Blarch Badness: Semifinal Time
Two baseball blogs. One photo blog. And a dark horse neighborhood blog that survived a round only Richard Daley would have liked. But we’re almost done. We’ve reached the Final Four.
SEMIFINALS
March 2
#1:
Seattle Daily Photo vs Lookout Landing
I’m running out of things to say, again. But we could be looking at an all-baseball final. Or not. SDP is the highest seeded blog left.
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#2:
West Seattle Blog vs USS Mariner
Don’t ask me how West Seattle Blog survived the two restarts of the Ballard final and scraped their way into the semifinal. They have a lot of moxie.
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One week to vote. The finals will happen on March 9, live from SXSW Interactive in Austin (rather, live from my hotel room there).
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Whaadup with baseball blogs? Vive le grass-roots journalism! Vive la WSB!
O’er at WSB, the very first comment on this fesses up to fixing the vote:
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Of course, Moxie means a VoteBot in this instance.
You can thank me later.
Comment by Voter — 7:07 am #
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Has it come to this? I wrote a whole book on cheating in baseball, and I still managed to restrain myself from stuffing the ballot box.
So far.
Over at WSB, there’s a lot of talk about how USS Mariner is cheating.
Oddly enough, in WSB’s last competition, they claimed their opponent was cheating (and got the poll reset several times).
Methinks WSB doth protest too much.
Get a life people! It’s just a silly popularity contest. As a West Seattlite and fellow WSB fan, I just want to congratulate them on making it this far. It’s a great blog and their abiliy to make it this far (fair or otherwise) speaks to the loyalty of their base. Viva la WSB!
hey, we expect this is the end of the line.
we have a decent fan base for a neighborhood blog but nothing like USS Mariner, with the entire fan base of the Northwest’s only MLB team. so hooray for them.
as for the person who claimed to have cheated on our behalf in the last round, the second they posted that comment early this morning, we e-mailed that info plus their IP address to Dylan here. we don’t want any part of that.
Hmmm, I see where USS Mariner has provided its readers with a hot link directly into the ballot box instead of linking to the Metroblogging home page.
Seeing how its readers can vote without bothering to visit the polling site, and seeing how the Mariners home field advantage extends to several states (and Canadian provinces), the vote tally of over 2,000 for its side is nothing short of amazingly pathetic.
Congratulations to West Seattle blog as the top non-user of steroids in this playoff round.
“Congratulations to West Seattle blog as the top non-user of steroids in this playoff round.”
I note that all y’all would have been losing against Lookout Landing as well, who haven’t provided such a link. Why the anger, dude?
“I note that all y’ll would have been losing against Lookout Landing as as, who haven’t provided such a link. Why the anger, dude?”
Apples and oranges, with anger having nothing to do with it. Notice that the COMBINED number of votes in the other matchup on this page is 2,000 less than the voter turnout for USS Mariner.
And you really think USSM just adding a link that lets you vote directly rather than posting “Hey, go vote here,” accounts for a difference of 1800 votes (over 75% of their votes?) that you are behind them?
“Notice that the COMBINED number of votes in the other matchup on this page is 2,000 less than the voter turnout for USS Mariner.”
Did you ever consider that this is because they have a much higher readership than all the other blogs combined?
“Did you ever consider that this is because they have a much higher readership than all the other blogs combined?”
That’s absolutely true. Which begs the question: What is the deal with pitting a major league team against a handful of neighborhood (not just West Seattle) little league bloggers?
Actually if you go back to the start of this extravaganza, you’ll notice some other blogs with high readership … however, many of them never bothered to tell their readers this competition was under way, so they didn’t make the cut, and don’t seem any the worse for it.