David Roth’s Columns at Defector

David Roth has spent a lot of time understanding bad sports owners, folks who are where they are due to inheritance or exogenous circumstance rather than suitability but whose whimsy has a large effect on you, a Mets fan.

It turns out this apparently niche interest has broad applications. Here is Roth understanding why a random guy in a fancy Nashville suburb might go out of his way to pick a fight with the giant guy who plays Jack Reacher on “Reacher”