I Dislike Your Favorite Team

This is why I check Deadspin at least twice a day. You never know what kind of nugget of sports-related awesomeness they'll have.

Be it the TV reporter covering a masturbating Ohio State fan, or Rick Sutcliffe getting drunk and making a play-by-play guy feel bad about still working in San Diego, there are a lot of things that happen on local network & cable channels that you simply miss out on.

There are two things at work here, that come together wonderfully.

First you have all the local cable affiliates around the country, whose local stations try something that seems incredibly silly and/or stupid to do, like putting Dennis leary on a live mike.

Now, the big National Sports shows aren't going to cover that shit--they're embarrassed by it, it cheapens the games, it demeans guys they hope will be their friends and stop by the studio the next time they are making a sports movie for Disney or for Fox or whatever "vertically integrated" corporation this little shitty local cable affiliate is franchised to.

So some guy catches a Boston Red Sox game where Dennis Leary starts priase of the Jewish first basemen, and in the course of a half-inning has become a full on verbal assault of Mel Gibson. Viewer decides, rightfully, that it is awesome, and he's going to blog about it. But one person can not read every sportsblog out there. We need a highlight show, of sorts, to tell us what's good.

But unlike say SportsCenter, or whatever Fox's bullshit highlight show is, Deadspin, the kind of collector of all this oddness, Loves the oddness. Fans the flames of oddness. Gets t-shirts made with Chris Berman's pick-up line of choice. Try doing that at ESPN--you'll end up in the basement with the fuckin' rancor.

So, instead of hearing vaguely from your drunken friend in Boston about how awesome Dennis Leary was during the game, we can show it to you. Technology is fuckin' cool, and Dennis Leary rippin' on Mel Gibson is quite delicious. We're done talking now. Visit Deadspin if you haven't yet today, but first, enjoy this:

Update: NESN are killjoy douchebags. "This video has been removed at the request of copyright owner New England Sports Network because its content was used without permission."

Update 2: Apparently Google got permission, or has rights, or something, but we have a new version of the exact same event, which in any regard, would have generated a lot of free eyeballs and good PR for NESN had they not been such douchebag killjoys. Why is the new marketing paradigm so hard to grapple with? I never get to watch NESN, but now I know their name. I know they do fun things like put Dennis Leary & Lenny Clarke in front of a live mike. Would have I known that if not for the Deadspin post and YouTube video? Nope! Hey, stupid corporate douchebags. Eyeballs are fucking eyeballs, you ignorant nutlickers!

Sorry, got sidetracked there. We have a google video version, thanks to the persistance of folks, and the help, once again, of Deadspin. (for the record, we like to think we could do a bang-up job of a national sportsblog, just as good as deadspin, if only if it were our job. That's what we like to think. Don't tell us different. We enjoy our flights of fancy.)

Update 3: Apparently the Google video is no more, but the video has found a home on YouTube again, and it appears it is permanent, so hopefully we're done updating this post.