Fare Thee Well, FireJoeMorgan

It's a sad, sad day. FireJoeMorgan.com is closing up shop. Since 2005 this has been one of my favorite blogs. Aside from my friends' blogs (which I'm obligated to follow, despite content highly variable in frequency, quality, logic, and entertainment value) this has been a must-read for three years now. During baseball season, FJM's weekly breakdown of Joe Morgan's ESPN chats were the ultimate in sports meta-criticism; the innumerable other posts on broadcaster and sportswriter idiocy were just as enjoyable. The crew at FJM demonstrated a passion for baseball rivaled only by their admiration for logic, rationality, data, and facts to back up (or more often, refute) claims made by people paid ridiculous sums of money to expound upon sports incorrectly for the common man.

I can only hope that they will reconsider, or find another outlet for their dedication, panache, joie de vivre, and limitless other foreign catchphrases that deserve italicized font.

RIP FJM April 2005 - November 2008