On a day that saw Best swear off blogging for the foreseeable future, it turned out he couldn't avoid the basement for very long.
The announcement that the Mike & the Mad Dog show was kaput after nearly two decades as a New York sports radio institution put him back the laptop for hours of fine reporting and columnizing. He also did some Olympic stuff.
I will reach out to him later to see what his day was like, although my guess is it was the equivalent of covering a Super Bowl or Game 7 of a World Series.
It does strike me as odd that, on a day when Best swore of blogging to clear his head, the biggest New York sports media story of the year came to its conclusion. Is there some supreme blog being out there who knew in advance that Best needed all his energies late in the day and into the night, and thus his morning post about going into blog detox?
Hmmm.