Aus einem offenen Brief an Mark Cuban

“[...]I'm asking you, bloggers, the internet, my fine friends in the series of tubes, not to get carried away. Let's not bombard them with application for anybody that's got a blogspot. (*Matt checks URL of his own blog.) Okay, bad example. What I'm saying is, if you're just going to get the access, if you don't have a genuine interest in covering the game, please don't apply. If you're a small blog, and you feel like you have something to contribute? By all means. All I'm saying is, let's be responsible with this. Basically, we're being tested.

"Here you go, bloggers! Make complete fools of yourselves! Prove how unqualified you are to be in this situation!"

Let's rise above that. Let's show them that even though we're newer, even though we don't feature columns with the same crusty cliches over and over again (well, again, not all of us), even though we haven't followed the traditional path, we still have something to add to the discourse of sports. Let's be responsible with the loaded weapon they've handed us and not shoot ourselves. Let's be professional bloggers. Not wanna-be journalists. Professional bloggers.[...]”


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