LockerBlogger: all the cool kids are doing it

LockerBlogger is the new cool site, like Ballhype or Yardbarker, that does things that we don't really understand, yet other people seem to enjoy it. They have like real life athletes doing stuff which is ultimately why people get in the sports-blog game anyway.

Our boy David Thompson has his own blog there where he writes about stuff that's funny because he's funny and funny people (us) recognize other funny people (him).

We weren't paid to write this. Yet. (Cough, cough).

The San Francisco Giants in the offseason: still can't take a walk

Our pal Simon from the cleverly titled blog SimonOnSports asked us some questions about a Giants team that makes us holler in joy and scream in agony. More often scream in agony.

You can read all about the Giants here. To hear about a team who knows how to move a runner over with less than two outs, check back with SimonOnSports at a later date.

It's the Clicksy Awards: Get Clickin'

Our pal Jimmy over at SI.com's Hot Clicks is running a year-end awards show in four major categories.

Of course, the one we decided to link to is for the Women of Hot Clicks. And there are some hotties on that list. Get voting and be sure to vote on the other categories as well.

It'll be fun. Promise.

I'm in the Times!

Or more accurately, I'm on a New York Times blog. Along with a lot of other bloggers. Ok I'm not special at all but I figured I might as well pretend I am. Each week the NYT blog "The Fifth Down" asks for guest bloggers to write 100 words about the upcoming Jets and Giants games. Since the Niners are coming to town, I wrote one of the entries about the Niners-Giants game. I'm known there as "WJackalope."

Many thanks to Fooch over at Niners Nation for getting the word out and giving us a chance to participate.

Giants fans celebrate Dodgers losing

The SBNation Giants Blog McCovey Chronicles is one of the most popular and busy blogs on the SBNation network. And last night the "McCoven" as they refer to themselves were brought together by one thing: The Dodgers losing. The celebration on McCC far overshadowed what was seen on the Phillies Blog, The Good Phight.

Looking at these blogs it's astonishing to see that more Giants fans were participating in the Gameday thread on McCC than Dodgers fans were on True Blue LA. Looking closer we see that True Blue LA gets a lot less traffic than McCC. For instance, McCC's recent fanposts include 10 from the last 2 days. True Blue LA's 10 most recent fanposts date back an entire month.

But what's really striking is the aftermath of the Phillies clinching the NLCS victory last night. The gameday thread on True Blue LA picks up here, with the best comment:

Now we just have to worry about the disasters Colletti cooks up this off-season.

The Good Phight celebration starts here, and is pretty subdued. But over on McCC the game ends and the party begins, people going crazy, throwing up images, you can practically hear these people sitting in their mothers basements yelling and popping bottles of bubbly. They even started a separate post game celebration thread. Ok I confess, I was one of them. BEAT LA!! BEAT LA!!

So what does this teach us? Giants fans care more about the Dodgers losing than Dodgers fans.

A new source for NFL goodness

Our boy Adam at The Hater Nation has always been our first stop for lousy NFL jokes, but we'd like to welcome a new player to the blog world and a friend of our homie Rick from Stiles Points, The Zone Blitz.

Check out the site. Maybe you'll learn something.

'Your best brand equity ultimately is in your name'

Quoting Dan Shanoff, our pal Lozo has taken that quote to heart and launched the cleverly titled, "Dave Lozo Dot Com."

It's like "Why Don't We Get Drunk and Blog" but with a new look, slightly less swearing and jumps. Fucking WordPress and their jumps.

But the same entertainment you used to know, now with a name brand.

Guest Post: What's All the Buzz?

A few weeks ago we challenged readers to a friendly game of Torch Run. Those who beat our ridiculously good score were offered porn links, a free subscription to the site or a guest post.

And our boy Gonzo took us up on the free post! Gonzo, who has a Phillies tattoo, is best known for hitting a bases-clearing double in his first at-bat of the Little League World Series tournament and for participating in the 2006 World Series of Darts. He claims to resemble Chris Elliott, Dr. Greene from ER, Jerry Seinfeld and, our favorite, former Giants pitcher Kirk Reuter.

Gonzo weighs in on the Buzz Bissinger fiasco from the perspective of a blog and MSM reader. Play nice...

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"The future in the hands of guys like you is really, really gonna dumb us down to a degree that I don't know we can recover from."- Buzz Bissinger talking about Deadspin's WIll Leitch on Costas NOW.

I have to admit, he may be right.

I hope you aren't getting all riled up, because I would hate for someone to form an opinion about me without hearing the entire story. The same way you may have formed an opinion of Matt Leinart after a scandalous picture of him holding a beer bong on Deadspin before hearing THAT entire story (This one's a quickie. He's 24 years old and has millions of dollars. Would he be better off posing for the Wall Street Journal holding a stock ticker?).

How many times have you Googled Deadspin or The Big Picture in order to get last night's scores? None. I save that for ESPN.com and Yahoo Sports. How many times have you gone to similar blogs to get a firm, solid, true sports opinion on why Carmona wasn't pulled in the eighth inning? The answer is none. I save that for Joe Sportswriter who has been in the press box for 162 games per year for the last 24 years. I will gladly read his column top to bottom. How many times have you gone to a blog that is purely satire to grasp the essence of the walk-off homer, three point buzzer beater, or the breakaway goal in overtime? I'm sorry to say, the answer is none.

BUT, how many times have you clicked the link to your favorite blog to see pictures of David Beckham staring at a cheerleader's ass? LeBron James wearing a Yankees cap at an Indians game? Photos of Erin Andrews looking saucy while reporting that snoozer of a Big Ten game? To see who advanced in the "Who Would You Do?" Bracket? (How the hell did Cavs Amanda lose anyway?)

The answer: EVERY SINGLE DAY.

The future of sports media is NOT in the hands of Will Leitch, AJ Daulerio or anyone going by the name of Balls Deep. The future of sports media is NOT in the hands of Rstiles or Gmoney posting their crude, yet clever opinions on the hotness of the cheerleader of the week.

If the future of sports media is in the hands of bloggers, then you have to admit, Buzz may be right.

DeShawn Stevenson and Buzz Bissinger: A fight to the death (or something cliché like that)

Two lapses of judgment Tuesday: Author Buzz Bissinger chose to swear a lot on HBO and make an ass of himself and basketballer DeShawn Stevenson chose to don a Michael Vick jersey and make an ass of himself. (Though Stevenson's not getting positive attention for not supporting Rae Carruth, Carlton Dotson or O.J. Simpson).

So we're going to run a poll to see who is the bigger, badder idiot. Badder isn't a word, we're told, unless it's spelled with two Ts referring to something like cake "batter" or "batter" up. Bad writing. Bad grammar. Bad bad bad. We no longer are entitled to an opinion.

Contestants

DeShawn Stevenson_________Buzz Bissinger

Profession

basketball player_______journalist

Fashion

fur coat (?), jerseys_______sport coat, slacks

Hates

Dogs, LeBron James______Blogs, Will Leitch (?)

Loves

Soulja Boy_____Horses

Form of Intimidation

"Menacing Gestures"______Unintentional spit, loud voice

Grew Up...

In Fresno___Reading the newspaper

Enemies

LeBron, Jay-Z, PETA______Bloggers

Musical taste

Rap, hip hop, R&B____classical, definitely not rock 'n' roll -- too new age

May the best man win...

Who's the bigger idiot?
	DeShawn Stevenson
	Buzz Bissinger
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Blog Talk

We've been curious for a while about this: if you're reading this site, what other finely edited sites are you reading?

If you've been following Why Don't We Get Drunk and Blog's Suckiest Sports Blog Tournament, you'll notice that some big-name sports blogs aren't highly thought of and others, that we didn't know much about, are well-regarded.

If you read this site often, you know which blogs we like. If you can pick up on subtleties, you know which ones we don't. But we won't focus on those.

If you will please, in the comments give us your top five sports blogs (excluding this site...you all know this is your favorite. If it's not, you're lying. And if you're not lying, maybe you're penis-less). If you want to pick some fights, feel free to leave your five least favorite sports blogs. Including a most-overrated and most-underrated blog would be good, too.

It'll be fun for all. We think. Probably. Maybe not. It just might be humbling. Fuck. This could backfire. Play nice.

Make us suck less

Our pal Lozo at the wonderful Why Don't We Get Drunk and Blog is cleverly trying to figure out which of the top 64 blogs is the shittiest. It's conveniently set up in a bracket, of course.

We're a No. 9 seed which seems like we kind of suck and kind of don't suck. We're paired against Armchair GM which we don't think is actually a blog. But we want to get smoked by it. We think.

So go vote for Armchair GM. NOT US. Unless you think we suck. In that case vote for us. And thanks for reading anyway. Then fuck yourself.

Our blogging cherry has been popped

If over two years of writing this site wasn't enough, we are now officially a blogger: we have met Will Leitch.

Deadspin Will came to Seattle Friday and read from his newest book, God Save the Fan. It was a good time out -- thankfully all awkwardness that comes with a book reading was mitigated with Boddington's and PBR. We were able to introduce ourselves to Will, get the book signed and tell him we just gave 27.50 reasons to link to our site more often.

Really though, it was great to meet the biggest name (oxymoron?) in sports blogging. He was pretty much as we expected, though with more blackface jokes (1) than we thought. And we had him pegged for whiskey. He was drinking what looked like something and tonic. Yeah. Totally blindsided.

The Big Picture: 'An in-your-face, no-holds-barred, comical look at the sports world'

Our new friends at Fantasy Sports 101 compiled a list of "Blogs We Like" and posted little testimonials about each one.

Here's what they said about us:

An in-your-face, no-holds-barred, comical look at the sports world. If you want a laugh and don't mind some foul-mouthed honesty, this is a good site to check out. This trio has been busting chops since 2005, which means their blog has lasted about two years longer than your average site.

Aside from failing to mention our striking good looks and remarkable athletic ability, we couldn't have summed up the site better ourselves.

Vote for us...or else

There's this site called Busted Coverage that has a great idea that's terribly executed. They neatly put 64 blogs in an NCAA Tourney-like bracket to duke it out for bragging rights.

Though, rather than go with readership, talent or penis size, they went with Ballhype rankings, which are about the biggest load of shit on the Internet.

Anyway, we're a No. 16 up against FanHouse. We need lots of your help, though we'll totally lose, regardless. But make it more respectable. (Vote for us here). And feel free to leave a comment over at Busted Coverage about how the seedings are bogus.

Because they are. If seeding was done strictly on penis size, we'd be a top seed. We'd probably, somehow, be all four top seeds.

Charlie Weis is on MySpace

You've gotta head over to the always-hilarious Joe Sports Fan to check out Charlie Weis' MySpace page.

Go. Right now. Don't wait. Get on your horse and get moving, partna.

It will hands down be the funniest thing you read today. Unless, of course, you go re-read The Big Picture archives.

Blogger Reach-Arounds

Blogger Reach-Arounds" is The Big Picture's link dump that runs every Wednesday. But sometimes Thursday. But usually Wednesday. Send your links -- current posts or those within the last week -- to zachls5@gmail.com by Tuesday night.

We're sure we're in the minority, but fantasy football is starting to piss us off. We end up watching the games, screaming at our guys to score, and when they don't, we make a smug comment like, "Steven Jackson can throw himself into on-coming traffic." We're usually pissed off on Sundays, more pissed off on Mondays...wouldn't things be more sunshiny if we just gave up fantasy football? Who's with us?!?! (Then again, we should probably just put better squads together).

We're juiced for tomorrow's Blogger Interview, but then again, when aren't we? And Friday, oh shit, Friday's gonna be huge. Make sure to stop by.

So what that Heather Locklear's like 100 years old? We'd run through her like a turnstile. A very sexy, blonde turnstile. With fuck-me eyes. And a killer body. And fucking great hair.

1.) Just Call me Juice may be RIP, but that doesn't mean Marco's outta the game. Be sure to check out the new, best college hoops blog around (aside from our shit at FanHouse, of course) at Storming the Floor.

2.) The Money Shot wants you to lay off of OJ...

3.) Champion's League predictions from the No. 1 soccer site in the world, The Beautiful Game.

4.) New site Erin Andrews' Diary looks at some 2-0 NFL teams who are for real...or aren't they?

5.) Burly Sports has launched! Check out one of the first vidoes...

6.) Have Irish fans quit on Charlie Weis? The answers lives deep in Rumors and Rants.

7.) Introducing Liston with a list of movies that you haven't thought about for about 15 years.

8.) Circular Ramblings at The Serious Tip.

9.) Mac Gs World has your poon updates.

10.) Our Book of Scrap is finishing up its Hottest Wife/Girlfriend in Sports contest. We're still pissed that Jennifer Walcott got bounced.

Blogger Reach-Arounds

Blogger Reach-Arounds" is The Big Picture's link dump that runs every Wednesday. But sometimes Thursday. But usually Wednesday. Send your links -- current posts or those within the last week -- to zachls5@gmail.com by Tuesday night.

We're real juiced for our weekend. We have tickets to the UW-Ohio State game, which, knock on wood, could actually be a good game. And we'll likely be pants partying before hand. If you're in Seattle, come on out. We look even sexier in person.

Sorry to keep bringing up our fantasy squad, but Matt Leinart made us real nervous Monday. Who knew STDs affected your accuracy?

We have another fun Blogger Interview coming tomorrow, and Friday, well, Friday depends on us getting a particular email. But be sure to stop by Friday -- things could be big. If not Friday, soon after...

Aggh!! Sterger's done at SI. There goes our editorial content for the next, oh, forever.

1.) All on the Field has some analysis on Washington's early-season success. But beware of that schedule, dammit.

2.) Armchair GM is having fun with pictures!

3.) The Pig Pen has pictures of the Dallas Stars' new jerseys. They should move 'em back the fuck to Minnesota, don't cha know...

4.) Vegas Watch tells us how if MLB switched the Divisional Round of the playoffs to a Best of Seven, people might make some money.

5.) The top 10 replacements for Jenn Sterger...an intriguing list brought to you by Armchair GM.

6.) Introducing Liston tells us how you -- yeah you, fuckhead -- can be an NBA players.

7.) The Hater Nation has an exceptionally good Post Mortem up this week...Adam even talks about Washington. Yeah, we're growing on him.

8.) Scott Van Pelt Style interviews its namesake.

Blogger Reach-Arounds

Blogger Reach-Arounds" is The Big Picture's link dump that runs every Wednesday. But sometimes Thursday. But usually Wednesday. Send your links -- current posts or those within the last week -- to zachls5@gmail.com by Tuesday night.

NFL action begins tomorrow! We've had our fantasy draft(s) and we think we've come out pretty well. Wait, wait, wait on QB. We got the guys we wanted late.

We made the move back to Seattle from a summer in the Bay Area Monday. Our sparratic posting the last two months should disappear. We're back to our regular schedule and things should be normal around here yet again.

We're bringing back Blogger Interviews tomorrow after about a three-month break and we're really excited about our guest.

If you think Pam Anderson's not what she used to be, well, you might want to question your sexual preferences. Check out these photos that What Would Tyler Durden Do dug up. Springs you up in a heartbeat.

1.) The Serious Tip has an interview with a Playboy model, who may or may not be an angel. And she says, if she weren't in a relationship, she'd give bloggers a shot!

2.) Awful Announcing is giving away an iPhone! You just need to win an NFL pick 'em contest, which is probably harder than scrounging up $600.

3.) East Coast Bias provides a list of why your favorite NFL team is going to suck.

4.) The Nosebleeds NFL Blog gets you ready for Steelers-Browns week, still perhaps the best rivalry in football.

5.) Whoopi Goldberg said some fucked up shit about Mike Vick on her debut of The View. Our Book of Scrap with the details...

6.) Stiles Points gets some answers about LSU football, via an interview with a writer for TheBaton Rouge Advocate .

7.) The Sports Hernia has key footage of the George Mitchell steroid investigation.

Blogger Reach-Arounds

Blogger Reach-Arounds" is The Big Picture's link dump that runs every Wednesday. But sometimes Thursday. But usually Wednesday. Send your links -- current posts or those within the last week -- to zachls5@gmail.com by Tuesday night.

College football starts today! Holy shit! Get your big foam finger, Bloody Mary and ass-groove ready for what should be a helluva season. Predictions and rankings aren't really our thing, but watch out for those Big East powerhouses to make a run at the National Championship. And Hawaii is totally our sleeper to make a BCS game.

Just got back from a two-day road trip where we might have drank all of the alcohol in the entire world. Nothing better than drinking with some homies on (in?) a river.

That's Amber. We're not sure that's her real name or not, and we're told that people often have last names. But here's some NSFWish pics of this "Amber." And don't even think about touching her...

1.) We're with our buddies over at Rumors and Rants: Lou Holtz is a fucking moron. And he probably has ED.

2.) The Money Shot tells us how the Tigers helped bury the career belonging to Mike Mussina.

3.) Our Book of Scrap finds more Madden stuff that will help destroy any shot of you getting laid.

4.) Stiles Points breaks down some of the big Week One college football games. We're not sure why Washington-Syracuse isn't on this short list.

5.) Flyers Fieldhouse has a fantastic list of the top 75 sports -- yeah, sports! -- of all time. While a great list, we think Flip Cup over Beer Pong is bullshit. You hear that Flyers Fieldhouse? Bullshit.

6.) If a blogger got his proverbial hands on Michael Vick, this is what the interview would sound like. Stupid Sideline Reporters, ugh, reports.

7.) Epic Carnival sits down with KSK's Unsilent Majority. Hey, we once talked to Unsilent...

8.) The Hater Nation should be your first stop for NFL previews. And satire. And cynicism.

9.) How hot chicks might be placed on a soccer field. The Beautiful Game provides your Thursday hard wood.

10.) Just Call Me Juice puts a smile on our faces: the shitty sports season is over!

Blogger Reach-Arounds

Blogger Reach-Arounds" is The Big Picture's link dump that runs every Wednesday. But sometimes Thursday. But usually Wednesday. Send your links -- current posts or those within the last week -- to zachls5@gmail.com by Tuesday night.

Man, football has begun. Our fantasy draft isn't for a few weeks, but the research has already begun. Things don't seem as clear cut to as up top as last year. And maybe we should stay away from Vince Young.

Went to Reno, Nev. last weekend. Might be the armpit of the Western U.S. But $5 blackjack tables and free drinks are hard to turn down.

That's Gemma Atkinson. Say what you will about the British looking at some pics of this minx.

1.) Check out the football coverage over at The Hater Nation. While satirical, NFL Adam is a professional NFL writer who knows his shit. Funny and informative blogging at its best over at THN.

2.) Our Book of Scrap's hottest wife/girlfriend tourney is still going on. Go vote. And Jennifer Walcott better fucking win. She's a walking wet dream.

3.) Mondesi's House scores an interview with an ESPN radio host. No, it's not Colin Cowherd.

4.) Stupid Sideline Reporters with a preview of the Seattle Seahawks, that may or may not make a crack on Matt Hasselbeck's receding hair line.

5.) The Pig Pen ranks the American League uniforms.

6.) Could D.C. blogger Dan Steinberg and Padres infielder Kevin Kouzmanoff be related? Rumors and Rants investigates.

7.) Nyjer Please with a review of Madden '08. Sorry. We know people are hell of juiced about this, but we just can't get excited for an updated version of a game we already have. (We fucking kill at '07, by the way.)