PODCAST: ON THE DL
PODCAST: ON THE DL
Welcome to Episode 300. We’re presenting it in three parts. This is part one of three.
Why three parts? Well, we decided to try and do a three-hour podcast. And that’d be a pretty hefty download for people. So we break it up in to hour blocks to make the show a little easier to download and consume. We hope you stick around the whole time and listen to some of our favorite people in sports.
Look, this is a really long show, and I’d love to do a full detailed recap of the entire thing, but it’s just too much writing and, honestly, too much to remember. So here’s a recap, best I can do.
• Nick and I talk about FoxSports.com’s Lunch with Benefits venture, including ‘The College Experiment.’ Thanks to Jimmy Traina for pointing out how terrible it is. And it’s more terrible than you can imagine. It’s just not funny. At all. And that’s the first rule of funny....be funny.
• ESPN’s Trey Wingo is first up on the cavalcade of guests. We discuss what the biggest storyline in the NFL season thus far, and Wingo thinks the biggest story might just be the fact that the Colts are somehow flying under the radar. Wingo feels the Saints have been the bigger story, and the turnover in coaches and receivers in Indy makes their undefeated run that much more impressive.
We obviously talk about the Colts and Saints and get into why the Patriots have this lore over people still – Berman called them the de-facto champions last week, AFTER they had lost to Miami.
We discuss Brett Favre, and get into how a show like NFL Live covers Favre without making the coverage the same week after week. Look how old he is! Look how good he’s playing! Is there a struggle, as a show that covers the league, to keep the information fresh while balancing the fact that, really, you have to cover Favre all the time?
We discuss concussions and how serious the former players think it is compared to when they played. And we talk about Randy Moss taking plays off. Isn’t that old news? And per Wingo, the talk of Moss not giving full effort may not even be fair this time.
• Nick is back to discuss Chris Johnson’s claim that Ted Ginn was supposed to race him and didn’t show up. I choose not to run! How great is it that two NFL players would call each other out for a race? Can’t they bring back those skills shows?
This then leads to a conversation about the Pro Bowl and if putting it the week before the Super Bowl is a good idea. Personally, I’d rather see a race. Fastest guy on each team lines up and....go.
• Jay Busbee of Yahoo’s Devil Ball Golf and From the Marbles joins the show to talk about Tiger Woods latest news. First, we actually talk a little bit about Danica Patrick’s move to NASCAR and how important that will be for the sport. Will there be backlash, and is NASCAR a sport that really wants to expand, or is it like hockey where expansion may not work in certain markets and you run the risk of alienating your die-hard fans.
Speaking of alienating fans, we talk about Tiger, How can we not? And how can Busbee not? We discuss what the Tiger news has been like for his traffic and how Yahoo has covered the news when compared to, say, the gossip sites. Does he have to keep the story on the golf side of things or has this just gotten to the point of covering everything because the story has gotten so amazingly huge.
Have golf sites that stopped covering Tiger in lieu of actual golf news done a disservice to their reader, or is avoiding the masses -- much like Tiger’s galleries on the course -- to focus on golf matters that don’t involve sleeping with half of America.
Are there any national media people in Tiger’s circle? Is there anyone who is able to get through to the guy?
And what about this HGH talk? Is this something that plagues the entire sport or is this just Tiger? And is it even true and/or fair to report? Last, does it really matter? In baseball we have issue with PEDs because there are so many records and the playing field, throughout history, should be level. But in golf, there’s one record that matters and one person who is trying to break it. If everyone is doing drugs, and the current field is level, who cares if a guy pops some HGH to help his knee or takes Ritalin to focus a little more? It’s not the Long Drive championship, right?
Thanks for listening. Don’t forget to download parts two and three!
Thursday, December 17, 2009
On the DL 300 - Part 1 of 3