WatchDog readers secure greatest achievement yet
Thanks for your patience, loyal WatchDog readers.
I am back in the basement but still unburying myself post-SBXLII. Things will be back to normal Thursday.
I did want to share this breaking news, though:
The January page views are in, and for the first time in its nine-month history, WatchDog topped all Newsday sports blogs and was third overall, narrowly behind second-place TV Zone.
It appeared with two days left the Giants blog was going to charge into the lead - apparently the team was preparing to play a big game in Arizona - but a record-tying 30-post day Jan. 30 held off our version of Big Blue more effectively than the Patriots held off the real one.
The Rangers blog was a close second to WatchDog, and the Giants blog a close third. Both set new monthly highs. So did Glauber, by the way.
Congrats to all of the above, especially Staple and Glauber for all the work they did during the Giants' amazing run, and thanks most of all to our blogs' readers.
(Bonus WatchDog kudos to the first reader who correctly comes up with what this picture has to do with any of this.)
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Comments (12)
Congrats, Best.
I knew that Cornell education was good for something!
As for the picture: She is an attractive woman and this is how you finagle extra page views?
If Mrs.WatchDog ever reads the blog today she will get the answer about the picture right.
her name is January Jones
cgar, you just beat me to it.
Watch Mad Men when it comes back on. Great show.
We have a winner! Someone give cgar a cigar.
More WatchDawg trivia: What do the following 31 headlines have in common?
1. WatchDog mounts a desperate page views last stand
2. Globe staff shocked by death of Bob Ryan's son, Keith
3. Kellie Pickler says she does not have a tight end
4. T-Rock=Alexander Hamilton; WatchDog=Aaron Burr
5. NFL plans to roll some grass this week
6. Tom Coughlin aces Media Day test
7. Spanish-language media covers Super Bowl creatively
8. Super Bowl XXXV memories . . . Part VII
9. Newsday gets much more out of much less
10. One, last time: Troy Aikman does NOT hate the Giants
11. NFL Network loses quotable p.r. man to Vegas
12. Archie Manning is rooting for the Giants!
13. TV cameras still love even the new Tom Coughlin
14. Pat Hanlon takes a break from yelling at MSG's Fooch
15. Michael Irvin went to Super Bowl XXX practices in style
16. Computer sez: Pats to win Sunday, 77.2 percent of time!
17. Cornell connection fuels Giants' run to SBXLII
18. Stephen A. reportedly through at Inquirer
19. President Bush picks Pats, Madden picks Pack
20. SNY planning a new show(s), coming soon
21. SNY excited about Johan Santana, high school hoops
22. Joe Buck will take it as it comes Sunday
23. Where did Jay Glazer get the 'Spygate' tape? Ronde!
24. Joe Buck is more familiar with the Giants than the Pats
25. Super Bowl XLII tickets still on the expensive side
26. Super Bowl XXXV memories . . . Part VIII
27. You haven't heard the SB 'til you've heard it in Flemish
28. Dick Vitale will be back on the job Wednesday
29. Newsday's Super Bowl team has its priorities in order
30. Breaking news: SBXLII sets new StubHub $$$ record
31. WatchDog Super Bowl guarantee: fewer posts Thursday
Chilkoot:
And I thought I was obsessed with Best.
Best has a large family doesn't he?
Yes BG, it does appear I have lost my mind. I will mention though, with each post in the RSS Feeds folder in Outlook, copying the headlines was pretty easy. (Next I will type the time I received each feed.) It is just that it is so out-of-character for the Neil I know to be factually inaccurate. And since I have pointed out the 31 vs. 30 issue in the past without receiving an explanation for the discrepancy, it appears he is now taunting me.
I would have made today's post earlier but was on the road all day yesterday, away from the computer. Real work makes online obsessing difficult sometimes.
Neil is very subtle using the January Jones pic for the bragging about the January #'s
Any hot chicks named February?
a little birdie told me that the wrestling blog led all the high school blogs with over 16,500 hits...