If you’re a baseball junkie like me then you have to love this time of year. As the spring begins to blend into summer, fans begin to wonder about their team’s future and various chatter begins.
If I may chatter myself, allow me to say a few things. For all the talk about steroids and homeruns, it’s nice to see pitchers bringing their A game. What Jake Peavy is doing in San Diego right now is ridiculous. Not only that, just days into the season the White Sox’s Mark Buehrle pitched a no-hitter. Even the overpaid Dice-K Matsuzaka is making the Red Sox look smart (though Josh Beckett at 7-0 is more impressive. Cy Young anyone?) Jason Marquis of the Cubs is 6-1. If you had promised me that 3-4 weeks ago I would have thought you were insane. Nevermind what Barry Bonds will do to tarnish Hank Aaron’s awesome record, let’s focus on other things. For example, the rise of the baseball blogosphere.
As a Long Islander and lifelong Met fan, I prefer MetsBlog.com. What’s great about MetsBlog is that the site actually references other baseball blogs, for example TalkingChop.com, for all you Braves fans, or BleedCubbieBlue.com for all you long-suffering Cubs fans [editor's note: us long-suffering Cubs fans are people, too]. Heck some intense fan even has a blog devoted to Mets Walk-Off’s.
So as not to play favorites, the Cleveland Indians have a few fan blogs themselves, LetsGoTribe.com and cir.blogspot.com. There are a few others of course but for sake of brevity we’ll leave it at two. Even lowly Royals fans have blogs, RoyalsReview.com and RoyalsLocker.com. If you prefer winning baseball, Detroit has TigerBlog.com. For a politically-incorrect laugh, check out the tongue-in-cheek blog of “Carl Pavano” at DiceGay.com.
Fact of the matter is, while baseball’s ratings may lack far behind that of the NFL it remains our national pasttime and so there are certain to be a host of opinions. My guess is that one of your favorite baseball teams has a fan-supported blog too. Happy Hunting. Go Mets.
Browse Timeline
Comments ( 1 Comment )
Buck Porter added these pithy words on Jul 16 07 at 7:23 pmI know you want to focus on things other than the Neanderthal in San Francisco and how he has tarnished/is tarnishing the most cherished records in sports, but I’d like to make a suggestion to any baseball fan (or former fan for some of us) who finds the Bonds situation to be as repulsive as I do. When Bonds hits pseudo-home run number 756, I plan to wear a black armband, with a white 755, on my left arm. It will signify my grief over the falling of that monumental milestone to a shameless mockery of a baseball “hero” and serve as a tribute to an unsurpassed achievement by a very decent human being (Henry Aaron). I know many fans agree, and I would love to see those armbands at stadiums all over the country when the travesty finally occurs. If we’re exteremly lucky, maybe it never will.
