Going Old-School

Well, that's pretty much why Mark and I always fight. He comes out to Colorado for a lesson in blogging, then he goes home and steals my idea about breaking down the winter sports season. There's nothing more I can say, he pretty much covered it.

It was a hell of a season, that's for sure. Between all the feuding and rivalries and between the games and taunting, it wasn't easy being a blogmaster on a Southeast Missouri Sports site. You guys are ruthless.

Trying to figure out what crosses the line and what toes the line was tough. And it seemed it was always one of the two, never did I feel like I, or many of the responses I received were safe bets or sure things. If I said one thing, I was an ND homer. If I said another thing, then I wasn't being fair to my alum. The same went for you guys. Sikeston fans couldn't say anything to please ND fans, and ND fans couldn't say anything to please anybody. And so the world turns.

It's fun, isn't it? For the most part, I must admit, that I'm proud of this blog and the responses that I got. For the most part, everything was clean and the cheap shots were kept to a minimum. For the most part, everybody was nothing more than excited to talk about high school hoops. And, for the most part, that's a good thing.

I hope we didn't put to much pressure on the athletes, or to much strain on any parents who read these blogs and might see something about their child that causes them to lose sleep. If so, that certainly wasn't the idea behind my blogs.

The main SEMO interest is basketball, obviously. And that's over. But there is plenty more high school sports to come in the next few months, as well as many more great high school athletes to watch. So don't put the creative thoughts away yet.

It's a little more tough for me to follow these SEMO spring sports from Colorado, simply because they don't get as much play on the Internet as basketball does. And the Internet is pretty much all I've got. And I don't even have that.

So I'll probably be getting back to the old-school goods. "Two Minutes of Fun" and "The Grind" are on the list. Basically, it seems I'll be going back to just throwing out names of old athletes that we'd all love to see perform one more time. I'll let the local kid get back to covering the local sports. And all of his fans can go back to his blog, and my loyals can stick with me through another painful lag in time.

Why does nobody want to talk about the Cardinals anymore? Unless, of course, I go on blasting Mark McGwire for being no better than Roger Clemens. Then I get your interest, or at least a few of you. But that's old news, and I don't even believe that anyway. Roger is by far the worst thing to hit baseball since...the strike, I guess.

All said, this is the busy season for me out here in Colorado. I'm out of town a lot, sometimes for weeks at a time. I won't forget about you, don't forget about me. And stay on me, tell me how lazy I'm being on my blogs when I haven't posted in a while.

I will say, I've never had so much fun writing than I did these last few months. I enjoyed every single one of your comments, (yes, I read them) and I hope they continue.

Cheers to the spring. Baseball season, baby.