We don't really have the stereotypical coming-out stories this year, ... I don't know if I saw anything fitting that mold or not. If I did, it wasn't very good.

If we don't get any bad bogeymen coming out of the closet, like hurricanes, it should be a good year.

We get two or three guys a year coming in here with stories of how they got peppered by their hunting buddies. Hunters lose track of each other, or a shot passes through some brush and hits someone on the other side.

I never saw this coming.

He made it clear that he could not see coming off the bench in Detroit and fitting in there. Not with (his) legs and basketball IQ and love for the game.

In short, ... we pledge to continue in the coming year to dig up, sort out, and illuminate the critically important stories you need and want to know about, and to deliver them to your door in the pages of Whistleblower.