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    The Sportswriting Of Malcolm Gladwell Reaches A Tipping Point

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    05/15/09

    In reply to The Sportswriting Of Malcolm Gladwell Reaches A Tipping Point
    As a fan of service-oriented architecture and a Dook hater, batch processing can suck a fat one!
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    05/15/09

    In reply to The Sportswriting Of Malcolm Gladwell Reaches A Tipping Point
    He's a striped sweater away from being the magic marker from the Picturepages segments.
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    05/15/09

    In reply to The Sportswriting Of Malcolm Gladwell Reaches A Tipping Point
    You guys are a bunch of amateurs. I hadn't heard of this guy way more than you hadn't heard of him. And I care about him way less than you do.
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    05/15/09

    In reply to The Sportswriting Of Malcolm Gladwell Reaches A Tipping Point
    I think he has quite low self-esteem.
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    Image of David Hume David Hume
    05/15/09

    In reply to The Sportswriting Of Malcolm Gladwell Reaches A Tipping Point
    At least when my girlfriend tells me everything I think is laughably misguided, I can at least pretend to listen while thinking about her tits.
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    Image of MarkKelsosMigraine MarkKelsosMigraine
    05/15/09

    @David Hume: That is how Amy got Phil Mickelson hooked up with ExxonMobil.
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    Image of Quake 'n' Shake Quake 'n' Shake
    05/15/09

    In reply to The Sportswriting Of Malcolm Gladwell Reaches A Tipping Point
    I never heard of Gladwell before this post.
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    Image of MarkKelsosMigraine MarkKelsosMigraine
    05/15/09

    @Quake 'n' Shake: Yeah, but you'd never heard of Babba Booey either!


    /Neither had I. Still not sure who the hell he is.

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    05/15/09

    @MarkKelsosMigraine: Sports aren't a passion for me. I enjoy them, but like I would a TV show. As such, I've paid scant attention to the preening weinies who bloviate about athletics as if they're somehow bigger than society in general.
    /Steps on soap box
    Will Leith is right in that sports simply aren't that important. If the major professional sports leagues were to disband tomorrow, our society will keep on chugging along just fine. They're entertainment, nothing more. That's why the Gladwells, Kings, Bissingers, Lupicas, Marriottis, et al, of this world can lick my hairy ass-crack as far as I'm concerned. You are highly paid, but ulitmately unimportant. Be thankful you're so handsomely rewarded for doing something you enjoy.
    /Steps off soap box
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    05/15/09

    @Quake 'n' Shake:


    "That's why the Gladwells, Kings, Bissingers, Lupicas, Marriottis, et al, of this world can lick my hairy ass-crack as far as I'm concerned."


    There's dude on a NYC subway car from last night's DUAN! that wants your number.

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    05/15/09

    @Quake 'n' Shake: If all sports went away tomorrow, I think you'd be shocked at the effect it would have on our economy and culture. Yeah, we would go on, but we would be vastly altered.
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    05/15/09

    In reply to The Sportswriting Of Malcolm Gladwell Reaches A Tipping Point
    If I said it once, I've said it a thousand times. Art Garfunkel was nothing as a solo act.
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    05/15/09

    @THEGINOCIMOLICONSPIRACY: Jemaine's girlfriend disagrees.
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    05/15/09

    In reply to The Sportswriting Of Malcolm Gladwell Reaches A Tipping Point
    Tommy, the only thing I disagree with out about is the idea that MG is an effortless writer. I think in his belabored effort to debunk conventional wisdom he comes across like a literary John Stossel: self important and clumsy, like someone from Brooklyn who got rid of their TV because it is "bad for you."
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    05/15/09

    In reply to The Sportswriting Of Malcolm Gladwell Reaches A Tipping Point
    so far identified as:


    Sideshow Bob
    Yahoo Serious
    Robert Smith
    Edward Scissorhands or any character from a Tim Burton film
    Phil Spector
    Lead Singer from Simply Red


    Any others or should we just vote now?

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    05/15/09

    @UkraineNotWeak:


    Tommy Craggs

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    05/15/09

    In reply to The Sportswriting Of Malcolm Gladwell Reaches A Tipping Point
    I really liked his article "Almost Perfect: How Anni Friesinger and Dana Torres explain a huge increase in the sale of paper bags"
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    05/15/09

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    I get the criticism of Malcolm Gladwell, but what's with the pic of Phil Spector?
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    05/15/09

    In reply to The Sportswriting Of Malcolm Gladwell Reaches A Tipping Point
    Well, if it isn't my arch-nemesis Bill Simmons. And his wife Sports Gal to whom I'm fairly indifferent.
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    05/15/09

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    When did Zack de la Rocha and Carrot Top have a baby together? That kid would be truly conflicted.
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    05/15/09

    @sir_pantsalot: He would pretend to want to throw a comically oversized Molotov cocktail at a police car, but would really just want to make another $1 million.
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    05/15/09

    In reply to The Sportswriting Of Malcolm Gladwell Reaches A Tipping Point
    Realistically, could you convince a couple of McDonald's All-Americans, who have been coddled and indulged their whole lives, to play that way today?


    That depends. Are you the coach?

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    05/15/09

    In reply to The Sportswriting Of Malcolm Gladwell Reaches A Tipping Point
    Man, I just love Simply Red.


    But really, who doesn't? Except for people who don't know good music, that is.

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