These Might Help Doyel With His Premature Self Congratulation
As expected and posted here this morning, CBS Sports Columnist Gregg Doyel used his platform today to try to rip Arkansas fans for Hat Gate 2010.
For those who don’t know, Doyel, prides himself on being the loudest of loudmouths. He often blasts people and then hides behind space limitations (ON THE INTERNET!) as an excuse for not doing his due diligence.
Before he posted his column on this issue, today, I put the over/under for glaring errors and omissions in his column at 8.5 and took the “Over”. That was easy money.
Now, on to giving Doyel some of his own medicine (except, in addition to blasting Doyel without trying to get his side of the story, I actually did some column prep).
You may recall Doyel took Hog Fans to task at the end of the Mississippi Coach’s Reign of Terror, here, and bragged about not caring to know all the facts. He described everyone involved in Text Gate–including Frank Broyles and Mitch Mustain–with terms like Pimps, Whores and Johns–and did the obligatory dropping of a few 4-letter words so he could sound like an internet tough guy (What the HELL, why does he do that? What a DAMN JACKASS).
The good folks at Deadspin summed it up in 2008 much better than I, and probably shed some light on why Doyel is so angry. I mean, if I was as *ahem* “diminuative” as Doyel and my head looked like a human phallic symbol, I would be angry, too. (I dare you to not laugh at that pic)
Unfortunately (in a way) though, today, Doyel blew it on many levels. This should have been in his wheelhouse. He should have been able to milk this issue into plenty of additional faux celebrity TV and radio appearances. But, he broke a Cardinal Rule of Shock Jock, Internet Tough Guy Journalism: Don’t sing it, bring it.
Prior to posting the column, Doyel was pretty proud of himself, Tweeting:
greggdoyelcbs Column coming. I just hit Arkansas fans so hard, I didn’t even feel it. Like hitting a 300-yard drive. Literally felt nothing. Pure.
AND
And remember Arkansas fans when you write hate e-mails it is @greggdoyelcbs not Doyle.
(I guess Doyel doesn’t think Twitter is dumb, anymore.)
Well if that column passes for hitting us hard, Doyel might want to change his name from Gregg Doyel to Glass Joe. Wait, I’m sorry–let me use Doyel’s preferred spelling– Glazz Joi.
And, in addition to suffering from a little premature self-congratulation, Doyel also, as expected, failed do his homework. He ridiculed people, like KAKS GM Dan Storrs, without taking the time to get his version of events or lookinf into some of Ms. Gork’s admissions (including, among others, the fact that about one month into a job working for Hogs Sports Radio she lamented, on a public social networking site that she was covering the Razorbacks and not the Gators and did so despite a strict ban of any use of such sites at practice)
He also came up a little short of full disclosure in the column. Although his CBS bio informs us that he is a Florida Gator alum, Doyel didn’t mention it in his column (You’ve gotta save that space in the internet!)
But, slapdash journalism is Doyel’s calling card. He isn’t worried about facts. He doesn’t want to get the story right or form his opinions based on all the facts. He wants to become part of the story, as he proved in his Tweets leading up to his latest digital disappointment.
Worse than Doyel, though, are wannabe Doyels like NWA columnist Scott Faldon–you know, guys that overcompensate with full, trimmed beards, probably live in their mom’s basement at age 42 and have breathless man-crushes on people like Doyel.
These are these same people who Tweet things like this: (as Faldon did, today)
Hitting refresh repeatedly, waiting @greggdoyelcbs column on hat-gate. Agree, disagree, Doyel is always great read.
AND
@greggdoyelcbs Hell, I’m getting Hate Tweets just for RTing you. You’re that good.
Until Doyel’s schtick runs its course and he inevitably ends up selling life insurance in Roswell, GA, and bragging about the good ole days when he wasn’t scared to say anything, he will always have his lap dogs like Faldon. But, with each hot, steaming mess of Wash, Rinse & Repeat editorialism, Doyel is being exposed for what he is–a yapping little twerp that is all sizzle, and no steak.
The Butler Did It: You Can’t Spell Gregg Doyel Without the GD
Posted by Adam Butler on August 18, 2010
These Might Help Doyel With His Premature Self Congratulation
As expected and posted here this morning, CBS Sports Columnist Gregg Doyel used his platform today to try to rip Arkansas fans for Hat Gate 2010.
For those who don’t know, Doyel, prides himself on being the loudest of loudmouths. He often blasts people and then hides behind space limitations (ON THE INTERNET!) as an excuse for not doing his due diligence.
Before he posted his column on this issue, today, I put the over/under for glaring errors and omissions in his column at 8.5 and took the “Over”. That was easy money.
Now, on to giving Doyel some of his own medicine (except, in addition to blasting Doyel without trying to get his side of the story, I actually did some column prep).
You may recall Doyel took Hog Fans to task at the end of the Mississippi Coach’s Reign of Terror, here, and bragged about not caring to know all the facts. He described everyone involved in Text Gate–including Frank Broyles and Mitch Mustain–with terms like Pimps, Whores and Johns–and did the obligatory dropping of a few 4-letter words so he could sound like an internet tough guy (What the HELL, why does he do that? What a DAMN JACKASS).
The good folks at Deadspin summed it up in 2008 much better than I, and probably shed some light on why Doyel is so angry. I mean, if I was as *ahem* “diminuative” as Doyel and my head looked like a human phallic symbol, I would be angry, too. (I dare you to not laugh at that pic)
Unfortunately (in a way) though, today, Doyel blew it on many levels. This should have been in his wheelhouse. He should have been able to milk this issue into plenty of additional faux celebrity TV and radio appearances. But, he broke a Cardinal Rule of Shock Jock, Internet Tough Guy Journalism: Don’t sing it, bring it.
Prior to posting the column, Doyel was pretty proud of himself, Tweeting:
greggdoyelcbs Column coming. I just hit Arkansas fans so hard, I didn’t even feel it. Like hitting a 300-yard drive. Literally felt nothing. Pure.
AND
And remember Arkansas fans when you write hate e-mails it is @greggdoyelcbs not Doyle.
(I guess Doyel doesn’t think Twitter is dumb, anymore.)
Well if that column passes for hitting us hard, Doyel might want to change his name from Gregg Doyel to Glass Joe. Wait, I’m sorry–let me use Doyel’s preferred spelling– Glazz Joi.
And, in addition to suffering from a little premature self-congratulation, Doyel also, as expected, failed do his homework. He ridiculed people, like KAKS GM Dan Storrs, without taking the time to get his version of events or lookinf into some of Ms. Gork’s admissions (including, among others, the fact that about one month into a job working for Hogs Sports Radio she lamented, on a public social networking site that she was covering the Razorbacks and not the Gators and did so despite a strict ban of any use of such sites at practice)
He also came up a little short of full disclosure in the column. Although his CBS bio informs us that he is a Florida Gator alum, Doyel didn’t mention it in his column (You’ve gotta save that space in the internet!)
But, slapdash journalism is Doyel’s calling card. He isn’t worried about facts. He doesn’t want to get the story right or form his opinions based on all the facts. He wants to become part of the story, as he proved in his Tweets leading up to his latest digital disappointment.
Worse than Doyel, though, are wannabe Doyels like NWA columnist Scott Faldon–you know, guys that overcompensate with full, trimmed beards, probably live in their mom’s basement at age 42 and have breathless man-crushes on people like Doyel.
These are these same people who Tweet things like this: (as Faldon did, today)
Hitting refresh repeatedly, waiting @greggdoyelcbs column on hat-gate. Agree, disagree, Doyel is always great read.
AND
@greggdoyelcbs Hell, I’m getting Hate Tweets just for RTing you. You’re that good.
Until Doyel’s schtick runs its course and he inevitably ends up selling life insurance in Roswell, GA, and bragging about the good ole days when he wasn’t scared to say anything, he will always have his lap dogs like Faldon. But, with each hot, steaming mess of Wash, Rinse & Repeat editorialism, Doyel is being exposed for what he is–a yapping little twerp that is all sizzle, and no steak.
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