(This is a submission as part of my application to be a CBS correspondent for the Raiders)
Lately, there has been much debate about the state of Bleacher Report. I wanted to take time to continue the important debates on needed changes.
As a gesture of good faith, I removed my following three articles: The Truth about the New England Patriots and Racist Idiots, Why Tom Brady Is a Dirtbag, and Memo to New England Patriot Fans.
Though I make no bones about my passions behind my thoughts, I was willing to make those gestures to extend the olive branch. I would much rather bury the hatchet with the critics of those articles.
When I wrote The Truth of Victory and Tangents on Trivial Things, for instance, it went largely ignored by The Bleacher Report, and so I realized then that I had to stir debates rather than focus on the quality of writing. Thus, I would appreciate it if people read that article and left comments.
In some ways, the current criterion for ranking a writer on B/R will deterministically create tensions, because really the only way to be recognized is to jab people. I hope though that I have not damaged my credibility or viability as a writer, irreparably. Though we must self-promote as everyone in life must do the same, it does not necessarily change the veracity of our journalism.
Being caustic and egoclastic in my criticisms has only made me feel egotistical and paranoid by the idea that I PO-ed the wrong person, or that I have been blacklisted, or on the losing end of a "gentleman's agreement."
I don't want pity. All I want is another chance at life.
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