There’s been some talk by the Golden Blogs and Excuse Me For My Voice about the Bissinger-Deadspin huzzah! Now it’s my turn (I’ll provide a healthy set of links later on).
I admit, I’m a long-time Deadspin reader (although not as frequently as before). Unlike my fellow compatriots, I’m not going to be so harsh on the sports site, because what it advertises in, it delivers pretty regularly.
The analysis is shallow, the irreverence is high. Like they said, there’s no access or discretion, so everything is essentially third-party. And enough people eat it up, and start replicating the gossip moniker on their sites (with varying degrees of success).
Deadspin is a ripe target. Matt Leinart might not approve, but there is an audience out there for this stuff, so athletes are going to have to embrace that this is a part of their lives. Many of us enjoy the unfettered access and the casual way in which we deal with media personalities and athletes who have been closed off to us for so long.
Too many media people have built up our athletes as gods or devils, so the inevitable counterreaction was something like Deadspin, which brings them back to earth. And I like that. Athletes are humans—treat them that way.
Now, being painted in the same light as something like Deadspin DOES bother me a bit, because that site represents only a little of what I try to write about. Other than a few thrashings during Cal’s epic collapse, I haven’t openly mocked or screwed with anyone—things happen, especially in college sports—and eventually I let it go. Which is more than I can say for a few media-types
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