BALTIMORE -- In a move that has long been expected in the blogosphere,but still comes as a shock to those closest to the website, theacclaimed Baltimore sports blog
thebaltimorons.com changed its name this morning, citing a lack of contribution from its writers.
As of 14:54 Saturday, Nov. 15,
thebaltimorons.com was officially renamed "TheBaltimoron."
AlexPyles, a veteran award-winning student journalist, remains on as thesole Baltimoron, despite posting only thrice in the last month and notactually paying for the domain.
Pyles, reached in his luxurious southwest Baltimore apartment,expressed regret that the other members of the website had recentlyundergone experimental surgery to have their balls removed.
"It'sa shame, I thought we really had something going there for a fewweeks," Pyles said. "We had analysis of teams, posts discussing bigstories in sports, the occasional bits of gratuitious near-nudity anduncountable penis jokes. It was everything you want in an indepedentsports blog."
With Pyles the sole remaining author, the website will likely takea new direction, which has upset some of the more loyal reader(s) ofthe blog.
"Alex was the straight-man, the guy who was only funnyoccasionally, and it was always an accident," said Ryan Wiggins, theassistant sports editor at The Retriever Weekly and a veteran performerof penis-related jokes. "Without the other guys, the blog loses itsflair. I'll be honest, I just skipped right over Alex's pieces most ofthe time and went right to Sports Attire."
Dave Malinski, head of
thebaltimorons.com design team, expressed regret, and even anger, at the blog's current state.
"Ispent nearly every hour of my last few weeks at my old job learning howto build a website," Malinski said. "Seriously, I did absolutely nowork. Nothing. Nadda. As a result, I had no choice but to find a newjob before they realized my productivity had fallen from 5-hours-a-weekto less than 15 minutes."
Despite the name change, Pyles preferred not to deal in definites,leaving the door cracked for his fellow bloggers to rejoin him.
"I'llwelcome them back with open arms," Pyles said, before a grin spreadwide across his face. "Of course, if I ever manage to get a paying gigdoing this thing, I'll abandon those mofos in a heartbeat. It's theones that get paid that gets laid."
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