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Well, like I promised, I’ve finally finished putting together the final round of the Best of Shyzer. The field was narrowed from 15 to 5 and I cut some of the fluff questions down, so the voting process should go much smoother and quicker now. That said, there is now absolutely no reason for any of you reading this not to go vote! Don’t piss me off and give me some poor ass performance like you did last time (but to those who voted last time - you’re awesome. Now keep your awesomeness by voting again!)

Some of the posts I had nominated before were strikingly similar, so I decided to merge them.

1. The Catch - This post is basically a narrative of “the catch” I made back in November ‘03 during an intramural softball game. I wish I could say there is some sort of hidden message within it or something more to it, but honestly it’s just a story about how I love baseball and how I love playing the outfield.
2. Tan Nguyen and Week 1 - Before the previous round, I had trouble deciding if I should include posts like these, but in the end, I decided not to place a filter on the vote. And judging from the votes, the voters agreed with my decisions. These posts are basically a somber reaction to the sudden news that one of my best friends had passed away right after Christmas in ‘03. They both produced massive amounts of feedback from people I never even knew read Shyzer, which definitely helped with the hard healing process that I had just begun to embark upon.
3. Part I & Part II of The Creation Education Science Fair - Probably one of the best and most well received posts I’ve ever made. This two-part entry was made in Feb. ‘04 and basically cracks fun at one of the most extreme Christian groups I have ever encountered.
4. Reunion, Part I and Reunion, Part III - These are the first and third parts in an overall three part post that I made back in April ‘04. The first deals with the special and complex relationship I’ve had with my father while the third was a Good-bye to my longtime girlfriend.
5. Only In Spartanburg - This post probably produced the most feedback outside of Shyzer, which lead me to see just how many people actually read my little corner of the net. In it, I mock the botched handling of a hostage situation in Spartanburg over the summer of ‘04 and the pathetic news coverage by FOX.

So there you have it. As an added bonus, I’ve gone back and done a little editing on all 5 posts. I was aiming mainly at typos, poor grammar and sentences, etc. instead of trying to rewrite each post, so you probably won’t see a huge difference. But I was just looking to enhance the main flow of each post so that you didn’t find yourself stopping to go “wait a minute…what’s he trying to say here?”

So please, go vote here and let your opinion be heard! I promise, there is more to this than me just wanting to see what post I’ve written is the best. You’ll just have to wait and see for yourselves =)