All Hail The Pathos Of The NBA Draft Lottery

Bob Ley. Today's "celebrity" to follow on Twitter: Bob Ley! I've always liked Bob Ley — I'm hardly alone in this — and his ability to remain something resembling a normal human being despite being at ESPN from the very beginning of their insane, Vader-ish rise to the top of the sports industrial complex is an accomplishment that must have required a sort of Zen alchemy. He was actually 24 when he started at ESPN, which makes me laugh: It's hard to imagine Bob Ley ever being 24. (Peter Gammons is the same way: I'm having a hard time even conjuring up an image of Peter Gammons as a teenager.) Anyway, Ley's Twitter page is mostly just programming notes, though I did enjoy a playful tweak of Will Carroll and a live blogging of a Bruce Springsteen concert. Also, Bob Ley keeps score at every baseball game he goes to, and if that's not a reason to like a guy, I don't know what is.