Whereas before I might have been really intimidated by a coach in a scrum — don’t want to say the wrong thing — now I have this mentality of, you think you can hurt me? My six-year-old humiliated me twice this morning before 7am.
I’ve loved reading Katie Baker since Twitter’s glory days, which is when I found her and went back to her Grantland archives and had the acute feeling of missing out on something. She’s funny, with an eye for weird and memorable details, and has a knack for shifting the scope of a story in a few sentences, suddenly zooming way out or zeroing in. She’s covered hockey, football, baseball, basketball, entertainment, and the Sam Bankman-Fried FTX trial; her profiles are like getting tucked into somebody’s pocket.
We talked about Katie growing up in New Jersey and getting into the Mets, Knicks and Rangers, the touch points of early fandom, her first professional fork in the road between finance and Sports Illustrated and the advice her dad gave her, her second prof…
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