oh lord oh my god

as I was turning to read Maureen Dowd in the Times yesterday (a column worth reading since it basically ended the presidential hopes of John Edwards)

I came across another editorial from Deadspin editor Will Leitch

Please:

1. Read
2. Commence Eye Rolling
3. Finish Eye Rolling
4. Read comments below

Comments:

1. When reading a Leitch piece you are just waiting and waiting for him to lay out that overwrought prose that he deals in so well. Here you have to wait until almost the end of the column and you might start to worry it isn't there and then BAM you get: "The beauty of sports is not in its grays" and then KAPLOW he hits you with: "But being a sports fan requires a finite amount of time and dedication."

2. Leitch also writes: "If you are sitting down to watch your team for two-and-a-half hours, and you are rooting for your team to lose, I question just how much a fan of that team you really are." - To which I reply: "Do you." (Apologies to the immortal Jimmy Norton)

3. Why is Leitch a fan of the Arizona Cardinals? As he is fond of reminding us he grew up in Mattoon, Illinois. Which apparently is close enough to St. Louis that you root for St. Louis teams even though you live don't live anywhere near Missouri. So when Leitch was young he presumably rooted for the football St. Louis Cardinals. But the problem is they moved to Arizona in 1987. And a few years later St. Louis got the Rams. Why does Leitch still root for a team in which he has no geographic connection whatsoever? Clearly for one reason. So he can tell everyone again and again that's he a Arizona Cardinal fan. In Letich's puerile worldview stuff like that means everything. You can see Leitch looking in the mirror and being really proud of himself over something like that while he's having sex in the bathroom.

I don't hate Leitch. He's living the dream. But does he need to be knocked down a few pegs - certainly.