While doing some reading about the impending dismissal of Stephen A. Smith as a columnist with the Philadelphia Inquirer, I came across a post from Phillyist from a week ago that couldn't help but strike a chord with me:
[T]he Inquirer should fire this imbecile for the same reason ESPN cluelessly employs him. Time to stop cynically pandering to the demographics. Smith
The out-of-market columist always struck me as odd. Just how well can you write about “the home town teams” when you don’t live there.
This goes for the Good Columnists (sally jenkins) as well as the Bad (Screamin A).