USS Mariner: Your 2007 Seattle Blog Of The Year
Ring the bells, throw the biodegradable confetti, ping your blogroll, for we finally have a winner in Blarch Badness 2007: USS Mariner, which eased past Lookout Landing to be crowned king of all Seattle blogs.
Here’s the final tally:
For All The Marbles... USS Mariner 56% (3005 votes) Lookout Landing 44% (2389 votes) Total voters for this poll: 5393
The third place finisher was Seattle Daily Photo.
So, Derek, Dave, Jason, and Jeff (via live feed from Okinawa) will be able to hoist the Blarch Badness Trophy… just as soon as I get them one. Anyone want to make me one?
Will we do it again next year? Probably, but with some changes. But in the meantime, it was fun, right?
The poll would be more fun if the nominations consisted of local semi-amateur Seattle blogs instead of ringers affiliated with major league professional sports. Just my opinion.
Have you even been paying attention the last six weeks?
USSM isn’t affiliated with the Mariners. Heck, the former GM once used an expletive to describe them. It’s run by four guys with day jobs. Ditto LL, they have day jobs. And, for that matter, by my count, 34 other blogs in the tournament. (Matthew Baldwin is making money off his writing, and Brian Chin is a P-I reporter blogging for them.)
I mean, go back and look at the original list and you tell me where these “ringers” are. You had plenty of opportunities to nominate right before it all started, too.