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Men with Balls: The Professional Athlete's Handbook

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Video Review? Oh Christ, I'm so tempted to paint mouths on my balls and let them do the the whole thing. Thankfully, I don't have the technology. Or the talking balls.

This is the greatest book by a fat, gay man since the latter days of Truman Capote. In fact, if he had any literary chaps whatsoever this is the book Capote would have written.

I laughed, I cried, I masturbated furiously while wearing store-bought panties, wait....

Seriously, buy this book. Drew's a comic genius. You'll be the envy of your friends. If you had any friends. Loser.

If you are a fan of Magary's work on the blogs KSK and Deadspin, you will not be dissapointed in this book. The book basically reads like a bunch of blog posts strung together. This is a good thing. The best part of the book is that most sportsfans could have come up with it's basic premise, but only Big Daddy Balls could pull it off in such an entertaining, profane, and true fashion. I saw he described it as bathroom reading material. You would have to have eaten rotten Mexican food from a lawless border town for a week straight for this to be true. This book is hard to put down and two hour marathon bathrooms trips tend to put my legs to sleep. Buy the book and enjoy it in a comfy place. Such as your local opium den sprawled out on one of those enormous pillows.

A solid laugh from cover to cover for any sports fan. Author Drew Magary does not worry about hurting any feelings or being politically correct as a reader will soon find out. Definitely worth a read.

I really enjoy Drew Magary's stuff on KSK and Deadspin. I even find some of his Amazon reviews entertaining. However, I didn't really like this particular book. Just seemed kind of flat to me and I lost interest quickly.

Men With Balls is a great primer on navigating the ball-filled world of professional athletes. It goes through everything from draft day through retirement and everything in between. If you're looking at a future career of balls, then this a must-read!

In all seriousness (well, seriousness is relative when it comes to this book), it's a great read. There's laughs on every page. The detail with which Magary goes over all the stupid minutiae of professional sports. I really enjoyed it.

If you don't know Drew Magary from Kissing Suzy Kolber or Deadspin, this may not be the best introduction to his often-caustic style of breaking down American sports.

For those of us who read his work often, though, this is Drew at his best. He's not afraid to take shots at professional athletes, their wives, girlfriends, baby mommas, conniving family members, agents, managers and associated hangers-on, and he doesn't spare himself in several cases either.

The only problem is that the charts and lists sometimes have bad formatting on the Kindle, but it doesn't detract from the humor too much.

Very funny...well done...if you liked this you'd like Bill Simmons, Basketball. I'm a fan of irreverent, sarcastic, smart-assed, writing.

Under the guise of writing a handbook for professional athletes, Drew Magary has written a wickedly funny, and very truthful satire of professional athletes, and the fans who lives are obsessed with following these athletes. Mr. Magary, in a very subtle way, also asks why fans, like me, pay attention to today's professional athlete, when the highly paid, highly self-centered athlete, cares little about the fan.

This book is well conceived and if you enjoy hyperbolic comedy, this is for you.
The only quibble is that if read as a novel, it can be a little repetitive (like a lot of books by sports columnists). Take time between chapters (it is very hard to put down though) and you will enjoy it even more.

Buy this book and then set aside a couple hours to read through. You will need to take a few breaks to bust out laughing.

Each and every chapter has a bunch of hilarious lines about the rewards and challenges of being an athlete.

Although my hometown (Green Bay) doesn't fare well (sad thing is I can't refute any of the author's comments), I would highly recommend this book to any sports fan!

p.s. This book made me want to buy the author a gift certificate for a tapas restaurant. :).