By Justin Spiro
SpiroJus@GMail.com
April 4, 2016
As the father of a newborn daughter, I often find myself worrying about things that are still many years away. Will she surround herself with good kids in high school? Will she know never to accept drinks from strangers at a college party? Will she marry a man who will cherish and respect her? Will she get harassed by Dan Leach?
Ah, yes. Just when you thought Anthony Fenech was an indomitable tour de force of social media creepiness, here comes 97.1 The Ticket’s Leach waddling uninvited into your inbox. Move over, “your boyfriend is ugly” and “I’m a beast.” It is time to make room for “Heyyyyy sweetie” and “Your (sic) super lame and trashy.”
I have to give DSR Editor-in-Chief Jeff Moss credit. When you put over a decade of work into this stuff, you find that people start doing your work for you. We used to spend hours listening to the brutal sports talk programming in Detroit, ever on the prowl for website content. Now Moss just sits back and picks losing horses while his inbox floods with screen shots like this:
The above is an OKCupid exchange between Leach and a woman who’d like to remain anonymous.
As bad as Fenech’s social media game was, at least his known transgressions were during his college years. Dan Leach is almost 40 years old and is still rolling with “heyyyy sweetie” and “wooooo your (sic) also super lame”.
Super. Lame.
What adult man talks like this? Regina George’s “boo you whore” seems evolved by comparison. I honestly can’t remember seeing “hey” styled with multiple extra “y’s” at the end since my first girlfriend in middle school used it to greet me on AOL Instant Messenger. It was dumb then too.
How great is Leach’s description of himself in this exchange?
He opens with the statement that he is a “sports broadcaster.” Don’t all throw your panties at once.
Next, Leach describes himself as someone who “loves to have fun.” Thank goodness you clarified that, Dan! There are so many dudes out there who absolutely detest the idea of having fun and you certainly need to distinguish yourself from them. I used to enjoy having fun but now it seems kinda shitty.
I love how Leach states that he “lives for the moment.” Which is a dime-store Buddhist book way of telling a woman that you are in this for the sex and she’d better be quick about it.
I give the woman credit here. She answered in the exact way I advise female friends of mine to respond to creeps online. Firm but polite is the way to go. And what was that poor woman’s (Walter Sobchak TM) reward for handling Leach’s creepy inquiry with class?
“Your also super lame and trashy.”
Funny stuff when you consider Leach had described the “lame and trashy” woman as “my kind of girl” seconds earlier in the original correspondence.
Not to mention, Leach has been known to go on the 97.1 airwaves and brag about sleeping with prostitutes and hooking up with females from BackPage.com. I am sure a lot of those ladies have just exited finishing school when they encounter the grammar impaired “Danny Leach.”
When Moss asked Danny’s OKCupid victim — whom he advised about Leach’s hooker boasting past — why she thought he contacted her in the first place since she was in Virginia, she responded with:
“Frankly given that context maybe it’s the fact that I’m just far away enough to not be like wait aren’t you the guy who brags on my local radio station about hooking up with prostitutes…”
I am somewhat amused that even women in Virginia know to contact the DSR when harassed by a member of the Detroit media. Golf clap for the DSR.