Video - Guy Who Has No Idea About Baseball Calls The Game

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Wow! Who is this guy / what is this broadcast? This is hilarious.

Posted 3/28/2008 respond (flag)
EthanJaynes

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If you check out the first link. I found it on youtube I posted it on NESW Sports. It is John Mayer himself. He is really funny.
I knew it was about to blow up everywhere. I emailed a bunch of people. Some people linked back and some linked to the big blogs. I just need to keep bringing quality content to the table and people will link to me instead of the people that link off of me.
I know this is just some growing pains. I also posted that Joey Gathright video that got 50 Ballhype votes and 20 links. But between the 2 videos that went viral I got 4-5 links.
Please keep in mind that I am not complaining. Every blog goes through this at first. I am very happy that I am just in the mix. This is just the first week that I have started NESW Sports, and I broke 2 viral videos. People will start to notice. On top of all that, I only found and posted the videos. I did not produce them, so how can I be upset.
I love Ballhype. I am meeting so many different Bloggers. Until last week I only worked on my other blog "SECFootballblogger.com ". Now that I have an All sports blog, I am meeting all kinds of new people and bloggers that I respect. And that is all in my first week. :-)

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- matt
  
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  Two quick thoughts: unless you're actually the one uploading YouTube videos, it's kind of hard to "claim" them just because you found it first, especially when so many people have RSS feeds for specific search terms. I always try to give credit to the blog that found it first, but that's sometimes difficult to do.
  
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  - EthanJaynes
    
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    I agree 100% that is why I am not upset at all.
    I am just having fun finding these videos.
    I might make some in the future.
    
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dbkjeff

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and ... boom goes the dynamite

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