D.C. has a baseball team in the postseason for the first time since the ’30s as well as a football team with a promising young quarterback but not much else. Somehow, this convergence of exciting sports things in a town that hasn’t had a bunch in a while prompted both Sports Illustrated and ESPN The Magazine to recently dedicate either a cover story or, in the case of ESPN, an entire issue to the D.C. sports scene. The most notable upshot of this has been locals upbraiding Mike Wilbon for writing a sidebar piece that trolls the city that he once wrote for on a regular basis.
While hating on Wilbon is always necessary and appreciated, it’s never quite as satisfying as hating on Dan Snyder. Though you could make an argument that Wilbon has an even more repellent personality than the Redskins owner and that his disdain for sports fans of all types is about as obnoxious as it gets, Snyder possesses the power to affect things people care about and take their money. Garden variety media ...
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October 05, 2012
