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Overrated
February 28, 2011 |
• By: David Cantor and Arik Ben-Zvi |
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Bill Simmons (aka ESPN’s Sportsguy) likes to write about a concept he calls overrated underrated athletes. Basically, guys who are so frequently talked about as being underrated that they have become overrated. In the eighties, Mo Cheeks of the Sixers was the oft mentioned “most underrated player in the NBA.” According to Simmons, today it may be the Hornets David West.
Like much of Simmons’ work, this is fun barroom debate. We’d like to propose a Washington, DC version: let’s apply the same concept to politics and punditry. In particular, what are the ideas that are introduced as surprising, shocking, and new so often that they have become not just conventional wisdom but trite and, well, overrated?
