Blogging the hurricane coverage and and scooping the Sports Economist. Do those guys read Deadspin?
Rovell, CNBC's business reporter, tweets like the battle-weary Marine that he isn't:
darrenrovell Just got the call: Heading to Montauk. Will be live in the storm on CNBC from 6am to 11pm ET on Sunday. Pray for me.
He'll be there because, yes, the world needs to know what the hurricane's hypothetical Under Armour sponsorship revenues would be. Because the world needs to know what the hurricane's lunch of the day will be—we fear it might be Rovell's pompadour (although he says he has "hurricane-force gel.") Because the hurricane needs to know how she should tweet.
Nonetheless, people of eastern New England, take heart. There's now a massive obstacle standing between Irene and you: Darren Rovell's ego.
Here is to hoping that Rovell is as awesome as Jim Cantore in New York city who just told me that 10 stories up you can add a hurricane category (OMG this hurricane is way worse than I thouht, I'll keep watching The Weather Channel) and he wishes it would go ahead and start raining ... "man, it is humid here!"
I'm not a regular reader of Deadspin, but if someone wants to send me out to tornado alley on their dime so I can write about severe weather sports economics, I'm game.