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Originally Posted by Snapolit1
Caught 10 minutes of the Gehrig one last night and hated it. So incredibly disappointed. One talking head after another going on about Odysseus, Joseph Campbell, power of myth making, and the occasionally shot of a Gehrig statute or bronze sculpture all gold and fuzzy to look like some god like apparition. Remember some innane line like "Of course as he lived his life Gehrig was unaware that he was creating a myth that would ....." Cripes. Nails on a chalkboard terrible. Smart people who should be directing their energies elsewhere.
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If you never perused a copy of their monthly mag, you could be excused for not knowing better and tuning in. Stories therein are endless, mindless, blather by academics, evidently paid by the word, on arcane subjects that no one, other than their peers, gives a rat's ass about. So, if the same treatment was given in a Smith TV baseball doc, what can I say other than no great surprise.
