Big Lead bags John Feinstein

TBL got an interview with John Feinstien

He got $17,500 advance to do his first book- after it was turned down by four publsihers - and left the Post to do it.


http://thebiglead.com/?p=3545#more-3545

 

Well, there's one name that won't ever show up on the "ANOTHER one to ESPN" thread.
Props to TBL.

 

Imagine -- a book author does an interview! Unheard of! Anyway, Feinstein's been talking about the backstory for that book since it was published.

 

The comments are, ah, interesting.

 

Seeing him basically called the Mitch Albom of the East Coast was interesting.

 

I'm sure this will seem like me picking on TBL since I've been such a critic of his lately, but that interview was a gigantic miss.

Love him or hate him, Feinstein has some very interesting books he could talk about. Maybe Junior was simply picking and choosing what he wanted to answer, but this interview read like it came from someone who knows very little about JF and did even less research in preparation for it.

 

It's not as though it's been undeserved.

 

Feinstein shredded the WWL when their ridiculously inaccurate version of Season on the Brink came out... I've had the pleasure of meeting Feinstein a few times and I think he's one of the more interesting people in this business...

Anyone who gets banned from ESPN is OK in my book...

Another great interview by The Big Lead...

 

Agree, Mizzou.

In spite of some good journalists who work there (having gone over to the dark side, one might say), the WWL sure has become one of those clubs of which you wouldn't want to be a member -- except for the paycheck, period. The arrogance, the shoddy journalism practices so often exhibited, the internal politics and apparent misogyny ... lots of deals with the devil made there.

Seems very vintage Steinbrenneresque, in work culture, from what I've heard: That if they pay you enough, they can treat you anyway they want and ask anything of you, and you will stand up on your hind legs and bark.

 

Feinstein and Kornheiser are great on the radio. TK loves poking him with a stick, and Junior always comes back.

 

The best moment of TK's former radio show were when Feinstein was on... He was banned long before ESPN took TK's show away...