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02/26 2010

DL337: MLS Labor Talks, Daulerio vs. Whitlock, The End of the Olympics

Posted by Dan Levy.

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Snow today has everything a bit behind, so to make up time, this is what we discuss today.

• The MLS Labor situation. Read more about that here.

• Whitlock vs. Daulerio. We talk about how many of us try to make a story about us. Self-promotion is how we survive in this business. But Whitlock has seemed to take it to a whole new level. We talk about that, his decision to use the blog world as puppets to do his bidding, and how Daulerio really doesn’t seem to care what people think of him. Which, frankly, makes it hard to get over on the guy. Whitlock clearly cares what people think of him, no matter what he says or writes.

But mostly, Whitlock’s job is to get you to pay attention to Whitlock. He always succeeds, but it doesn’t make it right that he does it or how he does it.

• The Olympics are coming to a close. Will you miss them, or will you be happy to get back to normal viewing habits? What will NBC’s fallout be? Will ESPN really get the Olympics and put things on live? And will we care about curling next week?

If ESPN really wants the Olympics, and wants to prove it’s about the sports, they should buy up the American TV rights to all these events — handball, curling, archery, etc — and put them on a specific Olympic-themed ESPN360 channel, giving us maybe 3-4 hours a week on one of their networks for a “Wide World of Sports” themed show. Let’s hope it happens.

• Congrats to Rovitz for winning the Blogs with Stones Curling Championship. Matt Suss– got the silver and cknoblockhead got the bronze. Great even, and we’ll do it again soon.

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Posted on February 26, 2010 at 8:44AM

 

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  1. rovitz
    02/26 2010

    Great tourney, it was a blast, thanks for setting it all up. Thanks for the props in the podcast. GODS OF CURLING!

  2. Matt Sussman
    02/26 2010

    Seconded. The only way this can improve is to have an actual live bonspiel.

  3. Chuck Knoblockhead
    02/26 2010

    Thirded…story of my life apparently.