Memo to Google: Bleacher Report Is Not Real News

It's time for someone to put a bullet in the "Open Source Sports Network." The internet has given everyone a voice. Fantastic. What have we learned? I liked most of those people a lot better when they were silent. Thank you Lisa for revealing the secret to the 2007 Jayhawk football campaign:

"But if you dig a little deeper, it looks like the Jayhawks' record was a product of the system—the system of cupcake scheduling."

Congratulations, you are our one-millionth customer! What do you win? Probably a job writing for ESPN.

How about a national like Pete Fiutak doing the occasional drive by on your team acting as some sort of authority? Even a casual KU football fan had to bail on Fiutak halfway through this inaccurate, illogical mess. Great scott, the typical KSU or Mizzou fan could probably spot the issues in this one.

Maybe you're asking -- how does this low-life "KU blogger" come off taking a swipe at Fox Sports and someone like Lisa Horne that's probably just trying to make a name in the sports media world? I guess in this sense -- most of the guys out here blogging the teams are fans. We're throwing out our take, maybe putting some charts or stats analysis together and taking the occasional photo (or mashing up the occasional PhotoShop piece). We'll lob a few bombs at our rivals, but the reality is we're at the games and we know our teams. When we're on, you'll get a fresh angle that is based on experience from the game environment. From the nationals, you get a superficial view from outer space and everyone is supposed to act all charged up that the sports machine has turned an eye toward our little football program.

Final summation -- actually I'm not sure, but it appears as though the Hawk Digest editor is grumpy. In fact, I've listened to a whole off-season of KU football bashing and I'm feeling like it may be time to take up the fight. Stay tuned to see how much longer I can keep my cool.

By the way, if you want to lower your IQ, read through the comments on the Horne article.

Update on Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 11:17AM by DJ Goodwin

By the way Pete, I saw it coming: http://hawkdigest.squarespace.com/hawk-digest-kansas-football/2007-wish-list-for-ku-football.html

Aqib Talib saw it coming -- expected 10 wins

Mangino said he'd like to win all twelve.

Comments

[Lloyds Apple]

Lisa Horne has contributed to DeathRattleSports as well and seems like a nice person and all. But, she like so many other bloggers is just trying to earn her ticket to corporate jizz balls. Seriously, Bleacher Report sells out to Fox Sports. So, I have to ask, what the hell was the point? We already have mainstream, right? So to build up a base in order to sell out, it seems the entire objective is to sell out, or buy in....or whatever. Basically BR was created to make flow and not change the face of anything. Not that there is anything wrong with that, I guess, it's just important that this "open source network" is exposed for what it really is; mainstream in a new outfit.I personally like to stick my middle finger up loudly and proudly and appreciate self-sufficient bloggers who do the same.

[DJ Goodwin]

It's an interesting time for this entire scene. There's a lot of content out there and 90% of it isn't great. I struggle with it here as well -- how do I put something out there that isn't re-hashed and has some kind of value for the KU fan who takes some time to stop by. I can't pretend that I've solved the equation, but I keep working with that in mind. Plus, I get the feeling that we're on the verge of change. Don't know what it is, but I don't think people are going to continue to keep clicking through the web to chase down every single item or opinion posted out there. I guess we'll see.