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The Ladies… Hot Blogger Bracket: The Selection Committee Gets It EXACTLY RIGHT.
By Jay Busbee | June 6, 2007
We feel so objectified. And yet, flattered. This is how strippers and porn stars get started, we’re sure of it.
The Ladies… Hot Blogger Bracket tipped off today. And, out of nearly 100 entries, Sports Gone South got a #1 seed, right up there with Deadspin, Dan Shanoff, and Every Day Should Be Saturday. Pretty heady company — for you non-blogging-obsessed types, those cats are the Peyton Mannings/Tiger Woodses/LeBron Jameses of the sports blogging world. We’re honored to be in their company, and we’ll be sure to tell them that as we’re ushering them off the court a few weeks hence.
So, Ladies…, we tip our hat to you. Mucho thanks for the high ranking. We’re going to see how the voting goes before busting out the dirty tricks, like our pal Eric’s Swiftboating of his round-one opponent. Meanwhile, we recommend that while you’re voting for us, you also throw a vote toward some of our good friends, The Extrapolater, Digital Headbutt, Larry Brown Sports, A Price Above Bip Roberts, Grimey from If I Ran…, and The Serious Tip.
The rest of y’all…fear us. 
Topics: Chicks, Disturbing, Ego Tripping |
June 6th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Best. Post. Title. Ever.
June 6th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Hopefully nobody looks into our campaign contributions to each individual Lady…
June 6th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Yep Holly. That, Jay Busbee, gets you brownie points from me. Don’t know how it’ll help you, but still.
June 6th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Hey, if brownie points can translate into vote-rigging…er, your support, I’m all over that.
June 6th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Congrats Jay B, on destroying me in the voting (78% to 22%), I’m just glad I lost to a fellow Braves fan…
June 6th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
It’s days like these I wish the Special Olympics analogy was still moderately funny.
Congrats on being initially better than the guy writing about sports who can’t bother to bend his bill and the guy who decided to send in a picture of himself wearing a corsa…crosa… flower.
June 7th, 2007 at 8:23 am
Jay — that damn cat did you in, man. Everybody go check out Jay’s site — he’s a Braves fan, so you know he’s all right: http://my-sport-talk.blogspot.com/.
Adam — Thanks…I think. So I’ve got your vote, then, big boy?
June 7th, 2007 at 8:37 am
I’m in my 20s.
Generally speaking we’re an apathetic bunch who won’t vote for the President - what makes you think I’d vote in a guy’s look’s contest?
Besides, if I vote and you win, you’d just ask me to vote again.
June 7th, 2007 at 10:13 am
I offered free beer and cigarettes, kisses hands, shook babies, and told my grandmother’s entire bingo team to vote for me, and I am still down by a ton. Any advice, oh esteemed 1 seed?
June 7th, 2007 at 10:40 am
I’m thinking, go gay. I’ve got a couple friends who, uh, “play for the American League,” and I’ll hit ‘em up to rally the troops when the fighting gets thick in my bracket.
June 7th, 2007 at 10:53 am
Hmmm … interesting idea. I guess I do need to appeal to all demographics. Maybe a duet with Elton John would help.
June 7th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
I don’t know what’s worse, that a Rick and Bubba term made the mainstream and “American League” is now transparent…. or that I know a Rick and Bubbaism.
STAY IN IT!
June 7th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
You lost me…I know who Rick and Bubba are, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard them. Is “American League” their term?
I did that a few weeks ago when I referenced how the Braves bullpen would “chew through hitters like Krispy Kremes,” and somebody accused me of ripping off the AJC’s David O’Brien’s Braves blog. I had to explain to them that 1. Why would I intentionally rip off the best-known Braves writer when writing about THE BRAVES? and 2. “Krispy Kremes” isn’t exactly an obscure cultural reference in Atlanta.
June 7th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Eh, They’ve been saying that for about 8 or 9 years - they do mornings in B’ham and syndicated across the south. In ATL you only saw them on Turner South.
I’m sure they wouldn’t say you were “ripping them off” they’d just be glad it was mainstream.
Like when I hear someone say “Sack the Bats” refering to death, I.E. “When Anna Nichole sacked the bats, I was sure drugs were involved,” or “Greg Oden HAD to sack the bats on his college career, the money was just too great.” I just smile because we helped popularize the phrase.
Origin: In little league baseball, the end of the game is signified by stuffing the bats into the old army duffle bag.
June 7th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
“Sack the bats”…I like it. Picked up on the reference immediately. And I shall steal — er, give you proper credit for — it.