Pat Jordan doesn't mess around

[Inky_Wretch]

A.J. Daulerio posted a brief Q&A with Jordan on Deadspin ...

http://deadspin.com/384662/pat-jordan-doesnt-mess-around

 

[GBNF]

Welp, I think I have a new favorite writer. Can't wait to grab the book.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

Reminds me of Elaine Benes' father.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

There's testosterone all over the floor.
In the photo, he looks like Brian Fantana.

 

[goalmouth]

Based on Jordan's photo, I guess being an "authentic man" means posing menacingly with guns.

 

[henryhenry]

if he's such a man, why doesn't he do real journalism...

has he ever been in a war zone?
ever done an investigative expose?
dug into public records?
developed a police or court source?


mr. tough guy writes profiles about athletes...from the safe distance of features...never has to deal with the day-to-day job-on-the-line battle for news

can you imagine steve fainaru, who won a pulitzer for his iraq coverage, being so puffed up with himself...

can you imagine mark fainaru-wada and tj quinn being so self-impressed...pat jordan couldn't carry their jockstraps

this guy is completely and utterly lacking in humility...which comes through in his writing...full of pompous judgments


by the way, where was pat jordan before balco - where was he on the steroids story - if he's mr. truth seeker where was he?

then he wants to 'profile' canseco five years after the fact...what a blowhard...

 

[jgmacg]

if he's mr. truth seeker where was he?

Maybe he couldn't make it through the metal detector at the airport.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

if he's such a man, why doesn't he do real journalism...

Well, these days he is an author and not a newspaper reporter.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

He writes magazine pieces.

 

[Appgrad05]

Chuck Norris is scared of Pat Jordan. Just ask Pat Jordan.

 

[Joe Williams]

Too bad Meg Ryan didn't get Russell Crowe to mix it up with stepdad Pat. Would have been fun.

 

[Billy Monday]

if he's such a man, why doesn't he do real journalism...

has he ever been in a war zone?
ever done an investigative expose?
dug into public records?
developed a police or court source?


mr. tough guy writes profiles about athletes...from the safe distance of features...never has to deal with the day-to-day job-on-the-line battle for news

can you imagine steve fainaru, who won a pulitzer for his iraq coverage, being so puffed up with himself...

can you imagine mark fainaru-wada and tj quinn being so self-impressed...pat jordan couldn't carry their jockstraps

this guy is completely and utterly lacking in humility...which comes through in his writing...full of pompous judgments


by the way, where was pat jordan before balco - where was he on the steroids story - if he's mr. truth seeker where was he?

then he wants to 'profile' canseco five years after the fact...what a blowhard...

He's not a beat writer, nor an investigative projects reporter. He's a magazine profilist, and he is damn good at it.
Not all writers have the same journalistic mission.

 

[Small Town Guy]

Picked up his book the other day (his picture in the book reminds me of George Carlin). McNamee comes off as pretty odd in the Clemens piece and it is a bit humorous reading now about how Clemens and Mac helped Pettite add velocity to his fastball. Just started his famous Steve Garvey piece.

 

[NightOwl]

Why does Pat always have a big fat cigar stuck in his mouth?

Not that there's anything wrong with that..........

Sorta gives me the heebie-jeebies, though.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Wait a moment.
I know we all adore the BALCO-SF Chronicle guys, but they didn't exactly hit the beach at Normandy.
I thought Jordan sounded a little odd but comparing him unfavorably to Fainaru-Wada for not being "brave" enough to get Jeff Novitzky's phone number is not just a category mistake, as has been pointed out, but really rather dumb.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

if he's such a man, why doesn't he do real journalism...

has he ever been in a war zone?
ever done an investigative expose?
dug into public records?
developed a police or court source?


mr. tough guy writes profiles about athletes...from the safe distance of features...never has to deal with the day-to-day job-on-the-line battle for news

can you imagine steve fainaru, who won a pulitzer for his iraq coverage, being so puffed up with himself...

can you imagine mark fainaru-wada and tj quinn being so self-impressed...pat jordan couldn't carry their jockstraps

this guy is completely and utterly lacking in humility...which comes through in his writing...full of pompous judgments


by the way, where was pat jordan before balco - where was he on the steroids story - if he's mr. truth seeker where was he?

then he wants to 'profile' canseco five years after the fact...what a blowhard...

Someone didn't get an autograph.

 

[Boobie Miles]

I don't know much about him as a writer but that interview came off like something the guys who made the Chuck Norris facts site would have done. No one can take themselves that seriously. I liked some of the comments, particularly the ones about him fighting the guy rollerblading and ripping his bicep.

 

[OnTheRiver]

I'm going to ask our visuals people if I can get a new colsig mug shot, one with a pair of handguns.

 

[henryhenry]

Wait a moment.
I know we all adore the BALCO-SF Chronicle guys, but they didn't exactly hit the beach at Normandy.
I thought Jordan sounded a little odd but comparing him unfavorably to Fainaru-Wada for not being "brave" enough to get Jeff Novitzky's phone number is not just a category mistake, as has been pointed out, but really rather dumb.

really rather dumb. rather rather.

he says the working stiffs in this business are "pussies".

don't you get it fenian?

the 'pussies' do the grunt work - men's work - and do it well - without whining like a pampered magazine features writer.

this guy was once a pampered jock - who got dumped from that elite world - and surfaced in another elite world - the world of glossy magazine feature writers. he is a parasite on the stories broken and developed by daily journalists.

yet he has the gall to call them 'pussies'. he struts and puffs out his chest and promotes himself as an "authentic man" - sort of like a hemingway in loud floral shirts. how contrived and pompous can one man possibly be?

real men do journalism.
wimps and deletantes do 'feature profiles' for glossy magazines.

rather rather.

 

[Joe Williams]

the 'pussies' do the grunt work - men's work - and do it well - without whining like a pampered magazine features writer.

I'm not backing what Jordan said about sportswriters. But I'd have a hard time convincing my Pop or his Pop that what I and my colleagues do is "men's work." They'd come home with hands so calloused and dirty, there was no getting them clean. There was a real physical toll. Us, we run the risk of carpal tunnel syndrome.

Among journalists, I'd only elevate war correspondents to the "men's work" category. And yes, even if they're women.