Doyel interview on thebiglead.com

[Inky_Wretch]

http://thebiglead.com/?p=1302

Q: Deadspin, the sports arm of the most popular blog corporation on the planet, Gawker Media, knocked you on your ass recently, basically telling you to chillax with the mean mailbag ****. We never saw a response. You got one?

For the record, I enjoyed the Deadspin thing. I wouldn’t say they knocked me on my ass, and not because I’m trying to be some tough guy, but because I’m not sure they were trying to knock me on my ass. If they’d wanted to, they could and would have. It was more of some “chillax” advice than a rip job. The rip job came later, when SportsJournalists.com got hold of the Deadspin item and declared open season on me for a few days...

WTF does "chillax" mean?

 

[slappy4428]

WTF does he mean for a few days?

 

[fmrsped]

WTF does he mean SportsJournalists.com?

 

[shecky]

Maybe outing myself, but I cover UConn. I was in Louisville and at Indiana when he was there. He was a topic of conversation, but conversation did not stop in the rooms. That's a bit of self-important blather.

A while prior to the Indiana game, I was asked to write something about Calhoun's charity work. He does a lot of it, as most coaches do, around the holidays. It was a typical holiday fluff piece. At Indiana, Doyel sidles up to me without my knowing and says, "He's not a great man." I had no idea what the **** he was talking about. It registered about an hour later.

I never wrote that Calhoun was a great man. Gregg has some hard-on for Calhoun, which puts him in the majority. I have no problems with Calhoun, aside from the occasional run-in that comes from being a beat guy. For some reason, Gregg decided to kick me in the nuts. Fine.

I've known Gregg for a while and I like him personally. I actually consider him a friend. Not a big fan of the nasty tones he takes in his writing. It comes off as childish to me, but it works for him. I certainly think his obvious talent (at least to me) could often be put to better use.

 

[slappy4428]

Maybe outing myself, but I cover UConn. I was in Louisville and at Indiana when he was there. He was a topic of conversation, but conversation did not stop in the rooms. That's a bit of self-important blather.

A while prior to the Indiana game, I was asked to write something about Calhoun's charity work. He does a lot of it, as most coaches do, around the holidays. It was a typical holiday fluff piece. At Indiana, Doyel sidles up to me without my knowing and says, "He's not a great man." I had no idea what the **** he was talking about. It registered about an hour later.

I never wrote that Calhoun was a great man. Gregg has some hard-on for Calhoun, which puts him in the majority. I have no problems with Calhoun, aside from the occasional run-in that comes from being a beat guy. For some reason, Gregg decided to kick me in the nuts. Fine.

I've known Gregg for a while and I like him personally. I actually consider him a friend. Not a big fan of the nasty tones he takes in his writing. It comes off as childish to me, but it works for him. I certainly think his obvious talent (at least to me) could often be put to better use.

WTF are you doing breaking the pattern? (good stuff tho)

 

[MCEchan36]

http://thebiglead.com/?p=1302

Q: Deadspin, the sports arm of the most popular blog corporation on the planet, Gawker Media, knocked you on your ass recently, basically telling you to chillax with the mean mailbag ****. We never saw a response. You got one?

For the record, I enjoyed the Deadspin thing. I wouldn’t say they knocked me on my ass, and not because I’m trying to be some tough guy, but because I’m not sure they were trying to knock me on my ass. If they’d wanted to, they could and would have. It was more of some “chillax” advice than a rip job. The rip job came later, when SportsJournalists.com got hold of the Deadspin item and declared open season on me for a few days...

WTF does "chillax" mean?

"Chillax" is the combination of chill and relax. It's a stupid word invented by hip-hop or pop artists trying to sound cool. And, of course, it sounds even lamer when some fake tough-guy tries to use it.

 

[Idaho]

Chillax is, IIRC, the product of some Radio Disney DJ, Don Crabtree or something like that.

And I happen to like the word, especially when my 4-year-old uses it on her 6-year-old sister.

 

[PeteyPirate]

Hilarious

Q: Give us the coolest three names in your cell phone. They don’t necessarily have to be people that will call you back.

Oh — a free pass to drop names. Woohoo! Um … nobody cool, like Michael Silver, is in my cell phone.

 

[Pringle]

Hilarious

Q: Give us the coolest three names in your cell phone. They don’t necessarily have to be people that will call you back.

Oh — a free pass to drop names. Woohoo! Um … nobody cool, like Michael Silver, is in my cell phone.

Silver's Colts feature this week had him sitting at a steakhouse with the Indianapolis Colts. It's pathological. He can't help himself.

 

[whatgives]

I've worked with Gregg, and he's a good guy ... when he hasn't lost his mind.

 

[Double J]

Is that your way of saying he's never a good guy?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

From my limited dealings with Doyel, I always thought he was a good guy...

 

[Lester Bangs]

He is a good guy. He's found a schtick, plain and simple.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Don't know Gregg Doyel. But I have some serious problems with the "I'm not a jerk, but I play one on the Internet" concept. A columnist's opinions ought to be as true to himself as the facts he uses are true. Otherwise, he or she is a fraud.

 

[Sxysprtswrtr]

Don't know Gregg Doyel. But I have some serious problems with the "I'm not a jerk, but I play one on the Internet" concept. A columnist's opinions ought to be as true to himself as the facts he uses are true. Otherwise, he or she is a fraud.

Shocker -- another thread about Doyel.

But Michael_Gee - don't you think most readers can see through the transparent schtick? Or maybe it's me looking through my journalistic glasses, but it seems obvious Doyel does what he does to get a rise out of folks.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

If they see through it, what's the point? If the purpose is to get a rise out of the ones too dumb to see through it, that strikes me as meaningless cruelty.

It may be, hope not, but may be, my columnizing days are done. I can live with this epitaph, "He never ****ed anyone over just for fun."

 

[da man]

That's outstanding Michael. I, too, have never met Mr. Doyel, so his column persona is the only thing I have to judge him by. And that says he is a first-class ass. If people believe that's what he's really like, he has no one to blame but himself. Your column should tell me what you believe. Otherwise, it's a clown show.

 

[Lester Bangs]

That's outstanding Michael. I, too, have never met Mr. Doyel, so his column persona is the only thing I have to judge him by. And that says he is a first-class ass. If people believe that's what he's really like, he has no one to blame but himself. Your column should tell me what you believe. Otherwise, it's a clown show.

I think he would hope you'd differentiate between his column and his mailbag.

 

[Montezuma's Revenge]

That's outstanding Michael. I, too, have never met Mr. Doyel, so his column persona is the only thing I have to judge him by. And that says he is a first-class ass. If people believe that's what he's really like, he has no one to blame but himself. Your column should tell me what you believe. Otherwise, it's a clown show.

I think he would hope you'd differentiate between his column and his mailbag.

Why?

 

[Lester Bangs]

Just from reading, he appears to actually write standard columns, without the snarky stuff. Then there is his mailbag ...