The blogs are in ur base, killing ur profits.

Doug:
Memo to sports stahs, entertainahs, and all othah celebs: When you go on record saying you "don't care what people think" about you, you're pretty much saying that no only do you care but that it gets to you.

 

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Mike:
The ballplayah doth protests too much, methinks?

 

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Doug:
Seriously, because if you really didn't care you wouldn't even think to bring it up.

 

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Mike:
It's kinda like how when newspapah guys try to dismiss the web phenomena as being a bunch of late-night blog boys who live in Ma's basement as a way of pretending it's still 1997 and newspapers ruled the earth.

 

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Doug:
Yeah, meanwhile, as Schilling is getting a bazillion hits from "sheep-like fans," The Globe continues to slash jobs and staggahs around wondering what the frig is happening.

 

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Mike:
And the conclusion from at least one of the Globe's dudes is, of course, that the readahs are stupid sycophants who should be made fun of at every opportunity.

 

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Doug:
Of course, because, you know, it couldn't be that the dynamics of baseball reporting are changing radically and what fans want, or rathah demand, is thoughtful analysis, not clubhouse gossip, cliches, and innuendo.

 

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Mike:
And since we blog boys are, in addition to Ma's basement dwellahs, all Star Trek fans …

 

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Doug:
Proudly so, I might add.

 

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Mike:
Absolutely. So here's some advice from Mr. Spock for all the hatahs in the MSM: Change is the essential process of all existence.

 

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Author's Notes

The Mr. Spock quote is from the episode "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield," stardate 5730.2.

Regarding Shaughnessy's slam of Schilling'blog and its readers, I did get a real kick out of Shaughnessy using the handle "CHB38" for one of his faux commenters. I wanted to work that into the strip today, but couldn't seem to make it work.

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[Sean O]

Everything that Coco does, and says, just makes that we have a real player in Ellsbury on his way up.

He was a horrible move from the start, and nothing's changed. Here's hoping he just collapses from the start so we can get a real hitter in CF, rather than 600 ABs of mediocrity.

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