Comments on: How Not to Win Friends and Influence People

By: jalexei

jalexei — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:34:35 +0000

“This may be inside baseball. None of you may care. Tough. As I said from the start, this is my blog. You don’t like what’s in it? Start your own blog.”

Pierce isn’t a poseur, but even if he were, that seems like a perfectly reasonable stance for a blogger to take.

By: bags

bags — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:32:26 +0000

Just read the articles. Albom also sounds like a first-rate jerk.

By: MDF

MDF — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:18:39 +0000

Ablom is noxious.

But this is even worse: “This may be inside baseball. None of you may care. Tough. As I said from the start, this is my blog. You don’t like what’s in it? Start your own blog.” (Charles P. Pierce)

I hate “tough guy” poseurs.

By: bags

bags — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:57:46 +0000

I grew up in Detroit and I can remember when Mitch Albom was a marvelous effing sportswriter. He was one of the best. Now, even I can’t stand the guy. But there was a time when he was very very good.

By: RagingTartabull

RagingTartabull — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:26:10 +0000

just to show I’m not totally hard hearted. If anyone comes across Little Mitchell’s long out of print book about the Fab Five I do very highly recommend it.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:25:55 +0000

Lupica and Albom – Napoleon Complex.

By: williamnyy23

williamnyy23 — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:16:18 +0000

[1] Couldn’t agree more.

I’ve never really liked Albom, so it’s nice to see I am in good company.

By: TheGreenMan

TheGreenMan — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:15:36 +0000

Yeah, I was a bit surprised by all the hoopla when I read Joe Posnanski’s blog yesterday. I’ve never liked Albom, but since he was everywhere I assumed he was well liked or at least respected by his peers. Even Jason Whitlock trashed him. And they appeared together regularly on the Sports Reporters before ESPN fired Whitlock back in 2006.

Definitely an entertaining diversion.

By: RagingTartabull

RagingTartabull — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:06:21 +0000

I’ve been loving this. Albom, like Lupica, was once upon a time a truly great sportswriter. Of course he then decided that this wasn’t enough, hence we get a half hour of giant eared (ok that was mean) punditry on that God forsaken “roundtable” once a week on ESPN, a bunch of halfbaked pseudo spiritual nonsense that has kept airport Borders in business for years, once in a while a sports column, and oh yeah…he makes shit up.

The guy is a hack, we know this. But he takes it to the next level of calling out colleagues for, well we’re not sure what exactly. Not being Mitch Albom I guess.

Good for Kindred and Pierce for calling BS on this. The man hasn’t been a true “sportswriter” for over a decade at this point.