Deadspin had great WC coverage by David Hirshey--it was right up there with the surprisingly good effort from the folks over at The New Republic soccer blog (you're getting the picture now, aren't you--my main sources of sports news is a bunch of policy wonks at a weekly political magazine with a subscription base somewhere in the order of the winter population in Bar Harbor, Maine). They've kept me reading with a series of inspired running jokes about an investigative reporter in Cleveland named Carl Monday whose recent claim to fame has been an expose of a young man caught masturbating at the internet terminals in his local public library (it's funnier than it sounds) and an apocryphal story regarding Chris Berman's ability to pick up leather-clad women in bars (yes, I bought the t-shirt).
I've been pumping this site to anyone who will listen, but no one seems to have added it to their reading list. In fact, the biggest response I've gotten comes from my friend Owen who always counters my suggestion by saying that I should read this great site he's found--Arts and Letter Daily. He forgets from week to week that not only did he already make this recommendation a few days ago, but that I actually turned him onto that site back in college.
So I continue in my little mission to get others to enjoy the fun over at Deadspin--bringing the campaign to my totally-unread blog (the only regular reader decamped from NYC for Hong Kong with her husband and has apparently left my URL behind with her last Metrocard). Here's a little teaser, though, just to share the love. It's in reference to the comeback of the safety-averse Ben Roethlisberger:
"The appendix didn't burst, say the doctors, and the surgery was a routine repair. During the surgery, doctors also took the precautionary step of affixing a little tiny helmet on Roethlisberger's appendix."
I don't know why that gets me so much, but I can't stop giggling over the thought of an appendix outfitted with one of those plastic helmets they serve ice cream in over at the DQ.
