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David Wright in SI

Johnny Dickshot May 25 2006 11:07 AM

I was excited to see a feature on David Wright in this week's issue of Sports Illustrated, and even more jazzed to see Franz Lidz byline. They usually give Lidz lighthearted stories about oddballs, so I thought there might be some interesting stuff in there. But to be honest, this wasn't much more than the typical warmhearted He's Too Good To Be True! kinda piece that didn't include much us obsessive freaks didn't already know. Nice Walter Ioss Jr. portait tho.

metirish May 25 2006 11:16 AM

Yeah I read it yesterday, really more of the same, not that I expected anything else, good guys are not that interesting I spose.

Edgy DC May 25 2006 11:25 AM

I hear his dad is in law enforcment.

metirish May 25 2006 11:46 AM

From the article....seems Wright was trouble as a kid.... ] His childhood seems full of such stories of respectful behavior. Didn't young David ever do anything ... bad? "Let me think," says his mother, Elisa. A long pause follows. "Once, in the high school cafeteria, another kid hit David with a French fry. David returned fire with a sandwich and struck the kid right upside the head." "David got an in-school suspension," says Rhon. "I read him the riot act." "You made that food fight sound like the worst thing that possibly could have happened," Elisa says.

MFS62 May 25 2006 12:14 PM

He wasn't (shudder) on the cover, was he? Later

Gwreck May 25 2006 12:15 PM

Nope, thankfully. Carson Palmer.

Elster88 May 25 2006 01:16 PM

Whew!

Frayed Knot May 25 2006 03:20 PM

Ya gotta remember that articles like these are basically to clue in the rest of the country to stuff that us locals and everyday nerds have already heard 20 times.

soupcan May 26 2006 10:32 AM

Bor-ing. Nice full page picture of Wright but other than that, nothing to the article.