I am a bad blog reader. Sure, I have a Google Reader page with my favorite blog feeds, but I get behind and just end up skimming. That especially happens with my favorite sports blogs because they just crank out so much material, I just end up reading headlines and looking at pics of pretty women.

With the news this week that Fire Joe Morgan had decided to hang it up, I really feel bad about not giving them more of my time. You don’t appreciate the great ones until they’re gone.

I had only been following FJM for less than a year. I think I took notice when the authors shed the cloak of anonymity and the world found out that Mose Schrute was one of the authors. Each time these successful Hollywood writers made fun of a sports writer who was so lazy that they claimed bloggers wrote from their parents’ basement, I fell in love with them a little more.

I don’t watch very much baseball these days, especially Sunday Night Baseball. I can’t stand Joe Morgan and Jon Miller, even though Miller was such a part of my younger days as the Orioles’ announcer. They just drive me nuts.

So to find a blog that would mine their work for stupidity and make fun of it for me, I though I had dies and gone to heaven. Their dissection of Joe’s mindless online chats was some of the funniest stuff I have ever read. The fact that they created such an entertaining blog without posting millions of links or scantily clad women just goes to show how good they really were.

But now they are gone. I curse their Hollwyood success. It has killed one of the great sports blogs.