re: Finebaum challenged CFP Executive Director on dropping LSU to #2

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I wish Finebaum would answer why before we played Alabama he said if Alabama loses they are out.. done and then they moment they lose he starts lobbying for them to be in.

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You don’t need him to explain it; I’ll do it. Finebaum is a media guy whose compensation is proportionate to how many viewers/listeners he has. Therefore his aim is to be controversial. He is not at all like Albert Einstein, whose aim was to be accurate and get to the truth.

Callahan, You remind me of a couple of draftsmen I used to sit near. One day they were arguing about two “Pro wrestlers”. You know, one insisting that Matt the Missile could destroy Giant Joe or some such. After hearing them go on for a while I asked them if they realized all of that was fake. They did! But they sort of embarrassingly conceded that. In fact, although they knew it was fake, they had suspended their disbelief, and they were off running in this alternate universe when I interrupted and called them back to reality. That’s you, Callahan. You surely know that Finebaum is motivated by audience capture, and that he’ll change his narrative constantly to get traffic, but you willfully forget that so you can participate in the drama.