remember that time pants cooked the food you like, hosted the tailgate, let you stay over night, visited you too often at school, learned how to text, took you to practice, made you feel uncomfortable when asking you about a gf or bf, cried when you left home, loved you more than should be possible. you probably do. cause it happens everyday.
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there was an interesting segment on bob costas’ hbo program last week about sports blogs. it drew quite a bit of attention because of how buzz bissinger, the pulitzer prize author who wrote friday night lights, reacted towards sports and his treatment of will leitch, author of deadspin and four books. i think it’s an important topic with the ongoing the internet/blogs are killing newspapers debate.
you can watch the video from the show here: link.
the follow up to the show is continuing even now - leitch on the best damn sports show, an interview with buzz bissinger on thebiglead.com, and a reaction from orson swindle, who writes everydayshouldbesaturday.com.
i think orson swindle is possibly the most talented writer of all the bloggers i read. most of the stuff he writes about really has no interest to me. but i read it because he has a special way of expressing himself that i wish i had. in the following paragraphs, he sums up my viewpoint on sports and why there is tension between bloggers and the mainstream media:
How does a person get to do this? And think this sick, perverted way about sports? Easy. I know sports doesn’t fucking matter. At. All. It’s dada, a delightful distraction, something not to be underestimated in its importance, but in the end the gravitas wasted on the Masters or the World Series or the BCS Championship game is just that: wasted, and deliberately so. If most people were to pay attention to the really, really important things in life, they’d spear their eyeballs out with cocktail forks and go stand over there in the tryout line for Equus.
Distraction is a necessity in life. I’m not questioning that. What I question is devoting such seriousness to it, as the Alboms, Bissingers, and other Brahmins of sportswriting would have it. (Back off, Kornheiser and Wilbon. You have no part in this fight, being normal people seemingly unwarped by access and privilege.)
i think both sides overreacted. bissinger was out of line to treat leitch as he did, and the sports blogosphere just wanted to go after someone else for lashing out against blogs. it’s still all so strange to me that many people fail to acknowledge the importance of blogs in today’s media. it’s become normal for people to create blogs and to write and share their opinions or stories. at the least, let’s not get so upset about it.
