do you blog?? then you are a piece of shit.

i don't consider myself a blogger, but i do have a blog, which basically means nothing more than i have an internet connection and am semi-literate. i am not even in the same world as big dogs of the blogosphere, nor do i desire to be. i created uncle rico on a whim last summer for one simple reason...to talk shit about sports. i am a sports fan, and i tend to surround myself with people who are sports fans to varying degrees. before uncle rico we would often get caught up sending rounds and rounds of emails to each other in regards to "why my team is better than your team" or some such nonsense. god forbid you miss a day or even an afternoon of work, or you would come back to 43 replies to something you didn't even particpate in. so in order to save our inboxes, i created uncle rico. over the course of its very short life, 4 or 5 other people with similar interests have become somewhat regular readers. i, for one, get much of my sports news from blogs b/c i'd much rather hear what a beer drinking, 28 year old, true sports fan thinks about sports than some guy who majored in journalism in 1963, and who only follows sports b/c it pays his kid's tuition. the bottom line is, its no different than the radio or the tv...if you don't like what you see, keep moving.

if you haven't heard, last night bob costas and the guy who wrote "friday night lights" (and is a huge dickface...who knew??) decided to lynch will leitch of deadspin on hbo while braylon edwards tried not to get anything on his shoes. instead of posting any videos, i'm going to point you in the direction of many of the high quality bloggers out there who are covering this story much better than i ever could, complete with videos and insight. viva bloggers!! and fuck that guy who wrote that book!!

-first and foremost, mr. leitch himself

-the boys over at fire joe morgan - a few words on the "internet"

-awful announcing has plenty, just scroll around.

-mac g's world - leitch entered bissinger saw

-mr. bissinger expands upon his feelings on blogs and horses over on kissing suzy kolber.

-orson assures us he DOES NOT live in his mother's basebment over on everyday should be saturday.

-the big lead - fear and loathing in the blogosphere

-and so on...and so on...