This is it.
After four quarters of entertaining you, infuriating you and (hopefully) making you think, this is the last In the Zone ' ever.
Please don't get teary-eyed. I'm just as broken up as you are. But, considering this will be the last time I get to stand on my proverbial soapbox, I do have some thank yous I'd like to get out there.
To the guy who labeled himself Brady Quinn in an e-mail and said his baby mama's elephant or whatever could write better than me, thank you. It was probably the funniest e-mail I've ever gotten in response to a column. What will be even funnier is watching your Browns try and keep up with the Steelers this Sunday.
To the Kansas, South Florida, Stanford, Appalachian State and Trinity College football teams, thank you for confirming that in sports, anything can happen.
To the Ohio volleyball, field hockey and women's cross country teams, thank you for putting this university on the map for things other than budget cuts and party-school rankings.
To my editors, thank you for having my back when I took a controversial stance and living with my columns when they weren't up to par.
Theo Scott, thank you for proving me right. Scott Linehan and the St. Louis Rams, thank you for proving me wrong.
To those who called me an embarrassment to journalism for things I wrote, thanks for letting me know I was doing a good job.
Mike Gundy, thank you not only for your tongue-lashing at the media for a poorly-written column, but for also providing me with a column topic, which ended up being my most-viewed column ever.
Barry Bonds, thank you for continuing on and accomplishing your mission despite the scrutiny you faced from the media every day.
Finally, thank you to my loyal readers for picking up the paper every week and reading what I had to say. As cheesy as it sounds, I hope you enjoyed reading my columns as much as I enjoyed writing them.
Although all things, including my time writing for The Post, need to end sooner or later, let's hope that one thing never goes away ' the craziness of the sports world over the past couple years. After all, without it, what would we have to write about?
I guess that's for the next columnist to figure out.
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