A Eulogy, A Pangyric, A Reminiscence, Whatever

Everyone saw the end coming. Oddly appropriate after the possible exit of Joe Morgan from ESPN's team. Though this isn't really news or criticism, it seems apropos to mention the end of the site whose snarky, acerbic attitude spawned this one.

A few highlights:

• Chris W. breaks down a Ken Tremendous post about the White Sox, spawning a theoretical discussion about the nature of metacriticaljournalism and how much people hate intellectual jerks like Chris.
• Mr. Tremendous makes a one-shot move to mainstream media, writes an uncharacteristically-stupid puff piece about Boston sports, promptly receives my justified ire and my rapist wit
• Larry B rips some points by KT
• pnoles attacks an unbelievably stupid article about anti-statistical bias, prompted by its appearance on the ex-FJM.
• Numerous times where a particularly egregious article was written up by the staffs of both this site and theirs - increasingly frequent this year. Unfortunately, I can't cite examples because I don't think I can link to specific posts of theirs anymore.

As a whole, I think nearly all of my fellow writers on this site have a strong appreciation for the work of FJM's writers. Its decline in post frequency and post quality was noted, as well as the not-infrequent occurences when they would rip-up the same article as us, only five days later.
We endeavor to carry the flag of journalistic criticism onward, beyond the firings of the worst offenders, but to the land of sensible commentary, statistical informedness, and properly valued intangibles!