A Better Solution...

The reason I created my 'cricket' filter was to allow people who weren't interested in cricket, but who had me on their friends lists, to avoid having my often-long cricket posts bloat up their friends pages. After discovering that one of my friends who opted in to this filter actually wanted to point other fans to one of the entries, I started thinking about another way to do it, which would allow for my non-friends to be able to see the entries, while still avoiding bloating my friends' friends pages.  The result: If you're in my 'cricket' filter, please join/watch the COMMUNITY usa_cricket!  I'll be copying all of the cricket posts from my personal journal over to that community, so you won't miss a thing.  The cricket filter will continue to exist for a while, because of the older entries that may not have aged off people's friends pages, but future posts on cricket will most likely go to usa_cricket instead.