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    Major SOSH Upgrade, November 2015

    Hi dopes, I was wondering whether I could regain my access to the members-only forums. Thanks so much!
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    Why Do I Continue to Read Peter King?

      I don't think it was completely indulgent on Scott's part -- based on the tone of the piece and of that paragraph, you can tell that he's trying to say that Ebert was a singular individual, and that he cared about communicating with his audience by whatever means possible. Ultimately, he's...
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    Grantland

    The Brian Phillips piece on Serena is great. Between it and the recent John Jeremiah Sullivan essay on the Williams sisters (probably my favorite piece of sportswriting this year), I'm starting to actually appreciate Serena a lot more.
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    Why Do I Continue to Read Peter King?

    The great thing about PK is that he compares himself to Woodward and Bernstein, and then, in the same sentence, manages to show exactly why he's not a journalist by any stretch of the imagination. The fucking hubris combined with the imbecility is truly breathtaking. "This business is all...
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    Why Do I Continue to Read Peter King?

    My hypothesis, which I hope is true: the parking guy recognized King and tried to submarine his coffeenerdedness section. Seriously, does Peter King know how to use Yelp? There are 11 coffee shops within a mile of the downtown Omni in Jacksonville. There's a coffee shop IN the freaking hotel...
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    Grantland

    Fair enough. It is weird content for the site; I just happen to have a friend who loves this kind of thing, so reading Baker's pieces help me keep up a conversation with him. A bit weird, but whatever. I'm with drleather about the site doing a poor job shaping its identity/devoting resources to...
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    Grantland

    I take it you haven't been reading Katie Baker's wedding pieces. They're pretty hilarious actually (it's like Portlandia for the rich and successful), mainly because Baker's really perceptive. The subject matter's obviously a stretch for Grantland, which I imagine lets her do it because she used...
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    Grantland

    I think the writer who's most impressed me lately (maybe because of how much he's improved) is Jay Caspian Kang. All his NBA writing lately has been spot-on. The Harrison Barnes and Cousins vs. Wall pieces were great and made me reevaluate how I think about those athletes. I like how he writes...
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    Jacksonity......or the Knick thread

    I didn't see last night's game, but part of what has been annoying me in the past five games or so is that the current system doesn't seem to get the most out of the overall talent level. It seems like this team would benefit greatly from having more set plays that they could use in a half-court...
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    Grantland

    This Wesley Morris piece - on the rise of the "black nerd" - is one of the few pieces that really uses all the potential of a place like Grantland, because there's no way he could have written this piece for the Globe on the one hand, or a traditional sports site on the other. I don't know if...
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    Joe Posnanski: Lord of Lists

    Imagine the thought of having to revise an entire manuscript or even realizing you have to scrap it entirely? For any writer that prospect has to be about the worst thing a person can face. For that reason alone, I think this whole clusterfuck is not mainly a personal response from Posnanski...
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    Grantland

    Charles Pierce's piece just put up on Grantland is the best thing I've read on the Penn State scandal. To be clear, it's the emotion of the piece, and not necessarily its logic, that I find so compelling. But the worlds he links - Penn State as an academic institution, NCAA football, corporate...
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    Grantland

    The final part of Colson Whitehead's WSOP journal is up today, which is disappointing since this has been my favorite piece on the site. I could probably keep reading his "Dispatches" for another month or so, even if he just started a blog and wrote about walking around Brooklyn and being a...
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    Grantland

    Wright Thompson with another good piece, this time on a Birmingham hot dog joint. They need to get this man to write more frequently.
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    Grantland

    Thanks. I nearly broke down at the end...the best thing Grantland's published, bar none.
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    Grantland

    Wait, are we saying that the Globe sports section of the 80s and 90s didn't call attention to itself? That they just told the facts in an objective fashion? Because the Globe I remember from my childhood was notable for its horrible puns (which as a kid was the first thing we would make fun of...
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    Grantland

    Why not look at what the site has produced instead of speculating? The morning content so far has featured blog-length posts and, generally, one substantial piece like The National oral history or the Barnwell piece today. The afternoon content seems to flip the ratio - two substantial pieces...
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    Why Do I Continue to Read Peter King?

    This is absolutely hilarious [click here]: Deadspin compares Peter King and Joe Posnanski's accounts of their travel troubles during the nor'easter last week. Turns out that JoePos is not just a far far better writer, but probably a better person too. EDIT: By Boston-area businessman, King is...
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