Moving Forward with the Forwards

SteveC posted 7/24/2008 from 3shadesofblue.blogspot.com [flag]

Matt over at Hardwood Paroxysm emailed me last week to ask me a simple question that has been bandied about on the message boards for quite some time. That question was this: Why not take a stab at Josh Smith? He didn't use my response in his post about the matter, which is great for me, because now I can use it here. [link]

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