Watchdog

By merely typing and posting 'Derek Jeter,' your blog traffic soars, I'm sure... but let's be fair. Your entry was based on one speciously sourced item (from a magazine with an exclamation point in its name) that was picked up by a crosstown rival and then disseminated throughout the blogosphere. And now it takes on a life of its own -- Derek and Minka are a thing.

What's your criteria for posting a gossipy item? If it doesn't hurt anyone but lacks the facts, it's okay?

Alright I'm just about over it...most people are smart enough to get the difference between fact, fiction and somewhere in between ...and I'm a little upset with myself for sounding like that Bissinger guy. So carry on and enjoy your weekend.

All very, very fair points.

OK Dawg, so if Mer makes "very, very fair points", perhaps you will note that said points are followed by Question Marks. Are you taking a little more time to formulate the answers, but you'll get to 'em? Or do you intend to invoke the King's X Rule of Blogging and just disregard answering?

And since it's your blog, what's wrong with a Friday Comment Winner 2 award?

Charlie: Go back to enjoying the SD weather and leave me alone.

Jeter just wants to get started on outdoing his Maxim Top 10 for this upcoming year.

Still it's kind of gross. Sure she's really in her mid-20s but she plays a HIGH SCHOOL CHEERLEADER! This definately doesn't help that Page 6 reports that he likes to check out college co-eds.

CC: Sorry about my obnoxious earlier comment. The truth is, when I saw that our Web page had done a story based on the Post story based on the magazine story, I figured it was fair game and had been given a quasi-endorsement as valid by Newsday. But of course that's ridiculous. Our Web guys just were looking for cheap page views, same as me. I need to take the long weekend to ponder the state of journalism and wonder whether it is time for me to become a baker, as my mother suggested long ago.

It just happens to be raining here in San Diego today, which is fine because we need the water. Meanwhile, no apologies needed. You know I'm not going away. My ADD gets reved a bit every time one of your entries hits the RSS feed machine. So I immediately shift to goof-off-at-work mode, because I cannot resist the urge to twist your substantial beak when the opportunity arises.

A perfectly honest mea culpa for a blogger: I wanted more page views.

Enjoy root-toot-tooting for the Dookie Laxers this weekend. ;)

My nose isn't all that big, in the grand scheme of things.

You're right, it really isn't. (But I never saw Moe try and tweak a chin.) And I will stop this because raising issues of one's physical appearance isn't politically correct. Plus you might start saying something about my big fat belly.

I do have a pointy chin. But not as bad as Leno's.

Minka is my #1. I wish they didn't ruin her charcter this season though. But if this is true, all the reason to hate Jeter even more!!