If you are going to drop the name “The Onion” in a comparison…you better be able to live up to it.

Spungo.com doesn’t, but I could see it. This blog actually seems more like a forum type post than a blog or satire news-story…

Just going off the top of my head, try these:

1. Cleveland fans start sending open letters to Cavs owner, begging him not to send more open letters.
2. Lance Armstrong decides to remove his remaining testicle to shave off time in Tour De France
3. Steinbrenner arrives in Hell…Immediately seeks out Billy Martin and fires him.
4. King LeBron, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh have sleepover. Tell spooky stories, and have pillow fights. They then get asked if they want to see a dead body. Queue Ben E. King and Kiefer Sutherland.
5. Brett Favre practicing throwing to high school kids. Prosthetic hands in demand, after being clipped off the kids.
6. Terrell Owens announces teams see him as troublemaker. Still coming to terms with sky being blue and water being wet.
7. Lawrence Taylor changes plea. Claims teenage crack addict raped him.
8. Papelbon to ask Rand-McNally for assistance to prove he does indeed know where the strike zone is. Next week, plans to ask help from funeral caretakers to prove on CNN hes knows his ass from a hole in the ground.
9. John Rocker: “Hey, I’m still alive you know. Fuck Mel Gibson…”
10. San Diego Chargers fans mock World Cup fans over the use of the vuvulela..“We have the most annoying thing in our stadium each year. Raiders fans.”

See just a few samples of how to make current topics into possible comedy gold. Again, now bashing you…just some constructive criticism.

No sweat.

The site itself looks like it could be a hit, with an onset of writers using wit, a little more…uh…colorful (its ok to say fuck, shit, dick etc)..and try to centralize the site into segments like a newspaper. News, Finance, Sports, Entertainment. It seems like they are all jumbled up.

I didn’t have issue with your blog/post persay, just that it was pretty much the subject of a movie already, so when I click the link, or someone else does they will think the exact same thing. The subject of the blog/post was fictional, thus immediately making the story just that…a story, not a “news-byte” spoof..

I did like the “signing their release papers” part, but outside of that…there was no being “bitten” by the story/post/blog…in my terminology..“bitten” means having a something so funny you feel “bitten” so you have to go spread it. If i read a newsstory or a blog that “bites”…i go tell my friends about it on my smoke break..

“guys, i just read this awesome thread”…see? i got bitten and now i am spreading it around..

in closing, to us Royals fans…a story about the owner dying would be met with glee, jubilation, even if a kid DID take over the team…long as Glass is out. Shoulda made the kid a prick who fans immediately hated, and wanted run out of town …(come on, can’t wish death on a kid!)