Costas Town Hall

Costas is fucking moron if he can't tell the difference between a blog post and the reader comments.

 

A moron -- or wholly pathetic.

Not to his credit, either way.

 

Wouldn't getting a basic understanding of BLOGS! be a goal during pre-production meetings?

For somebody who is usually praised for his prep work prior to an event, Costas dropped the ball bigtime there.

 

This might sound priceless, appearing on this board where anonymity rules, but I find virtually no value in the "comments" portion of most Web sites when the comments are anonymous.

Maybe the difference is, this is a site where we introduce topics and then bat them around. Many Web sites, particularly mainstream media's and those that try to provide direct alternatives to them (Deadspin, for one), string comments out from what is offered up as legitimate news or commentary. To me, that changes everything.

Doesn't seem as if we get many average Joe Sports Fan types hanging around and venting here. But they're all over the news and the near-news sites.

I really wonder what, of value, would be lost if those commenting couldn't stay anonymous. Or, at least, had to register some sort of handle and stick with it, with their comments reviewed before they showed up on the site.

 

It's a valid point. The man is held in considerable esteem in the business, and there are a number of good reasons why. But this is a remarkable blind spot . . . possibly willful, which is no excuse.

 

The video of Bissinger v Leitch, for those who missed it. Don your ponchos.

http://awfulannouncing.com/

 

The worst thing Bissinger did was give those arrogant schmoes -- and I include Leitsch, who came across very, very badly, unable to defend coherently what he does, worse in the pre-taped stuff where he pretty much admitted that hawking loogies is his professional raison d'etre, and unwilling to credit blogss that actually break news and do real reporting. He now claims to have been "above the fray." Yeah, right. -- something to get blog-triumphal about all day.

 

a few people have mentioned Kellen Winslow......what has he said controversial recently? Or was Whitlock slamming him for some older statements? thx

 

He claimed, in a pre-taped piece, that his kid's cycle crash was covered more roughly than Roethlisberger's was. Said at least part of the reason was racial. Also argued that Jamarcus Russell took more heat about being dumb-- including a leaked Wonderlic test -- than a white QB would have. That's why Whitlock threw Terry Bradshaw at him.

 

Loved it.

 

Very entertaining, thanks for posting.

Bissinger ate him for lunch.