An Interview with Buzz Bissinger
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deltapi1049 When I saw this interview I immediately was shocked by the outright display of assholishness that he put on. At least with this interview he does something that no one else does these days - he ate his hat and apologized.
Now, do I agree with his opinions that blogs are worthless? Hell no, I write one myself! But I do think it was interesting that he took the opportunity to say his piece without all the spitting and jabbering about "the future of sportswriting."
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Redsauce This interview really comes across as a PR front to limit the downside of this. He comes across as disingenuous, to say the least. -
NaviGATR Be sure to check out Spencer Hall a.k.a. Orson Swindle's in-depth interview with Buzz at The Sporting Blog as well:
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Buzz Bissinger: MSM Colleagues Supported Anti-Blog Rant -- Except Bob Costas
Published 5/5/2008 by Michael David Smith at FanHouse
... I think Bissinger's opinion is shared by a large number of journalists, even if most journalists wouldn't have expressed the opinion as profanely as Bissinger did. And Bissinger seems to back that up in an interview with The Big Lead: ...
Blog Patrol
Published 5/5/2008 at FanIQ Blog
... Buzz Bissinger - hater of blogs and your right to rant about sports - does an interview with The Big Lead. [The Big Lead] ...
A Final Word on Buzz
Published 5/5/2008 by Russianator at Three Idiots on Sports
... years ago when it came out and loved it so much I convinced my mother to read it - and she doesn't know the difference between a football and watermelon. She read it and enjoyed it as well - she must have since she never gave it back. Anyway, Buzz gave an interview to the Big Lead in which he comes off as a sane person who just got carried away. ...
Thoughts on Buzz Bissinger’s Apology
Published 5/5/2008 by Brian at The Run of Play
... Since we took the time to criticize Buzz Bissinger for his comments about sports blogs last week, I want to take time now to give him some credit for his interview with the Big Lead today, in which he responds to the controversy, apologizes, and expresses embarrassment for his remarks. I’m not going to say that it “took a lot of courage” (it will, I assure you, be said), but for Bissinger to work out his reaction on a popular sports blog at least demonstrates a desire to talk to the right audience, and a basic willingness to see blogs as a potentially complex ...
The Internets: Ozzie, Buzz and Tebow
Published 5/5/2008 by Michael Rand at Randball
... in [100] years, and they’re the [bleeping] best. [Bleep] it, we’re good. [Bleep] everybody. We’re horse[bleep], and we’re going to be horse[bleep] the rest of our lives, no matter how many World Series we win. We are the [bleep] of Chicago. We’re the Chicago [bleep]. We have the worst owner [Jerry Reinsdorf]. The guy’s got seven [bleeping] rings, and he’s the [bleeping] horse[bleep] owner.”
*The Big Lead has a very good interview with Buzz Bissinger.
*Tim Tebow spends his down time ...
(Big Daddy) Balls To The Wall : The Calm, Yet Still Very Pretentious Musings Of Buzz Bissinger
Published 5/6/2008 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... , author Buzz Bissinger granted an audience to The Big Lead and confessed, “I have learned from this whole mess is the danger of making sweeping generalizations.” ...
Bissinger reflects on tirade
Published 5/6/2008 by Howard Burns at SPORTS COUCH POTATO
... believe in what I said (although the emails I received have also directed me to some excellent information-based sports blogs I was not aware of). But I made a terrible mistake in the manner in which I said it.
"I am a man of passion and my passion truly got the better of me. I should have considerably toned it down, in particular in terms of my treatment of Will Leitch. Without going into details, I have taken steps to remedy that."
You can read the complete interview here. ...
Bissinger Walks Back From the Ledge
Published 5/6/2008 by Craig Calcaterra at ShysterBall
The Big Lead has landed an interview with Bissinger, and Buzz is contrite: The initial reaction was quite positive, more than quite positive from those I immediately spoke to–fellow panelists and members of HBO with the exception of Costas (Bob was friendly but muted in his response to my performance. He is one of the most thoughtful people I know and I think he was mulling that I had gone way too far.) What I began to realize by the next afternoon is this: What the fellow panelists thought (at least the ones I spoke with) were not remotely a representative group. ...
Talking Points: Eric Berry woo edition
Published 5/6/2008 by Joel <info@rockytoptalk.com> at Rocky Top Talk: Front Page Posts
... Quickly this morning: Berry Woo! Lots of buzz around Rocky Top this morning about the fact that Eric Berry is on the cover of Athlon Sports. Okay, so maybe they have 4,684 different covers -- if they could they'd probably put your picture on the cover just to ensure that you'd buy one -- but the thing I find most notable is how Berry's holding the ball. See? He's passing. Hug, hug, kiss, kiss. Gerald Williams, after a 27-year journey, is finally on his way to Knoxville to become a Tennessee Vol. ...
The Big Lead: An Interview with Buzz Bissinger
Published 5/6/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
The Big Lead: An Interview with Buzz Bissinger It takes a really big horsefucker to admit when he’s almost wrong… Q: The internet is agog over the HBO special. When you walked off the stage, did you have any idea of how big of a deal this would become? Did your cell phone blow up, and your inbox get clogged? And what was the overall reaction from friends and colleagues you spoke with? And what’s your reaction to the masses who think that you and Costas - longtime friends - were in cahoots against Will Leitch? The initial reaction was quite positive, more than quite positive ...
The last words on Buzz, Bob, Will, Stray, Dog, etc.
Published 5/6/2008 by Neil Best at Watchdog
... , which is very heavy on last week's "Costas Now" show, and this link to The Big Lead's interview with Buzz Bissinger (one of several the Buzzman has done in the past week for damage control), I am officially done with this subject. ...
A Sober Buzz Bizz
Published 5/6/2008 by Tangotiger (tangotiger@yahoo.com) at THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball
... Some sobering thoughts from Buzz Bizzinger following his meltdown on HBO v Deadspin. Sober being the key word, as his HBO appearance sounded exactly what a drunk would sound like in a bar. (I quite enjoyed and appreciated that he at least decided to lay down his arms, as it’s not necessary to continue to use your weapon, especially since it doesn’t have any bullets in it.) ...
Buzz Speaks!
Published 5/6/2008 by MariusJanulisForThree at Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician
... Costas Now roundtables last week, has spent the time since speaking with people on both sides of the fence, reading up on a few things and thinking about how he handled the forum and he's come to a conclusion...maybe writing a blog shouldn't be punishable by death after all. Buzz has been making the rounds, taking a to a few sports blogs recently about the show, his opinions and the reaction. Two such interviews you should check out are over at The Big Lead and The Sporting Blog. In both, Buzz comes ...
Buzz Bissinger interviewed on a BLOG
Published 5/6/2008 by edwzipper at Sports Frog
... Buzz I may not be as famous as you, but I have an audience away from the keyboard, having done stand-up for years and radio for six years. So either I have fooled a lot of people or they are interested in what I have to say. I only wish I had been on that panel because I am like you, "I am a man of passion, and my passion got the better of me." And then I probably would have gotten the better of you in the parking lot too. ...
Pickoff Moves
Published 5/6/2008 by Rob at 6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog
... , ahead of only the lowly Giants (with 106).
On Buzz Bissinger
When a man so directly declares himself opposed to others based, not on the body of their work but the medium in which they ply their trade, that person is, ipso facto, a jackass. To give you a sense of how I think the writing about sports should be practiced, I point my klieg light at Jon Weisman, and recall James Joyce's quote on his own aims, namely, "to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated consciousness of my race". While that amounts to a grand overstatement, and what we do here on the ...
Links The Man Wants You To See
Published 5/7/2008 by El Canon at Rumors and Rants
Buzz Bissinger says he might have overreacted on HBO a while back - The Big Lead Goodbye, Julio Franco. That thing about Jim Kaat and Ted Williams is freaking nuts - FanIQ Blog Top 12 Sports Fandoms that Double as Child Abuse. And I couldn't agree more with number two - Epic Carnival I have to buy a game with DeSean Jackson on the cover in August? Weak - The Sporting Blog Did this girl from UF say she likes to swing? Nice - Busted Coverage Screw the NBA, this kid could have played at IU next ...
The Media Circus
Published 5/7/2008 at JoeSportsFan.com
Last week, author and writer Buzz Bissinger made headlines across the blogosphere with his ‘rambunctious’ appearance on HBO’s Costas Now. After coming off as a stark-raving lunatic who hates all things blogs and believes them to be the Devil’s journalism, Bissinger has since sung a different tune. He apologized on various national radio shows and then spoke with (GASP) a blog. ...
Bissinger's Blog Bashing: Under the Bottom, and Off Target
Published 5/8/2008 by Dan Steinberg at D.C. Sports Bog
... this week focused on Bissinger and blogs. Like several other mainstream types--including Bissinger himself --Shapiro essentially argued that while the head-exploding tone was a bit much, the substance of Bissinger's argument was correct. Coming just a month after the Washington Post attracted a bit of attention for ...
Published 5/9/2008 by Aaron (noreply@blogger.com) at AaronGleeman.com
... Not only did Buzz Bissinger agree to chat with one of those nasty things that he despises so much, he actually came across as legitimately contrite about his appearance on Costas Now. Of course, you might be too after ...
Buzz and the blogs
Published 5/9/2008 by jclay@herald-leader.com at Sidelines
... Here's a Q & A at The Big Lead with Bissinger in which he apologizes (sort of) for his behavior on the HBO show, without exactly repudiating his words. ...
Spartacus is Dead!
Published 5/9/2008 by Joshua Coleman (noreply@blogger.com) at 3 Shades of Blue - A Memphis Grizzlies Blog
I've been contemplating doing this for awhile and it seems that the time is right. With the recent uproar that was created when noted journalist and author Buzz Bissinger attacked Deadspin.com creator (and author in his own right) Will Leitch on Bob Costas' HBO show, I decided that it was time for me to step out from the shadows of anonymity. After all, one of the big issues that the "established media" has with bloggers is that they hide behind usernames of their choice and therefore, don't have the level of accountability that journalists, columnists and ...
Buzzer Beaters - 05/11
Published 5/11/2008 by Ryan at Hoops Addict
... * Less than a week after Buzz Bissinger caused waves in the blogging community for ripping on blogs during his apperance on Bob Costas’ show on HBO, The Big Lead secured an exclusive interview with the talented writer. ...
Our Conversation With Buzz Bissinger [Well, Hello There, Sir]
Published 27 days ago by Will Leitch at Deadspin
... to give interviews to the "respectable" media, making his "points," we felt compelled to talk one last time, to wrap this whole business up. Buzz graciously agreed for a semi-wide-ranging conversation — which has taken place over email over the last week — to be published on the site today. So, here it is. Enjoy. ...
The Brain Leak
Published 22 days ago by Ryan Faller at NationalSportsReview.com Master Site Feed
... I can only begin to imagine the magnitude of the cathartic coma that must have stricken Gawker owner Nick Denton that fateful night back in April, when his golden boy was verbally raped on Costas Now by the bully that is Pulitzer-Prize winning author Buzz Bissinger. ...
Don't take yourself so seriously. Good Lord--"I am a man of passion." Who talks like that? Anyhow, you should be worried about us - the people are choosing, and they are more and more choosing content from those of us with websites that are passionate as well.