoning is that Little League makes money off these kids with ad sales, etc., so why can't the Little Leaguers see some of that money, be it in college scholarship funds, or trust funds. It seems sound. I mean, I see nowhere else in sports does an institution make millions upon millions of dollars from young athletes and the athletes don't see a cent of that money.
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Aug 20, 2013 18:15
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Has anyone heard anything about Mike Tyson's new book that came out Tuesday? I'm going to get it on my Kindle tomorrow. Although I'm wondering if it's going to be on CD. And I'm further wondering if he would be reading it. Because that would be amazing.
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Nov 14, 2013 20:01
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I just got done reading Reggie Jackson's new autobiography "Becoming Mr. October." Pretty light read, nothing outstanding, except in the book he actually used the phrases "LMAO" and "LOL" which was pretty odd to see for no other reason than it was a hardcover book and not a text message.
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Dec 2, 2013 18:27
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Wow I don't know if I've ever really paid attention to this writer for Yahoo Sports, but man this is one of the most overly-written, Bill Plashke wannabe drivel I've seen in a while. "SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Brian Wilson went to pick up the baseball palm-down, like a highwayman collecting a cone from the back of a slow-moving flatbed, and it's funny where an inning, a ballgame, a 3-0 start, can go sideways on a guy and his teammates." "There are no heroes in March. So along came Wilson, and in came Smith, and after ball one, ball two, here came the cutter, and the inch or two where a game is won and lost. Like everyone, the Dodgers will see a lot of these moments, hundreds of them, thousands even, and they'll meet their expectations by winning most of them. Or not."
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Mar 31, 2014 15:24
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Just gonna drop this paragraph from the TCU story in here to make everyone cringe: "Look at Buddy Dike, number 38, just behind old Abe. He's the Frogs' starting fullback and inside linebacker, and he's just gotten a good look at Jim Brown's 46-inch chest and 32-inch waist in warmups. Doctors advised Buddy never to play football again after he ruptured a kidney tackling another phenom of the era, Penn State's Lenny Moore, two years earlier. The kidney healed and hemorrhaged four more times, doubling Buddy over with pain, making blood gush out his urethra, bringing him within a whisker of bleeding to death, yet here he is, with a look on his face that might not be seen again until the day he loses his 18-year-old son in a car wreck." Anyone who has ever experienced a kidney stone probably realizes this pain.
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Jun 4, 2014 14:09
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That article was like reading a really bad book. You keep reading, hoping that you will get to the good part, and then at the end, you're just frustrated and cranky because it all seemed like a waste.
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Jul 23, 2014 18:55
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