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ESPN Is Just CRAWLING With Sexual Harassers

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We’ve never been one for internet chats with mega-celebrities, like the MIAMI HERALD’s Dan Le Batard, but apparently we really should’ve considered spending New Year’s Eve with Le Batard on the Herald’s website.

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jake(ymon) — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:06:36 EDT

You know, HR's looking rather Lando in that picture there.

Very Lando, actually.

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Satyr Icon — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:54:25 EDT

If Lebatard is having sex, then we're all having sex...

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being_sven — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:36:55 EDT

Well, I suppose we have our newest commentor names:

Dan LeBatard's (Two) Girlfriends
or
LeBatard's Canadian GF

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Pacman Scones — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:27:47 EDT

And now we know Harold Reynolds is into "hogging."

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Dead Air ummm Dead Air — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:04:31 EDT

@Red Sox Monster:

I think I'd rather win the Special Olympics then being Lebatarded.

I know that's really bad, but I don't play around.

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Oops Pow Surprise — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:00:54 EDT

@Dan Daoust: Norby! can be a real dickhead sometimes.

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Tuffy — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:37:23 EDT

@Encouraging Referee Pitman: No, this is a sad panda:

[www.flickr.com]

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Tuffy — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:35:38 EDT

@MCBias: That's-a spicy quarterback-a.

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Red Sox Monster — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:34:53 EDT

so, you must have nightmares about Sandy Duncan and Sammy Davis teaming up as the villains in Spiderman 4, huh?

You have no idea. I still wake up in cold sweats thinking about that dude in Pirate of the Carribean.

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Encouraging Referee Pitman — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:34:46 EDT

This thread makes me a sad panda.

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Burnsy — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:32:24 EDT

And Wikipedia is on to us.

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Lady Andrea — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:31:46 EDT

@Red Sox Monster: so, you must have nightmares about Sandy Duncan and Sammy Davis teaming up as the villains in Spiderman 4, huh?

@Encouraging Referee Pitman: obviously.

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Senators Lost Cojones — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:31:39 EDT

@White Speed Receiver:

If she isn't, then she's 127 years old. Which, come to think of it, would tie her in nicely with the WWL's key demographic.

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Burnsy — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:31:21 EDT

@The Seaward (nee Tocchets Bookie):

Are you kidding? I just saw poop and butt in the same sentence and laughed as hard as I did at the Wikipedia entry.

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Red Sox Monster — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:30:18 EDT

@Lady Andrea: For the record, glass-eyed movie villains always creep me out. Stu Scott could be that man.

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Red Sox Monster — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:29:16 EDT

@Lady Andrea: Movie villains with glass eyes always creepy me out.

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Encouraging Referee Pitman — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:28:58 EDT

@Lady Andrea:

Only if you mean the Barty Crouch Jr. version.

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MidwestCoastBias — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:28:31 EDT

Oh, and the obligatory link to the Tom Brady sexual harrassment Saturday Night Live skit. A little spicy, but funny. [youtube.com]

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Lady Andrea — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:26:46 EDT

@Red Sox Monster: Stu Scott's like the Mad-Eye Moody of ESPN.

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Weed Against Speed — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:26:10 EDT

Not only did HR hit on two of his girlfriends, Kenny Mayne unscrewed the top of the salt shaker before he sat down in the cafeteria, Scott Van Pelt dumped his books in the hallway and Chris Berman gave him a Swirly.

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White Speed Receiver — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:26:10 EDT

Wait a second...2 girlfriends? Isn't Hellen Keller dead?

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UpstateUnderdog — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:26:01 EDT

@Carmen McFanzone: "Where's Berman in all of this?". the answer is simple, Berman is eating somewhere and getting fatter.

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The Seaward (nee Tocchets Bookie) — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:24:03 EDT

@HeavyPettingZoo: Please don't over-generalize... I'm 25 and "poop" and "butt" still make me giggle.

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UpstateUnderdog — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:23:44 EDT

@goathair: yes, i stole the rabbitt fur reference from "Grandma's Boy", nice catch goathair

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The Fan’s Attic — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:23:32 EDT

His girfriends weren't creeped out, that's just what they told when HR showem them his wang, Salsibury-style. You know that whole size doesn't matter lie women always tell men...or so I've heard.

damn.

I've said too much.

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Red Sox Monster — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:23:04 EDT

What's better than winning the Special Olympics?

Not being Lebatarded.

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Dan Daoust — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:22:41 EDT

@Phatty: Is it time for me to change my handle to "Botoxed Balls, Smooth as Eggs"? It may very well be.

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goathair — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:22:23 EDT

@UpstateUnderdog: I heard Le Batard sucked his first boob last night. For seven hours.

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JD — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:21:43 EDT

Who wants to sex Lebatard!

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Red Sox Monster — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:21:17 EDT

To give ESPN a bit of defense--I interviewed an attractive woman who worked at ESPN on my blog (http://mcbias.blogspot.com/2007/06/mcbias-interviews-this-suit-is-not.html) and she said she never had a problem with sexual harassment. Maybe she just stayed in Stu Scott's blind spot?

Nah, I doubt it. That glass eye sees everything, I tell you, everything.

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Senators Lost Cojones — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:21:17 EDT

@TheOldPooperoo: Clearly you missed the comment string following last Friday's Cultural Oddsmaker.

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Phatty — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:20:35 EDT

Le Batard also controversially claimed that Steve Nash won the NBA MVP award "because he was white and because he is so jealous of his silky legs and his botoxed balls, smooth as eggs.

that doesn't even make sense yet I find it hilarious.

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UpstateUnderdog — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:20:13 EDT

i wonder if by girlfriend , LeBartard actually means the pieces of rabbitt fur he rubs against him-self at night ?

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HeavyPettingZoo — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:19:57 EDT

That Wikipedia entry reminds me of Mad Libs, but instead of 12 year olds saying "poop" and "butt", it's 20-30 year olds saying "homosexual relationship with some guys dick" and talking about raping grandfathers.

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TheOldPooperoo — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:18:13 EDT

That Wikipedia page is the single funniest thing I've seen in a week. And, since it's on the Internet, it must be true!

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Carmen McFanzone — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:18:10 EDT

Where's Berman in all of this? The WWL could really use his calm, nonthreatening, above-reproachiness right now.

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MidwestCoastBias — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:16:40 EDT

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Weed Against Speed — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:16:39 EDT

Dan LeBatard is the most Now of all of ESPN personalities.

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Senators Lost Cojones — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:16:34 EDT

I am immediately renaming my dog Twinkle Tits. Should make for some fun times at the dog park.

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Encouraging Referee Pitman — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:16:12 EDT

@Dan Daoust:

This was clearly HR's first assignment blogging for MLB.com.

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flubby — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:15:23 EDT

If instead of HR it had been one the guys whose asses LeBatard is always kissing (TO, Shaq, Ricky Williams), he wouldn't have said peep. "Yeah, baby, go ahead with Shaq. If he wants the buttsecks, don't make his ask twice."

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Get Him A Body Bag, Yeah! — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:15:16 EDT

Botoxed balls? That Steve Nash, ahead of his time I tell ya.

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SlickBomb — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:15:05 EDT

@Dan Daoust: This is all quite brillant.

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Ben — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:14:44 EDT

also from his wiki page:

For example, after Le Batard casually disclosed that he sometimes sleeps on the balcony of his apartment/condo,because his boyfriend dislikes the way he always farts in bed.

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Spectacular Sam — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:14:40 EDT

@throwbot: Fantastic.

And listening to that audio, I think LeBetard states no less than 5 times he had "2 girlfriends."

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Billy Clyde Puckett — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:14:18 EDT

Are we sure there's not a player's side LeBatard can take in all of this?

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Dan Daoust — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:14:15 EDT

@Lady Andrea: Was kidding there. The joke is that I'm so well known for my sexual harrassing. Eh, you had to be there, in my head, when I thought of it, and it was funny.

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Weed Against Speed — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:13:38 EDT

@throwbot: My bad - didn't refresh comments.

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Senators Lost Cojones — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:13:28 EDT

@Burnsy: Really? Well I guess I won't have to worry about this anymore.

*rips up Restraining Order*

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Farneyismycopilot — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:12:46 EDT

Don't Hit On Dan LeBatard's Girlfriends ... because they're imaginary and thus hard to have sex with.

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The Seaward (nee Tocchets Bookie) — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:12:43 EDT

@throwbot:
"Le Batard graduated from the University of Miami where he had a homosexual relationship with some guy's dick. In 1990 with a bachelor of arts degree in journalism and politics, he decided to molest his grandfather repeatedly with his asshole. He received criticism for helping to escalate the raping of grandfathers in every household of Florida."

I lol'ed.

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Dan Daoust — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:12:30 EDT

I had to capture that whole thing before they take it down:

Dan Le Batard is an American newspaper sportswriter, radio host, and television reporter. "Le Batard" means "The Bastard" in French.

Le Batard graduated from the University of Miamiwhere he had a homosexual relationship with some guy's dick. In 1990 with a bachelor of arts degree in journalism and politics, he decided to molest his grandfather repeatedly with his asshole. He received criticism for helping to escalate the raping of grandfathers in every household of Florida.

Le Batard began work at the Miami Herald in 1990 and is a columnist for their sports section. His first major work for The Herald was to investigate his former college roommate leading to the wierd romp they had at the local HOLIDAY INN, which was highly publisized.

Le Batard hosts an afternoon radio show weekdays with Jon "Stugotz" Weiner on WAXY 790 ("The Ticket") AM weekdays 4-7pm in Miami. Le Batard is known for his self-deprecating humor, which carries over onto the show through running jokes. For example, after Le Batard casually disclosed that he sometimes sleeps on the balcony of his apartment/condo,because his boyfriend dislikes the way he always farts in bed. Callers sarcastically are known to call him Dan Levitz after KISS singer Gene Simmons mistakenly called him by this name. It also is well known for the weekly Friday segment with controversial wide receiver Terrell Owens.[1] The show also has sports and comedy guests who interact with callers. Le Batard requires callers to start their call without pleasantries (Such as "Hi, how are you doing today?" or "What's up?"), or their call is immediately dropped after the show plays a suey montage. While doing a radio-show, Le Batard was fingering himself the whole time, causing him to shit all over his co-host.

The "Suey" is named after a term Luther Campbell used to describe a rap record by basketball star Kobe Bryant. Campbell called it worse than garbage, worse than sewage... suey. The suey montage, on first play each day, will run over 30 seconds and includes strange and random sounds from past shows. Le Batard has always reffered to Luther Campbell as " Honey Thighs".

A further example of Le Batard's self-deprecation and supposedly "hatable-ness" is a series of billboards around Miami that advertise his radio show in which Le Batard's face seems to be covered by a large amount of crotch.

Le Batard is an outspoken critic of disciplinarian coaches on his radio show and in his columns for ESPN the Magazine, feeling that the disciplinarian style of coaching is ill-suited to the modern era of high player salaries and guaranteed contracts. He often hides in the locker rooms, trying to catch a glimpse of an athlete's foreskin.

[edit] Trivia
Le Batard's brother, David, is an artist of Lebo Studios fame. David Le Batard has never willingly attended a sporting event, despite his brother's vocation.
Le Batard also controversially claimed that Steve Nash won the NBA MVP award "because he was white and because he is so jealous of his silky legs and his botoxed balls, smooth as eggs. His brother David is in fact a cross dresser who goes by the name of Twinkle Tits.

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Lady Andrea — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:12:26 EDT

@Dan Daoust: seriously? Who are you going to harass first?

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Encouraging Referee Pitman — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:12:17 EDT

I continue to find it amusing that his last name means "the bastard" in French.

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Weed Against Speed — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:12:07 EDT

Everyone needs to check out LeBatard's Wikipedia page before they take it down:

[en.wikipedia.org]

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throwbot — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:10:31 EDT

Lebetard's Wikipedia page has some gems:

While doing a radio-show, Le Batard was fingering himself the whole time, causing him to shit all over his co-host.

He often hides in the locker rooms, trying to catch a glimpse of an athlete's foreskin.

[en.wikipedia.org]

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Dan Daoust — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:10:31 EDT

And in related news, I just got a job at ESPN.

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Pacman Scones — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:10:19 EDT

LeBatard has had two girlfriends and I can't even get a date. I'm gonna go hang myself now.

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Senators Lost Cojones — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:09:30 EDT

"Fun With Sexual Harrassment". I'm smelling a Friday Balls post here.

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The Seaward (nee Tocchets Bookie) — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:08:54 EDT

@Lady Andrea: Yeah, that's fucking insane. A world gone mad, I tell you!

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Lady Andrea — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:07:40 EDT

@Weed Against Speed: Her name is Alberta, she lives in Vancouver.

A workplace dominated men whose lives revolve around sports is filled with sexual harassment? GET OUT!

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shea_guevara — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:06:58 EDT

And if there's a sports journalist in America whose integrity is unimpeachable, it's certainly Dan LeBatard.

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goathair — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:06:57 EDT

I creep out my own girlfriend all the time.

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Burnsy — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:06:45 EDT

@Senators Lost Cojones:

I've had her tied up.

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DannyNoonan — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:06:28 EDT

He didn't pay for consensual sex with two of my girlfriends.

Fixed.

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Dead Air ummm Dead Air — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:05:17 EDT

Maybe they're just girls who are friends.

Wait, that's not very likely, either.

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Senators Lost Cojones — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:04:27 EDT

He called ESPN "filled with sexual harassment" and said "it's actually funny."

Well if that's the case, Mister LeBatard, then why isn't Erin Andrews returning my calls?

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sarah — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:03:57 EDT

Yeah, I've met LeBatard. No way he's had two girlfriends in this decade.

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Drew Magary — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:02:59 EDT

By the way, this means LeBatard will be disciplined before Paige, which makes perfect sense in Bristol, aka Shithead Country.

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Burnsy — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:02:41 EDT

@flubby:

I want to take that joke behind the middle school and get it pregnant.

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Weed Against Speed — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:02:16 EDT

We all know one of LeBatard's girlfriends is named Rosy Palm and the other one lives in Canada - you wouldn't know her.

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badbabu — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:02:03 EDT

@flubby: That's some chocolate sauce-covered nightmare fuel.

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Burnsy — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:02:02 EDT

My college journalism adviser told me a story about Lebby being this huge womanizer early in his career. After I was done choking on my tongue, I asked him to never tell me another story.

Burnsy