People still care what we think?

As you can see from an editorial published in this week's Xavier Newswire, people are still talking about us, spefically "An Ode to Oden."

We could say more about this, but we figure that since this editorial is like the first supportive thing we've read about ourselves thus far, we'll try and let it speak for itself.

I can't deny it, I'm a blog writer, You don't wanna blog with me

I hope to be done talking about the "Ode to Oden" article after this post but why not take one last look at it in order to make fun of some people stupid enough to disagree with me on my own blog. I mean really, did you think you would get away with it? A big "Thank you" goes out to Deadspin.com, Musketeer Madness, and FlyersFieldhouse for the free publicity for our relatively unknown site.

We have mad street cred now yo.

- Allflyernamesaregone on Flyers Fieldhouse had this to say: "Homophobia and stupidity...well, what else would you expect from a Xavier fan."
Well Allflyer, I personally would expect an ass beating as part of the XU-UD tradition as of late. I’d also expect that the Xavier fan was doing my girl friend because if I went to UD I’d be far too drunk 99% of the time to keep up a meaningful relationship. The latter is actually a compliment. Seriously... Xavier needs more parties.

- An anonymous poster on FreeXavier said: "You are the lowest form of life. I can see that you make a sick attempt to be edgy and funny but, it was completely out of line and not funny. Do us all a favor and take a good hard look at yourself in mirror and do some soul searching. We have enough unfunny keyboard tough guys on the internet."
Excellent anonymous advice. I tried to look "in mirror" at myself and do some soul searching. Unfortunately, being the lowest form of life, I am some kind of one prokaryotic cell who is incapable of both. Sucks to be me.

- Another anonymous individual on Free Xavier posted: "Maybe if your coach knew his elbows from his asshole he would have fouled after the miss free throw..."
Funny you mentioned this. Just the other day I accidentally opened an occupied stall in Xavier’s student center only to find a student kneeling in front of the toilet, elbows extended over the bowl trying to take a crap. Apparently, it isn’t just our coach who is afflicted with this horrible condition.

- TheGreatOne posted this comment on Deadspin.com: "Xavier is jealous because most of their women have facial hair like Oden and none of the basketball talent."
That is a flat out LIE! Quite a few of our female students are very athletic including on the basketball court.

-BigTenObsession responded to a comment by the blogger Lady Andrea by saying: "Andie, any time you mention the word 'job' you make a lot of boys happy."
I still don’t get why people think bloggers are creepy, lonely guys who live with their parents and do nothing but sit in front of a computer all day long. Damn stereotypes.

- The bloggers of Musketeer Madness had... absolutely nothing worthwhile to say on the topic. The exception here is Chris Burch. He supports us apparently while still understanding that we here at FreeXavier are a bunch of idiots who aren’t trying to change the world, just make fun of some people. He gets it... Why can’t the rest of you?

And to those of you who were completely outraged by our blog, thank you for voicing your outrage thereby keeping the discussions on the various websites alive so that more people could read our blog and in turn be outraged which resulted in more posts of anger and outrage and... O my God! How do I finish this sentence???

People care what we think?

So I'm sitting in class today when I get a text message that informs me that the superb Deadspin.com picked up a blog post we made last night. This is suprising for multiple reasons:

-it was our first post in months
-Deadspin is an excellent, widely read sports blog
-We run a shitty, half-assed blog that seemingly wouldn't be on Will Leitch's radar screen
-To me at least, "An Ode to Oden" is simply a Xavier student blowing off some steam at an opposing basketball player

Once I sat down and read the comments both on Deadspin and the ones left on our site, I've determined several things, including:

-Many Ohio St. fans read sports blogs a lot
-Many Ohio St. fans have nothing better to do read sports blogs a lot
-Many Ohio St. fans who have nothing better to do than read sports blogs a lot apparently think that they are superior to everyone else, even though it seems like many of them slack off at work and read sports blogs. Ohio St. doesn't teach work ethic or ambition apparently.

Anyway, I think XavierMusketeer said it best on Deadspin, when he noted that "Free Xavier does not speak for all of us." A truer statement has never been made. We here at FreeXavier speak for our own whiny, dickish, selves, and absolutely no one else. If this post had been published in the Xavier Newswire, it would be different. We speak for Xavier University in the same way a boisterous, drunken garbageman speaks for his municipal government. Frankly, anyone who took "An Ode for Oden" seriously probably has an IQ similar to Greg Oden's uniform number.

Go X!