Doyel interview on thebiglead.com

[Inky_Wretch]

http://thebiglead.com/?p=1302

Q: Deadspin, the sports arm of the most popular blog corporation on the planet, Gawker Media, knocked you on your ass recently, basically telling you to chillax with the mean mailbag shirt. We never saw a response. You got one?

For the record, I enjoyed the Deadspin thing. I wouldn't say they knocked me on my ass, and not because I'm trying to be some tough guy, but because I'm not sure they were trying to knock me on my ass. If they'd wanted to, they could and would have. It was more of some “chillax” advice than a rip job. The rip job came later, when SportsJournalists.com got hold of the Deadspin item and declared open season on me for a few days...

WTF does "chillax" mean?

 

[slappy4428]

WTF does he mean for a few days?

 

[fmrsped]

WTF does he mean SportsJournalists.com?

 

[shecky]

Maybe outing myself, but I cover UConn. I was in Louisville and at Indiana when he was there. He was a topic of conversation, but conversation did not stop in the rooms. That's a bit of self-important blather.

A while prior to the Indiana game, I was asked to write something about Calhoun's charity work. He does a lot of it, as most coaches do, around the holidays. It was a typical holiday fluff piece. At Indiana, Doyel sidles up to me without my knowing and says, "He's not a great man." I had no idea what the fork he was talking about. It registered about an hour later.

I never wrote that Calhoun was a great man. Gregg has some hard-on for Calhoun, which puts him in the majority. I have no problems with Calhoun, aside from the occasional run-in that comes from being a beat guy. For some reason, Gregg decided to kick me in the nuts. Fine.

I've known Gregg for a while and I like him personally. I actually consider him a friend. Not a big fan of the nasty tones he takes in his writing. It comes off as childish to me, but it works for him. I certainly think his obvious talent (at least to me) could often be put to better use.

 

[slappy4428]

Maybe outing myself, but I cover UConn. I was in Louisville and at Indiana when he was there. He was a topic of conversation, but conversation did not stop in the rooms. That's a bit of self-important blather.

A while prior to the Indiana game, I was asked to write something about Calhoun's charity work. He does a lot of it, as most coaches do, around the holidays. It was a typical holiday fluff piece. At Indiana, Doyel sidles up to me without my knowing and says, "He's not a great man." I had no idea what the fork he was talking about. It registered about an hour later.

I never wrote that Calhoun was a great man. Gregg has some hard-on for Calhoun, which puts him in the majority. I have no problems with Calhoun, aside from the occasional run-in that comes from being a beat guy. For some reason, Gregg decided to kick me in the nuts. Fine.

I've known Gregg for a while and I like him personally. I actually consider him a friend. Not a big fan of the nasty tones he takes in his writing. It comes off as childish to me, but it works for him. I certainly think his obvious talent (at least to me) could often be put to better use.

WTF are you doing breaking the pattern? (good stuff tho)

 

[MCEchan36]

http://thebiglead.com/?p=1302

Q: Deadspin, the sports arm of the most popular blog corporation on the planet, Gawker Media, knocked you on your ass recently, basically telling you to chillax with the mean mailbag shirt. We never saw a response. You got one?

For the record, I enjoyed the Deadspin thing. I wouldn’t say they knocked me on my ass, and not because I’m trying to be some tough guy, but because I’m not sure they were trying to knock me on my ass. If they’d wanted to, they could and would have. It was more of some “chillax” advice than a rip job. The rip job came later, when SportsJournalists.com got hold of the Deadspin item and declared open season on me for a few days...

WTF does "chillax" mean?

"Chillax" is the combination of chill and relax. It's a stupid word invented by hip-hop or pop artists trying to sound cool. And, of course, it sounds even lamer when some fake tough-guy tries to use it.

 

[Idaho]

Chillax is, IIRC, the product of some Radio Disney DJ, Don Crabtree or something like that.

And I happen to like the word, especially when my 4-year-old uses it on her 6-year-old sister.

 

[PeteyPirate]

Hilarious

Q: Give us the coolest three names in your cell phone. They don't necessarily have to be people that will call you back.

Oh — a free pass to drop names. Woohoo! Um … nobody cool, like Michael Silver, is in my cell phone.

 

[Pringle]

Hilarious

Q: Give us the coolest three names in your cell phone. They don’t necessarily have to be people that will call you back.

Oh — a free pass to drop names. Woohoo! Um … nobody cool, like Michael Silver, is in my cell phone.

Silver's Colts feature this week had him sitting at a steakhouse with the Indianapolis Colts. It's pathological. He can't help himself.

 

[whatgives]

I've worked with Gregg, and he's a good guy ... when he hasn't lost his mind.

 

[Double J]

Is that your way of saying he's never a good guy?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

From my limited dealings with Doyel, I always thought he was a good guy...