Colin Cowherd, Schrutebag

As you might already know, The Big Lead, one of our favorite websites here at Foul Balls, got cyber-torched yesterday by ESPN's Colin Cowherd.

Apparently, Cowherd got his panties in a twist because of some imagined offense committed by TBL and decided to unleash his "herd" and shut down their site.

Listen to exactly what he told his listeners to do here.

For a few minutes this morning, TBL was back up and running, but shortly after, it got overloaded again.

What does this mean? A boutique sports blog has basically been shut down by a bitter radio talk show host and the behemoth corporation he works for. Nice work, Cowherd and ESPN. Nothing like an 800-pound gorilla bitch-slapping a friggin' mouse for the hell of it.

You know, I never really liked Colin Cowherd but listened cuz it's sports radio and something is better than nothing. At least, that's what I thought until yesterday. As of now, ESPN radio, once my staple for drive time, is permanently off. (Not that Cowherd, the narcissistic blowhard, gives a rat's ass.)

Deadspin talked to TBL and here's what they had to say:

It's a weird, powerless feeling - we're on the playground with the rest of the first graders and, without provocation, some angry-at-the-world sixth grader comes over and drops you with a roundhouse you didn't see coming. What's that about, Colin? We still don't know if this was your sly way of saying you enjoy the site, or whether you did it so people would 'talk about you.' Either way, thanks.

I think of Cowherd more like a blend of Dean Wormer, Doug Niedermayer and Chip Diller (one look at Colin and you know he likes to get paddled).

And us bloggers? Delta House led by a stellar crew: Leitch is Hoover, Mottram is Boon, The Dugout boys are Bluto, Big Daddy is D Day and, of course, Ufford is Otter. (I'll let you guys fight over who gets to be Flounder, Pinto and Katy.)

So, quote Otter,

"We gotta take this bastard. Now we could do it with conventional weapons that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part."

Kissing Suzy Kolber has gotten the ball rolling here, delivering Cowherd's new nickname.

It's a start. But let's hope we can marshal our forces to send Schrutebag the kind of message he truly deserves.