FanHouse Gregg Doyel

The FanHouse Podcast: Because bloggers are much sexier on the phone.

Clay Travis returns in Part 2 of our epic "ClayCast" (if you missed part one you can check it out right here) to talk more about writing, the process of actually getting a book published, Greg Paulus, which is more hateable: Notre Dame's quarterback or Duke's point guard, really irrational sports fans, Gregg Doyel, purposeful vitriol, and everyone's favorite standby: the blogosphere versus the mainstream media. Whew. Listen or download after the jump.

I usually wouldn't waste more than a nanosecond even thinking about Gregg Doyel. I quit reading him years ago because he seems to think the sports journalism world is a professional wrestling outfit. You see, he's playing the "bad guy" (heel, as they call it in the wrestling biz). His gimmick (the part he plays) is of that guy that simply writes things to piss people off. The more negative comments and e-mails he receives, the better -- then he gets to run his hate mail column!

(I have no idea if he still does this because I quit reading him -- but he used to print hateful emails he received and he'd google the people's names and expose their professions. Something like, "you're a banker in a hicktown, what do you know?" It was an exercise that reeked of small man's syndrome.)

Anyway, the reason I'm here now is that I made a mistake last night. I saw the obviously-baiting headline, "Fix the World Series? Why Bother with America's Afterthought?" and clicked on it. I screamed about as loud as I do when I hear "Saved by Zero." Then I noticed it was a Doyel article. I can't bear the thought that I gave a page hit to this dude.