02-09-2015, 08:24 PM
I suppose since I hectored you into starting the thread I have to contribute now. Oh the pressure.
I like sportswriters who have a unique voice or take on things, but I'm very particular. I get to hear a lot of sports radio in my driving daily, both local and national, and I get a lot of sportswriters in that mix. Most local guys kinda suck, they're usually fanboys who spend all their time either raving or bitching about whatever their favorite team just did. National guys, like Jim Rome or JT the Brick, are good for a while but they kind of get hung up on their own personality cult. Wears thin. I frigging HATE the NPR football guy Frank DeFord, that guy is a puffed up a bag of self-important wind as I ever heard. My favorites of the sportswriter/radio personalities seem to be the ex-ESPN glory days crowd, like Dan Patrick and Rich Eisen.
And yeah I know this was a sports writer question, but that's where most of them end up if they're any good. The only pure writer I ever liked for his own sake was a backpager at the Sporting News called the Fly or the Flea or something, used to do a gossip column with all these little innuendos and sly inside jokes. Probably wasn't even a real guy but I flipped to that page every month without fail.
I like sportswriters who have a unique voice or take on things, but I'm very particular. I get to hear a lot of sports radio in my driving daily, both local and national, and I get a lot of sportswriters in that mix. Most local guys kinda suck, they're usually fanboys who spend all their time either raving or bitching about whatever their favorite team just did. National guys, like Jim Rome or JT the Brick, are good for a while but they kind of get hung up on their own personality cult. Wears thin. I frigging HATE the NPR football guy Frank DeFord, that guy is a puffed up a bag of self-important wind as I ever heard. My favorites of the sportswriter/radio personalities seem to be the ex-ESPN glory days crowd, like Dan Patrick and Rich Eisen.
And yeah I know this was a sports writer question, but that's where most of them end up if they're any good. The only pure writer I ever liked for his own sake was a backpager at the Sporting News called the Fly or the Flea or something, used to do a gossip column with all these little innuendos and sly inside jokes. Probably wasn't even a real guy but I flipped to that page every month without fail.