Waving the White WCBias Flag

I give up. It seems like every blog I’ve written this week has backfired.
First, I punch out a take on how Baron Davis “wants to be in the Bay,” citing his own blog, and that he’ll probably remain in Golden State despite becoming an unrestricted free agent. (Hours later, reports have him flying south to L.A. to play for the Clippers).
Then I cite an ESPN.com/AP story reporting the Hall of Fame isn’t going to take up pub hound Marc Ecko on his Barry Bonds asterisk ball loan. (Hours later, ESPN and AP backtrack and report the Hall of Fame has come to an agreement with Ecko and is accepting the ball after all).
I guess that’s the 24-hour news cycle for you … and the beauty of the Internet, which allows you to quickly revise your copy in seconds and prevents you from having to steal every newspaper out of every newsstand in town when you make a gaff. It’s just too bad the major mainstream media organizations are more hungry about getting the scoop than they are about getting the story right the first time.
That’s also the problem with blogs, especially when their bread and butter is tearing takes from the day’s big headlines – whether they’re true or not. The blogosphere is a crazy, convoluted universe that’s filled with nebulous reports and editorials that are produced largely by non-journalists on Kool-Aid-stained keyboards in mommy’s basement.
That’s also why I was once against blogs. But like many things in my life (i.e. fly-fishing, golf, running), blogging has grown on me and become quite addictive. Plus, what’s a 30-year-old journalist to do over the latter half of his career if he’s stuck on the inverted pyramid in a dead-tree medium and doesn’t know a thing about HTML?
At the same time, we need to have the same accountability and principles when it comes to what we report on the Net, which is why we’ve tried to keep the content on this site newsy or just plain funny and have done our best to avoid the crude, sophomoric posts and pics you’ll find orbiting a majority of the blogosphere.
That being said, it’s about time for me to write some glaring inaccuracies again in hopes that the following comments will also backfire and force the exact opposite to come true:

• I will be writing dozens of blog entries instead of taking the next few days off because I’m not going to win the lottery on my way to the beach tomorrow.
• I’m not going to go fishing and catch the biggest bass of my life this weekend.
• That Yoda-looking dude waving the white flag isn't really a leprechaun poised to lead me on an week-long adventure to find his secret pot o' gold.
  
• My wife will still hate my guts every time I tune her out to post another inaccurate blog on WCBias.com.
• The site won’t crash because this post won’t receive a record number of hits today.