Still, though, I recognize that’s hardly the experience of most. Duffy: right. Reilly: wrong, and a cockbite who went to CU.

/Best J-school in state still open, come to Fort Collins

4 hours of Carmelo Anthony and Dinosaur BBQ

I think you’ve just discovered Whitlock’s wet dream.

What the hell do you talk about in Syracuse? Four hours of Bills and Orange talk would make anybody insane.

4 hours of Carmelo Anthony and Dinosaur BBQ

Shatner, you’ll be happy to know I’m fill-in hosting next friday on the big local show in syracuse. It’s simulcast on the TV. Bad news is, it’s 4 freaking hours long. Wow, that will take some good ole’ fashioned fillin’

What the hell do you talk about in Syracuse? Four hours of Bills and Orange talk would make anybody insane.

2). 95% of the calls are shit.

PAWWWWLLL…I tell ya PAWWWWLLLL

I have no idea why you think his greater message has anything to do with the terrible advice he gave. Essentially you just wrote that sentence than continued on with your own opinion for three paragraphs.

I guess I could have just copied and pasted someone else’s opinion and then called it a blog.

a.) a spouse that is with you 100%
b.) the savings or some sort of discretionary income to sustain yourself
c.) TIME and patience(I was unemployed was I was posting 15-20 times a day)
d.) a plethora of content across a focused topic/genre
e.) a little luck… (i.e. Cowherd)
f.) a basic understanding of XML and HTML

I don’t even think a journalism background is necessary. I don’t think Lisk has one, but a JD is about 15,000x more valuable than a BA in Journalism. I remember Lisk’s first post when scripty came in and gave him some criticism on the style and format. We all jumped on scripty, but Lisk took that to task and implemented it in future work. That’s why letter “c” up there might be the most important.

What happened to that blog, anyway?

I never re-newed the domain or the server hosting from BlueHost. I did save all of the posts as XML files so I have everything ever written (including mrejr’s missing posts from the OSU disaster) archived on my computer at home.

I think if you still go to the one with wordpress in the actual URL, you get a page. It’s from the first 6 weeks I had it before I adjusted the source code myself and started putting ads on it.

when I used to have the old blog

What happened to that blog, anyway?

Is there someplace it doesn’t suck? And unintentional comedy doesn’t count.

680 the Fan (Atlanta) has a good morning show and mid-day program, but their top show, Buck and Kincade, makes babies suicidal. 790 in Atlanta has the best show during college football season with Wes Durham and Tony Barnhart. That show is fantastic, but only if you’re a CFB guy, and only during CFB season.

I quit sports radio a few years ago and don’t miss it.

I don’t ever listen to sports talk, just saying that Philly sports talk sucks especially hard. And Eskin is the biggest Eagles apologist in the world, it’s sick.

The last thing I wrote for free, though, probably had something to do with getting this. I don’t know that for sure. FSV approached me about writing an article that would appear in the USA Today Football Preview Mag, and I did it for free last April. They approached me again about doing something fantasy specific for another one after I turned that in.

Same thing happened for me, but it was USA Today’s Commemorative Hockey Magazine. I also started writing for free when I began distributing my work. I waited about 3 months until, like TBL, I started making pennies off Google AdSense and then bargained with Yardbarker for actual sponsorship.

Still, when I used to have the old blog, I think the most I made in any month was around $120. The highest pageview count we ever received was ~145,000 for a given month. As long as you document and archive your work, it’s searchable on the internet. Taking some simple SEO classes will get you noticed.

Is there someplace it doesn’t suck? And unintentional comedy doesn’t count.

Lexington! (…)

Uh, NY isn’t bad. Miami is good too, as is Chicago. The worst is Boston, and I’m not just saying that because I’m biased. The second a team loses the jocks shit all over them saying the season is lost, and the second they start to win the hosts act like the team is unbeatable.

Can I go on record and say that Philly sports radio sucks? Ok good.

/back to work
//busy season

I quit sports radio a few years ago and don’t miss it.

/podcasts FTW

People do things, for free or far below market value, as others have mentioned as they progress through their careers and gather experience unto themselves until they reach a point where they are more appropriately compensated for their skills.

Great post, Duffy.