Tony Stewart is driving for Burger King? Well, it makes a lot more sense than Subway. Once Stewart became measurably fatter than Jared Fogel, it was obviously time to move on.Yesterday True Hoop announced that ESPN had acquired a bunch of their NBA blogs. The Big Lead breaks down the deal. basically, ESPN.com gets the pre-existing traffic and True Hoops gets a major traffic boost. The message to all bloggers is that good writers who draw a crowd will get interest from the big boys.
The blog Mr.SEC had a great idea: To become the first gathering place on the web for every Erin Andrews image in existence. So they posted more than 750 pics of the sideline babe, right here. Before you click, there's a porblem. It seems that SI.com's pop culture site, HotClicks, heard about the galleries. And that's when then this happened:
SI’s link + the interest in Erin Andrews absolutely SMOKED our server yesterday.
So we’ve taken down the gallery — just for now — until we make some behind-the-scenes switches.
Believe me, we’re just as distressed as you are. We’re the ones who spent two weeks sifting through everybody else’s smaller galleries in order to make one big one.
Never let it be said that The Grind doesn't have your back:
SportsByBrooks notes that St. Louis Cardinals GM John Mozeliak had an online chat at STLtoday.com that went well or very badly, depending on who you ask.
According to St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Bernie Miklasz, an online chatter named "I Hate Bill DeWitt!" asked the Cards' GM to "describe what it’s like living in your little land of make believe where you honestly believe that Cardinal fans should be excited about this team." Mozeliak replied "I'd rather live in my world then yours … it is sunny out today? No you’re right, it is 30 something degrees, my girlfriend dumped me, and my car won’t start." The columnist defended the GM's comeback, writing, “I thought his response was hilarious and appropriate. It showed me that he was a human being and not some politically correct automaton."
Hmmm, maybe Miklasz missed that whole story about Phil Savage issue in December?
