Buzz Bissinger, Pulitzer Prize winning author and foil to the sports blogosphere, joins the show to talk about his career as a writer, interviewer – and yes – new media-discussing  town hall panelist.

Listen, our audience is very diverse so there are some of you who only know Bissinger for what he said on Costas Now, and the aftermath that ensued. There are some of you who read sports books or live in Philly and just said, “what’s Costas Now.”

There’s something in this for both of you. We talk about his career from winning the Pulitzer to Ed Rendell to picking up his entire life and moving to Odessa Texas on a chance a book might come out of it.

We talk a lot of baseball, including a discussion about the overuse or underuse of pitchers in the minors.

We also talk about many of his articles for Vanity Fair, including one on Don Imus and one on Stephen Glass that was turned into the movie Shattered Glass. That leads us to a talk about the need for editors, which spins us nicely into the world of internet writing.

And blogs. We not only talk briefly about that night and what his thoughts are many months later, but find out why he decided to do every interview that asked him in the weeks following.  I’d have probably just gone into a shell, but he was out there taking punches from anyone.

We also discuss how that night extended the conversation about newspapers and new media. Does he regret anything? What does he think about the Mariotti’s of the world now saying newspapers are dead? What will his Deadspin Hall of Fame induction speech say?