Top 10 fringe benefits of sports blogging

Posted by Douglas Charles on June 11th, 2009 at 1:25 am

10) The community. The Algonquin Round Table has nothing on anonymous commenters. There’s also such charity if you make any kind of factual mis-step, you could weep. Weep, I say, weep!

9) The respect of your peers. Fine fellows, all. Not a single Republican troll among them. Truly, there is no love like Blogfrican love.

8) The hours. Some may call this work that’s done on the sly, when the Office Man isn’t looking, or swing shift moonlighting that happens when you aren’t passed out on the couch from late-hour games. Me, I say… flexible hours!

7) The travel. Nothing but five-star accommodations and 800-count Egyptian sheets when you’re a sports blogger. I know this will sound spoiled, but I demand the right of ritualistic castration of the bellboy when the mint under my pillow isn’t just so. It sets a tone.

6) The job satisfaction. Some might question the way that we’re spending our lives and talents, such as they are. Me, I’m too busy admiring the way these words look when they are engraved into eternal marble. That’s just one of the perks when you work for Scrap Media.

5) The expense account, especially when it comes to the booze. Patron will be the death of me. But oh, what a death!

4) The access. When you let a PR person know that you write for a Scrap Media blog, their ass is yours for as long as you want. I’ve had some flacks over to the house for yard chores and gutter maintenance. It’s magic.

3) The power. Once me and all of my little Blogfrican friends took out the print and newspaper industry, you should have seen how the captains of industry bowed to us. I had to buy extra rings for them to kiss, and give the managing editor from the New York Times the green light to start a victory garden on my homestead. It was embarrassing, really.

2) The money. I’m so well off from these lists that I’ll never have to work another day in my life. You’d think this would make me happy, and you’d be right. There’s just something about lighting your cigars with hundred dollar bills, you know?

1) The casting couch. Every one of these fine females that you see on these pages has been personally, shall we say, vetted by the writers. It’s amazing what and who they’ll do for the brand exposure, especially when they decide to use teamwork. It makes a fella proud to be a blogger!

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Douglas Charles Douglas Charles, aka "DC Scrap," is the managing editor of Guyism.com. His experience includes operating an assortment sports and entertainment Web sites over the past decade, but his specialty is discovering sexy women from all over the world that he knows he will never have a chance with, let alone meet - a quality he shares with 99.99% of his readers.