It is about 6:30 p.m. Saturday and, as promised, here is my column on Joe Lacob.

I hope you like it, but I’m also giving you an assignment, if you don’t mind. I want you to be a literary critic. In an earlier post I gave you the “out-takes,” quotes I did not use in this column or quotes I significantly shortened. Some of them were good quotes. In my column I try to have a unified theme and a developing narrative. I felt the quotes I used in the column gave me that. I left others out — and gave them in the earlier post — because they did not seem thematic. I could be wrong. Please judge for yourself if I made the correct column-writing choices. And remember people reading the Press Democrat may not see the blog containing the quotes I did not use in the column. I made a sincere effort.

One other thing. In the column I don’t judge Lacob. I present him. I don’t know enough about him yet to judge him. I am fascinated by revealing a person’s character and I tried to do that in a preliminary way without judging. There will be plenty of time for judging.

I hope you have a terrific Saturday night and I’ll be watching the playoff games tomorrow along with you. To read my column on Joe Lacob click here.