Check out Michael Silver's pimpin' new mug and column name!

[Jack_Kerouac]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/michael_silver/09/05/deuce/index.html

[Piotr Rasputin]

As long as SI.com insists on continuing to make you click "Continue Story" two or three times to readone story, it's good that they have drivel like this to remind you that sometimes clicking to continue is too much effort based on the actual reward.

[Freelance Hack]

I don't think this beats Kelly Dwyer and his boy band haircut.

[Ace]

I don't think this beats Kelly Dwyer and his boy band haircut.

I can't believe you typed that name into sj.com, you fool. That's gonna rouse Sandy from his coma.

[TheSportsPredictor]

As long as SI.com insists on continuing to make you click "Continue Story" two or three times to readone story, it's good that they have drivel like this to remind you that sometimes clicking to continue is too much effort based on the actual reward.

Fool. By not clicking, you missed:

Silver: Dude, those are some sweet white Lacoste kicks.

McAllister: Thanks, man. They're really comfortable.

Silver: You didn't say anything about my fresh Stan Smiths.

(Deuce gives me a look that suggests, politely: No, and that's because, for all I know, they're original Stan Smiths from your childhood ... or maybe they were actually worn by Stan Smith when he played back in the Paleozoic Era.)

[playthrough]

The mugshot, the column name and him saying six lines in that Deuce "texted me"....this is just trying waaaaay too hard for me. I did not click "continue story."

[spaceman]

what a dick

[imjustagirl2]

Isn't Kelly like 25? In which case, his hair is a lot better than most 25-year-olds I've seen.

[suburbanite]

He's LeBatard, minus the talent.

And who is he supposed to be in the column mug--Greg Brady as Johnny Bravo? Geez. [Yeah, sorry for the Paleozoic Era reference, y'all.]

Most amazing thing is that some woman married this guy.
 

[Pringle]

Does Silver realize he's becoming a charicature of himself when he pulls this crap? It's too bad, because he's talented.

[dawgpounddiehard]

I don't think this beats Kelly Dwyer and his boy band haircut.

Lest your forget his lower lip hair...

[SoCalScribe]

I will at least say that I wish I worked with athletes as accomodating as McAllister. Of course, I felt the line about how Silver might have to blow off the interview to go home was BS. I'm pretty sure his wife and/or the school bus could've gotten his kids to school, and I'd like to think any sensible spouse would've understood that extenuating circumstances at work precluded Silver from being there.

[suburbanite]

I will at least say that I wish I worked with athletes as accomodating as McAllister. Of course, I felt the line about how Silver might have to blow off the interview to go home was BS. I'm pretty sure his wife and/or the school bus could've gotten his kids to school, and I'd like to think any sensible spouse would've understood that extenuating circumstances at work precluded Silver from being there.

No offense to Deuce, whom I've never dealt with, but I'm sure most athletes are accomodating to writers when they know said writer is only there to suck their dick.

[donaugust]

When sites make me click over too many pages, I usually head straight to the printable version. That's almost always on one page and means they only get to show one ad instead of the three or so ads that are typical on each page of a piece split over five pages.

[goalmouth]

I see from Silver's mug that the business has come full circle. I know many pubs prohibit the use of serious-guy-on-phone, the apogee of photo hackery:

[Cousin Jeffrey]

I'm sure the photo and title of his column is a tongue in cheek reference to the buddy-buddy style of his writing, and most people are taking it a mite too seriously. I think it works well in this format.

[21]

'Rollin' With....??

What's he rollin, a joint? A log? A wheelbarrow?

Michael Silver, the Sisyphus of SI....

[Pringle]

I'm sure the photo and title of his column is a tongue in cheek reference to the buddy-buddy style of his writing, and most people are taking it a mite too seriously. I think it works well in this format.

You really think so? I can't see him being self-aware of this reptuation. I think he probably thinks everyone's jealous of how "down" he is with the athletes.

[Double Espresso]

"It was the interviewer's equivalent of an afternoon quickie, only with far more performance anxiety on my part."

Anybody know if some organization still holds those old bad-writing contests, the ones where contestants try to write as atrociously as possible?

Not just with the above line, awful though it is, but this guy could be a bad-writing-contest dynasty.

[Cousin Jeffrey]

I'm sure the photo and title of his column is a tongue in cheek reference to the buddy-buddy style of his writing, and most people are taking it a mite too seriously. I think it works well in this format.

You really think so? I can't see him being self-aware of this reptuation. I think he probably thinks everyone's jealous of how "down" he is with the athletes.

That definitely could be true. I don't know the guy. I like most of his stuff, moreso in the magazine where it's, you know, edited, but I would think he has some sense of humor. Ya never know. At least he's not rolling with some shortstop from Cal's softball team.

[suburbanite]

I have an idea. Instead of 'rollin' with' athletes, how about covering them?

[Fenian_Bastard]

'Rollin' With....??

What's he rollin, a joint? A log? A wheelbarrow?

Michael Silver, the Sisyphus of SI....

21 -- Chair of the sj.com Classics Department.
Well-played.

[Crimson Tide]

Column-naming ... eh, to each his own. To paraphrase JBL, you can't name your own wrestling moves. So you shouldn't name your own column either.

I bucked the trend at my shop. Everybody has a witty column title (sarcasm), and I was told to come up with a new one. I'm told that it distinguishes us from the AP columnists (Litke, etc.) because they don't get titles. I said that I'm pretty sure that when I write about Podunk Co. High, no one will mistake me for a national AP columnist. So I just use my name. No pretentious shit.

That being said, we had an angry Detroit Lions fan write us last year to complain about "our" columnist, Jerry Greene. Dumbass actually thought Greene worked from Idaho, despite the fact that we keep his Orlando tags on the copy.

[ned racine]

i think Michael is a pretty dammn good writer...i agreee sometimes he comes off buddy buddy with the guys he covers..but sometimes his stories are those type of fluff pieces...he can be very good at game stories at big events...i admit i am biased cause i have "rolled" with him and he is a good guy

[suburbanite]

i think Michael is a pretty dammn good writer...i agreee sometimes he comes off buddy buddy with the guys he covers..but sometimes his stories are those type of fluff pieces...he can be very good at game stories at big events...i admit i am biased cause i have "rolled" with him and he is a good guy

Hey, we all have to write hum jobs sometimes. It comes with the territory. I know I've written my share. I just don't like his because they smack of  'I'm WAYYYYYY cooler than you' to the reader [he probably is, but that doesn't prove anything]. That's not something I want to read further, when the writer is basically big-timing the reader.