Wild times for sports blogs may be nearing an end

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BLOG SCRUTINY CONTINUES
Published 6/22/2008 by Mike Florio at ProFootballTalk.com
... his examples include Beerleaguer, dedicated to the Philadelphia Phillies, and profootballtalk.com.  ‘They’re very informational. Their goal isn’t to play a snarky game of gotcha, or to be malicious and cruel.  They’re great.’” Some would beg to differ on whether we’re malicious or cruel.  (We don’t think we are; we just think we tell the truth as we perceive it to be.)  And some would beg to differ on whether we’re “great.”  (We don’t think we are; we prefer “stupendous.”) This one , published in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times , reiterates that Bissinger is a PFT aficionado.   ...

Sunday chat: Phillies turn to Hamels to end funk
Published 6/22/2008 by J. Weitzel at Beerleaguer - Phillies Blog, Baseball News, Trade Rumors & Spirits
The Phillies, who've scratched out seven runs during their four-game losing streak, send left-hander Cole Hamels to the hill in hopes of salvaging a game against Jered Weaver and the Angels. Images For new readers checking in from the Los Angeles Times , ...

The LA Times on the newfound restraint within ... [It's]
Published 6/22/2008 by Unsilent Majority at Deadspin
... The LA Times on the newfound restraint within the sports blogosphere. Just wait until my next post about the rumored love-triangle between Bill Plaschke, Juan Pierre, and an adolescent sea otter from the aquarium in Long Beach. [LA Times] ...

Brog: Thank Goodness For My Trip To The Urinal
Published 6/23/2008 by Brooks at SPORTSbyBROOKS
I’d heard from LAT moles that the sports dept. was preparing an upcoming piece on sports blogs for publish, but didn’t know it was out until I visited the trusty, upstairs urinal at Red Rock today in WeHo: Los Angeles Times SbB Piece David Wharton penned the piece , which reports that sports bloggers are now being more responsible in their posting approach. Truth is, we’ve been that way for as long as I can remember. We’ve a huge audience going back to 2003, and if we posted anything defamatory, we’d have had our a$$ sued off by now. Nothing’s changed here. ...

The LPGA Is F'ing Awesome!
Published 6/23/2008 by Awful Announcing- (noreply@blogger.com) at Awful Announcing
... (P.S.- Notice that I didn't go with the easy angle of multiple Asian women pouring champagne on each other. Apparently there's a movement we have to adhere to these days.)

Wild times for sports blogs may be nearing an end
Published 6/23/2008 by Hoffman at ballerblogger.com
From David Wharton of the Los Angeles Times :“We’re trying to make money on this,” said A.J. Daulerio, a senior writer for Deadspin. “Without going completely porn, the best way to do that is to add a more journalistic element.” Which can mean taking fewer chances.“It’s the difference between living in a dorm room you can trash and buying your own home,” said Niles, a former editor of USC’s discontinued Online Journalism Review. “You say, ‘I want to live here a while, so I have to treat this with respect.’ ” There is an element of irony, blogs adopting journalistic ...

Newspapers Say Blogging No Longer Cool
Published 6/23/2008 by The Nug (noreply@blogger.com) at The Sometimes Daily Nug
... Congratulations to David Wharton and the Los Angeles Times for successfully comparing the sports Blogosphere to the Wild West for the one-millionth time in a Sunday feature about sports blogs. ...

Jason McIntyre Doesn't Speak For Us
Published 6/23/2008 by DanShanoff.com (noreply@blogger.com) at Dan Shanoff
Seriously: Who the hell deputized Jason McIntyre to speak on behalf of sports bloggers? -- D.S.

The Screaming Man Shouldn't Make You Change The Way You Think About Yourself [Aw Screw It It's Our Last Week]
Published 6/23/2008 by Will Leitch at Deadspin
... remains one of our favorite sports blogging moments. But we have to make this clear: After reading the Los Angeles Times' elegy to the end of "wild times" on the Web, we have to ask Jason: Have you lost your goddamned mind? ...

An Appropriate Response to David Wharton
Published 6/23/2008 by Eric at Off Wing Opinion
An Appropriate Response to David Wharton I just read David Wharton's piece on the end of the "wild times" in the world of sports blogging , and while I'm sure I could vent a couple of thousands of words over what I think about it, I'll just hand it over to Weezer: I started blogging for nobody but myself. I don't see any reason to change now. Trackback Pings TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.ericmcerlain.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/8379 Comments Post a comment

Deadspin, The Big Lead, Bissinger, The LA Times, and The Three Handled Online Media Gredunza of Doom
Published 6/23/2008 by Hardwood Paroxysm (noreply@blogger.com) at Hardwood Paroxysm
Okay, to catch you up. LA Times does story on blogging, featuring The Big Lead's Jason McIntyre. The Big Lead clarifies and stands by its/his position. Deadspin opens fire on the article and, though respectfully, McIntyre. Some of these we let go by. There are a number of pitches that we don't swing at. Because really, who cares what we think? But this one we'll weigh in on, because we feel like it. In the article, Jason/The Big (?) mentions a "sketchy middle ground" that blogs are being pulled towards. ...

Preaching To A Choir Of Heathens
Published 6/23/2008 by Matt at DGDB&D: a Texans blog.
... (kinda) in response to this LA Times article about how Buzz Bissinger’s [likely drunken] tirade against Will made bloggers change their tone and become more serious.  Will’s article was well-written, even if (as ...

Thursday links: so is Sabathia getting traded or what?
Published 6/23/2008 by Ricky O'Donnell at The Fantasy Factor
... - I know Cowley mentioned this in the paper a few days ago as well, but seriously guys, K-Fuk over Jermaine Dye on the All-City team is just wrong. Allegiances be damned. Dye has been on fire the last few weeks, and SI advises that he should be a must start until further notice. Not that this has anything to do with fantasy baseball but… - Blog war! Deadspin’s Will Leitch doesn’t agree with The Big Lead’s assertion in an LA Times article that sports blogs should appeal to a wider audience.

Links for Breakfast
Published 6/24/2008 by Matt P at The700Level.com - Philly Sports & Minutiae
... If you're into the the whole blogging thing, chances are by now you've heard about the LA Times report that we're all playing nicer now that people are reading our dribble. We hadn't really paid much attention to the trend, but we won't argue that it hasn't happened in some places, particularly since the Times directly quotes some Big players in the field. Anyway, we're loving ...

On McIntyre and the Future of Sports Blogs
Published 6/24/2008 by DanShanoff.com (noreply@blogger.com) at Dan Shanoff
... What I do know is that I think that the quotes in that L.A. Times story quite possibly reflect the era's lowest moment. Maybe that's what had Will so hopping. ...

Commence The Blogger Circular Firing Squad
Published 6/24/2008 by Signal to Noise at Signal to Noise
... A curious thing happened to my RSS reader in the past couple of days: there was this article in the L.A. Times on Sunday that basically was the same old “us v. them” narrative about the mainstream media and sports blogging, and it made me yawn, because it was stoking the fires of the whole Buzz Bissinger vs. Will Leitch mess from Costas Now awhile back and I simply found it boring and innocuous enough. This is probably because I have very little professional investment in any “movement.” ...

Pre-Draft Link Drop
Published 6/24/2008 by AdamBez (noreply@blogger.com) at Some People's Kids
... Mayo Mayo Mayo Mayo Mayo Mayo Mayo Mayo Mayo Mayo Mayo Mayo Mayo Mayo Mayo Mayo Mayo Mayo Mayo Mayo Mayo Mayo Mayo Mayo Mayo Mayo Mayo Mayo Mayo Mayo Mayo. Hew, got that out of the system. Speaking of TBL if you're missing the feud going on over there, I suggest you check it out. The following is a cronological series of links of this (in Barriero's words) Kerfuffle. LATimes. TBL Deadspin Some guy ripping the shit out ...

God's favorite driver is ... David Ragan?
Published 6/25/2008 by Jay Busbee at From the Marbles
... Your interesting reading of the night ... this is probably of zero interest to anybody outside the pasty-white fraternity of sports bloggers, but what the heck. There's quite the dustup afoot over this article in the LA Times which implied sports blogs are going more legit. ...

The blog world is duking it out
Published 6/26/2008 by The Big Picture (noreply@blogger.com) at The Big Picture
... When two major blogs have a grade-school fight, over a quote in an LA Times article, and then everyone chimes in, it makes for good comedy. ...

WHAT THE GAME'S BEEN MISSING
Published 6/26/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (The Realests) at REALESTS NCAA College Michigan Football Basketball Rich Rodriguez Lil Wayne DMX
This is always the worst time of year for sports fans. Once the NBA Draft is done, we'll be stuck with MLB all summer as we count down the days 'til football returns. For blogs, it means a lot of filler posts and pointless drivel. But that all changed a couple days ago with the first major beef in the sports blogosphere: The Big Lead vs. Deadspin and Kissing Suzy Kolber. A quick recap: - TBL's Jason McIntyre gets interviewed for an L.A. Times story on sports blogs - Deadspin's Will Leitch puts McIntyre on blast for quotes Leitch ...

Recommended reads Vol. 2
Published 6/27/2008 by JohnClay at Sidelines
 After an extended delay, a second recommended set of reads: Buzz Bissinger tells Deadspin that on second thought, maybe blogs aren't all that bad. Mike Bianchi says Florida coach Urban Meyer is 2-hip 2-be square. Great piece by David Whitley on ex-Bengal linebacker Reggie Williams' fight to save his leg. Los Angeles Times says wild times for some sports blogs may be coming to an end. Bob Ryan on the O.J. Mayo for Kevin Love ...

Yardbarker Is Classy, Misinformed
Published 7/2/2008 by tecmo (noreply@blogger.com) at Pittsburgh Sports and Mini Ponies
... 's participation in this L.A. Times article about MSMers vs. bloggers. Here's the quote YB used (bracketed text mine): We've never had an issue with the way [Buzz] Bissinger handled himself on the show [Costas Now]; the man has a right to his beliefs, and hey, his screaming just played into our hands anyway. That doesn't change the fact that his "argument" was incoherent and, for a writer we've always respected, shockingly wrong-headed. We have literally not met a single sports blogger who said, "Well, jeez, the screaming man on television made me re-evaluate what I do. ...