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One thing I learned during much of my time writing for the Nasty Boys’ Sports Blog that for every 20 people that like you, there are going to be 15 that hate you. During the glory days of the blog, people as far as West Virginia were reading columns that we wrote about various topics. In fact, I remember one message board post that called my friend Matt Mowery a journalistic hack. For a person like me, I can accept most criticism. But when you attack below the belt, then I have to defend myself. It has been two years since I joined Gamecock Sports Forum, which was a great affliate of TNB and an enjoyable forum to be a part of because most importantly, we knew the guys who were in charge. So in order to get more readers of my blogs, I decided to join my hometown MemphisTigers.org message board and post sports-related columns that I write on the forum. The first one I posted was about Tommy West, who I’ve been calling to get fired since 2007, and to be honest, most of what...