Tuesday Morning Quarterback

Gregg Easterbrook has been writing this column for a couple of years now. Click here to check it out.

For those of you not familiar with TMQ, it is a kind of thinking man’s football column. Easterbrook is a legit intellectual as well. I finished reading his book, The Progress Paradox, a couple of weeks ago and it was fantastic. On parenthetical note, his brother is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals in the Seventh Circuit, the Honorable Frank Easterbrook. Judge Easterbrook is a real econowank and I’ve gotten a heavy dose of his opinions in Contracts and Law & Economics.

Thoughts from the column:

• Hall of Fame: I’ve thought for a while that people take the Hall way too seriously, especially in baseball. TMQ is right to say that we should just let any near-qualified candidate in, if only for the Big Uglies who never get any love.
• Sex = Happiness: Probably explains why I’m in such a foul mood so often.
• His nicknames for teams: Used to be real funny, but a little contrived at this point. I never was all that horny over his nicknaming gag. For instance, I never quite understood why he decided that Joe Gibbs should be called “Dumbledore”.
• Laveranues Coles: Nice slap down. Never did like that guy.