My Sports Illustrated colleagues and I are journalists by day (and night), but like those who read the pages of the magazine and frequent this and other sports web sites, we are fans at heart. Objective? I can say with certainty that those of us at SI wear that hat when we need to, but as a professor at the University of Missouri told me almost 40 years ago, “Show me a journalist who’s 100% objective, and I’ll show you someone who’s headed to an insane asylum.” Plus, you don’t get into this business without having an admiration of and a curiosity about the athletes and the games they play.
Adrian Beltre, a home run ball and what happens when a journalist becomes a fan
