The Big Lead Gets the Last Laugh

OK - haters have at it. The Big Lead was just sold for "low seven figures".

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/02/sports/02sportsblog.html?ref=sports

Jason McIntyre must be laughing all the way to the bank.

 

Didn't need more proof there was no god, guess we got it anyway.

Congrats to him, I guess. Not much of a journalistic morality tale, that's for sure.

 

Good for him.

 

Does Fozzie get a cut of that?

 

Will he use that low seven figures to kill newspapers or go to strip joints?

 

Ah, the old axiom that money makes right. The hell it does.

 

Jealousies, no. Sadness as to what is apparently valued, yes

 

He's a blogger. He's not selling crack to kids.

 

Is there going to be any way to independently verify this sale price? Are we talking about a public company and a corporate filing? It has happened before on the new frontier, and neither side would be above throwing a wild number out there for publicity purposes.

 

I'm very happy for Jason, who, from the time I first met him, has had the wacky idea that sports/celebrity/gossip was the wave of the future and was his path to success and riches.
He's a smart guy, he could have gone as far as he wanted to in the sportswriting business because he is a very talented writer when he is focused on writing.
I was his supervisor/editor for a few years and he drove me crazy at times. But my SE and I used to talk about how good he could be if we ever found a way to rein him in. But Jason had other ideas, usually marched to his own drummer and kept talking about making his mark in the way the Big Lead has.
In an odd way, I'm really proud of him. He did what he set out to do by working at it and sticking with it ... even if we more conventional old-school types (hi, dooley!) didn't always agree with his methods.

All I honestly can say is congratulations, JMac.