December 2010
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MERRY CHRISTMAS!
There’s No “I” in Blog is going on Christmas vacation with the rest of y’alls. We’ll be welcoming 2011 with some new developments, so we’ll see you then in January!
Dec 23rd
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There's No Such Thing as a "Fun Run"
This Saturday, my friends and I will celebrate our fourth annual holiday party. A relatively small group of us gather at a house where four of my high school friends live together outside of Boston and hold a potluck dinner. We get dressed up, take pictures, have a gift exchange, and play drinking games. It’s the one time all year that we’re all in the same place at the same time. My...
Dec 16th
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Bellevue Supersonics? Why It Wouldn't Work
A few days ago, David Aldridge published a very well-researched, informative, and overall wonderful column on NBA.com about the lingering discontent from the Supersonics’ shady departure from Seattle. There’s an interesting paragraph about two-thirds of the way through the story where Aldridge brings up former Sonics coach Lenny Wilkens, who then discusses the possibility of returning...
Dec 15th
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Handoffs
Handoffs is a weekly roundup of sports stories and blog posts gathered from around the interwebs that we find interesting, informative, and entertaining. Here’s a fun and informative headline from The Spoiler: Burmese Dictator Wanted to Buy Manchester United. Bernard Gilkey hasn’t played for the Diamondbacks in nine years, but they’ll be paying him until 2017. Interesting story...
Dec 10th
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Projecting the Red Sox
As I fire up the ol’ computer to write this article, I have five tabs open in my browser from last night: Sons of Sam Horn, the best sports message board on the internet; Fangraphs; MLB Trade Rumors; and the Baseball-Reference pages for Russell Martin, Carl Crawford (for obvious reasons), and Roberto Clemente (because I was getting ahead of myself and comparing Crawford’s career to...
Dec 10th
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A Little Creative Outlet
Lately my writing has been a little sidetracked by what I’ll just refer to here as real-life writing and trying to get the blog moved and redesigned. In search of another creative outlet, I decided to grab a pencil and paper and attempt my first drawing in years. Well, here it is. It’s not perfect; there are some crazy issues with proportion and foreshortening there, but still, not...
Dec 9th
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Handoffs
Activity is moving slowly here on There’s No “I” in Blog for the time being because we’re still in the process of packing up and moving to a site with less coding issues, but I promise we’ll be back in full force in the very near future. For now, here’s another weekly dose of Handoffs. Handoffs is a weekly roundup of sports stories and blog posts gathered from...
Dec 3rd