by SportsGirl365, Strike Zones and End Zones
Let’s face it. Blogger fights are lame. But if you feel the need to engage another sports blogger in verbal combat, here are few Do's and Don't's.
DO make sure you’re prepared for the backlash. A site may look shitty, but you never know how deep a blogger rolls. Us sports bloggers are gangster.
DON’T hit and run. Making a statement about another blogger and then moderating your own comments is the equivalent of hitting a batter on purpose and then hiding behind the umpire. Don’t be that guy.
DO use tranny hooker references often. They’re funny.
DON’T make fun of a blogger’s spelling or typos. Nothing screams “I have no comeback” like calling someone out for spelling douchebag wrong.
DO make sure you’re picking on a big enough blogger if you’re trying to increase site traffic. Making fun of me will give you 30 site hits. Making fun of Will at Deadspin will give you 3,000.
DON’T make fun of Will at Deadspin. (Editor's note: The Emo haircut is gone, so it's not fun now anyway.)
DO make sure that you’re both on the same page. If Blogger A is making a joke of it and Blogger B is taking himself too seriously, then Blogger B just looks like a jackass.
DON’T take yourself too seriously. We’re sports bloggers for chrissakes. What the hell do WE know? Besides, we’re usually drunk and/or high. I’m a little drunk right now, actually.
DO recognize when people are making fun of you.
DON’T spend 30 minutes researching an educated response to a commenter who simply called you a douchebag. Especially if they spelled it right.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
How to Have a Blogger Fight: Sports Edition
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Ha! I always enjoy a good tranny hooker joke.
Now you got me all nervous and questioning my own spelling of "douchebag."
Is it right? Spell check says no, but I was SOOOOO confident just a few short minutes ago.
You spelled it like I would, but was it only so that you could make fun of me when I agreed with you!?!
Damn you and your douchebaggery, SportsGirl365... damn you to hell!!
The first rule of Sports Blogger Fight Club... is that we do not talk about Sports Blogger Fight Club.
Somewhere the Shyster is curled up in the fetal position, crying, and sucking his thumb...
Yes, it's been a terrible, terrible day for me. I thought for a while there I couldn't go on, but then I realized that I take life so seriously that I couldn't bear to end mine at such a young age.
But seriously folks, for people accusing me of being humorless and, well, overly serious, you all seem to be dwelling on this way more than me.
I said this to Kyle Smith in an email a few minutes ago, but I'll repeat it here: whether any of you all want to believe me, I think most of what you guys do is good, interesting, and funny stuff. Even Sarah's. Based on the number of people with high profile blogs affiliated with EC, you guys are going to eventually be receiving a lot of coverage from outsiders, whether it be late-to-the party folks still trying to understand Deadspin/KSK/EC style sports blogging or someone else. When that happens, you're going to get criticism, because everyone who is successful does.
While I understand why Sarah took issue with my criticism of her stuff (criticism I stand by, though upon reflection I regret using the word "hack"), calling in the cavalry or the gang or whatever to make personal attacks the critic comes off way too defensive.
Like anything else I say, this is just my opinion.
Shyster
Speaking as a hack who takes myself too seriously... blog fights are time not spent blogging.
Or watching sports, or pulling my pud, or waxing the cat. You read criticism, you shrug or laugh, you get on with life.
I'll close by noting that since Shyster hasn't specifically called out my work as wonderful, he licks taints for spare change. No offense.
Like anything else I say, this is pure and unadulterated fact.
Sarah obviously doesn't need us to defend her - she's fully capable of that on her own. I don't think that anyone here would have cared about criticising her work - or any of our own. What we took issue to - and Shyster has now admitted to regretting was the use of the term "hack."
It's one thing to not like what someone wrote (hell most people hate what I write) it's a completely different animal to call them a hack. If everytime you wrote something that people didn't agree with/enjoy they called you a hack you'd get upset as well.
Blogger fights are the online equivalent of "my dad can beat up your dad" schoolyard scraps. They're immature, counter-productive and unwinnable.
That said, my dad can most certainly kick your dad's ass.
My Dad is a pussy. There, I said it.
Agreed that blogger fights are a waste. May Sarah and Epic Carnival enjoy multitudes of success.
And may those 30 extra hits I got be the difference between practicing law all my life and blogging in ultra-serious mode.
Dude, can you guys feel the love in here or WHAT?!
:)
Feel it, baby.
You aren't the only lawyer out there Shyster, stop taking yourself so seriously.
Boy there are a lot of lawyers/sports bloggers. My doctor, who writes a scatological celebrity blog, said that it's amazing how many people on the Internet are tremendous successes. I'm so glad the upper 1% of society all have keyboards!!
We all hate our jobs that much and/or have that much free time
It won't be too long before Epic Carnival vs. Fanhouse is like the East-West Coast rapper wars. Not really, but it's still pretty fun to act like we're hard. Especially when we're all hiding behind our keyboards.
Anyway, enjoyed this one quite a bit.
Pacman-
Shotgun on being Notorious B.I.G. but I don't want to die.
PLZ-KTHNX
So what's the deal with airplane peanuts?
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