equatorIn the last 2 years I have spent nearly everyday day updating this site at least 4 or so times a day.
I love it.
I write for me, but I love that you mofos love to read it.
When I started I was just a carpenter in the scheme of life, now I am a semi professional cricket writer.
Fuck knows how.
But with the Ashes over I am going to change Cricket With Balls a little bit.
The Ashes took a lot more out of me than I thought it would.
I feel like Freddie’s knee or Haddin’s fingers.
I think I made it to the end with only a couple of collapses, a few poor days in the field and only one comedy run out.
But now it is over, and CWB will change.
Instead of being updated 4 or more times a day CWB will only be updated once or twice a day.
Never less than once if I can manage it.
I know that when some bloggers make it big (not that I have quite made it yet) they move to someone else’s website and just post links to their stuff from their old site.
CWB will not do that. Writing here is a good thing for me. It lets me be open an honest, and lets me push really fucking hard.
I can write that AB DeVilliers is a crazy Christian zealot intent on living in a glass castle in Jerusalem while trying to take over the world.
The times wouldn’t let me say bastards.
But unless some test series grips me, or something forces my hand the site will be paired back.
I love this site, and I will try and keep it alive for decades to come.
It just needs to be slowed down, I have written at 2020 pace for 2 years, over 3000 posts, and now I just need to pace myself better.
I have some over projects coming up that will take a lot of my time, and since I believe you will like them too, I don’t wanna fuck them up.
The balls, for better or worse, is here to stay, I just wanna go fuck up some other media while I have the chance.
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Sounds like a good plan to me jrod. I only read about the blog at the start of the summer, and I’ve been a daily reader since. I laugh my arse off at something or other every day, and even if you pare down the posting I’ll still be reading. Thanks for putting in the hours these last few months, and best of luck in your new projects.
Speaking as someone not unfamiliar with the midnight finish, that is a very wise decision.
You know it must be tough on the players when even the writers can’t keep up.
best of luck with the other projects, will definitely still peep this site.
No need to apologise or offer justification Jrod – we know that men just lose the ability to be quite so prolific when they get that bit older…….xx
What about the Podcasts and the In Bed With… series?
Bloody Aussies – you are all getting soft! You lose the Ashes, can’t beat the Kiwis in basketball or rugby, and now this. There are only a few things I rely on in a day and your postaholic madness was one of them. I shall just have to put my faith in something else – any ideas?
I guess this means no comprehensive coverage of the Sri Lanka – New Zealand Test.
Living in the USA, I’m almost totally reliant on written accounts and podcasts for international cricket. Your work on CWB and Crikey has been very much appreciated.
Congrats on the upcoming nuptials!
As long as you don’t do a George Lucas and digitally enhance your old posts with CGI, that’s OK.
About time you reinvented yourself, don’t want to become stale and predictable.
Must be more than a year since the last overhaul.
Question is, now the heady flush of youth is over, will CWB become staid and middle-aged?
Is this what you mean by other projects?
Is this where the Balls quota of Portman pics went? I feel robbed.
Cheers Pat.
KC, Fuck the players see ball hit ball. It takes really skill to question their sexuality and make fun of their hairdos.
Aura, If I went anywhere it would be to natalieportman.com, the unoofficial official Natalie site.
Abhishek, No one else would ever run with In bed with, so that will stay. Will do the podcast when i feel the need.
Martyd, Drive thru brothels.
Brett, I would cover it if it were shown in the UK. They are two of my favourite teams. Cheers.
Ri, didn’t I do that with the book?
Steve, Who knows.
As long as you don’t try to be more politically correct, just suits us. Fuck you’re one of us man, not one of them, if you know what I mean…
Sach, doubt that will happen, you cunt.
thanks jrod, reading your comments on the days play is extremely enjoyable and probably the highlight of my day , i hope you get some form of corporate sponsorship, not cause i want you keep up the rate of your posts on this site, but more importantly cause you truly deserve it.
thanks from me and all your other fans, to whom you act as a breath fresh air, a great change from the stale farts from the sky/channel nine commentary box. yes so thanks and best of luck for your future projects
Typical soft cock Victorian,
First you don’t sledge a Pom in a Charity match
Then Buddy gets rubbed out for a good bump on Cuz and now
you are cutting back on CWB
It just isn’t good enough.
It doesn’t matter if you have a nervous breakdown keeping the number of post up. We wouldn’t be able to tell the difference any way!!
What am I supposed to do at work now……actually work……..!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t think so !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Toughen up Princess!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BTW I really enjoy the site & all the best
Cheers
The Pav
….or you could actually take a holiday.
Just a thought.
Loved your work for a while. Glad to see the broader exposure.
Congrats on your good work,you have been up to your balls in the cricket so to speak.Just today learnt about your site from crikey.
Will be a regular now,me another ex chippie living in cambodia.
Regulars at the gym bar in phnom penh were gutted,luckily we have other pursuits up here to distract us.
Yeah, why not. Thanks for the good stuff. I particularly enjoyed Mitchell spoofing in your eye.
Admit, you’ve been placed under the thumb, and are now pursuing a career as a talking head on News Channels
Jrod , thanks heaps for the laughs during the ashes, I checked daily throughout the whole
series which has left me spent and a tad more emotionally unsound
Good call to “pear” it back after the rolercoaster ride.Don’t think there are many who will be able to maintain the same zeal for the never ending onsluaght of shit and giggles cricket ahead.
I will still be checking in regularly hoping in earnest for more indepth exposes on the legend that is ‘Orrie and startling revelations of the LadyBoys secret private life with Boycott
Well done mate and thanks again
To the Hunter S. Thompson of the criketing world I congratulate you on your ascension above mediocrity to unparrelled heights of B-lister celebrity. May you rise above the Ashes and stand atop the writers’ dias for your unrelenting, unbiased, perverse and extremely humourous scribing on the game we all love. Whether it be here, or, out there somewhere, keep givin’ it to the cunts!
Cheers for the good times and the better ones to come.
Amen