Sid Rosenberg vs. Dukie Lang Round 2

For those of you who don't know the backstory... here's the original set of circumstances...

http://dukielang.blogspot.com/2010/08/radio-daze.html


This morning Sid Rosenberg was the media guest at the Miami Dolphins Touchdown Club.

After the show, Sid and I met (not pictured).
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I considered not talking to him.

Perhaps there was bad blood.

I didn't know what he initially said, but I got the gist.

He wasn't a fan of what I said on facebook.

But I figured, here's drive-time host in Miami vs. unknown ghost writer, what the hell do I have to lose?
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So I walk up to Sid and say, "Sid Rosenberg, Dukie Lang."

He immediately begins to laugh and blush a bit, like his hands were just caught in the cookie jar.

After a moment, Sid extends a big bro-hug and an apology.

'I'm sorry I talked about you on my show. I felt bad. It was my producer Victor who told me about it.'

My response was, honestly, I don't care.

I think it's great, but, next time you talk about me, could you plug the blog?
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We continued to talk about his show.

Captain Curtis walked over and told me, don't chicken out.

Sid said, 'Nope, he's telling me what he doesn't like about my show.'

I offered my main criticism which is, there's too much bombast. The natural silences are filled with 'me-me-me.'

Sid took the criticism well and with a great deal of humility.

I couldn't help but think of the Howard Stern movie.

On the air, Howard was as in-your-face and offensive as you can get.

But as soon as the red light goes off, he was just a dude.

Sid seems the same way.

He knows his schtick.

I think one of his greatest gifts as a broadcast is utter self-awareness.

He's positioned himself in Miami as a New Yorker, who is a Miami fan, but not really a Miami fan, who is a Giants fan, but says nice things about the Jets.

Basically, he's trying to be an instigator on the air.
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Off-the-air though, I can say first-hand, he's a man of his word.

Sid said he would plug my blog, and low-and-behold, first block of his show, Sid starts by giving out the URL and mentioning our encounter.

I may not always like Sid's schtick on the air, but as a person, he gained my respect.

Question to you blog readers: Did I let him off too easy?

Radio Daze...

So apparently I was talked about on the radio.

I'm a little confused/entertained by the whole situation.

I somehow managed to ruffle the feathers of drive-time host Sid Rosenberg (not pictured).
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Here's what happened.

On August 9th I wrote the following on my facebook page (I love that facebook timestamps): "my biggest beef with sportstalk radio is the following: self-important hosts evaluate athletes as human beings based on whether they appear on their shows or not... If they have no access they happily rip the athletes, if they appear on the show, they are "great guys" and "my good friend"... it's pathetic jock-sniffing... and worst of all, a boring listen."

I was referring to no one in specific.

I didn't mention anyone by name.

It was a general commentary about the culture of playing grab-ass with athletes, and the me-me-me-ism that pervades not just the athletes themselves, but that has seeped to the purveyors of information about said athletes.
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Furthermore, I am not facebook friends with Sid Rosenberg.

I don't have anything against him.

In fact, I met him once at the "Touchdown Club" and he was a very nice guy.

I didn't comment on his show and I wish him well.
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Given that I didn't mention him by name and we're not facebook friends, I was surprised that I happened upon this little jewel on the interwebs from Sid's blog on wqam.com (I don't mind giving a plug) the day after my post:

"Sid starts the show and the entire first segment talking about the shots that were taken at him on facebook by Dukie Lang. Sid keeps reiterating that he is always going to talk about himself because it is the Sid Rosenberg Show. Sid admits that he is very immature and doesn’t handle criticism very well."
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I'm impressed that 1. he found my comments (though we have 35 mutual friends)

2. That my comments were worthy of "the entire first segment."

With all due respect to myself, who the hell am I?

I'm basically, David on a mobile.

The only difference is, on the web, you can't hang up on me.

What did Andy Warhol say about publicity?