or at least someone who takes their own column seriously enough to get their facts straight. Boy, that Cassell trade was really something, wasn’t it?

Nice, quick work, CS. It strikes me that you’re something of the man of the hour, what with the J-school applications and “nominations” and all, but more importantly, the fact that suddenly, out of nowhere, the Clippers matter. I think we might have been blithely speculating about this a couple of weeks ago, going into the draft or whenever the “nominations” and the CS press pass were discussed. It’s all a blur. I have to say, you were wise to take a break, because I myself have been obsessing and pointlessly trying to will the Clippers into significance and a hopeful outlook, and I think we’re all completely shocked that this has happened. I’ve got nothing left, it was a good week to ignore the movie business for virtually two complete workdays, and if I can manage to pull myself away from this unexpected bonanza and good fortune I have to do it somehow.

Your posts have all been solid and then some. Now comes the next phase. You say that “all he had to do was read this blog from time to time,” which strikes me as a false beat, because we all know that the number of guys like that who read this blog from time to time are exactly zero. But they will now. And you’ve worked too hard and know too much not to step up. Truehoop and others should be linking here—they don’t know that Clipperblog phoned in this season after the Brand injury, and you provide much more in-depth, straightforward, and accurate (less glib) analysis anyway. Yeah, it would be nice to see a full-length explanation from Whicher about his Dewey beats Truman article and a reinstatement of AT3, but ever since the AT3 incident I’ve been telling people that I’ve seen signs that the newspaper business might fold much more rapidly than we might have guessed, going through massacre after massacre and disappearing overnight like the record business. I don’t know how things will end up with OCR and AT3, but ClipsNation is not only more solid than ever, it just grew exponentially in size and relevance over a 24 hour period.

So now’s the time. For the Clips, ClipsNation, and ClipperSteve. It’s gonna be great.

...with one last “it’s” mistake in this post for old time’s sake.

Yeah CS, time to forget grad school. Until now you have been the only source for good Clippers analysis, now you have be the ULTIMATE source.

Though maybe Clipperblog will come back to form and take a little of the burden off of your scholastic shoulders.

With the new wave of journalism which has taken over, blogging and whatnot, is journalistic accountability completely out the window? Take this case for example. Some hack journalist who obviously has done no research and knows nothing of which he speaks writes an article which hours later sheds light on his incompetence. All that the author or the website has to do is delete the post. Sure, plenty of people may already have seen it, but its it’s critical damage control. I’m all for the revolution, but at least the dead trees can’t be “deleted.”

I understand your point about retracting errors. But my point wasn’t really about factual stuff that newspapers retract for the sake of clearing things up. I was commenting more on the opinion-oriented stuff (which his article was completely based on). There’s a difference between making a factual mistake or error in judgment in a fact based piece. But an opinion post should not be deleted immediately just because its author is a bonehead.