Saturday, October 01, 2005
Beware of Geeks Bearing Grudges
It's both amusing and painful when a writer reveals more of himself than he does his subject, as Spencer Ackerman does with his Salon "review" of Boston Red Sox pitcher Bronson Arroyo's vanity CD:
What's next? A blistering critique of hot chicks who don't appreciate "intellectuals"?
"Start with Arroyo. His record is a perfect blend of almost everything I hate: covers albums, the radio hits of the '90s and the Boston Red Sox. To run the table at my casino of horrors, all that remains is for "Covering the Bases" to blare from the jukebox at Jillian's as a belligerent B.U. frat brother drops a Rohypnol into the Sam Light of a B.C. undergrad in a pink Varitek T-shirt."Spencer Ackerman: another New York dork who couldn't get laid in college in Boston.
What's next? A blistering critique of hot chicks who don't appreciate "intellectuals"?
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Who reviews a baseball player's cd, anyway?? I think maybe he's letting his prejudices show just a tad.
Bernie's warm smile, earthy V-neck sweater and out-of-focus, porch-and-trees background reflect the Yankees' aristocratic refinement. Arroyo's cover shows him seated in Fenway, his guitar covered in band stickers, sporting a hipster polyester shirt and goatee and looking pensively into the distance: the rebellious Everyman of Red Sox Nation.
Gawd.
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Bernie's warm smile, earthy V-neck sweater and out-of-focus, porch-and-trees background reflect the Yankees' aristocratic refinement. Arroyo's cover shows him seated in Fenway, his guitar covered in band stickers, sporting a hipster polyester shirt and goatee and looking pensively into the distance: the rebellious Everyman of Red Sox Nation.
Gawd.
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