This is how good this article is: I don’t give much of a damn about sports, I never watch ESPN, I’ve never really heard of this guy before, and I was still interested. He sounds to me like someone who is intimidated by a lot of his staff, knows they’re actually smarter and better prepared than he is, and thinks he can…

jalapelena,

It seems very typical of much of the laziness current in what passes for thought. I only have my own observations, but it seems like much of social media is reliance on only a few tropes, the most popular being hyperbole. It’s like certain people can only then think hyperbolically, with the unpleasant consequences to…

...to be fair, Ronald Reagan is responsible for a whole ton and a half of terrible and godawful things, many of which, indeed, have to do with Americans’ personal entitlement and our complete lack of regard for the consequences of our own actions. Also the War on Drugs. Also more than one foreign policy fiasco that is…

It’s the difference between hiring people whose work you enjoy and letting them do that kind of work, and hiring people expecting them to do exactly the work you want them to do.

Shut up, Jason.

I don’t know. I feel like this says less about Whitlock himself and more about the pitfalls of giving a columnist with no experience running anything on their own their own vanity site and vast resources to back it. Grantland is probably more of the exception than the rule and it’s far from perfect.

For every douche here who is complaining that this is pointless, who cares, and so on: This site really needs to happen, and it will fail because Whitlock is an bloviating egomaniac who can’t see the big picture. And when it does, there won’t be another chance for a good long time, and so it matters that Whitlock is…

Hands down, my favorite part of this is knowing Greg’s last Whitlock piece turned ol’ Jase into a 9/11 truther.

Outstanding work from top to bottom, Greg. Congrats on crafting a fascinating read and on the hard work necessary to put it together.

This is great journalism Greg, you should be incredibly proud. Well done.

“I wasn’t going to tell you, but I’m Anonymous. Right there. Number 20.” — Jason Whitlock

I broke a sweat just trying to scroll to the comments section. Goddamn.