Gothamist: Dave Eggers Panders to Harvard Students

Carin

Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:37:48 -0500

I would imagine he is a Cubs fan, though, yes? Thus happy for Baker's move?

Kristen

Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:14:04 -0500

Michael, If only I were available... Kristen

DaveEggers

Thu, 30 Oct 2003 19:46:53 -0500

Kristen, Marry me. Yours, Michael

Kristen

Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:48:51 -0500

It's all for real...

whatha

Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:19:34 -0500

kristen, are you for real? or was that some "field of dreams" outtake too hokey for even that movie...

Louis

Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:48:38 -0500

I am shocked, shocked to find Dave-Eggers-bashing going on! And in a New York-based blog! This one was lobbed in there so fat, even Jason Giambi could hit it.

KevinMaas

Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:41:20 -0500

"Does he understand the fact that great players often fall apart once they wear pinstripes?" He probably does. If he's like most people outside of New York, chances are he loved watching the Yankees and "Captain Jetes" fall apart to the wild card Marlins this year. Oh, and he probably loved watching them spit up the lead -- and the Series -- to the D-Backs in 2001... Here's to seeing the Yanks fall apart *every* year, just to show Dave Eggers how wrong he is!

Kristen

Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:36:33 -0500

I will say my final peace and then I will take a cleansing breath and get back to work... Baseball is, and always will be about Hope. It's about the crack of the ball against a bat and the feeling we get as the ball sails through the air carrying our own dreams along with it. And Most of all it's about the unattainable wish that inside the eternal green field of the mind - the summer will never end. To dwell on anything else only takes away from the sublime beauty of the game...

MP

Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:30:44 -0500

Is that the Golden Gate Bridge in the background? Next to the ego produced goiter? Same size?

Kristen

Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:25:16 -0500

Eggers thinking to himself -- 'Hey I'm speaking at Harvard. I need something good to say. Gotta warm up the crowd... hmm... I know... I'll say Yankees suck! And follow it up with some corporate reference so everyone will cheer. I am so clever! Hey, I'm a genius!'

Toure

Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:23:28 -0500

That's an old, tired, cliched criticism of the Yankees. Can't Eggers at least be original in why he dislikes the squad? Do you think he actually watches games or just feels intutively that it's cool to be anti-Yankee?

Kristen

Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:21:27 -0500

What the hell does Eggers know? Did he watch every game this season? Does he know what it is to play in NY? Does he understand the fact that great players often fall apart once they wear pinstripes? Does he understand that being a Yankee is all about having Heart?! Doesn't he understand that this is why so many guys fail in NY?! Furthermore, it's so easy to bash the Yanks (at Harvard no less) it's alost a cliche and I find it infuriating. If he's going to bash something - how about the tired literary establishment of which HE -despite all the bullshit rhetoric -- is the unofficial 'hipster' golden child?! Someone needs to tell Eggers to shut his heartbreaking trap as he's quickly becoming staggeringly annoying.

Karru

Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:04:33 -0500

IBM? A mega corporation, yes, but no longer the dominant beast that it once was so I'm not sure where he was going with the analogy beyond simple pander.