Slinging Yang with Jeff Pearlman

[Songbird]

Today's Yang is Wright Thompson.

 

[Dick Whitman]

I enjoy Thompson's work quite a bit. People ***** about the use of first person, but I think of him as a sports travel writer.

 

[Songbird]

His voice is like dark chocolate fudge straight out of the oven.

 

[TyWebb]

That's a douchey hat, though.

 

[Alma]

I enjoy Thompson's work quite a bit. People ***** about the use of first person, but I think of him as a sports travel writer.

This'll sound haughty, but he's just plain improved over the last 5 years. The Gable and Jordan and Tiger pieces - all excellent - go down a lot better for me than the India/LeBron's Cleveland pieces did.

 

[Dick Whitman]

His voice is like dark chocolate fudge straight out of the oven.

"Grandpappy's bourbon" is how Boom always described it.

Pearlman has a nice little networking thing going.

 

[TyWebb]

But the question has to be asked:

Is he one of the best columnists working today, or did he only get to where he is because he is a young, hard-working black woman?

 

[Songbird]

"Audience engagement on the Tiger Woods story was insane. I mean, people stuck with it. It somewhere feels like they're running with an 8,000-word story that people aren't reading is because they're running a bunch of ****ty 8,000-word stories."

 

[Dick Whitman]

"Audience engagement on the Tiger Woods story was insane. I mean, people stuck with it. It somewhere feels like they're running with an 8,000-word story that people aren't reading is because they're running a bunch of ****ty 8,000-word stories."

My thumbnail test for a story's engagement is if I see people sharing it who haven't shared beers with the writer and aren't seeking to.

 

[User 149557]

That's a douchey hat, though.

That's a Twilight Zone episode right there. You make a deal with the devil to have the incredible writing ability and reporting chops of Wright Thompson and draw people in magnetically with your writing, but you have to dress every day as if you're auditioning for a production of Guys and Dolls at a Charleston-area high school for the rest of your life.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Did someone say yang?

- Yak loin. Good to keep the Yang up. - Nothing wrong with my Yang.

 

[Dick Whitman]

I like his hat. I wear a fedora quite a bit. Not as awesome as his, though.

 

[Steak Snabler]

I like his hat. I wear a fedora quite a bit. Not as awesome as his, though.

Always think of this when I see Thompson in that hat:

 

[TyWebb]

I like his hat. I wear a fedora quite a bit. Not as awesome as his, though.

Please, ****. Say it ain't so.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Please, ****. Say it ain't so.

It's my drinking wear.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

What's wrong with fedoras?

 

[PCLoadLetter]

It's my drinking wear.

How many do you have before the fedora seems like a good idea?

 

[Elliotte Friedman]

My grandfather looked great in a fedora. I wished I did too

 

[CD Boogie]

That's a douchey hat, though.

I hope he's trying to be ironic with that hat and that serious look. Because the alternative is not a pleasant thing to consider from a writer whose work I admire.

Some guys can rock stylish hats. Others -- like him and I -- cannot and look painfully lame with the effort.

 

[CD Boogie]

It's my drinking wear.

See, now you're trolling. Or I hope you are. Because if you're serious about wearing a fedora, well, you shouldn't be, Indiana Jones.