May I have your attention, please? Just hear me out…
It pains me to say this, but I’m going on vacation and it’ll last pretty much from the moment I finish writing a story out of Saturday’s scrimmage to the moment I sadly take a seat in my office next Saturday and figure out what I’ve missed.
And when I say it pains me, I mean it hurts so good.
I’m off to a place where even the glasses of ice water come with the little umbrellas. Where cricket is huge and Vivian Richards is Michael Jordan. Where when the last time I was there people thought West Virginia was a part of Virginia and WVU had something to do with the U.S. Virgin Islands.
This is not to say I want to get away because, gosh, it’s been lovely outside lately and, for some reason, I’m beginning to think there’s something charming about spring football — and I used to think the complete opposite. That said, it’s time to get away for a bit. I cannot complain and say this is an unforgiving job. No one would believe that. That said, for the better part of three months it was three jobs in one — WVU football, WVU basketball and, of course, Rich Rodriguez. It wasn’t just something seemingly every day. It was something big seemingly every day.
Then again, that’s the environment now. This is where big things happen. All the time. Perhaps I need a week on a beach to wrap my mind around this.
I’m actually a little worried about what I might miss. I was a little worried about what would happen on this here blog, which we’ve cultivated into something nice, yes? I had some ideas of how to keep the momentum going, but they were all flawed in some way or another and none of them solved the problem of me having to sit down and search the Internet for a week’s worth of headlines just to get caught up.
Then I found the solution. The blog is yours, my friends.
This evening an entry entitled “The Takeover” will appear. This is where you take over and use the comment section to post the headlines and the news and the commentary that might normally fill this space. I’m completely confident this’ll work because, in my view, some of the best posts here have been the ones with which I’ve had little to no input.
You control the direction here. And I mean you, the many, many people who post frequently and the many, many people who I come across all the time and admit to reading the blog, but say you’ve never commented. I need you now more than ever. The people need you now more than ever. Tell me — and everyone else — what’s happening, what we need to know, what we’re missing, what you think and what we should think, so on and so forth, so long as it’s WVU sports. It’s largely anonymous, so why not?
Thoughts on spring practice? Sure! Impressions after the Gold-Blue Game? Absolutely! Stunned by another comeback by the baseball team? Yes! Interesting clip on YouTube? Please! Disbelief over the latest act perpetuated by Team Rodriguez? Of course!Â
I’ll return next week and, I hope, see a ton of comments that get me back up to speed. Our record is 56 comments. We can beat it. Either that, or I’m fired. Don’t let me down.
On to the Feedback. As always comments appear as posted. In other words, just about everyone has gotten the hint and made their work legible!
p.i. reed:
he’ll be back
Joe Alexander, of course.
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