Dallas Observer columnist gets into screaming match with Rangers center fielder. Not to defend Carl Everett, but geez, I’ve seen high school papers with better sports columnists than this Gonzalez guy. The column’s always about him, never his subject. And he spends all his time beating his own chest about what a scary bad-ass columnist he is, how he’s such a radical who can’t be kept down by The Man.
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Not only do I think Carl Everett came out looking like the more reasonable of the two, but I think he won the shouting match as well. The ultimate winner, though, was Gonzalez, who pretty much entered a locker room with no ideas and, showing a complete lack of creativity, went for the easiest target and got what he wanted. What a dumbass. That kind of “journalism” really pisses me off. It reminds me of the time Rick Reilly asked Sammy Sosa to take a drug test and then acted perplexed when Sosa got mad and refused. So Reilly wrote a column saying Sosa had nothing to lose and must be hiding something. Argh!
No. 1 rule of sportswriting: You are not the story.
Too bad columnists break that rule… frequently.
(And it might be the No. 2 rule, after “No cheering in the press box.” But I’ve seen that one broken almost every game. I cover soccer!)