Dan Okrent
If you print petulant smears about the world's greatest columnist, you deserve everything you get -- even if you are the godfather of fantasy baseball. I loved today's Daily Howler, especially this part:
No, there’s nothing wrong with making big bucks, or with gulping down tripe, or with cross-referencing your jazz collection as your nation’s political wars are unfolding. But only a fop would then believe that he was equipped to discuss Paul Krugman—a man who developed his manifest talents, then fought his generation’s current wars. Plainly, Okrent wasn’t up to the task. But overpaid, over-praised Manhattan fops are never quite able to see that.
No, there’s nothing wrong with making big bucks, or with gulping down tripe, or with cross-referencing your jazz collection as your nation’s political wars are unfolding. But only a fop would then believe that he was equipped to discuss Paul Krugman—a man who developed his manifest talents, then fought his generation’s current wars. Plainly, Okrent wasn’t up to the task. But overpaid, over-praised Manhattan fops are never quite able to see that.
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