The 2007 YAYsports! NBA Offseason Pledge of Promises

(This is the pic we’d Photoshop if we had the ability to do such things at this moment!)

Anyone who has read this site for any length of time knows that since the announcement of WSM? in May of 2006, this site has been in complete disarray.

The reasons for this are many, and after the release of the aforementioned film, we believe the answers as to why that happened will be clear. Basically, a ten minute short became a monsterous epic of a motion picture.

Alas, that meant our daily 5-6 post output of Photoshop fun was lost to the abyss with many other things, like All-Star 1-on-1, Kwame vs Cake, and Constant Harrassment of ESPN’s Scoop Jackson.

The return of those days are probably not possible. (Although many of those things do return in…WSM?.)

Anyway, with the offseason upon us, and the Cavaliers fresh off of their first Finals Massacre, we thought we should lay out the plans for the near future for you.

1) WSM? will not be out this summer. Theoretically it is possible, but commercially it’d be stupid. Not enough people inside on their computers. Not enough time to do the effective promotional push necessary to create legend status.

2) We will continue to write YAYsports! NBA, and we will do our best to at least hit Monday-Friday, with a Sat/Sun postage desired. (But not promised.) There will of course, be exceptions, and we will inform you of this ahead of time. Jack Cobra will continue to pop in on Fridays for as long as he feels it fulfills a void in his life.

3) We will be starting a personal blog somewhere tomorrow, the location of which will remain unknown and unrevealed until sometime in the future. The excitement of us writing with an “I” instead of a “we” might be too overwhelming to just give to you in an explosive instant – a transitional period may be warranted.

4) If the Cavaliers fail to hire an offensive assistant coach specialist type, we may boycott “life”.

5) The classic short film “An American Roundie in America” has, as noted in several places, been pulled off YouTube. It will be back, in a high quality format, on the WSM? DVD.

6) The habit of making all types of site-related promises and then not keeping them will cease, unless we just make a mistake and then find we did it again.

That’s about all. For the record, Geek Squad has informed us that our hard drive is shot, which means we need to track down a new copy of Photoshop asap for whatever machine we end up on going forward – we used to have a pirated one around somewhere, but haven’t tracked it down. (Plus we are still traveling – we get home later today.) If you have one, please send us an email!

We’d like to avoid one of those internet knock-offs you can get for free – the last thing we have time for is learning a new program at this time, unless you’re like a really pretty girl and want to sit and teach it to us while we look at you and say things like “gosh, you’re pretty.”

In conclusion, we apologize for the YAY always seeming to be in some sort of transitional state, but such is life, yes?

NOTE: Biggest story of the offseason is obviously Kobe Bryant. Sam Smith of all people is actually saying not to trade for him, which strangely doesn’t stop him from making up 150 different trade rumors involving the Bulls. Kobe v LeBron battling for the Central Division would be awful cool – we vote CHI should make it happen.