Yet another Posnanski column. Simple, effective. JMac, DD come in

[GBNF]

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/football/v-print/story/414420.html

What makes this so good?

To me, it was how he so effortlessly described Gonzalez' reaction to Belichick.

****, I'd give anything to be Posnanski...

 

[spnited]

In case anyone has forgotten, there is further proof of what a total asshole Belichick is.

 

[GBNF]

I disagree completely — he knows how to motivate people, plain and simple.

A total asshole move would be to criticize Gonzalez after the second block.

I love this about Belichick.

 

[wickedwritah]

In case anyone has forgotten, there is further proof of what a total asshole Belichick is.

And he learned it from that disingenuous Jersey asshole, Duane Charles.

 

[spnited]

In case anyone has forgotten, there is further proof of what a total asshole Belichick is.

And he learned it from that disingenuous Jersey asshole, Duane Charles.

Indeed he did, wicked, indeed he did.

 

[BYH]

I'd have liked this story 1,000,000x more if Gonzalez just didn't give a **** what Belichick said.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Considering that this anecdote is 180 degrees opposite from almost everything I've heard about BB's demeanor in Hawaii last year, I find it curious.

 

[STLIrish]

I'd have liked this story 1,000,000x more if Gonzalez just didn't give a **** what Belichick said.

Except that the people Belichick coaches, be they his own players or Tony Gonzalez, do give a **** about what he says. Because he's so successful, they want his approval. And he knows it. That's what makes his style work.

As for the column, I think it worked because it was indeed simple and uncluttered, it told a story beginning to end, and it used a single mundane event to demonstrate a universal experience - we've all had that teacher or boss or coach who pushed us harder than we wanted to be pushed, and while we hated them for it, we eventually saw the wisdom - while not knocking us over the head with that idea. It's like an Aesop fable or something.

 

[Double Espresso]

Or, you could say the column unintentionally expresses another universal truth:

The most pitiful, craven human often wins the most.

Anyone who could fear any embarrassment off any outcome in a PRO BOWL must be pretty much a train wreck in general.

 

[Joe Williams]

Really enjoyed the column and have no particular reason to doubt its veracity. But it is clearly a one-source piece and I'm guessing that Joe P. was not actually in attendance, and the camera crews weren't isolated on Gonzalez for the two-block sequence. (Unless BB was playing video games even in Honolulu.)

Just saying, this could have Albom-like potential if any of it was bent to fit the Aesop fable. Maybe the second block wasn't quite a "clocking." The almost-out-of-hearing-range description is a guess, too. Again, I'm not trying to be skeptical, but when something reads like a short story from "Boys' Life" -- absolutely pat and on-the-nose -- my antenna starts to twitch.

 

[Boobie Miles]

Amazing that someone in KC can capture what makes Belichick an effective coach better than ankything I've read anywhere else. Very good column, it all just played out effortlessly.

 

[Bullwinkle]

http://www.kansascity.com/180/story/493241.html

Anybody care for another great one from "The Best?"

 

[hockeybeat]

http://www.kansascity.com/180/story/493241.html

Anybody care for another great one from "The Best?"

You want to know the difference between Poz and his fat piece of **** colleague? Read this column and the race-baiting **** fatass wrote for FoxSports.com this week.

I'm not ashamed to say that my eyes were watering by the end of Poz's column. It was a fantastic read.

 

[John]

http://www.kansascity.com/180/story/493241.html

Anybody care for another great one from "The Best?"

You want to know the difference between Poz and his fat piece of **** colleague? Read this column and the race-baiting **** fatass wrote for FoxSports.com this week.

I'm not ashamed to say that my eyes were watering by the end of Poz's column. It was a fantastic read.

I liked it, but I think I would have switched the last two sections. "The same person who taught me just about everything" was, to me, the most powerful quote in the story and it would have been a perfect ending.

 

[SockPuppet]

I have no doubts that Joe is about the best there is. And this is meant as more a question than a criticism.
The Clent Stewart piece is wonderful writing ... but is it a column? The title of this thread says "Yet Another Posnanski Column ..." It's 2,400 words, 70-plus inches and it's a wonderful story. Does it need a label as a column ... as a feature?
If this was entered in APSE, would it be as a column or a feature?

 

[Bullwinkle]

I don't know. Is this?

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/columnists/jason_whitlock/story/493352.html

 

[sportschick]

I don't know. Is this?

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/columnists/jason_whitlock/story/493352.html

ARGGGGGGG!!!!!! The wrong its was used in the hed. It should be it's for it is. GACK!

I couldn't get any further.

 

[hockeybeat]

I don't know. Is this?

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/columnists/jason_whitlock/story/493352.html

That was a self-important, look-at-the-people-I-know sack of crap.