Laugh your a$$ off while taking in some outstanding argument skills

Just about a year ago I dropped a reference to one of my favorite blogs of all time, Fire Joe Morgan. The site was started back in aught five by a couple of dudes who decided it "would be fun to post some of the ridiculous things that they heard and read from sports journalists." Although Hall of Famer and ESPN baseball analyst Joe Morgan was a frequent target of the boys' ire, they were equal opportunity attackers, generally not hesitating to point out any sports (usually baseball) writing that employed ridiculous reasoning.

They did so through a method known as "Fisking," named after British journalist Robert Fisk, who was a frequent target of such tactics. Essentially, Fisking is a point-by-point criticism of a piece of writing...Or, as the British Observer has described it, "the practice of savaging an argument and scattering the tattered remnants to the four corners of the internet." Which is one of the reasons I adored FJM -- the manner in which they would rip apart the assertions of terrible baseball commentators with such biting wit and precision made me wish I could do the same thing in my legal writing or in court.

Although the guys initially kept their real identities secret, in 2008 they revealed their true names. We all learned that "Ken Tremendous" was none other than Michael Schur, who at that time was a producer and writer for NBC's "The Office," and who was simultaneously creating and writing what would ultimately become NBC's "Parks and Recreation." Not long thereafter, they shut the blog down, leaving me and tens of other dorks very sad.

So, imagine my glee when last year they reunited on the controversial sports blog Deadspin to give us a whole day of it's-like-they-never-left greatness. And while that hardly tided me over, I'm happy to announce that they reunited once again yesterday. So, if you like/follow baseball, don't mind some serious foul-mouthedness (and I mean serious -- it might make you blush), and want to laugh hysterically while learning how to utterly destroy someone else's weak arguments, wander on over Deadspin's way and enjoy. If you want a little taste to see if you like it, I'd recommend this post, in which Schur takes Mitch Albom to task for a recent article Albom wrote in Parade magazine lamenting the impact of fantasy baseball.