Originally from a 2001 ESPN.com column and later reprinted in Hunter S. Thompson's Hey Rube:
That is why Sportswriters are almost always the lowest paid people on Newspaper staffs. They are charter members of the Too Much Fun Club, and they like it that way.
"Why should I work for a living," they say, "if I can get paid doing something I love?"
And who will argue with them? Not me. I am a Natural born Sportswriter. I have a knack for it, a God-given talent. After I first learned that it was possible to sleep late and go to work at Two in the afternoon, and still get Paid for it, I never did anything else.
You bet. Some people call me lazy, but they are Wrong. If I am lazy, then so is Chris Berman of ESPN and Bob Costas of NBC. Both are members of the Too Much Fun Club, and they both learned their trade from former New York Yankees Hall of Fame shortstop Phil Rizzuto -- who went from Playing baseball for a living to talking about baseball for an even better living.
Tags: Hunter S. Thompson, Hey Rube, Sportswriting
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