We know it's late, but we're naming four more finalists. The rules provide us with the latitude to do this. The only possible complainers are the 16 finalists already announced, but they know that ultimately they must be better than everyone else, so four more competitors should not really affect them.
The reasons for adding four more finalists to the mix are different for each writer: in one case we made a math error; in another a damn good blog just somehow got overlooked; in another instance we decided we liked the idea of a little more controversy in the contest (just like in real sports); and in the final case we decided that it was our obligation to give voice to a woman sportswriter, even though her blog wasn't particularly good (if performance were the sole criteria there might be no women's sports at all!) and a number of us felt she was really a man masquerading as a woman anyway.
Having experienced a long history of personal disappointmen t and mediocrity in numerous sports at many different levels (my failures attributable to both sloppy work habits and the lack of natural ability) it is with a new sense of empowerment that I take on the task of trying to illuminate the deficiencies and missteps of those much better than myself.
