Chuck Kosterman has a great piece in the new Times sports magazine “Play” about Gilbert Arenas. Arenas is known for sleeping in a hyperbaric chamber and occaisionally saying something goofy.
“Sometimes you have to create your own legacy, and that is what I have done. There is no quirkiness about me. I just lash out at things, but it’s lighthearted. The freak part of me is not that I’m going to take 60 pills to get attention. I’m not that kind of freak. I just like to watch the Gummi Bears on TV. I’m not Ron Artest. I’m a character. The things I do, the things I say — these are things I sit in my house and think about. I know what I’m doing.”
God bless him for it.