This is the only sports blog I keep up with on a regular basis. I started keeping company with you when the Magic season started last year. The coverage you provide has always been superb. I enjoy the game more now thanks to things I have learned at 3QC. Having Eddy here in Orlando really took your game up a notch. Just wanted to say “THANK YOU!”

And Eddy’s writing and dedication to reporting on the team is why I’ve made TQC one of the first sites I visit every morning. Best of luck at Northwestern, Eddy. I know the gauntlet of grad school all too well, but I have no doubt you’ll kill it, just as you do on this site. All the best, brother.

While I’ve only been posting a while, I have been visiting the site daily since early last season. I have always been a magic fan, but the work you guys do on this site has changed to way I look at basketball. Everything from the stats, analysis, etc has made more knowledgeable and better able to appreciate the game as a whole. Thank you guys so much for your work, and best wishes to Eddy as he gets his grad degree. I feel your work and dedication is so far above the status quo. Thanks again for all you the both of you do.

This site was a great find and has been a great read for me since last year. I’d like to think I’ve become an even greater fan of the Magic and of basketball since joining (coming from a fan since day one of the franchise). I’ve enjoyed our gameday thread conversations and wish you the best of luck in reaching whatever goals you have in the future, as long as they include continuing to be contributing member of our little Magic Love Fest society called Third Quarter Collapse (even if it will most likely be to a lesser extent).

Question to Eddy: Will you still be contributing statistical analysis of the team while working towards your degree? I know your time will be limited, but your input on this site is a necessary read for me on a daily basis!

I can say it’s been a blast. The two of you have been great, and last years playoffs will forever be linked with this site. E had a bunch of those moments.

Whether yelling at us for hating on refs. Or my personal favorite when he went OFFFFF (as best as typing can) during the playoffs, and cussed up a storm and when we called him out on it claimed something along the lines “Sometimes it’s appropriate.” So we all cussed for the rest of the thread.

I love this site. Almost a year since contributing and well over that reading.

Thanks Ben. And thanks E, happy to have you in the same state as me again.

Much Respect E.

I can truly say this site has chilled me out and helped me cope with losses much better.

Thank you E and Good Luck with your Continuing education.

Without the community, though, this site wouldn’t be where it is today. It’s always nice to have an audience that reads our work and is willing to engage in intelligent discourse about the Orlando Magic. I’m a fan just like everyone else here but that doesn’t stop me from trying to be as objective and unbiased as possible.

Take it easy man, and good luck with school.

E, you rock. Good luck in Chicago and with your studies. Im sure I’ll still see you posting stuff and comments still, albeit less often.

I’ve been reading 3QC for quite some time now, as well as several other SBNation blogs, and there is no question that 3QC is the cream of the crop. As legitimate a journalistic outlet as exists today, IMHO, and Eddy deserves tons of credit. Good job, all.

I remember the first season, being selected by the NBA, our first cast-offs, ping pong ball(s), win(s). We haven’t always had the best team on the floor but we’ve always exhibited CLASS. We HAVE HAD and DO HAVE, though, the best blog (really-read a few others). This sight is a microcosm of a first class organization. Eddy will be missed, but not forgotten. I expect, even if he’s covering ladies’ lacrosse, he will do it with the utmost professionalism, honesty and dignity. And before long, he’ll be a beat writer for a major team/market, or even greater with his own column for a national publication.
I am an English teacher so it’s so sweet to see someone use the language correctly!!! (Again, read a few others!!!) Peace to you Eddy, I am sure we’ll be hearing big things from you (I’ll now take a swig of Munich’s finest in your honor).

I concur w/ most of the sentiments above. Its cool that you guys writing aren’t total homer’s like a lot of other blog sites. Great writing, great use of stats, and you even throw in some big SAT words every now and then.

Good luck in Chicago and F#ck KG and the Celtics

Also, I’d be remiss if I didn’t give you props for being the MADDENINGLY RATIONAL voice of reason “police” for this site! LOL

Seriously, enough cannot be said for the fact that this site is as objective as it gets in the sports blogosphere.

As Magic fans, we are not only blessed with THE CLASSIEST local sportscasters in the biz (David Steele & Matty Goukas), but we’re doubly blessed to also have their natural cyber-extensions in Ben and Eddy, who are equally as classy and professional. (IMHO)

These gentlemen are a credit to their profession and they should know that their hard work does not go unnoticed!

Thanks again E & good luck with your future endeavors. ;)

But E, your dope. And more so, this site is dope. I still don’t get all the advanced stats yet, but slowly and surely I’ve been understanding that box scores don’t tell the whole truth and +/- is a good tool in assessing a players contributions to the game.

I used to get my Magic info from the espn message boards and those were brutal. Finding this site was a blessing because I’m from San Diego and no one talks about the Magic.

Good luck in grad school but I know you’ll be around still. Especially in the playoffs! Go Magic!

It was nice meeting you at that pre-season Heat game. You’ll always be the sh*t for using that Tribe quote. And I think you once used “jambalaya” in one of your articles. Hahaha take care man!

Im sure Ill be reading your published work in a few short years, you and Ben have done an amazing job with this site and Ive honestly read it every day since the beginning of last season. The effort you guys put into the site shows, and youll definitely be missed around here. Now go kill it in grad school, you deserve to take a little break off with all the posting youve been doing, and good luck!

Like I said above, I’m just transitioning myself a bit as I get back to Chicago and start grad school.

But Eddy and this blog in general have made me a much smarter basketball fan. Thanks for all the good work Eddy, and good luck in grad school.

I expect nothing less man.

I’m humbled that people enjoy my work. I just try to do the best I can to educate everyone/provide great content.

And congrats on the northwestern course! I’ve been looking to do there marketing course for sometime and hopefully will get to apply sometime in the near future.