Mitch's Necropalooza

Learn to take a joke, man. Your blood pressure must be through the roof.

 

You'll note that tony refrains from defending the actual column.

 

The column doesn't need my defense. He's the lead columnist for one of the papers that covers Michigan heading into the Ohio State game. He writes about the man who most exemplified the matchup for Michigan for decades and he writes on the one-year anniversary of said man's death. What could be more appropriate?

 

You'll note that tony focused this entire post on the choice of topics, which no one has criticized. Strawmen are his specialty.

I don't think the criticism regarded the choice of subjects.

You are possibly the most intellectually dishonest poster we've ever had here, and that's saying something.

 

Heaven needed a Rush Limbaugh listener.

 

Please, Dad. I'm begging you.
Explain to me why that column is an example of good writing.
Because I think that would be an interesting intellectual exercise.
Start with this aforementioned passage

"It was a Friday that you died. But Saturdays are when you lived. In football, to miss is a bad thing, miss a tackle, miss a field goal. But we miss you anyhow. And this Saturday we'll miss you more."


By all means, the floor is yours.

 

Hey now, his buddy Mike Stone made it one of the top 10 stories on ussportspages.com.

 

I often wonder, while watching a really bad movie, couldn't they see it in rushes? Didn't they know as they went along how bad it was?
Do you WANT someone promoting this dreck beyond your readership area?

 

You've picked one paragraph -- admittedly the last one -- out of 17. And I'll give that this one paragraph is poorly written. First off, any sentence that starts with "It was" is leading with the weakest subject-verb combination possible. I'd have said, "You died on a Friday ... "

But the rest of the column -- particularly the four paragraphs preceding that last one -- are excellent. Great detail in the revelation that his widow still keeps the last pair of shoes he kicked off in their same place.

 

Mitch Albom writes saccharine pap. This is a fine example.

People don't make fun of Mitch because he's succesful, People make fun of him because he's a hack.

 

Yeah, he's such a hack that he only makes 10 to 20 times a year more than the rest of us.

 

Now we're basing talent on how much someone makes? In that case, Barry Zito is the most-talented pitcher in the world.