Mose has a baseball blog?
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- February
- 6
You’d think a writer on a popular prime time TV show like The Office wouldn’t have a lot of free time for extracurricular pursuits (the occasional work stoppage notwithstanding).
Well, not only did Mike Schur find time to don the coolest beard in the history of Amish-type facial hair as Mose Schrute, brother of Dwight Schrute and co-proprietor of Schrute Farms Bed & Breakfast, but he also made time for FireJoeMorgan.com.
And he just pulled his blogger beard off and revealed himself as the scribe behind the nom de plume Ken Tremendous. (For the record, some people saw right through the disguise.)
I haven’t dug through the archives too deeply, but from what I can gather FJM is a satirical and occasionally hard-hitting (read: snarky) take of Schur and two partners on the foibles of sports journalists, Mr. Morgan being the most egregious offender of the authors’ sports sensibilities. They never really wanted him fired from his gig at ESPN, as they explained shortly after the site’s April 2005 launch. They just wanted a catchy name without the word “online” in it.
But the trio were anonymous until today.
Ken Tremendous (Michael Schur), Junior (Alan Yang), and dak (Dave King) are all TV writers. We live in Los Angeles, in places other than our mothers’ basements.
Yang’s credits, according to imdb.com, include South Park and Last Call with Carson Daly. Dave King’s resume includes Crank Yankers and Frank TV, assuming that’s the same guy. (Maybe he was the composer on 1995’s “Partners”.)
There’s some very funny stuff on this site, like the Stephen A. Smith On-Line Incompetence Update and this pre-Super Bowl take on the trade that brought Eli Manning to the Giants, which may remain factually accurate but is a much more fun read today than it probably was a week ago. (I especially like the part about “Fourth quarter heroics!”)
I never heard of FJM before today, but it seems to have a pretty strong following. I’ll be giving it a gander, though, especially when baseball comes back around. I like the emphasis on the kind of stats I used to only see in Rob Neyer’s column before ESPN.com started charging for not-so-premium content.
Anybody that makes a regular habit of slicing and dicing Stephen A. Smith (The ‘07 MVP debate almost made me choke from laughing so hard.), can make me look past a misguided bent toward Beantown teams.
The only problem I can see is that this writers strike could end any day now, and Schur and Co. will have to get back to work. What then? FireMoseSchrute.com?
(Post edited because I forgot that beard was the real deal.)
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on Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 at 11:20 pm by Brian Howard.
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I think I remember Schur saying in one of the DVD commentaries that the Mose beard was real—and that his lady friend didn't take too kindly to it.
I'd check my claim and all, but, y'know. Stuff.