tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102327997051254703.post3179680575020369938..comments2023-10-31T06:31:41.395-04:00Comments on Bottom of the Barrel: Chuck Klosterman Decides Everything Involving Sports is Pointless, So He Doesn't Even Understand Why He is Writing This ColumnBengoodfellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09401971573776672570noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102327997051254703.post-19476094102437693522013-01-23T08:43:49.468-05:002013-01-23T08:43:49.468-05:00Waffle, I don't think I like seeing how the sa...Waffle, I don't think I like seeing how the sausage is made. I'm better off not understanding at all. I think his writing is so bad that many people aren't capable of recognizing it doesn't make sense and isn't very good. <br /><br />Yeah, I thought that was the story too. The explanation was that they had a long road trip and Popovich wanted to rest the guys. <br /><br />Billy Joel wrote "We Didn't Start the Fire" which ruined all goodwill for "Piano Man." <br /><br />JR, I couldn't get through that. I went into it thinking maybe something additional could be added to the discussion and quickly saw I was wrong and quit reading it. Bad, huh? Bengoodfellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09401971573776672570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102327997051254703.post-82125836185515925742013-01-22T17:02:40.109-05:002013-01-22T17:02:40.109-05:00No comment necessary:
http://www.grantland.com/st...No comment necessary:<br /><br />http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8854036/malcolm-gladwell-chuck-klosterman-manti-teoJR Ewing Theoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15625626214196012794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102327997051254703.post-78246860557901017712013-01-22T14:38:44.647-05:002013-01-22T14:38:44.647-05:00Wow, you really can't help but watch the sausa...Wow, you really can't help but watch the sausage being made when Klosterman writes, huh? I mean most writers would have probably had this as an internal dialogue when they were figuring out what they were going to write about, and how they were going to shape their arguments, but Chuck just writes down everything that rattles through his mind, and bam! 2,000 words are in the can before he even has to worry about getting to his main point. Well played Mr Klosterman. Well played indeed.<br />And for the record, isn't the real story here, that it isn't even halfway through the season and San Antonio is resting all of their best players?<br />Oh, and I don't care what Chuck says, Billy Joel is in no way shape or form a secret success. waffleboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01940752426128243444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102327997051254703.post-58078192637429955752013-01-22T08:43:31.337-05:002013-01-22T08:43:31.337-05:00Jack, I thought about who the hell would want to h...Jack, I thought about who the hell would want to hear him talk as well when I was reading this. I'm not sure if a more pretentious sentence than "fiction has always been more real to me" will ever be written. <br /><br />Sports are sports. They are a diversion from life and can be given weight in order to generate storylines and headlines. If I enjoy sports then it is a great investment in my time. Don't tell me how to spend my time. <br /><br />Jim, I am sure your daughter was also able to give the games more cultural weight than just who won and that's why it was a great investment of your time. It's good to see you using sports in the correct fashion and not just as a fan. <br /><br /> am lucky, every Bobcats game is on television here in Greensboro, so if I ever have trouble falling asleep I can just turn one on. Bengoodfellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09401971573776672570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102327997051254703.post-43045484384385117812013-01-21T17:08:47.989-05:002013-01-21T17:08:47.989-05:00When my daughter was a baby, we had trouble gettin...When my daughter was a baby, we had trouble getting her to sleep occasionally. What we came up with was to put her in a swing, in front of the tv, with a basketball game on. She would fall asleep in minutes. I'm pretty sure she didn't care who won the game, so I guess these games had that cultural weight that is so important to all of us.JimAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15106385969638134118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102327997051254703.post-42067196323166098302013-01-21T15:17:12.704-05:002013-01-21T15:17:12.704-05:00For sports to matter at all, they have to matter m...<b>For sports to matter at all, they have to matter more than that; they have to offer more cultural weight than merely deciding if Team A is better than Team B. If they don't, we're collectively making a terrible investment of our time, money, and emotion.</b><br /><br />That might be the most infuriating sentence I've ever read. Since Chuck is always interested in asking why, I want him to answer why sports need this extra cultural weight?? Why can't they just be viewed for what they are: games that people enjoy watching as a means of diversion from the realities of everyday life? <br /><br />Seriously, who is Klosterman's intended audience? Coffee house hipster douchebags who masturbate to their own hypotheticals?? The fact this asshole has to ramble on incoherently paragraph after paragraph all just to show he is the smartest man in the room is nauseating. His faux-intellectualism with dumbass statements like <i>"fiction has always been more real to me"</i> just drip of pretentiousness and self-obsession over the notion that everyone should care how he views the sports world. <br /><br />No wonder Simmons and this dickhead are friends. <br />jacktotheracknoreply@blogger.com