re: The offensive Guilbeau piece that's featured on the TD front page

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He actually has good insight into LSU football, but he can't help to be a douchebag

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You've made two statements there. One of them is right on the money, the other is dead wrong. Let's see if anyone can identify which is which.

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His shtick makes me not read his stuff.

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As it would anyone with sense. Why people still read him I will never know. It's like listening to Finebaum. They'll say something outrageous to piss people off, and people will get pissed off and "show" them by reading/listening to them and calling in to the show or spreading the word about how outrageous they are, thereby giving them job security and financial benefit. Makes no sense to me.

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I don't think you realize what putting Guilbeau on the front page does to GG. He's seriously pissed off about that kind of stuff and has told me himself he thinks TD should be paying him when his articles are posted here.

I asked him if he was being sarcastic.

No. He wasn't.

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That doesn't surprise me at all. That he would be stupid enough not to realize how much he benefits from being linked on this site would be right in line with what I have always thought about him.

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I have a feeling putting him on the front page is Chickens way of telling GG to kiss his arse.

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Linking his stories here leads to more hits on his employer's website, leading to more advertising money for them and more job security (and more money, too, probably) for him. Giving someone money and job security isn't a very effective way to tell them to kiss your arse.

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If he bothers you that much, let the editor know

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That will tell her that he is generating attention, which is exactly what she wants him to do. If everybody thinks he's an a-hole, that means everybody is thinking about him.

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just stop reading as soon as you see the byline

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Too late. The hit on the website has already been recorded by then and the damage is done. The only way to be sure is to do what I do and just not click on any of the articles linked on the front page of TD.

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He is no friend of LSU, that's for sure.

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I don't expect or want him to be a friend of LSU, but I do expect any journalist to be objective and fair in reporting. If he wants write op-ed pieces, fine, but there is a distinction between reporting/covering a subject, and opinion. Gilbeau doesn't seem to appreciate the difference. He inserts his opinion into his reporting when not warranted, and isn't very accurate in some of his reporting of facts, disguising as facts his opinions. That is very irritating to read, especially when his opinions are not well founded, as in the comments about
the time out at the end of the first half.

Dear guilbeau: you are not, and never will be, finebaum

I got on his live chat and heckle him one time. Just constantly asked questions about being gay for Saban. He ended the chat after like 5 minutes.