Murray Chass Has a New Site: No Bloggers Allowed!

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Murray Chass, Now a Blogger, Still Passionately Hates Bloggers
Published 7/16/2008 at FanHouse
... betrays his deep, deep confusion about what it is he's actually doing. If Murray's first piece is any indication, there is literally no difference between what he's doing and what bloggers do. Murray -- you're blogging, dude! Sorry, but that's just the way it is. Now you are one of us. Feel the evil, Murray. Feel it course through you! The power! The ... POWER! This is what happens when you fight the Dark Side internet, Murray. We always win. (HT: The Big Lead)   Permalink | Email this ...

Afternoon Blogdome: Murray Chass Stomps His Way On To The Internet [Afternoon Blogdome]
Published 7/16/2008 by DAULERIO at Deadspin
... clear on a radio show with Charlie Steiner when Steiner asked him what he thought of blogs and he replied, “I hate blogs.” … Otherwise, this site will most likely appeal primarily to older fans whose interest in good old baseball is largely ignored in this day of young bloggers who know it all, and new- fangled statistics (VORP, for one excuse-me example), which are drowning the game in numbers and making people forget that human beings, not numbers, play the games."Welcome! [The Big Lead] ...

The Old Man And The Internet-Based Sea
Published 7/17/2008 by Signal to Noise at Signal to Noise
... journalists and my sports blogging brothers and sisters; it’s like watching two sides scream into the ether — one yelling the usual “Get off our lawns!” and the other whining that Mom and Dad just don’t understand. However, I make an exception for the emergence of former New York Times baseball columnist Murray Chass online, complete with his “this is not a blog” manifesto in his “About” page, not to pillory him (The Big Lead and Fire Joe Morgan have already done an effective job of pointing out ...

The Murray Chass mystery
Published 8/4/2008 by Coley Ward at umpbump.com
... . Then he started a blog , except he isn’t calling it a blog, even though it clearly is a blog (Wordpress is blogging software, after all). The Big Lead was all over this story. ...