Entertainment whores

Pat O'Brien was NEVER respectable. He always had that awful weave and lobbed softballs even before softball TV "journalism" became accepted. He was really Jim Gray before Jim Gray, right down to the awful receding hairline.

And Elliotte is right. Celebrities are bitches, every one of them. With plenty of patience, Joe Blows like us might be able to get enough 1-on-1 time Sammy Stud Athlete to craft a solid story. If the entertainer's not on the cover of your publication, forget it.

 

I want that job with the FCC that Double Down talked about on the Dixie Chicks/Grammy thread, where you sit on a throne and get fed grapes by a harem of sluts. I mean, talk about loving life! ;D

 

I suppose it is a matter of perspective. Some people might think of sports writing as: There are a bunch of illiterate, steroid-engorged criminals chasing after a ball like a pack of Labradors (who, by the way, hate you), and after they're done you hang on every word they say and write stories about them, even getting stressed out about it and in some cases develop inflated senses of self-worth. I really don't think we're any further up the evolutionary scale than the "entertainment whores."

 

I will open a fucking vein before I ever use the word "canoodling" in print. Maybe we're not that far apart, but I swear to God and everything holy I will do it.

 

Disagree with the Jim Gray comparison. Gray has been a henchman at times, when he's not trying to kiss ass. Better comparison, IMO, is to Ahmad Rashad.

 

Agreed. No one likes Jim Gray; no one sucks up like Bobby Moore.

 

Anyone remember when Pat still was at CBS and he sat on the Jordan retirement story?

 

I still assert that at one time Jim Gray was one of the top three TV sports interviewers. He gets far too much grief for the Rose questions and not the credit for asking them when many others wouldn't. OK, the Kobe stuff wasn't so cool, but Gray has not been a career hack.

 

Gray has been unfairly criticized for the Rose interview. Gray did what he should have done.
But he's also a relentless Kobe Bryant jock sniffer.

 

Agreed on the latter...
Time and a place for the former... and trying to badger him at the All-Star Game honoring his status in the game wasn't it. (Next question: When is it a good time? Answer: That was it, but his persistence turned sentiment toward Rose.)

 

Rose hasn't been shy about hanging around events to which he wasn't invited in an effort to make things about him.
I thought the time and place was perfect.
And then Gray had to go mow Bryant's lawn.

 

agreed.