Ken Tremendous (FJM) to be on 'Costas Now' tonight

[Brian]

I heard he'll be on tonight, as well as a guy from Deadpsin. We can get confirmation if he's really Michael Schur.

[Banedon]

Verdict?

[Ryno12]

From the way KT made it sound on FJM this morning. Buzz Bizzinger is a typical old-guard sportswriter, who doesn't like Will Leitch. As for the show, I don't have HBO, so I didn't get to see it.

[woodchip2153]

From the way KT made it sound on FJM this morning. Buzz Bizzinger is a typical old-guard sportswriter, who doesn't like Will Leitch. As for the show, I don't have HBO, so I didn't get to see it.

 

Leitch's take

[Ding Dong Johnson]

if I'm reading my guide right (and I rarely ever am), it's on again at 5:30 today

[Tracer Bullet]

anyone have a link to a clip?

[CubinNY]

What happened? It sounds like whatever it was, it was pretty entertaining.

[Ryno12]

anyone have a link to a clip?

 

Awful Announcing has clips up of the intro and of the actual discussion. Enjoy!

 

http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/

[Ding Dong Johnson]

if I'm not mistaken, I think Buzz is not a big fan of sports blogs on the interwebs

[Clem Fandango]

if I'm not mistaken, I think Buzz is not a big fan of sports blogs on the interwebs

 

Really? I don't see it.

 

This was awkward to watch

[CubinNY]

This topic is really interesting to me. I can see both sides of the argument although the Friday Night Lights guy looks like a real douchebag.

 

I'd like to hear what Bruce Miles thinks about it, but he's probably too busy to notice what's going on.

[Ryno12]

I'm really surprised this isn't getting more attention on here. This whole thing has really taken up the entire sports blogosphere this morning, and I must say it is very entertaining.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

I'm really surprised this isn't getting more attention on here. This whole thing has really taken up the entire sports blogosphere this morning, and I must say it is very entertaining.

KT sums it up beautifully -- "Picking a random blog comment and wielding it as a club to bash "blogs" is like picking a random romance novel off an airport bookstore shelf and saying, "This book sucks. **** you, Tolstoy -- your medium is worthless!""

[imb]

it's so odd to have your entire perception of bizzinger shattered in about 10 minutes

 

i like to think of writers as calm, rational, "in the background types". Guess that's my bad.

[treebird]

i dvr'ed this last night since i couldn't watch it.

 

i can't wait to get home and check it out.

[Tracer Bullet]

My favorite part is the intro where the "blogger" is a guy in a dark room with a computer and almost nothing else. Looks like it could easily be my mother's basement...and I'm not even a blogger.

 

 

Wait...dad?

[Careless]

The discussion that starts at 28 or 29 minutes in... wow. The FJM post on it is fairly accurate.

 

Apparently the weirdness is on youtube/deadspin

[JimSorgi]

You know what? That really pees the poop out of me!

[jaydee]

The FNL guy and Costas come off as very ignorant. They don't seem to know the difference between a blog, and the comments on a blog.

[TruffleShuffle]

you can see that bissinger is ready for a battle as he's being introduced... he already looks angry.

[TruffleShuffle]

for some reason, it gives me great joy to hear bob costas say "f***face"

[snoodmonger]

It's a shame Leitch did such a garbage job of defending his viewpoint. I disagree with Bissinger and Costas, but Leitch didn't defend himself well. I think he was surprised by the ambush.

 

Bissinger came off like a total old-guard ****. What an angry schmuck. And it was good to have my already low opinion of pretentious-ass Bob Costas further confirmed. He didn't moderate that session; he had a clear bias and attacked.

[OleMissCub]

I'm not a Chicago guy, so I've never heard Mike North before. Having now watched that CostasNow segment with him in it, I really want to punch him in the face.

 

His face should be in the dictionary next to "Tool."

 

Who the hell listens to that crap?

[CoolHandLuke]

Mike North is just your average uneducated, sexist moron.

[chuckywang]

FJM has an excellent post on the segment and Buzz Bissinger.