The Best Baseball Article You’ll Read in 2009
Last June, I highlighted a Michael Lewis article for Vanity Fair on baseball in Cuba, describing it as the best baseball article you’d read all year.
We’re just a couple months into 2009, but I think we may have already found a winner for that honor in 2009. It’s an epic takedown of the universal backlash against A-Rod, executed with aplomb by Newsday’s always insightful, and massively underrated columnist, Ken Davidoff.
Just how good is this article? Check it:
A-Rod gets all sorts of people going all sorts of ways, and among his many effects is this: He’s responsible for the biggest wave of stupidity since Homer Simpson lobbied to rid Springfield of bears.
I actually got sad reading this paragraph, because it’s exactly the kind of line I would have used if I was covering the subject, only 100 times better than anything I could have mustered.
Kudos, Mr. Davidoff. Kudos.
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