God, I just read Eggers' ESPN column. He has no business writing about sports. He sounds like Garrison fucking Keillor.

I know that sports aren't life (duh?), but this is not how you end a sports column in ESPN the Magazine: "Like The Magazine, and the good people who work there, they took the game seriously, seriously enough to fly in from Urbana-Champaign or Lisle or Oak Park or Downers Grove. But not so seriously as to confuse it with, say, life... The clouds were pink, the air was warm. We ate more soft pretzels."

Fail, man. Fail.