Woody should be glad Doyel isn't his editor ...

Edited for brevity and clarity.

 

In the neverending battle of the craptastic versus the craptacular, the only real loser is the English language.

 

Completely different audience (you know, prep reporter rather than GD) ... A friend of mine was written up at work last fall when he wrote an entry on his prep blog and mentioned a conversation he had with a reporter at another paper. Didn't run it by said reporter, who saw it and asked to be removed from it. My friend's SE caught wind (smaller paper) when the other reporter's SE sent an e-mail also asking. Said conversation wasn't 'on the record,' which was true.

 

Hard though it may be to believe, I think there are still some sports fans out there intelligent enough, and who read newspapers, and know who the best columnists used to be.

 

It's easy to rip a guy's lede in a blog ... which requires no lede. It's one thing to be a media critic, it's another to be a member of the media that's critical of his brethren. This kind of stuff always comes back to bite you. And besides, it smacks of jealousy. Stick to what you do best, Gregg ... and hop over to yet another job. The guy's played on more teams than Mike Morgan!

 

Woody's lede: pretty cliched

Gregg's blog: very lame.

 

I sit here pondering.
Greg Doyel.
Asshat or Dickburger?
I'll get back to y'all.

 

assburger, mayhaps, f_b?

 

sounds like a poll subject.

 

I'm with **gasp** Hondo on this. It may come as a shock to some in the industry but there are a lot of people who do care about good writing and would agree that this lede would have been bounced from a 20,000 weekly. It's not just a horrible cliche, it's an outdated cliche.

What Doyel did was incredibly bush league and unprofessional but hey, maybe he just can't stand Paige.

Having seen/heard Woody interviewed a few times, it's not surprising. Guy comes across as a first class dick.