God Save the Fan by Will Leitch

I broke my pattern of alternating one fiction then one nonfiction to read this book. I was really looking forward to reading it for some reason. I read deadspin regularly but that wasn't the only reason. I had been hearing about it seems like for 2 months and it looked really enjoyable. I have to say I did not expect it to be so well written and funny. Yeah I read deadspin like I said but I don't get as invested in a blog like I do with a book. Maybe I'm old fashioned but a book is a physical thing I hold and take with me everywhere every book I read it feels like it is the author talking to me. You don't get that in a blog. You are constantly aware of the collective audience in a blog. I thought this collections of essays was very smart and really makes you look at sports differently. the best bits are when Will takes an issue you think he will have a certain viewpoint on, such as steroids then turns it on its ear. He also says out loud what I've been secretly thinking once a sports issue is on Nacy Grace or Fox news it becomes less interesting to real sports fans.