…beat me to it. I was going to do a Fan Shot, but this is a far better tribute. That is a great site, and I am truly sad to learn that Ken Tremendous, dak, and Junior have retreated to their mother’s basements.** A great development though for all that is scrappy and gritty.

Minor correction note: The article was by BILL Plaschke, not JOE…I don’t believe such a person exists.

**This comment is a 100% jest…I do not actually believe any posters at FJM.com live in their mother’s basements.

I was so depressed when I opened FJM today, but I sort of saw it coming. Their posts for the last couple months started becoming less and less frequest, and I’ve heard Ken (Michael Schur) is getting the lead writing job on the Office spinoff due out early next year.

Anyway, I spent about an hour looking back at some of my favorite posts from them today. I will CONSISTENTLY miss that blog. I hope they miss it too and come back.

Here’s my personal favorite post that I could find…

http://www.firejoemorgan.com/search?q=Armstrong

David Eckstein and the sports writers that love him can sleep a little easier tonight.

I am going to miss FJM….my favorite blog, and the one that got me into statistical analysis in baseball.

did great, great work.

Twas a brilliant run; they shall be cyber missed.

oh happy day!

RIP FJM. well done boys. well done.

hmmm…

Interesting times, indeed.

Anyone know what happened to CardinalsDiaspora? It looks like the DNS entry expired and some squatter snatched it up. Is hooks doing anything to try and get it back?

I wanted to pass this along. When I saw that they were closing down, I went ahead and e-mailed the three main contributors and let them know I was sad they were closing down and wishing them luck and all that jazz. I got up this morning and checked my email, not expecting to see a reply or anything…and whatdoyouknow? I told my wife and she was dramatically less thrilled…damn marriage….

Those guys are a real class act over there. I greatly prefer them to the guys over at Deadspin, and they will be missed.

I think this was my favorite set of posts that they did. Ken clearly had a blast discussing superbike racing and strange traffic laws involving motorcycles.

Ken Tremendous was critiquing Rick Hummel’s piece about LaRussa not playing Albert and letting Rowand make the final out. He was not too kind to then-recent HOF inductee Hummel, who was attempting to make a case for the decision. It contained the following ridiculously awesome hyperbolic rant about Pujols and how awesome he is, and how stupid it was to not put him in since he’s a better hitter than Rowand in every conceivable way:

“Albert Pujols is either the best hitter in baseball or he’s damn close. He has 266 career HR and he’s played in a total of like 65 baseball games. He has a .418 career OBP. And a walk, mind you, ties the game. He is 12 feet tall, and each of his lats weighs 80 pounds. His bat is 60 inches long and is made of Bigfoot’s spine. He is a monstrous monster who eats sliders. Not balls that were used to throw sliders, mind you — he has figured out a way to eat the concept of sliders. The dude hits with a closed stance only because Marty Barrett bet him he couldn’t hit with a closed stance like Barrett did and still win the MVP and Pujols did it just to stave off the boredom that had come from solving baseball. He once hit a home run on a hit-by-pitch. He has more hits left-handed than anyone in baseball history has right-handed — and he is right handed. He completed an MD-PhD at Hopkins in one hour and gave a graduation address (in Greek), and he had to miss a game against the Pirates in 2003, and he still went 2-4 with a double. The home run he hit off Lidge in the NLCS….just now landed, in Banff. He is awesome.”