Linnoying

The media is bound and determined to make me hate Jeremy Lin. It's tough to do -- a great story, sure. But I haven't even been watching 24-7 ESPN like I do during football season, and I'm tired of hearing about the guy.

Comparisons to Tim Tebow are nuts, and I think coming from the overzealous Christians looking for a hero. Tebow was a Heisman trophy winner from a major college who was drafted in the first round. He's actually supposed to be good. Lin was undrafted and from Harvard. No one but basketball die-hards had even heard of him 12 days ago.

Comparisons like that are what will make me hate the kid. There are two people on earth who I would really like to see pushing daisies. In one case, it's a personal dislike. The other case is Tim Tebow.

A better comparison for Lin is Kurt Warner. He went from bagging groceries to leading one of the most prolific offenses in the history of the NFL in the course of a year.

But that isn't a good comparison either. Warner went on to put together what is probably a hall of fame career. Lin has had six amazing games in a major media market, but that's the equivalent of about 5 minutes of a football game.

Floyd Mayweather was criticized for saying that the hype is just because Lin is ethnically Chinese. He is definitely wrong about this -- the hype is because he outscored every other started in his first six games in the history of the NBA. But, I have to think that his ethnicity has a lot to do with why he wasn't drafted. I'm not going to bother looking up his stats from Harvard, but I bet they would show that this kid can play. I know there were at least a few scouts around the league who rated him highly, only to get laughed out of the draft room.

I haven't watched the guy play. And if all we see is highlight after highlight, I'll be rooting for the other team when I finally do catch a game.

Kind of cool that the best sportswriter in the country came up with the same argument, albeit written much better.

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