Costas Town Hall

[Fenian_Bastard]

http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2008/04/hbos-costas-now-plans-town-hall-style-sports-media-show

That "talk radio" panel seems very full of potential Fail.

 

[imjustagirl]

Braylon Edwards? Am I missing something?

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

He was home the day the phone rang.

 

[imjustagirl]

Thank god Kellen Winslow didn't answer his phone.

 

[GB-Hack]

Braylon Edwards? Am I missing something?

Relatively high profile athlete who, unlike those at the very top of NFL stardom, would agree to sit down and talk about the impact blogs and the internet in general has had on players in their personal lives.

 

[lantaur]

Geez, Dan Patrick and Joe Buck on the same panel? Can this earth handle two smarmy, pompous fools in the same room trying to pontificate at the same time?

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Seriously, what in hell does Joe Buck know about anything except valet parking and how to get to the stadium on time?
What am I going to learn from him?
Why is his input valuable?

 

[Pancamo]

Geez, Dan Patrick and Joe Buck on the same panel? Can this earth handle two smarmy, pompous fools in the same room trying to pontificate at the same time?

Three. Costas.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

A television show on sports journalism run by a sports announcer is not unlikely to have another sports announcer as a contributor. Almost every member of Costas' panels is someone who has done a lot of television appearances. This more than slightly reduces its informative potential, but that's not the object here.

 

[Pastor]

Segment One: Sports Talk Radio. Video package interviews: Chicago radio host Mike North, Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti, WFAN radio hosts Mike & The Mad Dog. Live Panel: NY Giants defensive end Michael Strahan, best selling author and radio host Mitch Albom and WFAN radio host Christopher “Mad Dog” Russo.

Interesting. The same person will be on the panel and in the video interviews. I suspect new information has come out since the interviews in such a way that he needed to return to television.

 

[goalmouth]

Had the greatest sports town hall/panel ever circa 1984 at Tulane: Calvin Hill, Billy Martin, Red Auerbach and moderating at the top of his game, Frank Deford. Goddam glorious is what it was.

 

[hockeybeat]

The panel's collective IQ will be in negative numbers with the presence of Mariotti and Russo

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Seriously, what in hell does Joe Buck know about anything except valet parking and how to get to the stadium on time?
What am I going to learn from him?
Why is his input valuable?

We have a winner.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

xxx

 

[jgmacg]

Anyone watching this?

Buzz Bissinger just chewed through Will Leitch. There's nothing left but a hank of hair and some shirt buttons.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

Strahan crushed Chris Russo.

 

[playthrough]

Anyone watching this?

Buzz Bissinger just chewed through Will Leitch. There's nothing left but a hank of hair and some shirt buttons.

Damn, I would have liked to see that. Please share some details for the non-HBO-subscriber masses!

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

Anyone watching this?

Buzz Bissinger just chewed through Will Leitch. There's nothing left but a hank of hair and some shirt buttons.

Damn, I would have liked to see that. Please share some details for the non-HBO-subscriber masses!

I think he came across as a little wild-eyed and bitter old guy... Facially like Lewis Black meets John Malkovich... but his points were solid.

I just think his presentation was a little ... frothy.

Braylon is one smooth cat.

 

[Cousin Jeffrey]

the only segment i saw in its entirety was the blogs one. braylon edwards was the only one who came off good. leitch was ok, coherent at least, but he had trouble getting his points across; bissinger did tear through leitch, but he was acting like an idiot, making sweeping generalizations ("who's better at writing sports, w.c. heinz or big daddy drew on deadspin?" as if anyone could argue that) and half-assed arguments. he read a few vulgar comments from the commentators, completely out of context. he basically didn't get that deadspin isn't trying to replace newspapers. buzz's first letter to the editor was a missive to mad magazine for daring to impugn richard nixon.

costas was obviously biased against blogs and the internet culture. the video preceding the discussion was good in that it had the firejoemorgan guy, but they relied too much on celebs like wilbon to represent all reporters and sound bites decrying the end of journalism as we know it.

if they cared about real dialogue between real journalists, they wouldn't just put on celebrity journalists like albom and mariotti, they'd have working journalists like posnaski and gordon edes and paul sullivan and ed bouchette. but those guys actually have to work and aren't "names".

 

[hockeybeat]

Saw the post about Strahan crushing Russo. Can anyone go into detail about what was said?