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  1. SpongeWorthy
    I was thinking the same thing.
  2. SpongeWorthy
    That's Partlow
  3. SpongeWorthy
    Delving into the real life (loosely defined here considering the James Frey's of the world) drug and marital problems of unknown people is a cottage industry in the book world. But yes, unless the person involved is mega influential, you typically need some kind of angle to write a bio about an unknown person. I'm reminded of the Lost City of Z which is about a guy most people had never heard of and became a mega best seller because the story was so unbelievable.
  4. SpongeWorthy
    Gross oversight in not putting Juaquin Iglesias on there
  5. SpongeWorthy
    Jay is back with Kristin so his head will be in the game now.
  6. SpongeWorthy
    It would be nice if Pisa were healthy enough to contribute. But what about Chris Harris :|
  7. SpongeWorthy
    At this point I have to think you are playing dumb. They are talking about a person who they felt very strongly about who died. In depth biographies are generally written about much bigger personas than Walter Payton. And most of his friends are all alive, so they are going to defend him. Payton was easily big enough to warrant a doorstop biography being written about him. It's not like he's Churchill or Kissinger where you could fill a bookstore with books written about him but he's certainly merits at least one.
  8. SpongeWorthy
    Eh, it's just not that interesting to me to rehash everything we already know and then add that he was doing drugs and diddling other ladies. He's a football player who died young. I could see if he went from playing into a coaching career and has a legacy that reached into whole lot of other venues. He's not that interesting. Jim Brown is an interesting character to get to know. Paul Robeson is worthy of multiple stories. There is no market for a Walter Payton biography outside of talking about sex and drugs. It's completely disingenuous of Perlman to talk about wanting to go from the bad guys he wrote about to an in depth biography of a good guy and that he only stumbled across the sex and drugs along the way. You don't write that book unless you have the hook of sex and drugs to sell it. If it's done well, I still love that inside baseball, grind-of-season kinda stuff. Maybe that's why bottled sports books seem to work better when one guy follows a particular subject for a season (e.g. John Feinstein's stuff) but it can work in biographies too.
  9. SpongeWorthy
    I don't think most of Jordan's skeletons have been revealed. Not even close.
  10. SpongeWorthy
    I'm just waiting for the definitive Jordan biography. Playing for Keeps is good and Halberstam was one of the best of all time but it borders on hagiography.
  11. SpongeWorthy
    The publishers, SI, and Pearlman made a calculated decision to include the most shocking/negative stuff in the excerpt to generate hype for the book. It's had the effect of pushing the book up the sales charts and getting Pearlman in trouble because people think he's doing a hatchet job. The reviews of people who have read the whole thing say it's pretty damn thorough though.
  12. SpongeWorthy
    You'd probably have to pay damn near 30 bucks for that Washington biography. For that much money I could raid the bargain bin and buy 15 memoirs written by reality television stars.
  13. SpongeWorthy
    If biographies were only written while the subject was still alive with all of the negative stuff white washed out no one would read them and you're left with campaign books and ghost written books for C-list celebrities telling you how to "live life to the fullest."
  14. SpongeWorthy
    Not that I truely care that much but I wonder what caused them to break up? They still seem to be chummy with each other. Maybe Cutler just wanted to [expletive] other girls. I heard Heidi and Spencer were hanging at Le Deux one night and Kristin walked by and overheard Speidi talking about Cutler cheating on her with LC so she freaked out and called off the engagement
  15. SpongeWorthy
    Cutler is in the audience of Dancing With the Stars :|
  16. SpongeWorthy
    The scouting and development portion of the organization is a bit bigger than the "help the GM sign FAs" department. Sure, but the pool of available free agents (especially high dollar ones) in any given year is only so big while the pool of amateur talent to evaluate is gigantic. I'm guessing for most of the calendar year the GM is spending a bulk of his time managing the roster as currently constructed, looking for add-ons or trades midseason, and preparing for the draft than thinking about how he's going to stare down John Lackey's agent in the winter.
  17. SpongeWorthy
    How would you characterize the sum total of free agent signings on the 2011 Red Sox? I'm saying that Epstein's FA record is troubling. And unlike the farm system, that's the only part we know for sure was directly his doing. We've had terrible FA signings and a mediocre farm system. We're talking about trying to fix both of those by bringing in a guy who has been terrible at FA signings and keeping the people in charge of the farm system. How do we "know" Epstein, or any GM, is more directly involved in building the farm system than in signing free agents?
  18. SpongeWorthy
    Hank Williams Jr. got kicked off MNF for comparing John Boeher playing golf with Obama to Netanyahu playing golf with Hitler lololol http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/hank-williams-jr-booted-from-espn-over-obamahitler-comparison.php
  19. SpongeWorthy
    Pouncing on stupid ideas like that is sort of the lifeblood of this place
  20. SpongeWorthy
    It's too bad for Harris that tweeting doesn't cure hamstrings
  21. SpongeWorthy
    What is this game is this football Sent from my DROID X2 using Tapatalk
  22. SpongeWorthy
    What? Gave himself up? That's a thing for non-QBs??? Lucky ass Giants
  23. SpongeWorthy
    Yeah but they still have Philly (who knows if they get their [expletive] together by then), San Diego, Oakland (now tough because we cant stop the run), and 1 more against Detroit and Green Bay. The schedule is pretty tough this year. Philly is in Philly, but the Bears are coming off of a bye week. Eagles coming off of a game vs. Dallas. San Diego is in Chicago in late November, should be a factor Oakland will be tough, but you never know what you're going to get out of them (or the Bears really). They could come out and play well or lay an egg. 2nd Detroit game is also at home. Tampa is in a neutral site that should be a more pro-Bears crowd. The Bears should win Minnesota x 2, KC, Seattle, and Denver. Like to think they can take 1/2 of the other 6 (including MNF at Detroit). the bears won't be able to cover calvin johnson because people want to pull his pants down and put his dongle in their mouths and that is real cool imb needs someone to knob slob. Lebron won't play until 2012 and Sam Bradford is looking like an embarrassing mega bust
  24. SpongeWorthy
    raw's math sez 10 wins for the Bears. Of course we probably won't win all the games we should and maybe need to do better than .500 in the tough games
  25. SpongeWorthy
    The Packers could go undefeated
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