i'm a giants fan, and while the hat thing got an eye roll out of me, i learned a long time ago that:
1. It never pays to ask about ballplayers' politics and
2. Most pitchers are not ballplayers. They're hermetic lunatics looked upon by even their teammates as antisocial freaks.
I forgot whose quote it was that I proudly sent to my dad when I got laid off from a shitty govt contracting job in my early 20s. Looked it up again, and honestly? This guy had bars.
I think sometimes the drive to become a self-made legend is unfortunately borne of a loss of trust, at a young age, in the people you’re supposed to trust the most
me watching Jalen Brunston’s dad sitting next to him on live tv saying Shaq was a better free agent signing and Ewing was a better Knick than his own son (who sat silently through the humiliation, still wearing his champagne goggles)
I think Fablemans unlocks a key question, which maybe bumps against his call for optimism in a fascinating way. All of the darkness in Spielberg’s life made him the artist he is. Can he and is he using that art for good and does that make the darkness worth it? There is no answer
This casts a bit tragic light over what I thought was just a fairytale, but I’ll tell you this: Brunson returning to NYC with that trophy will be epic on a scale that’ll dwarf The Odyssey. Not Nolan nor nobody got a lens big enough for what’s coming.