EDSBS LIVE!!! WILL FROM DEADSPIN AND THE BIG LEAD GET FREAKY (metaphorically speaking.)

by Orson on Apr 3, 2007 3:49 PM EDT

EDSBS LIVE! EDSBS LIVE! Now with fifty percent more quality content thanks to the gents at Now Live giving us thirty extra minutes. That means you start listening at 7:30 EST now instead of 8:00 EST. Di di mao! Di di mao!

What: EDSBS Radio

When: 7:30 p.m.--9:00 p.m. EST More time! More calls! More sounds of our ice cubes tinkling in our glasses.

Where: On the EDSBS channel at Now Live.

How: To call in? (310) 984-7600. You may also register at Now Live and participate in the live chat, where we'll be taking comments and working them into the broadcast.

Why: To entice you in a non-threatening way, we have a very special guest tonight on what we're tentatively calling our Freak Show: the alpha beta male of the very beta-male blogosphere, Will Leitch of Deadspin.com. We will interrogate Will about why anyone would pay attention to Illinois football, the wonders of being on ESPN's enemies list, and how he avoided being kissed by a randy A.J. Daulerio on what we imagine was a weekly basis.

Also joining us will be The Big Lead, fine sports gossipmeisters in their own right. We will ask them if A.J. Daulerio ever assaulted them, and also test their freak quotient by asking them our illustrious four questions, presented below for all to study:

1. Who's your favorite sporting freak ever? Priority given to college football types like Hayden Fry or Woody Hayes. However, other answers will be considered.

2. Is it harder to be weird now? Than, say, the era when Lawrence Taylor's bar-destroying rages wouldn't end up captured on someone's camera-phone and on the net in minutes.

3. Who's the biggest oddball currently in action? Mike Leach, for example.

4. What would your eccentricity be in what sport? In college football, we would down the ball after scoring a td--gently, as one would lay an ostrich egg or ticking bomb on the turf. In golf, we'd strip and dive into the water hazard at the TPC.

See you tonight at 7:30.

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I’m gonna be vexed if pundit celebrity RCR is bumped for these no names.

Dead-spin?

by PeteJayhawk on Apr 3, 2007 4:24 PM EDT reply actions

Oh…and why anyone would pay attention to Illinois football…

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by PeteJayhawk on Apr 3, 2007 4:26 PM EDT reply actions

I may actually make it on time tonight…

by Holly on Apr 3, 2007 5:25 PM EDT reply actions

I’m not sure what to make of the concurrence of our national championships and the razing of the old Burrito Brothers building today…progress or punishment?

http://www.burritobros.com/

by baconboy on Apr 3, 2007 5:45 PM EDT reply actions

1. Who’s your favorite sporting freak ever? Priority given to college football types like Hayden Fry or Woody Hayes. However, other answers will be considered.

Super Dave

2. Is it harder to be weird now? Than, say, the era when Lawrence Taylor’s bar-destroying rages wouldn’t end up captured on someone’s camera-phone and on the net in minutes.

In life in general, wierder people are less accepted, but I think more of them are around.

3. Who’s the biggest oddball currently in action? Mike Leach, for example.

Dennis Rodman would make all time. Pat Tillman a close second. But now? Jonny Wilkinson, english flyhalf in rugby. Very un-Beckham, un-assuming, no fast food, doesn’t appear shirtless anywhere.

4. What would your eccentricity be in what sport? In college football, we would down the ball after scoring a td–gently, as one would lay an ostrich egg or ticking bomb on the turf. In golf, we’d strip and dive into the water hazard at the TPC.

In rugby, I would slam the ball down into the try-zone like a basketball. And then I’d be out with a shoulder injury.

by MCab on Apr 3, 2007 6:48 PM EDT reply actions

awesome show guys. but i’m gonna have to get the rebroadcast and slow it down to half speed to listen so i can understand anything will was saying.

by kleph on Apr 3, 2007 9:23 PM EDT reply actions

I only got to listen to the archived show last week, and let me just say that nothing compares to getting all these folks together live. Brilliant callers tonight, too- y’all rocked. Even with the jarring contrast between Hyper Will and Slow Buckeye.

by Texas Gal on Apr 3, 2007 9:29 PM EDT reply actions

I’m depressed. I have no idea what Will’s excuse was.

by BuckeyeDan on Apr 3, 2007 9:42 PM EDT reply actions

You know when you meet a hottie at a bar and you have a brief awkward small talk conversation, and then she has to leave, and 5 min later you think of the perfect thing that you should have said? Or when you are having a debate with a friend and 10 minutes later you think of the perfect statement that would have crushed your adversary?

I had something similar this evening. So after the show I went for a bike ride. I was on the bridge when what should have been my answer for #1, or even #3 popped into my head:

The old man who dresses up as a devil and runs along the Tour De France route in the Alps stages- that guy rules.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/1997/DEVIL.JPG

And this article that he built the largest bike in the world…

http://www.recordholders.org/en/records/didi.html

and the pic of him on his Wiki page cleaning up Tour De France street paint in nothing but a red speedo and devil horns…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didi_Senft

…certainly seem to qualify him as a freak-a-deek.

by Kanu on Apr 3, 2007 11:32 PM EDT reply actions

1) Bob and Doug McKenzie. Freaks on Ice.

2) Weird these days is probably wearing kakki’s, a button down collard shirt, a belt with your pants at your waist, nuthuggers, and a cardigan tied around your neck.

3) Darryl Strawberry, because.

4) College Football – after making even an average play – I’d do a crazy hockey move – like fake-slapshot or the glide-down-the-ice-while-pumping-fist-in-air. College ball needs more of that and less of the fake jump shots.

by NewAZTiger on Apr 4, 2007 12:26 AM EDT reply actions

1. Who’s your favorite sporting freak ever?
Romanowski, ever since reading about his antics in Playboy. Also Bode Miller…anyone who can get wasted and win a slalom race is awesome in my book.

2. Is it harder to be weird now?
Yea, because being a ‘character’ is good for your image so more people are doing it.

3. Who’s the biggest oddball currently in action?
Clavin Johnson…the best player at his position and hes a well mannered guy, his mom has a PhD, and he was going to a great school…that’s pretty odd if you ask me.

4. What would your eccentricity be in what sport?
In Ski racing, if I won the race, instead of getting sprayed with champagne, id douse myself in Makers’ Mark.

by Brian on Apr 4, 2007 8:38 AM EDT reply actions

Is that Navin Johnson’s brother?

by drogue on Apr 4, 2007 9:00 AM EDT reply actions

Threadjack alert:

Someone’s president is taking potshots at Michigan’s academics.

http://www.sportsline.com/collegefootball/story/10105947/4

You realize of course, that this means war.

by maskedavenger on Apr 4, 2007 9:40 AM EDT reply actions

The new Arkaloid hoops hire from Creighton, Dana Altman- was on campus one day, took at look at the Hogs ‘academic’ situation (6 on pro), and he bailed. His wiff was driving the car and she nearly smoked the tires pulling out of the Hogs athletic complex.

http://msn.foxsports.com/cbk/story/6640996

Outstanding.

by drogue on Apr 4, 2007 10:11 AM EDT reply actions