Patrick McManamon recently was named the lead sports columnist for the Akron Beacon Journal and Ohio.com.
He had been the beat reporter on the Browns since their return in 1999 with a short stint working for the Browns Web site in the middle of that time with the Beacon Journal.
He also has been a beat reporter on the Miami Dolphins.
Pat is planning on writing on any topic in sports 3 to 5 time per week with his thoughts on the Browns appearing on this blog and the Browns blog.
Enjoy and let us know your thoughts.
"Washing the Dirty Socks?" Hmmmm. Unless Pat is intending to launder Terry Pluto's old columns, I don't get it.
I don't get it either.
Why comment on Ridenauer's blog if this one is here too?
Isn't all this posting going to dilute the newspaper columns? Or will it dilute the blog postings? Either way, something is going to be diluted.
Speaking of diluted, it's my understanding that the PD is shoving the Pluto-grab up the BJ's butt, talking trash, spiking the football and doing the sack dance. All at the same time. I haven't seen it, but evidently the PD has paid some shekels to exhibit a gargantuan billboard with a Godzilla-sized Pluto head accompanied by the PD circulation department's phone number. This monster billboard is said to be on I-77, northbound near the downtown Akron exits. If anybody out there has a digital camera and is in the area, I'd love for them to take a picture and post it.
Yeah Alan, its on 77 just south of the Kenmore leg. Its only visible for people going north bound. Maybe those going northbound to Cleveland???
Hey, Mark, did they doctor the photo by putting a halo over Pluto's massive photographically-enhanced cranium and by giving him a pair of gigantic white wings?
Now that I stop and think about it, I'd actually chip in a few bucks to make a giant Akron Beacon Journal billboard. Then I'd help them hang it on the freeway near Jacobs Field to stick it back to the Plain Dealer. One that has the Beacon Journal's circulation department's phone number on it, a huge picture of Ocker's head, and proudly screams to all of Cleveland, "WASHING THE DIRTY SOCKS!!!"