Because of said predicted suckiness I just didn't really pay attention in the pre-season. No prediction magazines, or websites, no listening to the fan 590, no message boards. And it was great. When the season started I could just watch the games, maybe get some news off bluejays.com or mlb.com. Generally just be a fan un-encumbered by the media. Enjoy the games where I could and find some other non-Jays stuff to enjoy my summer with.
Early in the season a friend turned me onto drunkjaysfans.com, and i thought their stuff was pretty well written and funny, and I mostly agreed with it. Sometimes I felt like commenting, but then i would think, that's just getting too involved, not something I want to do.
Then of course the stupid media commentary started popping up and some of it I just could not ignore. Raul Ibanez is accused of taking steroids by a blogger who didn't actually accuse him of anything, and the whole righteous indignation of the sports journalism community that followed. The whole manufactured "Oh my god Roy Halladay is GOING TO BE TRADED" because JP answers his phone and talks to people mess that started about a week ago. Probably anything written about the Jays recent slide.
These things made me want to say something, but djf seemed to be doing a pretty good job of it, and really I didn't want to take the time to just do what they were doing, but less funny. Then I started to think, what if someone did a blog where you just ignored as much news and commentary as possible except what you considered basic fact. Just commentary about sports as un-influenced by others as possible. Probably it would suck, because all other commentary in the world seems to require the context of other commentary, just because. Well why not try. If there is any other venue in the world where you could try to do this, I couldn't think of a better one.
Now I'm sure if I ever get a commenter, they will point me to 15 other sites trying to do the same thing way better than here, but oh well. I'm hoping to keep my posts short and concise so they are a pain to no one. They will mostly be about the Jays, but I'll try and put some general baseball stuff out there as well a couple of times a week, and maybe other commentary. Hopefully it will be entertaining for somebody.
Oh and if anybody does comment please don't make it about Griffin says this or Elliot wrote that. It kind of defeats the point.
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