I'm a BLOGGER and I believe everyone has a right to FREE SPEECH.
1. I have the right to use someone else's idea for a blog and then pawn it off as my own (similar to how Colin Cowherd does his show btroup).
2. I have the right to misuse any word I choose to misuse, or for that matter make it up out of thin air, jimbob.
3. I have the right to say something I don't believe, this does not condone lying or impersonating any said individual as we are all aware, the children are reading.
4. I have the right within my list of rules to give random facts about myself, such as I'm 5'9, 168 lbs, and in my Madden Hall of Fame Season just caught 27 touchdowns in my third year in the NFL and had 2378 yards receiving. This all despite the fact Drew Brees got cracked ribs and I had to finish the year with Adrian McPherson calling the shots. I, of course, won the Super Bowl and parlayed that into a huge FA contract and a bigger pad.
5. Placing sexual parameters on your blog is a good idea, if you don't, you are likely to be taken advantage of in the worst way, a way that Sebastian Janikowski can elaborate on if you ever corner him in a bar.
6. I refuse to use restraint in situations where you show up, on my blog, and say something that doesn't make much sense, kelly.
7. I do agree that burning flags is a desperate, cheap cry for attention, if you will. I’m not sure if it makes you a polecat, but darn close to it if you ask me.
8. I believe that if you don’t vote, you still reserve the right to complain. My best example of this is I’d venture to say there a very few of us that get an AP, USA Today, or Coaches Poll vote, yet we argue about the BCS like we were all married.
9. I, even if intending to make a list of ten things, might through lack of creativity, en up with only nine and then stop writing. I do intend to write all of my posts in English, so hopefully that will be fine with all of you.
10. This blog is of course in reference to our friend jimbobjo, who posted his in the NASCAR section. Jimbobjo, thanks for the idea pop!
11. I have the right to call myself Scottstradomus and claim to be some professional writer. And, then in every attempt to discredit myself, make the most outrageous and overreaching claims I can fathom to garner attention and comments. This in all reality may be more egregious than burning a flag, and definitely qualifies you for dead polecat consideration.
12. I also reseve the right to intend to stop my list at ten, and then decide later to add to that list as I see fit. Hey, does anyone else, when looking at #### Stockton in the booth, expect to see a long pony tail if he turned around, and then as your daydream continues, picture him on a Harley Davidson. Just wondering.
A sense of humor was needed for this my friend, and if you find that offensive, I may need to be apologized for, otherwise, the humor must have clubbed you in the head and given you a concussion, henceforth not allowing you to realize that humor is what hit you. To each his own...to each his own.
10) This is perfect, and should probably be posted on the main page of Foxsports. or at least on the main blog page, sort of a "Blogger's Bill of Rights."
9) I'd elaborate, but I've got to run; I'm going to be busy cutting and pasting this post as my own, after misspelling a few words of course and making wild, unsupported claims about everything sports-related and not.
Half - I look forward to the rest of your top 10, hopefully we can generate a list of 100 or so top blogger critiques/slash rights we can send to all new and former and current bloggers. Glad to have you.
Help for halfbaked
8. we do this for fun and debate is part of it, even if everyone else but me is wrong.
7. Comments with nothing to do with the topic is................................. ..
I reserve the right to give Colin Cowherd a free pass when I've been too hard on him. Half my entries are about his gaffes, but he should take it as a compliment. I'd rather report on his gaffes than some local fishwrap's gaffes.
And my blog idea is essentially lifted from another blog about bad sports writing. So #1 is all about me. Just the way it should be.
I'd like to tell you that I'm an aggrieved minority that feels that the likes of Clayton Bigsby (character created by Dave Chappelle) has right to depict the Klan as
an intelligent organization. But then again the same could be said about the Democrats and Republicans for all of their senseless ponitification as to the rights of the citizens of this country.
btroup - hopefully you take it as a compliment. i have grown to dislike colin immensely after at one point devoting part of my bio to saying he was my favorite sports radio host. it all changed when he got a divorce and decided to say stupid things and be a blowhard know it all. his rant yesterday about lloyd carr solidified my belief that I wish he'd lose his job.
Norcal - Brad Daugherty and funny do not go together in the same sentence. Nor does Rusty Wallace and funny, intelligent, thought provoking, or logical go in the same sentence.
sportthink
Of all the things afforded to me since I've arrived in this country. The one thing that I've been entrusted with the most is the right to speak my mind candidly . But at the same time I know that it's not something that I can't abuse just for my own perspective as I do realize that I've also got to be respectful of others. And that at the end of the day is how we're expected to live our lives is it not ?
sportthink
See my latest post written under the rampantfanatic guise titled Yes It Was A Tragedy....But All 'bama Did Was Lose A Game ! Let me know what you think as to the merits of the piece ?
Fair enough (looks around) What did he say? Did he say Half baked wrote this blog or did half baked say he stole it from him? (shaking head) I wish we could get some continuity around here. Rights on a blog. Boy needs to read the handwringing on the wall. I've walked on water, danced with wolves, flew with eagle, and slithered with the snakes in the grass but when the lightning bolt comes down, "oh cool" is the two words that come from others other than myself.
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I personlly can only say that when I'm sitting in the front row and my face comes on the jumbotron or Diamondvision or beamed to 20,000,000 million people world wide, I'm gonna be singing OH SAY CAN YOU SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE and holding my hand over my heart, might even salute some old geezers in the veterans day parade but in all honesty? I really don't care if you burn the flag or if you thump on the guy who does. Lot of people die for a flag. Seldom see a flag die for the people. Seldom see those playing the patroitic cards in Washington die for the people. Or their kids die for the people. Or their grandchildren die for the people. But they're real good at flag waving. Guess it has something to do with being in the first row maybe.
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Well, all I can say is that Blogging, much like driving, is NOT a right. It is a privilege because it CAN be taken away by choice by any said blogging site. Ask a few that have been kicked off of here if you don't believe me. Dusty?
Pertinent, thought-provoking, current, witty and true!!!
I'm sure you could keep going to number 48 if you wanted to but it seems to get redundant after a while, right.
Bottom line is...this is YOUR blog and you should be able to say what you want on YOUR blog. Much unlike many of us were afforded the opportunity to do.
As a surfing common-tater, I will leave this old add-itch: The only fool bigger than a "know it all", is the one argueing with him/her. This has worked well in my marriage also. It also lets you blog-etteretts wonder if I stopped by for evaluation or not. Remember..."if you spark it but get no smoke, it's probably too wet.
Published sports column contributor, but I'm about the 560th ranked blogger on this site. I'll keep most of my posts sports related. My sense of humor exists to amuse myself. This has happened by default because I rarely seem to amuse anyone else. I'm ashamed that my favorite professional sports teams are from the city of San Francisco.
Favorite sports listed from favorite to least favorite: duck-duck-
goose, red-light green-light, freeze tag, marco polo, and hop-scotch.
