The e-mail from MGoBlog’s Brian Cook arrived in my in-basket at 2:38 this morning. (Dude, get some sleep already!)

The 2008 preseason BlogPoll will be coming your way in a week. The ballot I intend to cast remains unchanged from the updated version I posted on August 4.

As was the case a year ago, I take a Burkean approach to my BlogPoll ballot; that is to say, the judgments involved ultimately are mine, but I remain open to persuasive arguments.

In other words, speak now or forever---well, O.K., until September 1 or thereabouts---hold your peace. We’re getting close now, folks. Is it football season yet?

Go ‘Dawgs!