Before you even have the time to think something, the New York Times would like you to know that the Mets’ R.A. Dickey is a better writer than you.

“Dickey, 36, is far more literary than most pro athletes, and more than even most of the college-educated reporters who write about him.”

Ha, ha.  ”College”?  What in the hell is that?  Whatever it is, it’s automatically obsolete in the face of a knuckleballer with a pen.  So, if you’re thinking that R.A. Dickey is just another Major League Baseball player with a shadowy past that’s begging to be transformed into a novel, shut up.  He is so literary, after one eyeballing of his words, you will be quoting Faulkner in your sleep and reciting Ulysses whenever a waiter asks you what you want to drink. (more…)