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Better Knowing Me

Posted by kj on Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Patrick Hayes of It’s Just Sports, a Flint Journal blog, asked if I’d be willing to do an interview about the origins of the Spartans Weblog and the upcoming MSU basketball season as part of his blog’s “Better Know a Blogger” series.  Being thrilled whenever anyone other than my mom is interested in what I have to say, I immediately agreed to answer his questions.

You can read the interview here.

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7 Responses to “Better Knowing Me”

  1. Spartalyticalon 13 Nov 2008 at 6:53 pm 1

    Nice going on the interview!

  2. Dylan (umhoops.com)on 13 Nov 2008 at 6:59 pm 2

    Wow, your famous. :-) Nice work.

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  4. SpartanWozon 13 Nov 2008 at 8:53 pm 4

    Indeed, good interview KJ.

  5. kjon 13 Nov 2008 at 10:28 pm 5

    Thanks, guys. Nice to have some fans besides my mom. :)

  6. Tuxsteron 14 Nov 2008 at 6:59 pm 6

    Great interview..

    I don’t know about the “predictions” at the end though. I think you should have stopped at the “I don’t like making predictions” line, and perhaps just offer the Lucas for player of the year thing… I think the banner thing may have gone overboard with your “fan” qualities overpowering the “statistician” in you…

  7. Devinon 14 Nov 2008 at 9:51 pm 7

    Nice interview. When I found Big Ten Wonk for the first time… it was like what I imagine John Forbes Nash must’ve felt like when he started looking at the Soviet messages in magazines. I was a little disappointed when he went Prospectus on us, but I will say that immediately after the Wonk left, the Big Ten blogs starting up got really good – yours included.

    And thanks for the shout-out. Although I should clarify that I think Purdue will probably win as many or more Big Ten regular conference games than your Sparties, although I think MSU’s a *really* good bet for the conference tourney title, and it’s way more likely that your green gang gets to Final Four than the Boilers.

    But obviously, I like making predictions, and I don’t mind being (inevitably) wrong. Being a college basketball fan is fun, and I would guess it’s a little more fun than being a strictly one-team partisan.

    (perhaps especially for me, this year)