Via Pinto, you really have to go read Phillies blog crashburnalley’s email exchange with Bill Conlin (you may remember Conlin as the dumb, obnoxious, loudmouthed guy from ESPN’s The Sportswriters Sports Reporters, which is saying a lot in that crowd). Honestly, I was surprised to learn that Conlin had email. This is a highlight:
The only positive thing I can think of about Hitler’s time on earth–I’m sure he would have eliminated all bloggers. In Colonial times, bloggers were called “Pamphleteers.” They hung on street corners handing them out to passersby. Now, they hang out on electronic street corners, hoping somebody mouses on to their pretentious sites. Different medium, same MO.
Leave aside the familiar forms of statistical illiteracy that gets Conlin to this point in the argument, let’s consider an analogy in which Conlin:
1. Praises Hitler for the very thing that made him Hitler
2. Wishes for mass murder of bloggers
and
3. Somehow paints the pamphleteers who called for American independence as the bad guys.
It’s a depthless hole.
Disdain for Bill Conlin is on the short list of things Charles Barkley has gotten right.
It’s shocking when the mask slips off these guys.
Jerry, best story about Barkley, ever was an exchange with his grandmother. She was complining about a republican candidate for some office in her state, stating he was only for those rich people. Barkley basically said, “Grandma, WE are those rich people.”
I also remember some fight with Patrick Ewing in the Garden, must have been 18 years ago or so. He was fighting with Ewing for a rebound, and Ewing got mad and charged Barkley. Sir Charles picked him up and threw him on his ass, not once, not twice, but THREE times. Finally, Oakley grabbed Ewing and stopped him. Held him off easily. Gotta love Barkley.
No comment on Conlin. You caught the moron well Crank, no need to elaborate. Samuel (never Sam for those history buffs who insist–and a very undermentioned leader–he did a lot, none of it beer) can rest easier. The Brits wanted him dead too.
Conlin’s time on ESPN was with the Sports Reporters. He is a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News.
D’oh! I knew that. Sorry, haven’t watched the show regularly in over a decade.
Conlin, when he feels like it, and the stars are aligned just right, CAN write a good piece. He’s a blowhard, but a blowhard with some talent.