The Athletic editor Jon Greenberg sent a “this should make you mad” message to me directly with a link to Darnell Mayberry’s piece there on Jim Boylen.
And Jon was right...this is deeply troubling stuff.
It starts with playing into the mythology of Jim Boylen the hard-pail lunch-hat guy, who turned down a ‘luxury sedan’ from the owner’s son to instead get the more blue-collar Cadillac Escalade (huh?).
Which directly leads into this goofiness:
And three days before the start of this year’s training camp, Boylen brought in another memory of his factory days.