The Fanhouse has sent a spy up to Bristol, deftly goose-stepping in the hallowed halls and jotting down notes and blogging when time permits. And he’s conducting interviews, too. Here are a few of the things Michael David Smith has learned: ESPN wants to make fantasy geek Matthew Berry a star (more on this guy in a second), video is of the utmost importance (we touched on this during the EIC search), and on the whole, ESPN staffers like Deadspin.

As for Berry: after Colin Cowherd happened, we received a random note – PLEASE WRITE A POST TELLING MATTHEW BERRY TO STOP BRINGING HIS DOGS INTO THE OFFICE. We held off on turning it into a post, simply because we had no way to tell if this Berry fellow had a dog or not. We still don’t know if he does, but we’ll post the rest, anyway: according to this tipster, Berry brought his dog into the office on weekends (this was several months ago, mind you), and on more than one occasion, the dog took a dump on the floor in the office. Our tipster added that Berry refused to clean it up. Again, we weren’t able to verify any of this, but putting it out there in hopes that someone can confirm it.

One interesting nugget our tipster left us at the time – everybody at ESPN loved Berry (for whatever reason), and Mr. Fantasy “had the run of the place.€ Hey, more power to the guy.

In other news, ESPN 360 is back! Sweet.

ESPN wants to make Matthew Berry a star (Fanhouse)