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As I was reading this, I was reminded immediately of Isaiah Thomas' farewell letter to Boston when we has traded from the Celtics that I read a few months back
by freetime2 9y ago
As I was reading this, I was reminded immediately of Isaiah Thomas' farewell letter to Boston when we has traded from the Celtics that I read a few months back (https://www.theplayerstribune.com/isaiah-thomas-trade-celtics-cavaliers/ https://www.theplayerstribune.com/isaiah-thomas-trade-celtic...). Then I googled it and realized that was also hosted on The Players' Tribune.
So I guess this is a thing now, writing long-form farewell letters for fans when you are traded or cut. Honestly, I kind of like it. I've never liked IT more than when I read his farewell. And while I'd never heard of Doublelift or TSM before, and don't really know anything about League of Legends, I enjoyed reading this article too. Sports are more interesting when you know more about what the players are thinking.
I dream of a day when 120 character tweets by celebrities and presidents are behind us, and long form content is back in style.
- jackschultz 9y agoI'll throw this in here since you were reminded of another Players' Tribune article. It has to be because they use of ghostwriters all the time. Every single one of their articles have the same form, same word selection, same pacing. Has anyone else noticed this? I'm not saying it's bad bad, but tough to take seriously if all of them are so similar. It'd be fun to go through and do some text analysis to see if it's provable.
- protoplant 9y agoI think that's standard. Writing is hard, I imagine political books are similar. Though I think the purpose of the Tribune was to allow athletes to control how they are heard.