There are several bloggers who I regularly have give-and-take with here
on FOX Sports. I think for the most part we write for each other's
company since nobody at FOX seems to be paying any attention to us and
I have'nt seen any inkling of another contest coming up anytime soon.
Nevertheless,
we write and we write and we write, and we argue some, then we shout at
each other, call each other morons and the cycle continues. Regardless,
it gives those of us who actually enjoy writing and working on our
craft an audience no matter how small and irrelevant.
I
personally, love the blogging community. I think it's information
exchange at it's finest and in several years as major news network
anchors become more and more obsolete, people will simply choose which
blogger they believe more and that is where they'll get their
information from.
I have about 15 blogs and several podcast
across the net under different names and subject matter. I'm like the
blogging version of Prince (or rather the artist formerly known as
Prince).
Lately, however, I see an increase in the number of
people who have music on their blogs, a concept which I do not
understand at all.
My personal favorite musicians or groups,
in no particular order are, Kurt Cobain, The Aforementioned Artist who
goes by different names, The Roots, Erykah Badu, Red Hot Chilli
Peppers, Jodeci, KRS ONE and yes the Allman Brothers. In fact,
"Midnight Rider" barely lost out to Redman's "I'll Be Dat" as my personal theme song (see 'I'm Gonna Get You ####a'). And yes all of those artists are in the MP3's of the Caddy and the Range right now.
Many
of you probably do not like all if not any of those artists for all I
know. So I will not burden you with having to endure my personal
favorites when I'm priveledged (sic) enough to have you stop by my blog
to pay attention to what I'm thinking at any given moment.
We meet up here for sports talk, this isn't MySpace!
So
what gives with all of the musical pages. There are several things to
consider when you decide to blast us with your musical faves on your
sports blog:
#1. What if your reader happens to be at work or at
home late at night while his/her family is sleeping and all of the
sudden we click to your page and ...Mama don't let your babies grow up to be Cowboys!!!! What if your boss, who is in the office next door, actually likes Cowboys? What if my wife doesn't like country music disturbing her sleep? What if that's the song me and my ex broke up to?
Can you see the hysteria you may be causing?
#2.
What if I pull into my driveway and my wife and daughter are on the
front porch with a little bird they found in the front yard, and I
spend the next hour online trying to figure out exactly what kind of
bird it is and playing various bird sounds to see if I can get a
reaction out of the bird when I shift gears, go to FOX Sports, click
your blog and I get...Music makes you lose control!!!!
I
guess I might be too old school for many of today's younger bloggers,
judging by my musical tastes, that's probably a safe assumption, still,
if you want me to hear your tracks, just give me a hyperlink to your MySpace or Facebook page and I will happily check them out.
As
for the sports blogs, unless it's a vintage Cossell - Ali verbal
sparring session, a classic Harry Carey or Billy Crystal 'take me out
to the ballgame' rendition, or a hilarious Mike Tyson ear or children eating montage don't you think that we could find our own way to hot tunes?
Since everyone of those blogs has a mute and since I went to great lengths to take requests and since you can pick to hear none or any one in particular I don't see that this is worth complaining about.
I don't have the music anymore because I got tired of hearing the same old songs over and over and no matter what I do, reading or writing or responding I hear them over and over. But just for you to hear them once? LOL That's really worth a blog complaining about it isn't it?
Nique,
Why delete the music player when you can add up to 100 songs to the list. I have around 65-70 on my and can choose to hear different things all the time. Besides Curly is complaint has no validity. Write fox and see what they do about it. If I and anyone else are able to do it who the hell are you to say anything about it. get your own so you can hear what you like.
Again...I could care less what you or gambitxxx have to say. The music on a SPORTS blog is Bush-League (pun intended)and has no place on a Sports Blog.
Of course FOX won't say anything, if they were truly concerned about screening our blogs then perpetually menstrual people like Nique Dodson would've been banned some time ago.
If anything, I'm sure our little rants serve as nothing more that entertainment fodder for the REAL writers at FOX (who by the way don't bother us with THEIR musical selections).
That's why there is MySpace and Facebook. Not only does your lack of better judgement show by deciding that people who want to read about SPORTS would be interested by what music you like, but it also displays the fact that you don't enough quality writing material to speak of, so you fill the void with asinine musical selections as if you were attempting to garner some comraderie with other bloggers.
That goes for you too gambitxxx and for that matter anyone who has the ludicrous notion of putting music players on a SPORTS blog. What's the matter? Can't get any hits on your MySpace page?
Although I don't really like them, my blog was more tongue-in-cheek than anything else. But since I see that Nique has rounded up the 'attack Curly' posse to justify 'kiddy noise time' on SPORTS blogs, then I will happily expose you and your musical savants with this simple premise.
There are over a million places on the internet where I can choose to listen to music, why would I be interested to listening to music on your SPORTS blog? (Oh I'm not finished...)
Next you knuckleheads will be offering up your latest fashion or pet care tips!
So for all of you who feel the need to combine Willie Randolph with Willie Nelson, just light up a few incense and sing kumbaya to each other, while sharing Billy Ray Cyrus jock strap hugging tales...but most of all..MOST of all...write something worth reading!
I own a recording studio and I will happily charge you a discounted fee of $45 per hour to stop by and live out your American Idol fantasies. Then at least least you can have something ORIGINAL on your blog instead of rehashing tunes from your glory days as a Disco Savant.
