I’ve been telling people for a while that it’s time for Philly basketball fans to start blogging the Sixers. I know it sounds like the most excruciating punishment short of having to actually play for the team, but that’s how you make this work. See, it’s like this: the team can’t plummet much further and it’s pretty clear that Philadelphians can’t be bothered with them. That’s why you, enterprising sports writer, need to step into the breach and blog the bejesus out of the team. They’re so perfectly pathetic I’ve been tempted to do it myself.
I figure that it’d be best to draw on what works with the great Phillies blogs I follow doggedly, but give them a little bit of everything, ranging from the hilarious “personality” driven posts over at The Fightins, the keenly-observed prose that you get from Beerleaguer and just a dab of the heady analysis you find at Crashburn Alley and you’d probably have the best Sixers blog in the city overnight.
If anyone is already doing this, I’d love to read along. I feel like this is also the time to bite the bullet and start watching. If you’re over 30 like me, chances are you survived the Clarence Weatherspoon and Shawn Bradley years. Can this be any worse than that?