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April 10, 2004
A Strong Comeback
In the spirit of complete fairness to ESPN Page 2's Sports Guy, I feel honor-bound to point out that he followed up the column that I indicated was not among his better work on Wednesday with a completely devastating piece on Friday. Among the Sports Guy columns I've read over the past three years or so, this one is top 5 material. He writes about a recent trip to Vegas with a group of his college buddies.
At numerous points while reading the article, my friend Tim simply said, "That's us."
There's nothing I can add to that.
Naturally, this lead us to the conclusion that, "Dammit, this guy is getting rich. Why can't we get organized and write stories about the things we do when we're in Vegas. They're basically the same dumb, drunk, irresponsible things that Sports Guy and his buddies do. But somehow he's working for ESPN and ABC and we're all still dragging our asses off to work 5 days a week in the freezing New England winter.
We decided that what we're missing is a scribe. It occurred to us that we don't pay much attention to how we act and the things we do and say while we're gambling because we're too busy gambling. Sure, we remember most of the red-letter events from our years of occasional weekend gambling binges, but we can't remember the signature phrases or running jokes of the majority of our gambling trips. We need someone to hang out with us and record this comedy gold mine instead of gambling.
If anyone wants to talk book deal, we're looking for an advance somewhere in the low seven figures, plus a few points.
Posted by Dan at April 10, 2004 01:14 AM
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Your scribe has been transformed into plastic and electronic form:
http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/cpg_vr_digitalrecorders.asp
Posted by: mg at April 12, 2004 09:33 AM
I've tried that. Two issues:
(1) The casinos really frown on people quietly talking into small electronic devices on the gaming floor.
(2) Even if the casinos didn't care, I'm usually too busy gambling to take it out of my pocket and talk into it.
Posted by: Dan at April 12, 2004 09:45 AM
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