Grantland looks back on "The Man. Amen."

[Versatile]

http://es.pn/14ewWcX

This piece, by Charles P. Pierce on Tiger Woods, would rank among my 10 favorite profiles ever.

 

[Dick Whitman]

I thought Simmons and Pierce hated each other?

 

[tmr]

Pierce has been writing regularly for Grantland since it began. This ran with the oral history of The National when the site launched. http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6626434/my-memories-national

 

[Dick Whitman]

Interesting. I was under the impression that they didn't like each other very much. Something about a "red-hot career."

Money talks, I guess. Even for the militant anti-capitalist.

 

[Uncle.Ruckus]

Money talks, I guess. Even for the militant anti-capitalist.

Did you just call Charlie Pierce a *****?

 

[Rhody31]

The fact he wrote that in 2-and-a-half hours kinda makes me want to quit writing forever.

 

[Azrael]

Pierce is a "militant anti-capitalist?"

 

[YGBFKM]

Money talks, I guess. Even for the militant anti-capitalist.

Did you just call Charlie Pierce a *****?

Worse. He insinuated Pierce is, in fact, a capitalist.

 

[Versatile]

Charles P. Pierce didn't join Grantland until about five months after it's launch. The essay about The National was a freelance assignment.

 

[tmr]

Charles P. Pierce didn't join Grantland until about five months after it's launch. The essay about The National was a freelance assignment.

Ah good memory. He started in November, after that first piece. I remember being surprised he wrote that first one.

 

[waterytart]

Money talks, I guess. Even for the militant anti-capitalist.

Did you just call Charlie Pierce a *****?

Is that a promotion or demotion from piano player?

 

[Dick Whitman]

Money talks, I guess. Even for the militant anti-capitalist.

Did you just call Charlie Pierce a *****?

I'm just saying it's an interesting choice of masters for a rock-ribbed man of principle like Charles P. Pierce.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Just seeing the title of this thread, I thought it was about Stan Musial.

 

[Boom_70]

Money talks, I guess. Even for the militant anti-capitalist.

Did you just call Charlie Pierce a *****?

I'm just saying it's an interesting choice of masters for a rock-ribbed man of principle like Charles P. Pierce.

We had a similar discussion a while back about Chris Jones selling out to join ESPN.

Seemed liked an odd fit at time for someone who fashions himself as a bit of an iconoclast.

I wonder how he likes those new twitter rules.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Why didn't they mention Pierce also writes for Esquire and is the site's political blogger?

 

[Dick Whitman]

Nice to see an SportsJournalists.com A-lister get a shout-out in that Grantland piece.

 

[Boom_70]

Why didn't they mention Pierce also writes for Esquire and is the site's political blogger?

That would seem contradictory to ESPN's new social media policy although I would assume that Pierce would get a pass.

 

[tmr]

If Pierce is on a contract, as I assume he is, I'm sure his particular one states he can do pretty much whatever he wants.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

At the last golf tournament I covered back in 2005 or so, a heckler yelled at Tiger "Hey Tiger, how my **** ta'te?"

Sadly, it seemed like only the writers got the joke.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I think based on what we know now, Pierce can safely say he grossly underestimated when he said the GQ photo shoot would get Tiger laid 296 times in the next year.