ThroughBall.com nominated for Best U.S. Soccer Blog
“Holy crap!” and all that.
As I alluded to earlier, ThroughBall has been nominated by some sweet and/or misguided soul for consideration as the Best U.S. Soccer Blog of 2007. The best part about the nomination? That I learned about it by reading it on another nominee’s blog.
I can’t begin to describe how amused I am by the jokester who nominated ThroughBall.com. To to that wacky someone, I say, “good one!”
On the off-chance that my humble broom closet on the internet was submitted for consideration with sincerity, I bid the submitter a fond “thank you.”
The competition is ridiculously good, by the way, and includes a lot of my favorites, like D (sorry, pal, one link is enough), Bruce, Ives, Goff, TIAS and the best time-waster of all, Hudsonia.
The list also (suspiciously) includes three ussoccer.com blogs: the MNT Blog, the vacationing WNT blog and U.S. Soccer Global.
Now, listen, I’m not trying to tell you how to live your life but I sure would love it if you would vote for ThroughBall.com—that is, if you can tear yourself away for a moment. In fact, go ahead and do it now; I’ll be here when you get back.
No, seriously, I’ll wait. Go!
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Back? Very good, then.
A commenter on DCenters noted that there are no real controls (I presume he means IP logging or cookie-setting) that would stop a person from voting multiple times but, c’mon people, this isn’t Chicago politics, you know? Keep it real and vote once. Even if I don’t win, I’ll know that, at least in someone’s heart, I’m in the top ten of literally tens of U.S. soccer blogs. For that, I am eternally thankful.
Now, commence with the praise shower.
10 comments
I have just voted for you, hope you will win.
All the best!
I wish you good luck!!
There are controls. I accidently voted twice on one poll and it responded by noting, “You have changed your vote”. So there are I.P. controls. However, as is true with any internet voting, unless you have to log-in, you could vote from different computers.
Whatever though, a big and deserved congratulations to Josh and his other child, Throughball.
Praise? What for I come on here for my Friday futbol foto and get nothing. No praise for you.
I kid
congrats Josh and all the other contributors to Throughball, the blog helps pass the work day.
All ya’ll: Thanks.
matthew: Not foto for you! Next! (Actually, I’ve been remiss in posting Foto Fridays…I’ll get on it.)
bq: Thanks for the idea. I’ve now given one vote at home and one at work.
Josh: I know you’re looking for voter integrity, but I look at it this way: if my employer were to vote, they’d have no recommendation to go off other than mine anyway. Plus, it’s not like I’m pulling a Sideshow Bob and voting on behalf of dead folks. (Yet.)
Whether or not you win, you deserve congrats for building yourself a stable and growing readership with a fine website.
Josh: Yeah, I know how you feel. I had no idea we were nominated until I started seeing traffic come through that site. Congratulations on your nomination. If I had a shortlist of the best US blogs, you’re definitely on it.
Of course, I’m voting for the DCenters. That blog is pretty amazing. But I hope you finish a good second.
Congrats Josh, you got my vote!
Congratulations Josh and keep up the good work.
Who was I suppose to vote for?
Where have you been? How can you blog about what you don’t play? Hope to see you on the field again soon.
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