metsblog.com - 4/30/2008
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…in case you missed it last night, Will Leitch of Deadspin.com took part in a ‘roundtable discussion’ about sports blogs alonside Pulitzer Prize-winning author Buzz Bissinger (Friday Night Lights) and Browns WR Braylon Edwards, hosted by Bob Costas, live last night on HBO’s CostasNow, which also featured separate but similar discussions with other guests regarding print, talk radio and ...
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Buzz: YOU are Full of Excrement
Mets Today —
Not you, my friendly reader … I’m referring to H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger, who by now you may have heard went postal on Will Leitch of Deadspin during the CostasNow show on HBO. If you didn’t see it, the video segment 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 some choice words. In addition, Joe Posnanski wrote a long but enjoyable treatise on the “roundtable ...
Weighing In On Blogs
Intentional Foul —
Because of a long Doctor’s appointment yesterday, I didn’t really get to weigh in on the HBO/Bob Costas/Buzz Bissinger/Will Leitch hoopla that went on over at HBO on Tuesday night. However, when I got to work, my Google Reader was more than happy to catch me up on what I missed.
And boy, there was a lot.
As for my feelings, well, I’ve been in this industry (the Internet, not sports blogging) for a little while now and the only thing I can say is people like Buzz Bissinger and Bob ...
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awfulannouncing.blogspot.com 4/30/2008 — So I actually decided to not watch the "event" live so I wouldn't post any rash opinions on the subject. I actually tried watching the whole thing at midnight and take it all in as an unbiased person, and here's what I came up with..... 1. Blogs ...
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royalsblog.kansascity.com 5/1/2008 — (OK, we'll probably be back to the longer posts soon enough. But just had a quick thought and some links for the afternoon.)
Don't know how many of you saw the Bob Costas town-hall meeting thing last night on HBO, but it's interesting to me for ...
So, about the HBO show on sports media
yankees.lhblogs.com 5/1/2008 — A bunch of people have e-mailed to ask what I thought of the sports media special hosted by Bob Costas on HBO, particularly the blog segment.
Well, I thought it was a big waste of time. They broached all these far-ranging topics and tried to find ...
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