Great Deadspin article on Drew Sharp

If those are really his responses then he is a sad excuse for a writer.  He basically admits to hating the city he writes in and the sports teams that play there.  Better not to read what an idiot writes tho.

And here I figured Drew Sharp was comfortable being such a pessimistic dick. It's sad that this guy actually feels the need to write back like this. I had no idea my respect for him as a sportswriter could actually get lower.

There is only one thing I would like to say about Drew Sharp, and I would like to find someone who might do it...

If you are quiet, and listen, you can hear Section One sprinting to a computer in the distance.

If these are real he should be fired. 

Detroit teams sucking must have been made back when the Pistons were a title contender. The funny thing looking back at that comment, is that in the last couple of years the only Detroit sports team to actually suck is the Pistons. Not to mention, given the rest of comment, apparently Drew Sharp was not aware the Red Wings existed at that time.

Regardless, Drew Sharp is a sad excuse for a human being and writer. We already knew he hated the teams in Michigan/Detroit, but if those emails are actually real that is a whole new level of being a dick, even for him.

Almost hated as much as Chuck Cwirsky, he touted about how great Chicago was when he had the Sports Director job at WJR. He finally ended up in Chicago. I miss J.P. and Van Patrick, good Detroit sports guys. Hey Sharp, who is your favorite city???

Same old schtick.  Would rather not give freep.com/espn/whatever my clicks or eyeballs.

Email responses TO his critics, no?

That's the idiotic Drew Sharp I've been missing here in NYC!  Every city has its dumb sports writers, but Sharp is on a whole other level.  He's almost ironically bad.

Hey on the bright side at least we now know it's not just the University of Michigan he hates and wants to run down - it's EVERY team that his readers support that he despises.

I truly do not get it.  I grew up in Pontiac but have lived in Salt Lake City, Vegas, San Fransisco and now Cleveland and can tell you I've never, ever seen a sporstwriter in any of those cities attack the teams his paper covers with such consistent venom and obvious negative bias.  I feel safe in saying that if he tried his act in any of the aforementioned cities he'd have been run out of town quickly by angry readers and advertisers.  

As a case in point here in Cleveland one of our most well-known and respected writers, Tony Grossi, made an ill-advised tweet about the owner of the Browns recently and was fired by the Plain Dealer shortly thereafter.  The Browns simply informed the PD that they would take their advertising dollars elsewhere and the paper responded quickly.

 I'm not supporting Grossi's termination but rather using it as illustration that the negative shtick Sharpe parlay's somehow to success in Detroit would NOT fly in other cities.  Why it's put up with in Michigan is a mystery to me.

I wrote Sharp and email once and he emailed me back a dick response similar to those described in the articles. Screw Drew Sharp. 

Nobody likes a Negative Nancy !!

Drew Sharp? Never heard of him. Moving on.

Drew Sharp's assbaggery is never OT.

A Negative Nancy Drew Sharp......

I am by no means a fan of Drew Sharp, but the people who sent those emails were pricks.  If you act like an asshole to someone, you can't be upset when they respond in kind.

Flattering pic. That's gotta be about 30lbs ago.

The second email isn't that bad, other than the "Does the little baby need a pacifier" line.  I'm from the Detroit area and consider it home and all, but honestly, people here are a little too thin-skinned when it comes to criticism of the city/region.