Zerkle relaxes at home.
Dan Levy, proprietor of Press Coverage and the fantastic On The DL Podcast, frequent guest on House of Punte, and a man who has seen Shakey naked*, finally celebrated the end of an era. After 555 shows, On The DL is going on indefinite hiatus. Time to give back, to reward his readers and friends, and tweak a few noses. Dan decided to filter his thoughts on the blogosphere into a unique, and uniquely funny, form; matching bloggers to the Muppet they most resemble.
Josh Zerkle as Animal
Complete no-brainer. Animal’s appeal is his unpredictability and penchant for biting. Yet there was always a light-heartedness to Animal’s destruction. I’m not sure there’s a better way to describe Zerkle.
There’s lots more goodness there. My other favorite comparison, and two of my favorite muppets, are what Dan had in line for the Fire Joe Morgan guys.
Fire Joe Morgan as Statler and Waldorf
It’s ironic, in a way, to make Fire Joe Morgan Statler and Waldorf when they spent their entire existence ripping on the old-guard ways of sportswriting. The thing about it is, as important as their run was at sniffing out terrible sportswriting, the format easily became a parody of itself. Nobody, outside the guys at KSK, can come close to FJM’ing someone as well as the guys at FJM did it, yet so many sites constantly try and constantly fail. Even the annual FJM day at Deadspin is really poor representation of the group’s earlier work. It’s like the “Old Red Wine” to The Who’s “Tommy.”
So it just kinda made sense to make FJM Statler and Waldorf. “Those guys are still yelling and laughing at their own jokes up there?” Yep.
But that’s not fair. Those guys are freaking comedic geniuses. Talk about legitimizing the industry, the guy who wrote on The Office was going home and penning a baseball blog. A guy with his own sitcom is one of us. Holy crap.
So maybe, in a way, we’re all Statler and Waldorf, complaining for the sake of complaining, downplaying people’s brilliance in one breath as we expose ineptitude in the next, all for our own perverted amusement. Maybe FJM isn’t Statler and Waldorf. Maybe it’s the entire community. How meta to figure that out now.
The only thing he didn’t mention, which strengthens the comparison, is that Statler and Waldorf were usually right.
*Probably?
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