Word up
In the weeks since I last posted, it seems like I've been in a perpetual holding plan, not just with this blog, but with my life in general. Hopefully that changes now.
And I'm glad I haven't posted since Sept. 4. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to make my first post since then a link to this.
The office I work at was buzzing pretty heavy about the plane crash in New York the whole morning Tuesday. But the first time I heard it was Cory Lidle was on Yahoo sometime in the afternoon.
At that point I stopped going to sports Web sites and watching ESPN.
Everyone deserves a memorial. Almost everyone has a few people who will want to say something about them when they pass. When you're a professional athlete your best friends are often people the rest of the public would like to hear from.
Hearing quotes from Barry Zito and Eric Chavez, former teammates of Lidle in Oakland, make sense. They knew him, they are going through something right now and if they want to talk that's their right. I've had to talk to people who have lost a loved one and they are always the best people to let you know what this person was all about.
But using the end of one man's life as an excuse to pontificate on the state of sport is different (Now see, I'm using the media coverage of the event as an excuse to pontificate on the media. Different thing entirely).
Which brings me to the post over at Word Up Thome. I didn't expect anything on Lidle. I thought they just might skip it and make a joke about Jim Leyland and Tony LaRussa dissing Ken Macha. Who knows, those guys are crazy.
But the post was a great look at the situation. Often it's the funny ones, who don't hold themselves in the same light as the newsies, who can really explain a situation.
I can see how someone could look at parts and say it's it's bad taste. Whatever, that's your opinion. But they could have just let it pass by and they didn't, which is worthy of comment on its own.
And I'm glad I haven't posted since Sept. 4. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to make my first post since then a link to this.
The office I work at was buzzing pretty heavy about the plane crash in New York the whole morning Tuesday. But the first time I heard it was Cory Lidle was on Yahoo sometime in the afternoon.
At that point I stopped going to sports Web sites and watching ESPN.
Everyone deserves a memorial. Almost everyone has a few people who will want to say something about them when they pass. When you're a professional athlete your best friends are often people the rest of the public would like to hear from.
Hearing quotes from Barry Zito and Eric Chavez, former teammates of Lidle in Oakland, make sense. They knew him, they are going through something right now and if they want to talk that's their right. I've had to talk to people who have lost a loved one and they are always the best people to let you know what this person was all about.
But using the end of one man's life as an excuse to pontificate on the state of sport is different (Now see, I'm using the media coverage of the event as an excuse to pontificate on the media. Different thing entirely).
Which brings me to the post over at Word Up Thome. I didn't expect anything on Lidle. I thought they just might skip it and make a joke about Jim Leyland and Tony LaRussa dissing Ken Macha. Who knows, those guys are crazy.
But the post was a great look at the situation. Often it's the funny ones, who don't hold themselves in the same light as the newsies, who can really explain a situation.
I can see how someone could look at parts and say it's it's bad taste. Whatever, that's your opinion. But they could have just let it pass by and they didn't, which is worthy of comment on its own.
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