Watchdog

Don't leave us too long, Mr. Best. You are our light, our beacon in this topsy turvy world that is sports and the business surrounding sports. Step back, dry out and come back stronger as ever.

Hey Neil - I hope this is only temporary. Your blog has been very interesting from its inception and I would hate to see it go on a permanent basis.

Your personality is much more suited to weblogging. Please make an appointment with your bosses and inform them that you will now be dedicating all your work time exclusively to the blog. Let them know that should they wish to fill column inches in their anachronistic rag, they are welcome to pull material from your blog.

They will go for that, won't they?

If it werent for your blog, I would have no reason to go to Newsday.com and look at their advertising.

Please try to fit us in to your schedule. We actually appreciate what you write.

Without your blog how can we find out about the never ending story of Mike and Chris?

Without your blog, where is Craig Carton going to read his name this week?

Neil,

You'll be forcing your old friends to actually make contact once in a while instead of getting our fix any time we want it via the web. Dik may be up for that, but the rest of us are sacks! Take a breath, and get back to work. Just cause you are drying out doesn't mean the rest of us should have to.....

What sort of expenses do you incur writing a blog all day? Light bulbs for your basement? Band-aids for your fingers? Text message overages from your 400 texts to Glauber each day?

Neil needs a good restuarant meal followed by a movie he can fall asleep to. Then he needs to get back to work. Reporters report. They don't get burned out.

Don't worry, Watchdog fans. We here at Newsday.com will not let Best go quietly into that good night.

He will be back Friday morning with another 32 posts and we'll all feel better about ourselves.

This is Best's way of feeding his ego, like when Sally Field went to the mall in "Soapdish" and made her assistant Whoopi Goldberg pretend to be a fan and start screaming in excitement when she saw Sally in the mall so that everyone else would jump in and Sally would feel better about herself.

Dear God, did I just admit to having watched (and remembered) "Soapdish." Somebody shoot me.

Although, I suppose Best's little ploy is a better publicity stunt than adopting a little kid from Malawi.

Lamonica for the win!!!

Strong analogy with the Soapdish thing.
(I've never seen it....maybe I'll go rent it.........then again..nah).
For your sake I hope the beans are computer illiterate and can't find this blog.

Wasn't Malawi the center for Gang Green one year (the year they hosed the Chargers in the first round of the playoffs). My guess is he wouldn't mind being back.

See what you've forced us to do? Talk amongst ourselves! Sheeesh...get back and regain order.