Doyle vs. Finebaum. Let's get it on!

Look at the big brain on Shaggy!

 

What a tough guy. You all ought to be quivering and quaking.

 

I guess we have to take him seriously now since he traded in his K.D. Lang glasses for an Affliction starter kit.

The level of man you're dealing with here can easily be summed up by the fact that his general response to criticism of any kind is usually "You wanna fight?"

Doyel is a guy who was likely made fun of for being an epic loser for the first 2-3 decades of his life and then got a job writing for CBSSports.com at which point his "balls" dropped and he started getting confrontational with everyone.

No one thinks you're scary, no one thinks you're threatening, no one thinks you're going to write them into oblivion.

Buy as many Affliction shirts as you can. Fill your entertainment center with MMA instructional DVDs. It doesn't matter, Gregg. At the end of the day, everyone knows you're a joke.

 

Every time the Doyle conversation comes up, I think of a long-ago conversation between two veteran reporters in my newsroom discussing a completely over-the-top local talk radio jock.

Reporter 1: Your mistake is taking him seriously. It's an act, an on-air persona designed to drive ratings, and a pretty successful one, given that we're talking about him again.

Reporter 2: No, that's where you're mistaken. Let's say I can make a ton of money by pretending to be the guy at the carnival who eats feces. It's a complete act, but it gets me a ton of attention, and I make a really good living at it. I make more money than the ringmaster and the lion tamer and become nationally famous as the guy who eats feces, and I'm laughing all the way to the bank, because I don't really eat feces. Yet, for the rest of my life, most people will really believe I made a living eating feces. At some point, my kid is going to Google me and be left wondering. Yeah, it was all an act, and I made good money, but - in the end - act or not, I was the guy who ate feces.

Reporter 1: Yeah, I guess I can't argue that he's always going to be (local radio host), World Class a@@hole to most folks, even if he's really not.

 

Fixed... they are two of a kind

 

At what point do you say, "You know what, self, I might be a total asswipe. I am a fortysomething who has a Travis Bickel 'do, I study the paper with a steely scowl and there's a chance that I am a menace and a turd and a scourge, in my very own 'unique' way."

 

LJB, I'd say Doyel has reached that point and Finebaum passed it years ago.