We’ll be honest, we’re not having a spectacular day. Just not a lot of sleep plus a substantial amount of work for tomorrow has us feeling a little, well, meh. Fortunately, we managed to stumble our way across this pleasant little blog post, via Awful Announcing, about a hot-shot young sports reporter in Binghampton, NY, who happened to have the only footage of Cornell capturing the Ivy League title (making them the first official entry into the NCAA field of 64). Obviously, ESPN wanted this footage, and when they came calling, well, shit got awkward. Brendan O’Reilly’s “Dear ESPN” blog post response after the jump. It’s pretty f’ing superb.

By Brendan O’Reilly
3/1/08

Thanks so much for calling my cellphone repeatedly on Saturday.
Not sure how you got that number, but it sure was super to chat. Say hi to Neil Everett for me. He’s awesome.

Any-who, just wanted to clear up a few things.

Yes, we are happy to share the video from Cornell clinching their Ivy League title. Hope you don’t mind if we go ahead and worry about our show first though.

I know everyone loves the Sportscenter, with the zany commercials and all, but we’re going to go ahead and edit our stuff first.
We’re selfish that way.

Second, after I send you the video roughly 15 minutes after we get the tape back from Ithaca, feel free to call again and ask me to resend it because “the video quality isn’t the best.” No sweat. It’s not like I mentioned we’re a staff of 2 putting together a 30 minute show.

I’ll keep your number for when I want a different angle on all the stuff you send to WBNG.

Third, when you run our video on all your shows, please find a font size roughly one pixel in height to show that it was shot by WBNG. We want people that have 60 inch monitors to have to squint to read it. That’s the goal.

So in conclusion, it was just fantastic bending over backwards to get you video. It really was.
You didn’t ask, but so you know it’s a size XL for my sweatshirt, J-Ho looks like he might be a medium.
And is it cool if I list you as a reference? Thanks. Your pal,

Brendan

Well played, sir. Well played.