"If George Bush had to go through what Theo Epstein in Boston or Mitch Kupchak in Los Angeles goes through on a daily basis, he would resign within 20 minutes. Can you imagine the dreaded Red Sox beat writers—Dan Shaughnessy, Peter Gammons, Jeff Horrigan and the rest of those snarling monsters—unleashed on, say, Bush's education policy? Shit, they would have had Rod Paige traded to Myanmar for prospects two years ago.
-Matt Taibbi, discussing how the sporting press is much tougher than the mainstream press, in New York Press. Taibbi eulogizes the late New York Sports Express, and also shares that "unless someone like Katrina Vanden Heuvel at the Nation wants to pick up that column—not fucking likely-" his days of writing the "Week in Sports Crime" column are over. Damn.
Posted by Stephen Silver at July 21, 2004 02:49 AM