February 24, 2011

JayBusbee.com
Jay Busbee reports there was a “mini-controversy” in the Daytona 500 media center after reporters applauded Trevor Bayne‘s big upset. “What really galled me,” he writes, “was the cheering after Bayne finished his press conference. …[If] I go whooping and cheering, it makes me look like a total amateur and cements the perception of bloggers as the text equivalent of sports talk callers. || Jeff Gluck: No cheering in the press box — ever. || Dustin Long: Call me Old School, but I don’t cheer. || Bryan Davis Keith: I applauded. (See his fifth point.)

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