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« on: August 15, 2012, 02:26:55 PM »
PF was in Dothan last night for a meet/greet and a talk to raise money for the Wiregrass Children's Home.  I thought about going until I found out the tickets were $150.  Then I realized I had already scheduled to rearrange my sock drawer last night. Anyway, the reporter with the Dothan Eagle is the Bammer beat writer so take the Auburn fans have a complex question with a grain of salt.  But note, he did ask him about his man-love for Lord Saybinz.  I did think some of his answers were pretty revealing.  Copypasta

Finebaum shows soft side

By: Ken Rogers | Dothan Eagle
Published: August 15, 2012 Updated: August 15, 2012 - 12:45 AM

This comes from the man himself, who wore the tag almost like a badge of honor during an appearance in Dothan last night.

The nationally syndicated Mouth of the South shared his opinions with football fans at the Dothan Opera House, which hosted a benefit for the Wiregrass Children’s Home.

Here’s a sampling of F-baums:

On how long the SEC’s dominance will continue: “I don’t see USC as being a team that’s capable of knocking off Alabama or LSU. Florida State, I think, will have a say so. I think it will happen. It’s hard to predict the end. I’m surprised it’s gone this long. In no way is that a shot at what’s happened. Anything in sports, as we all know, you’re going to run out of time. It doesn’t take much to knock you off.

Who does he really root for in the Iron Bowl? “I don’t really care unless it has something to do with my job. I will tell you … in 2009 I was rooting for Alabama because I wanted to go to the Rose Bowl. In 2010 at Bryant-Denny Stadium, before the game, I picked Auburn to win. … I was pulling for Auburn. I wanted Auburn to win the game. I thought it was one of the great stories. … Cruel as it may sound, I’m in business. National championships are a lot more important than who wins the Iron Bowl. So if there’s a national championship on the line I’m pulling for the team that’s going to win the national championship. That was Auburn in 2010.

Why are you in love with Nick Saban? “It’s really not Saban, it’s his wife.”

On Troy’s Larry Blakeney: “I think he’s one of the most underrated coaches in college football history. I really think the job he’s done – and I know last year was unusual – but it’s been a phenomenal story. I’m a huge Larry Blakeney fan. He took the fall for coach (Pat) Dye and for others and it did cost him. He undoubtedly would have been at an SEC school, probably Mississippi State, maybe somewhere else. … I think not only would he have gotten a job, he would have been really good. He has a way with young people that I think is rare in college athletics. Whenever he leaves Troy and people stop and think of what he did and what he’s built there, it’s going to be one of the more amazing stories in college football history at that level. It’s a phenomenal story.”

Why is there a complex with Auburn fans when Auburn’s had the upper hand over the last 20-30 years? “It’s just part of the state. I noticed on the license plates it says Alabama, it doesn’t say Auburn. Pat Dye changed the dynamics. Auburn is the other school, but I also think that’s what motivates Auburn. … Alabama has won as many national championships in the last three years as Auburn has in its history. The stats are great, but so what? There is a wide division between Auburn and Alabama right now. It can change, though.”

On Gene Chizik: “Chizik is a very good coach. (Tommy) Tuberville, I thought, punted his last couple years down there. He hurt the program. Chizik, to me, is first rate.”

On Nick Saban: “Saban is doing this at a great school. His system at Alabama rivals or exceeds any in the NFL. It is an NFL franchise. You go down there, there’s nothing like it in college football. He puts the system in place and he manages the system.”

On when he knew Alabama would beat LSU in the title game last January: “I was in Harrah’s on Thursday night before the championship game on Monday night. I wasn’t gambling. I was with a group of guys. We were watching (LSU QB) Jordan Jefferson gamble. I ran into an Alabama assistant coach. Why was he in there? He was there to make sure his players got back to the Marriott by midnight.”
 
On your callers? “The show is different. You do get to know these people. It’s very special.”
On Jim from Crestwood: “If there’s a more hateful man in America than Jim from Crestwood, I have not met him.”
Yet it was Jim from Crestwood who provided the impetus for a moment that profoundly affected the sportstalk host. Crestwood Jim sneered that Finebaum would never meet with another caller to his show, Robert from Waterloo, Iowa, a 33-year-old man with cerebral palsy.

Finebaum shared the story of the trip to Iowa. He was joined by another infamous caller, Tammy, who took her first airplane flight that day.

“I took an Alabama cap and shirt. Tammy kept taking it off and putting the Auburn one on,” he said. “What was amazing to me is Tammy – this foul-mouthed, at times disgusting Auburn fan – became a human being. She mesmerized Robert. He was just enthralled by her. I don’t know Tammy’s background. She had fun with him. They were laughing.”

Finebaum linked that day with the purpose of his visit to Dothan.

“It was one of those moments you will always remember,” said Finebaum, who didn't charge a penny for his appearance at the fund-raiser for the Wiregrass Children's Home. “Here’s a guy (Robert) that started out as a caller to a radio show. He reached out and we somehow were fortunate to find a way to give something back.

“It’s how I would like to end tonight. This is what it’s about. It’s trying to help folks who really don’t have the same breaks and same help and support and push that I got from my mom, and so many of you have been able to get as well.”

Paul Finebaum is the most hated man in the SEC – by those who don’t really know him at all.

 


 
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« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2012, 02:44:51 PM »
Yeah and look at all the good Joe Paterno did too.
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« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2012, 02:50:56 PM »
Yeah and look at all the good Joe Paterno did too.

I think it was good to hear him admit what everyone already knew.  Whatever is good for business.  In another interview he did yesterday, he said first and foremost it's entertainment.  He's still a bitch, though.
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« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2012, 02:51:07 PM »
In 2010 at Bryant-Denny Stadium, before the game, I picked Auburn to win. … I was pulling for Auburn. I wanted Auburn to win the game.
Bull. Fucking. Shit. All of that is garbage. It's got to be a matter of public record who he picked to win that game, and I guaran-fucking-tee you it wasn't Auburn.
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« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2012, 02:54:08 PM »
Yeah and look at all the good Joe Paterno did too.

The Nazis made the Jews wear pieces of flair too.
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« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2012, 02:56:42 PM »
The Nazis made the Jews wear pieces of flair too.
You take a penny from the tray, right?
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« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2012, 03:08:40 PM »
Bull. Fucking. Shit. All of that is garbage. It's got to be a matter of public record who he picked to win that game, and I guaran-fucking-tee you it wasn't Auburn.

Almost positive that he picked Auburn to win that one.  Now did he want them to win?   No, we know he didn't, but I am pretty sure he picked us to win that week.
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« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2012, 03:18:37 PM »
Fuck who he picked or rooted for in 2010, fuck the trip to Iowa, fuck what he said about Chiz, fuck that he says it's all about business  he's a fucking piece of shit.  I don't care if it's on air schtick, it has an effect.  He panders to the lowest common denominator to make a living. 
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« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2012, 03:20:41 PM »
Fuck who he picked or rooted for in 2010, fuck the trip to Iowa, fuck what he said about Chiz, fuck that he says it's all about business  he's a fucking piece of shit.  I don't care if it's on air schtick, it has an effect.  He panders to the lowest common denominator to make a living.
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« Reply #9 on: August 15, 2012, 03:25:16 PM »
Fuck who he picked or rooted for in 2010, fuck the trip to Iowa, fuck what he said about Chiz, fuck that he says it's all about business  he's a fucking piece of shit.  I don't care if it's on air schtick, it has an effect.  He panders to the lowest common denominator to make a living.

Yep.

And his audience wanted to hear those answers.  Tomorrow, his radio audience will want him to make shrewd, sarcastic comments about how he thought Auburn would lose even though he wanted them to win.  Then he'll quickly change the subject with a caller revealing "new" rumors about Auburn cheating and how their winning doesn't count anyway. 
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« Reply #10 on: August 15, 2012, 04:15:47 PM »
Almost positive that he picked Auburn to win that one.  Now did he want them to win?   No, we know he didn't, but I am pretty sure he picked us to win that week.
I must have misremembered. It happens, I suppose.

I can't imagine Finebaum picking against Alabama once since they won the 09 National Championship. I don't remember being floored.
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« Reply #11 on: August 15, 2012, 04:22:01 PM »
I must have misremembered. It happens, I suppose.

I can't imagine Finebaum picking against Alabama once since they won the 09 National Championship. I don't remember being floored.

Yeah, against my better judgement I listened to him the last few weeks of the season when the Cam deal was going down.  He picked us, but I still don't forgive him nor would I piss on him if he were on fire.  He can eat a bag of dicks infected with teh goat AIDS.
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« Reply #12 on: August 15, 2012, 04:26:33 PM »
I recall him saying on the Iron Bowl preview show on Fox6 that the updykes would win that game. He stated the reasoning of his pick was because the game was being played in ghettoville. Karle agreed with him, then joked about how the Auburn fans would hate him (Finebaum) more because of his pick.
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« Reply #13 on: August 15, 2012, 04:30:56 PM »
Fuck who he picked or rooted for in 2010, fuck the trip to Iowa, fuck what he said about Chiz, fuck that he says it's all about business  he's a fucking piece of shit.  I don't care if it's on air schtick, it has an effect.  He panders to the lowest common denominator to make a living.

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« Reply #14 on: August 15, 2012, 04:43:50 PM »
I recall him saying on the Iron Bowl preview show on Fox6 that the updykes would win that game. He stated the reasoning of his pick was because the game was being played in ghettoville. Karle agreed with him, then joked about how the Auburn fans would hate him (Finebaum) more because of his pick.

There you go Chizad, my mistake.  I knew he said that he would vote Cam for the Heisman, I thought he picked us, but that has been long ago already.
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« Reply #15 on: August 15, 2012, 07:53:08 PM »
He is def the Howard Stern of sports radio. His show is entertainment more than sports journalism. Not in his defense but just fact that he took up for us in the Cam deal and defended AU. I don't know if that was ratings driven or not. It was just nice to have anyone on our side in that one.
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« Reply #16 on: August 15, 2012, 08:06:24 PM »
He is def the Howard Stern of sports radio. His show is entertainment more than sports journalism. Not in his defense but just fact that he took up for us in the Cam deal and defended AU. I don't know if that was ratings driven or not. It was just nice to have anyone on our side in that one.

He said he was, but he wasn't.  He let anyone who would come on his show and make allegations....including Danny Sheridan.  Yeah, he was the "well, I don't know about that" voice, but he obviously gave Danny and anyone else all the air time they wanted to run with that story.
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« Reply #17 on: August 15, 2012, 08:23:31 PM »
He said he was, but he wasn't.  He let anyone who would come on his show and make allegations....including Danny Sheridan.  Yeah, he was the "well, I don't know about that" voice, but he obviously gave Danny and anyone else all the air time they wanted to run with that story.
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!

Except for his little act for ESPN early that November, he let others do his talking locally up to the BCSNCG (and it in no way, shape, or form helped Auburn University). He claims he "learned something" out in Phoenix that assured him that we were going down - that the trophys stay in Auburn would be a very short one. He went to far as to say, on the radio, that Jay Jacobs should keep the box & packing materials handy.

Paul is a fucking weasel. He slams us on that bullshit calvacade of circus freaks he calls a radio show, then talks out the other side of his mouth on his little stint with his butt buddy Rick Karle.
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« Reply #18 on: August 15, 2012, 09:10:28 PM »
He is def the Howard Stern of sports radio. His show is entertainment more than sports journalism. Not in his defense but just fact that he took up for us in the Cam deal and defended AU. I don't know if that was ratings driven or not. It was just nice to have anyone on our side in that one.
I tend to think Paul got the part because he was well versed on the subject and chose to take the Auburn side because it was the strongest to defend. Finebaum was a daily instigator in a witch hunt that even he knew to be baseless. He's a smart guy. I wouldn't put it past him having an acquintance suggest the debate while the public outcry was at a fever pitch. The emotional Bianchi took the side of the angry mob while Finebaum came off as the voice of reason.
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« Reply #19 on: August 15, 2012, 09:19:12 PM »
If Joe Paterno is as guilty as Sandusky for continuing to allow Sandusky to do his thing, then Finebaum is as guilty as any piece of shit hack he allowed to make baseless accusations on his show and not call them bullshit.  In fact, that's his entire schtick.  "I didn't say it, someone else did."  (I just gave them the air time, then encouraged them, and laughed at all the idiot fucks that called in to expound on it)
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