Fantasy Drafts

Friday, January 27, 2006

Columnists Draft Results

4:49 PM

Well, after the usual groaning and bickering, we all decided that columnists would be defined as writers who currently published a regular column for some sort of newspaper/magazine, online or otherwise. We were all sad we couldn't pick Dave Barry, but there are RULES, people.

Round 1

Sarah: Hendrik Hertzberg
Chris: George F. Will
Adam: Thomas Friedman
Sydney: Frank Rich

Round 2
Sydney: James Surowiecki
Adam: David Brooks
Chris: Paul Krugman
Sarah: Michael Kinsley

Round 3
Sarah: Judith Martin
Chris: Tony Kornheiser
Adam: Charles Krauthammer
Sydney: David Broder

Round 4
Sydney: Alex Ross
Adam: Christopher Buckley
Chris: William Safire
Sarah: Sebastian Mallaby

Round 5
Sarah: Nicholas Kristof
Chris: E.J. Dionne
Adam: Peter Gammons
Sydney: William Saletan

Round 6
Sydney: Gene Weingarten
Adam: Carl Hiaasen
Chris: Bob Novak
Sarah: Louis Menand

Round 7
Sarah: Verlyn Klinkenborg
Chris: Maureen Dowd
Adam: Mort Kondracke
Sydney: Tim Harford

Round 8
Sydney: Roger Ebert
Adam: Lexington
Chris: George Vecsey
Sarah: Dahlia Lithwick

10 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

What's wrong with talking about your wife?

6:04 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Boring.

6:21 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

what, no love for the oldtimers? also, have you people stopped doing commentary. if so, that would be a shame, its always been enjoyable (not necessarily correct, but enjoyable still).

9:10 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

yeah verone sucks, just kive dan and albet props for biorthing this shizzle, they were the ones, i give dan a nod, but it was dan and albert...i am so drukn

4:19 AM  
Blogger Selfish Country Music Loving Lady said...

Mrreow!

7:56 PM  
Blogger Chris said...

So it looks like we might have a special guest commentary for this one. I just hope that our guest writer remembers a) on which side her bread is buttered and b) that Tony Kornheiser is such a giant in the news business that he makes Walter Cronkite look like Carson Daly.

8:44 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

well, who that wasnt selected should have been selected?

11:33 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I thought about Molly Ivins.

1:39 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lunatic. Plagiarist.

6:02 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I love plagiarism!

9:40 PM  

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