FanHouse Is Awesome, Award Winning

You know, in the long, illustrious history of Foul Balls, this little Chicago sports blog has never had the honor of winning any awards. This doesn't bother me or anything, I just figure that what I do here is so innovative and mind-bending that most people just can't grasp the brilliance my fingers pound out every day.

Still, that doesn't mean I don't like getting awards, because trophies are shiny, and shiny things are always fun.

Luckily, I also work for FanHouse, and we win awards over there.

We at FanHouse are proud to let you know that we won the title of Best Sports Blog today at the ceremony recognizing the 2008 EPpy Awards. The EPpys are given out by Editor & Publisher and MediaWeek magazines to recognize excellence in online content. The other nominees in the Best Sports Blog category were the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's Brewers Blog, the Chicago Tribune's RosenBlog and the Memphis Commercial Appeal's The Memphis Edge.

Suck on that, Deadspin! Eat it, Sporting Blog! Uncomfortably crap that one out, Kissing Suzy Kolber! I'm better than all of you! Or at least, the guys I work with are.

I'd go the humble route and say we don't really deserve it, and that all of the other nominees are just as deserving, but that would be a bunch of bullshit. Everybody knows it's not true, and I'm not going to lie to you about it.

We rule!

Now whether or not this means I get a raise, I don't know, but you can be damn sure my bosses will be hearing my case.