We’re almost rolling…
November 30, 2007
… And we only missed the first month of the season!
Welcome to the latest in a long line of blogs that will be updated frequently for six months and then abandoned when something more interesting to write about comes along. Unless, of course, this one catches on.
Anyway, as The Swirsk would say: “It’s always a pleasure to be talkin’ Raptors ball.”
If you’re wondering who The Swirsk is, you probably ended up here by accident.*
Check back here, beginning Dec. 1, for updates, essays, criticism, praise and general rumours n’ bullshit from a couple of the hundreds of thousands of Raptor fans on the internet. There’s a reason why Bill Simmons dreads finding mail from Raps Nation in his inbox. They’re a special breed: Constantly feeling disrespected, hardly daring to hope that the turnaround of the past 18 months has actually happened, always aware that one Chris Bosh knee injury will cause the rest of the NBA to write their team off … and most of them are still trying to adjust, after decades of cheering for the Maple Leafs, to rooting for an organization that makes decisions, moves on them and improves.
We’ll have game diaries —written from a correspondent in the pressbox at the ACC — posted the morning after every home game, weekly NBA power rankings written by a hoopshead currently working in OUA ball, a sprinkling of essays on the Raptors and the rest of the basketball world, news updates and general snarkiness of the type that was formerly found here, before your favourite pundit decided to secure some press passes, bear down and focus a bit instead of spraying venom wildly.
So check us out again. We’ll be insightful and funny and snarky and witty and condescending enough that you will wonder, at least once, why the hell you didn’t just start your own blog.
For more Raps coverage and a weekly fantasy sports column every Friday, check out 24 hours Toronto. (It’s the free one, found in the bright orange boxes).
Back later, but not much later, with a game diary from Raps-Cavs, Nov. 30, 2007.
* Chuck Swirsky, the often cheesy, always adorable, voice of the Raptors.
