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The Post desk put him on hold.
A sad ending to the story. The whole time, Fagone is building competitive eating up as a massive up and coming spectacle that has potential to sweep that nation. Yet in the final sentence he counters everything he has written saying that in actuality, nobody cares about competitive eating and the athletes' impressive achievements.
. “TWENTY-TWO hotdogs and buns!”
The record now is 76, almost 4 times the old world record. This shows how far the sport has come and how impressive these athletes are.
miracle
Biblical reference.
Here under the sun, the clouds have parted toallow us here today to demonstrate our commitment to the Virgin Mary and tovictory in the world of competitive eating.
Another biblical reference.
“Nostradamus, born in the early sixteenth century, actually mentioned the GrilledCheese Championship in his poetic yet cryptic quatrains,” George Shea says. “Hesaid, ’And at one point under the bright sky they shall gather to eat, they shallgather to eat the cheese that has been pouched in bread and grilled!”
Another instance of Shea relating competitive eating to a previous historical event or figure.
At the two-and-a-half-minute mark in Venice Beach, Sonya has ten grilled-cheesesandwiches down the hatch.
Thats 1 grilled cheese sandwich every 15 seconds. Impressive.
She speaks in clipped Englishpunctuated by an immigrant’s tics—quick laughs and question marks to makesure she’s being understood. Movie-watching is one of her hobbies. Her otherhobby is driving. She takes long drives to nowhere in particular. She owns a redPontiac Grand Am, and she drives it very, very fast.
Fagone mentions these traits to help readers connect with the eaters through relatable life experiences.
“competitive eating is thebattleground upon which God and Lucifer battle for men’s souls!”
Another biblical reference relating to competitive eating.
That is not where I am. I see beauty. I see physical poetry.”Poetry, exactly. Shea’s eating contests are poetic in their blatancy,
Once again trying to change the way that competitive eating is viewed. The officials are trying to make it seem like it is bigger that it may already be.
George Shea responded to Nader by talking up thefederation’s “Turducken” contest, which he called “the first real advancement inThanksgiving since the Indians sat down with the Pilgrims.”
Shea realises the absurdity of the sport and plays into to draw more of a crowd and soften the affect of the critics.
And likewise, this grilled-cheese sandwich is the precipitate of the divinespirit”—here the music shifts again, to a minor-key vamp, and Shea’s voice skewsdeep and dark—“captured here on earth in the most unlikely of places, deliveredto us in the image of the Virgin Mary!”
More use of divine legitimacy to add to the spectacle of competitive eating.
Shea has sensitive features, an aristocratic nose, and neat black hair. He’s good-looking, compact. Perfect posture. His voice is melodious but powerful—precise,all syllables enunciated, with the pitch control of a cabaret singer and the gesturalexcess of a dinner-theater Hamlet.
Fagone choses to describe Shea here rather than earlier despite the fact that Shea has been talking for a while as of this moment.
Shea’s voice skewsdeep and dark
Shea's voice is constantly changing as he gives his opening speach. This constant change of pitch and tone help demonstrate what a showman Shea truly is.
n fifteen minutes the championship will be decided. It’s an eating contest.Whoever eats the most grilled-cheese sandwiches in ten minutes wins $3,500. Theprize pot has attracted some of the world’s top competitors—people who eatunder the banner of the International Federation of Competitive Eating, orIFOCE. They consider themselves professional athletes. Guys like Eric“Badlands” Booker, a 420-pound subway conductor, rapper, and world championin the doughnut, corned-beef-hash, and cheesecake disciplines. “Hungry” CharlesHardy, who just half an hour ago had his right biceps tattooed with the initialsIFOCE. Ed “Cookie” Jarvis, a Long Island real-estate agent who embroiders hisnumerous eating titles onto a gargantuan flowing robe with his portrait airbrushedon the front, flanked by a lighting bolt. Rich and Carlene LeFevre, the FirstCouple of competitive eating—a pair of sweetly manic retirees from the outskirtsof Las Vegas. Carlene is a consistent top-five finisher, and Rich, nicknamed theLocust, holds records in Spam (six pounds in twelve minutes), chili (one and ahalf gallons in ten minutes), and corny dogs (eighteen and a half in ten minutes).
This paragraph serves to show the vast field of the top eaters and the main characters that we deal with throughout the story.
America’s greatest eater is also here. Sonya Thomas. Five foot five, 103 pounds.She calls herself the Black Widow, because she gleefully devours the males. Hereating titles are so numerous that promoters list them alphabetically: asparagus,baked beans, chicken nuggets, chicken wings, eggs, fruitcake, giant burger,hamburger, jambalaya, Maine lobster, meatballs, oysters, pulled pork, quesadilla,sweet-potato casserole, tacos, toasted ravioli, Turducken ...
Setting up competitive eater Sonya Thomas as a powerful adversary fo the other eaters.
the image of the Virgin Mary appeared on a grilled-cheesesandwich in the frying pan of Diana Duyser
Adds an instance of divinity into the story.
She
Pronouns regarding Diana are capitalized giving Diana a sense of importance.