Michelle Tafoya on Deadspin: 'It Disgusts Me' (But Talking About Men at Urinals Doesn't)

After last night's ranting and raving from Buzz Bissinger, you might think members of the mainstream media would re-evaluate their feelings toward blogs. After all, respectable journalists don't want to be associated with the idiotic ramblings of Bissinger, do they?

Well, maybe and maybe not. On Mike Tirico's ESPN Radio show today, he and Michelle Tafoya discussed what Bissinger had to say.

Tirico was fair in his assessment. "The marketplace spits out what doesn't work," Tirico said. "There's a reason that Deadspin and The Big Lead and those blogs have traction: People read them, people go to them, and they have some quality there."

But then when Tirico was finished giving his view, Tafoya said, "While you were talking I went to Deadspin, just to take a glance, because I don't frequent that site by any stretch of the imagination. I see very quickly why it is popular with a certain audience, and it disgusts me. And that's all I'm going to say."

And then, after Tafoya trashed that filthy, disgusting web site Deadspin, she proceeded to talk about men picking up other men at urinals. I kid you not. Literally two minutes after she pronounced that Deadspin disgusts her, she and a guy who works on the show named Phil had the conversation about urinals that you can read after the jump.

Tafoya first said she doesn't like it when other people at her gym use the exercise machine immediately next to the one she's using. Then they had this exchange:

Phil: It's the same thing with urinals in the men's room.

Tafoya: It is?

Phil: The same thing.

Tafoya: So it should be every other one. But has that happened to you, Phil?

Phil: Absolutely. There's a row of urinals, about 10 of them, you go to one on the end, you go to number two, the guy goes right next to you, to number three, while four through 10 are open.

Tafoya: Is he trying to pick up on you maybe?

Phil: No.

Tafoya: What's the stance of his feet?

And there you have it, folks. Michelle Tafoya (who, by the way, once purposely dropped beer on fans at a football game) is disgusted by Deadspin, but not by talking about men trying to pick up other men at urinals. It's important to have standards.