Mike Greenberg, Now, With Slightly Less Douche
ESPN, NBA April 18th. 2008, 5:45pm
Will Perdue - the slow-footed space-eater who has more championship rings (four) than Charles Barkley, Kevin Garnett and Karl Malone combined, but it doesn’t matter, because he can’t brag about them since he was a non-factor in all of them - was inexcusably on Mike & Mike this morning to talk about the NBA playoffs. Guess Jack Haley was busy.
Because blogs are so NOW, The Topic came up, and Perdue the troglodyte went There: “These guys just write these blogs which is their opinion, next thing you know it becomes fact, and then we’re talking about it because it’s on some blog that’s started by some guy that lives with his mother in an apartment in Hackensack, New Jersey.” (Aside - Right out of college, we actually lived in a $600-a-month Hackensack studio, but Mom was in Virginia. So maybe he was talking about us? We’re so vapid.)
That’s when Mike Greenberg swooped in with perhaps his most astute comments about anything, ever. “Everything I say on this show is just my opinion … when someone writes something nasty about us in the New York Post, that’s really just one person’s opinion, and when someone writes something nasty on a blog, that’s also just one person’s opinion,” Greenberg said. “That opinion is no more or less valid than my own.”
A golf clap is in order here, folks (well, from bloggers, at least). Greenberg is not breaking ground; this is not a novel concept. But at least the world can tell who is evolved and who isn’t. Why should Will Perdue’s inane thoughts on the NBA matter more than, say, those of a blogger? Surely passionate NBA fans have followed the game for years, read the beat writer clippings and watch games nightly; unless Perdue is interviewing players or working the phones to pick the brains of GMs around the league, there’s absolute zero reason Will Perdue’s NBA opinion carries more weight than that of Celtics Blog or Bright Side of the Sun or Pounding the Rock.
[Descends from soapbox, dodges rotten tomatoes, obscenities.]
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April 18th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Great post. Guffaw!
/Howie Mandel
April 18th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Will Perdue also asked Matt Ryan a question when they had him on the air. You know Matt Ryan, the NFL prospect.
It was good to hear him weighing in on the draft rather than, say, some less-than-credible blogger from his mother’s basement.
That said, at least the stereotype has evolved. Bloggers have moved up to apartment.
April 18th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Will Perdue should stick to processed chicken.
April 18th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
If not for Michael Jordan… Will Perdue would be a really tall blogger.
April 18th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
will perdue is friends with the Herd so that shows how stupid he is.
April 18th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Doesn’t Will PErdue cover the NBA for ESPN or Westwood One or something. I don’t think they pulled him out of thin air.
April 19th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
The two days Will Perdue was on Mike and Mike are too many hours I will never get back ever. He was AWFUL and I don’t get why he was even there. Buster Olney was there also, and he occasionally fills in for Golic when he’s out, so why add the 7-ft moron? I’d rather just listen to Liam and Joaquin.