stop the circle jerk

At what point in the short history of sports blogging did it become acceptable and trendy to start interviewing one another? Not that I am complaining, well actually I am, but these interviews do bring back fond memories of when the MSM did the same thing. Who can forget the time Frank DeFord interviewed Peter Gammons? Man, that was good stuff. And remember that crazy interview that Jason Whitlock did with Mike Lupica? Bet they'd like to have that one back!

I mean who doesn't want to know the inner workings of a guy who posts on announcers and broadcasters. The announcers and broadcasters aren't the news, the guy who blogs about them is!

And we were all just chomping at the bit to get an inside look at the guy who writes a football blog for ESPN. Shit, T.O. and Randy Moss aren't stories ... The guy who writes about them is!

Even better, we were all dying to know the secrets held inside the mind of a female (a female!?) baseball blogger? Man, I am so glad we got to the bottom of all that. I am just surprised the Associated Press didn't pick that story up, it's such a scoop.

Bloggers ... get over yourselves. The next time you see Rick Telander interviewing T.J. Simers, then you can feel free to start interviewing each other. Until then, let's remember that you are not news (or interesting).

we wouldn't do any blogger

One tip we've received quite a few times from readers is a piece written on sporting blog Epic Carnival that pitted two female sports bloggers against each other in a "Who Would You Do" contest. The emails we've received voiced a degree of outrage that a blog would objectify a woman, let alone a peer.

Two things we don't quite understand:

~Sports blogs (the primary tipsters we heard from were sports bloggers) complaining about objectification? When 90% of sports blogs feature pictures of scantily clad women next to posts about sledding or other things completely irrelevant to it?

~Why you would say "they're not public figures" to a site that believes that if bloggers want to be taken seriously as journalists that they should have a light of scrutiny and mockery cast upon them the same way a sporto might do to a Joe Morgan or an everyone at ESPN.

Our biggest problem with the piece was that it wasn't that interesting, felt way too long and too soft, and was no different than any other misogynistic sporto or celebrity blog post. If done well, the idea could have been a poignant cap on the self-aggrandizing sports blogtown that interviews each other and incessantly compliments each other on a job blandly done.

But as for sexualizing two women who are being sexualized for money by Fanhouse? Your outrage seems misguided.

we really don't care about your fantasy football league

We thought this was a trend that died with doing the Macarena. We thought we had an understanding. We thought you knew. Don't you get it? No one cares about your fantasy football league.

We were wrong.

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If we wanted to know about your fantasy football league ... wait, why the fuck would we want to know about your fantasy football league? If we were interested in reading about fantasy football, guess what we'd do? We'd visit a fucking fantasy football site, not your site. There's only about 3,002,876 fantasy football sites available to us, so we don't need your advice, but, hey, thanks for trying.

Oh yeah, we also don't care how you did gambling or who you're picking this week either.

So the next time you get the itch to post something about your league, think again, be wise, and post a YouTube video of someone getting hit in the nutsack instead. That we actually do want to see.