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Well, what's his background? aerocontrols Send a noteboard - 13/07/2018 02:44:07 PM

I mean, he's an MMA fighter who knows a lot about baseball. Has he been to college? He broke out a thesaurus to spice up his writing. Tortured language is not something new in sports, right? A lot of the guys who know the most about sports haven't really stretched their knowledge into other fields. I would rather have Yogi Berra describe baseball or John Madden describe football than have Stanley Fish describe either, right?

I don't read a lot of sports writing, but I suspect that the writing has the same problem as the sportscasting: there are only so many ways to praise or pan the performance. You've got to have a lot of adjectives and adverbs and metaphors in the hopper or you start sounding pretty repetitive.

Fixing this was the job of his editor, really.

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A minor rant tangentially about sports but more about writing.... damookster - 13/07/2018 02:00:44 PM 418 Views
Well, what's his background? aerocontrols - 13/07/2018 02:44:07 PM 313 Views
Not the same guy damookster - 13/07/2018 03:10:13 PM 272 Views
Have they ever been in the same room together? aerocontrols - 13/07/2018 03:14:41 PM 308 Views
Was that intentional? Tom - 13/07/2018 03:18:52 PM 321 Views
Metropolis is New York in the daytime; Gotham City is New York at night. ~ Frank Miller aerocontrols - 13/07/2018 03:30:51 PM 293 Views
Given the circumstances I generally agree, but... Tom - 13/07/2018 03:16:55 PM 319 Views
as I said, it was a minor rant damookster - 13/07/2018 03:28:09 PM 287 Views
Well, I learned a new word today. Which you indeed wouldn't expect from a baseball article... *NM* Legolas - 13/07/2018 06:46:33 PM 167 Views
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