ShysterBall: Calcaterra: Hell in a Handbasket, I Tells Ya!

first of all colin farrell is on great actor look at phone booth and tigerland and the recruit with al pacino.

I normally don’t simply point and laugh around here, but I may have found the worst sports article ever written. A sampling:

A fairly new Internet sensation called “blogs” now dominate the hyperlinks on our search engines and have completely changed journalism as we know it. Now, the Average Joe who probably only watches games from his or her couch and has probably never had a credential to be inside a locker room or press conference is giving strong opinions, badmouthing coaches and dissing players for the entire world to read . . .

. . . Something needs to be done about how today’s athletes are being paid because it can turn really ugly. In Major League Baseball, a sport with no salary cap, bidding wars are causing inflated contracts for players who don’t deserve them. Don’t get me wrong, Alex Rodriguez will probably go down as the greatest player of all time when his career is finished. But does anybody on this planet really deserve to be paid $28 million a year? Yes, one person does: The one who cures cancer . . .

Sure, we’ve all read stuff that looks like this, but here’s the kicker: it’s written by a 22 year-old guy who, appearance-wise, is walking the fine line between hipster and #########. Either way, I’m having a hard time figuring out why he’s writing in the voice of a 79 year-old man. Maybe his publication provides a clue: “Senior Times Magazine,” which bills itself as “your guide to active retirement in northern Florida.” Is he assuming the old man voice because he thinks that’s what his readers want, or is this some elaborate parody?