Will Leitch Responds to Buzz Bissinger's Outburst On Costas Now
The700Level.com - Philly Sports & Minutiae —
... of an opinion. Also, I hate the word blog lately. Ugh.
Anyway, Will wrote a phenomenal response to the crazy episode. Go read it all, but the last line is the best. The future is obvious to anyone even slightly interested in looking. We
just stand aside, as he, as they, watch the light shrink, then fade,
then vanish. Always take the high road... until you can zing them like that!
See also: MDS' take at FanHouse and FireJoeMorgan's take.
>>Of Jimmy Olson, The Spittle, And The Dying Of The ...
FJM: A Few Words on “The Internet”
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
FJM: A Few Words on “The Internet” And Will Leitch’s take on the Costas/Bissinger disaster.... For what I hope is the last time, but is clearly not: the level of discourse on Athletics Nation, and Baseball Prospectus, and SoSH, and Joe Posnanski’s blog, is every bit as high (if not higher) than what you can read in the best newspapers in the country. Bissinger’s hare-brained attempt to prove Leitch an uneducated oaf by asking whether he had read any W.C. Heinz (which failed miserably when Leitch had, in fact, read some W. C. Heinz) was a perfect example of the old ...
Buzz Bissinger vs. Will Leitch: The Day After
Dan Shanoff —
... UPDATE: Ken Tremendous/Michael Schur from Fire Joe Morgan (who was in the taped piece that ran before the live Bissinger self-immolation). ...
Sports blogs, sports writers and why sports journalism doesn’t matter
Snobs vs. Slobs —
Mike Schur has already touched on this, as has Will Leitch , the folks at Kissing Suzy Kolber and A.J. Daleurio . Both were subjects of an episode of Bob Costas’ HBO show Tuesday evening as Buzz Bissinger basically set himself on fire getting angry at Leitch about sports bloggers.—- Some things to think about before we go any deeper: First, I’m not really a sports blogger. In a technical sense, yes, our site runs on blogging software and, yes, I sometimes write here. But, I don’t consider myself a sports blogger and self-definition is very important. ...
The Bissinger Fall Out [Blogdome]
Deadspin —
• Bissinger wigging out on a radio show a while back. Skip to about the 8:50 mark. [790 The Ticket]
• EDSBS gives a long rundown of this whole Costas Now thing. [EDSBS]
• Of course, Shanoff's fired up about all this. [Dan Shaoff]
• Hey, how'd Braylon Edwards do? [Sons of Nev]
• MDS is appropriately measured. [AOL Fanhouse]
• Mose Schrute gives his two cents. [Fire Joe Morgan]
• Awful Announcing gives us this perspective. [Awful Announcing]
• Big Daddy ...
Piling onto this Costas Now / Buzz Bissinger business
Yellow Chair Sports —
... and Fire Joe Morgan, respectively. But the gist of what happened seems pretty self-explanatory: Buzz Bissinger, a sports journalist and author, verbally and maliciously attacked Leitch and everything about sports blogs, evidently lumping them under one huge umbrella. ...
Get Back in This Bag, You Stupid Cat!
Dave's Football Blog —
... Leitch last night on HBO’s Costas Now, so I’m probably ill-equipped to respond to it. Tons of sports blogs have chimed in already with intelligent responses to that rant, including the target of all that vitriol himself — who, in all honestly, reacted far better to this attack than I would have. Here are a few more worthwhile responses:
Awful Announcing
Every Day Should Be Saturday
FanHouse
Fire Joe Morgan
The Run of Play
The more I read about ...
Full Of Sound And Fury, Signifying Everything
Signal to Noise —
... as a sign that the league as a whole is out of control.
If you don’t mind me saying so, that’s a fuck of a lot of profanity and abuse heaped on by those supposed guardians of the Right Way of doing things. Glass houses, stones, throwing….right, you know the deal.
Takes on the program: Both Will and AJ from Deadspin, Orson at EDSBS, Brian at Awful Announcing, D-Wil at Sports on My Mind (who agrees with Bissinger), FJM’s Ken Tremendous, The FanHouse’s Michael David Smith, and BDD at KSK ...
PM Roundup: Buzz Bissinger, Popular Man
The Big Lead —
This is Selita Ebanks. Osi Umenyiora is a lucky, lucky man. We’ve started to pick some interns, but there are still “resumes” to get to. You’ll see their work shortly. We do hope to respond to everyone. After the jump, Reggie Bush, miscaptioned.
Buzz is Buzzy: Dodger Thoughts, Double Nickels, Deadspin, AJ Daulerio, Scott’s Shots, Fire Joe Morgan, Fanhouse, Awful Announcing, all have a take on the HBO show last night.
NBA playoff ratings are through the roof. (USA ...
Open Thread: Cubs vs. Brewers, Wednesday 4/30, 7:05 CT
Bleed Cubbie Blue —
... Wednesday notes:
Buzz Bissinger doesn't like bloggers.
A 50-game suspension was handed out today to former Giants backup catcher Eliezer Alfonzo, who is now playing in Triple-A.
The All-Star ballots are out. All the Cubs' opening day starters are listed. Derrek Lee, Geovany Soto, Aramis Ramirez and Kosuke Fukudome, based on their performances to date, probably merit votes.
John Smoltz says he's willing to go back to the bullpen after he comes off the DL. They'd probably be ...
On Sports Blogs
Clips Nation —
... my lack of journalism degree or access.
But the exchange that took place on HBO last night on Costas Now cannot be ignored.
In a segment discussing the role of the blogosphere in sports, Costas convened Will Leitch of Deadspin, sports writer and author Buzz Bissinger of 'Friday Night Lights' fame, and Cleveland Browns tight end Braylon Edwards (who neither blogs nor reads blogs - what, they couldn't have gotten Gilbert Arenas?)
I highly recommend that you read the post by Ken Tremendous on Fire Joe Morgan right now. It's a pitch perfect summary ...
This Week's Links (4/28-5/2)
Vegas Watch —
So I understand that Braylon Edwards was on Costas Now this week? Okay, let's think about this logically. Watch the video (here, here). Then read the responses from Posnanski, TBL, FJM, AA, and Leitch. Who, again, is bringing down the level of discourse? The Sports VU's 08-09 SEC Basketball preview. Odds on which NBA player is most likely to be the next to admit to marijuana use. The Angels brought up their top prospect, Nick Adenhart, who has already undergone elbow ...
Hit and Run
The Futility Infielder —
... . It's tough to claim the moral high ground for tone when you're flecked with spittle and spewing obscenities on cable TV, telling us how blogging "really pisses the shit out of" you, as Bissinger did. Dishonesty? How about the intellectual dishonesty of picking one post from one blog and using it to dismiss an entire medium, a responsibility that's borne in part by Bob Costas for narrowing the focus on the medium down to a single, controversial site. As Fire Joe Morgan inimitably put it, that's akin to "picking a random romance novel off an airport bookstore shelf and ...
Thursday's Starting Five
What Would Oakley Do? —
A Blogger Blogging About Blogs
RotoRob —
... sports talk radio station in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex.
I bring this up due to the blow-up on HBO’s Costas Now featuring Deadspin’s Will Leitch and Buzz Bissinger, who penned such classics as Friday Night Lights…and…Friday Night Lights! I could attempt to describe what happened, but it’s easier to just watch the clips.
Plenty of bloggers have responded. Some thoughtfully. Some hysterically. I can’t really add anything to other than a personal moment that I ...
ON BISSINGER AND BLOGGING
Thirtyfive Seconds —
... writing. He curses up a storm, ends up fuming and frustrated, having done little besides scream his opinion and sneer at Leitch. In other words … (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), and (9). Nice job, Buzz.
Beyond Leitch’s simple but polite defense of blogging on the air, there have been numerous, truly thoughtful posts in response to Bissinger’s attacks on the medium. Leitch penned his own after appearing on the broadcast. Michael Schur of FJM did the same. Shanoff defends his brethren. Awful Announcing had words on top of the ...
Buzz: YOU are Full of Excrement
Mets Today —
... is available on Awful Announcing (luckily, it wasn’t filmed in Wrigley Field so MLB can’t take it down), FireJoeMorgan has a great synopsis of the event, and Matt Cerrone had ...
AaronGleeman.com — ... of FOXSports.com and Ken Tremendous of Fire Joe Morgan also wrote interesting takes after being involved in the show. Bissinger surely got high fives backstage and congratulatory phone calls from fellow old-school media types, but to me he just looked like an angry, bitter, out of touch man who unknowingly made a great case for why blogs are thriving and newspapers aren't. ...
'Round The Web - Blogs Speak
End Zone Buzz —
... Around blogfrica we go. >
- An outstanding take on that whole fire-breathing Buzz Bissinger, "blogs are the anti-Christ" fiasco on HBO that, as (former) fans of both Bissinger and Costas, was more sad than anything else. (Fire Joe Morgan) >
- Lots of interesting bets concerning NFL rookies have been released by the boys in Vegas. (Deuce of Davenport) >
- Some thoughts on Titans draft pick William Hayes, the player Tennessee took in the fourth round that the NFL didn't consider ...
The Buzz about Buzz
Bruins Nation —
... don't need to note sharply declining newspaper readerships or the employment fears of traditional writers. There's no need to point out that there are good and bad professional journalists, just as there are good and bad blogs. I don't even need to chuckle about some folks inability to discern the difference between a comment and a front page blog post. Those points, and many others, have already been made (among other places, here, here, here, here, here, and here). I prefer a slightly different angle. As a blogger ...
James enjoys the Buzz, media updates
Cracked Sidewalks —
... say about Buzz Williams, Trevor Mbakwe and Chris Otule (along with a shot at Tommy Irsay). Goodman also reports that 2008 combo guard Varez Ward will visit Texas this weekend -- no word on any interest regarding MU. Mike DeCourcy writes up an incongruous review of the Buzz Williams hire....strangely TSN says MU made a decision 'in a panic', but ultimately rates the hire as a solid 'B'. In honor of Buzz......Buzz 'I Hate New Media' Bissinger that is, Deadspin is worried about Dwyane Wade these ...
