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I'm wondering how he'll handle this in view of his recent comments on bloggers. He backed off a bit, and he seems like a reasonable enough fellow that he'll give bloggers a fair shake once he hears them out.
I will appear on a segment of HBO's "Costas Now" tonight. Subject matter: Is Miley Cyrus too young for that Vanity Fair picture? Or "Bloggers and Sports Media." They interviewed me for both and haven't told me which one I'm in.
There is also a live panel (of which I am not a part) with Will Leitch, Buzz Bissinger, and of course Braylon Edwards.
HBO. Sometime tonight.
Maybe its just because I grew up on Nick and Len. When I was a kid and there was nobody to hang with I used to do slow motion plays in my front yard and try to speak like Kalas as I was playing.
Of course I noticed all I was really watching on HBO were the sports shows, Real Time with Bill Maher and Entourage, so when the new season of Entourage comes out, I'm sure I'll sign back up.
Did he actually make the seperation between bloggers and commenters? Lots of mainstream guys have a big problem with that. Funny, every person I know that reads blogs ignores the comments altogether, yet every mainstream guy reads the comments ad nauseum.
Also, you'd think the media wouldn't be so quick to deride their customer base. Guess they haven't learned anything from the RIAA.
Even if the RIAA didn't do anything one way or the other, the music industry would still be hurting.
This is similar to a maxim that dawned on me a while ago: If someone says "I'm not a racist, BUT," the next thing that comes out of their mouth will be racist.
with his anti-blogger stance, there is no way he would actually be critical of the actual villains of the story. He is part of that same media that ignored early bloggers complaining about enhancers, and he's part of the media that to this day still covers up their culpability in the situation much better than anybody else has succeeded in covering up themselves. It's funny the sports media is pretty incompetent in everything but protecting it's own interest.
"So, Dog, as I understand it, these bloggers are idiots. Based on your long experience as an idiot, can you tell me something about what motivates these people?"
I never read blog comments, and I especially don't write them.
Also, I never apologize. I'm sorry, but that's just the way I am.
This is like, "I'm doing well, all things considered." If you've really considered all things, then you are feeling exactly as you would expect.
Michael Kay, during Yankee broadcasts, inevitably says, "Now, this is not an excuse..." and then proceeds to whine about how difficult baseball playing life is, what with late plane trips.
Or how "no pun intended" really means they intended the pun.
This is like, "I'm doing well, all things considered." If you've really considered all things, then you are feeling exactly as you would expect.
I've gone over this a few times and I still don't understand the objection.
I only read BTF, Cardboard Gods, Comics Curmudgeon, and a couple of other comic strip blogs on a regular basis. I read the comments at all of them except Comics Curmudgeon. So there. Nothing against CC, there's just so many comments a day and I need some time away from the computer.
There were plenty of comments about how the mainstream media has the insight (journalism school, years of experience, etc.) to cover sports in a better fashion. No discussion about how many of the sites out there hold the mainstream writers to the higher standard they claim to have. Essentially, holding the sports columnists to the same scrutiny that sports columnists hold athletes to.
But plenty of discussion around a post by a commenter with the ID BallsDeep.
The most interesting thing in the show was Joe Buck basically admitting that Fox thinks baseball is boring.
See, and this is where they totally miss the friggin' point. They attribute commenters posts to blogs, where that's not the case at all. If I go and read Joe Posnaski, and then post a comment on his blog, they'll attribute my comment to his blog.
having seen the show, I learned that most mainstream sportswriters are petty, vindictive, insecure dicks who have a have a greater sense of privilege than any grown man should, particularly grown men who devote their lives to writing about what younger man do that they can't.
Which is really dumb because many newspapers now have comments sections online for their print columns. I can just as easily post a comment on Joe Posnanski's column at the KC Star as I can for an entry on his blog. So I guess my comment on his blog counts as part of his work, while my comment on his print column does not?
Just to be accurate, Balls Deep is a weekly post on Deadspin written by Big Daddy Drew, who also writes for KSK, not just some random comment posting.
that buzz guy was a whackjob. figures that he's only ever done one worthwhile thing.
Wow, you're a big fan of the guy who wrote what's featured on RJ's link. To me, that's where objections to the internet culture should start. It's pure trash.
This was the most infuriating part of show. Buck was much more tolerable and funny than I would have imagined (claiming to be BallsDeep), but his callous defense on FOX's treatment of baseball and their rationale was terrible.
For anyone who missed it, he basically explained that FOX feels that most baseball fans are going to watch it anyway, so they have no obligation to make it enjoyable for them. Instead, they will dumb the game down and add senseless garbage to attract the more casual fan. So, instead of the things that add to the game (split screen showing the pitcher and batter between pitches), we're treated to extra garbage that FOX thinks will help attract "casual fans" (fan cam, Tim McCarver).
I'm not going to defend the latest post, because it isn't very good, but many of the posts on KSK are hilarious. Also, the stuff that BDD writes for Deadspin is generally better than his stuff on KSK.
For anyone who missed it, he basically explained that FOX feels that most baseball fans are going to watch it anyway, so they have no obligation to make it enjoyable for them. Instead, they will dumb the game down and add senseless garbage to attract the more casual fan. So, instead of the things that add to the game (split screen showing the pitcher and batter between pitches), we're treated to extra garbage that FOX thinks will help attract "casual fans" (fan cam, Tim McCarver).
I thought we all already knew that this was FOX's rationale?
no kidding - after devoting a full segment to (basically) letting a middle-aged man rag on the interwebs, they move to a segment about how TV (which has more of a presense in the sports world than the blogs and the newspapers combined) has been dumbed down, then letting three TV guys shrug it off: "hey, no big deal, it's what the people want."
In a world where John Kruk and Emmett Smith can widely disseminate their opinions, we're supposed to wring our hands over Deadspin?
The worst thing a witness can say while on the stand after having testified for awhile is "To tell the truth..." or "To be perfectly honest...". It is hilariously devastating when it happens.
The extra funny part of that is the almost universal rule of thumb that the closer you get to mainstream media outlets, the worse the comments get. Signal to noise is extremely close to zero in the comments on Fox, CBS, ESPN articles/columns. Even the specific example you cite -- comments on Posnanski's blog are MUCH more rational/interesting/relevant than the ones on his KC Star columns.
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