Why do sportswriters resent blogs?

[Minnesota4Ever]

I notice some writers actually hater bloggers writing blogs. Star-Tribune columnist Patrick Reusse dedicated his Sunday column about how he hates blogs. I know Steve Aschburner and Jim Souhan of the same paper have also said that they resent bloggers. My question is why. I don't think there is anything wrong with bloggers. If fans want to blog about their team and give their analysis, let them to do so. I don't see anything wrong with that. I rarely read blogs much, but I am not going to deride them. I think fans can get their source from blogs and the newspapers. I think both are useful.

 

[shotglass]

Who here believes this will end well?

 

[Minnesota4Ever]

Oops sorry I brought it up then.

This was just on my mind since Reusse wrote a column about it. My guess was that he was taking a dig at Aaron Gleeman, who has risen to fame by working for RotoWorld and NBCSports.com. I know there are many Twins fans that write blogs on their team. Some are great read like Aaron's, SethSpeaks.net, and Stick and Ball Guy while others like BatGirl are worthless.

I don't have a problem with journalists or bloggers whatsoever. I think they both do a good job at what they do. They are very useful as long as the content is good. I just think it's counterproductive for Patrick Reusse or writers to take shot at bloggers. There is no need for that.

http://www.startribune.com/508/story/1022298.html

 

[sportschick]

Who here believes this will end well?

It will end very badly.

 

[BYH]

The guy who started this thread is example 1-A of why I don't like bloggers.

WAHHHH!!! COVER THE TWINS MORE IN BERGEN!!!

Keep playing journalist, Brandon. It's cute.

 

[Minnesota4Ever]

Thanks.

I agree with what you said, journalist.

I rarely read blogs unless it's very interesting like the three blogs I just mentioned. I read blogs mainly just to get their take on the game that I watch on TV. I like to make sure they share the same opinion I have.

 

[BYH]

We really need a Wonderlic here.

 

[Wonderlic]

We really need a Wonderlic here.

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[Angola!]

The guy who started this thread is example 1-A of why I don't like bloggers.

WAHHHH!!! COVER THE TWINS MORE IN BERGEN!!!

Keep playing journalist, Brandon. It's cute.

Just read through his posts and am starting to wonder if this is a joke. Minnesota4Ever posts a horrific story in a thread asking for help, then proceeds to rip multiple major writers and a major sports section.
Now he wants to know why the big, mean sportswriters hate bloggers.
I'm thinking he is a blogger not a journalist as M4E projected earlier, is this correct?

 

[shotglass]

"We don't take kindly to bloggers 'round these parts."

"Now, Whitey ... they ain't hurtin' nothin'..."

 

[BYH]

The guy who started this thread is example 1-A of why I don't like bloggers.

WAHHHH!!! COVER THE TWINS MORE IN BERGEN!!!

Keep playing journalist, Brandon. It's cute.

Just read through his posts and am starting to wonder if this is a joke. Minnesota4Ever posts a horrific story in a thread asking for help, then proceeds to rip multiple major writers and a major sports section.
Now he wants to know why the big, mean sportswriters hate bloggers.
I'm thinking he is a blogger not a journalist as M4E projected earlier, is this correct?

Complete BLOGGER. Brandon Walsh is a fraud of the highest order.

 

[Angola!]

The guy who started this thread is example 1-A of why I don't like bloggers.

WAHHHH!!! COVER THE TWINS MORE IN BERGEN!!!

Keep playing journalist, Brandon. It's cute.

Just read through his posts and am starting to wonder if this is a joke. Minnesota4Ever posts a horrific story in a thread asking for help, then proceeds to rip multiple major writers and a major sports section.
Now he wants to know why the big, mean sportswriters hate bloggers.
I'm thinking he is a blogger not a journalist as M4E projected earlier, is this correct?

Complete BLOGGER. Brandon Walsh is a fraud of the highest order.

Reading his blog makes me dislike bloggers even more.

 

[Smallpotatoes]

If this job were as easy as some people think it is, I'd be good at it.

 

[Almost_Famous]

If this job were as easy as some people think it is, I'd be good at it.

What job? Blogging or sportswriting?

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Peter Gammons has a blog.

Buster Olney has a blog.

Jayson Stark has a blog.

In fact, ESPN.com has a tab dedicated to its blogs.

Aaron Gleeman has a blog.

Ben Maller has a blog (that has apparently just been pulled into the FoxSports.com site).

BadJocks.com has a blog.

Baseball Primer has a blog.

I guess that Minnesota guy hates all them.

 

[Trey Beamon]

Complete BLOGGER. Brandon Walsh is a fraud of the highest order.

Too. Damn. Easy. ;D

 

[shotglass]

Peter Gammons has a blog.

Buster Olney has a blog.

Jayson Stark has a blog.

In fact, ESPN.com has a tab dedicated to its blogs.

Aaron Gleeman has a blog.

Ben Maller has a blog (that has apparently just been pulled into the FoxSports.com site).

BadJocks.com has a blog.

Baseball Primer has a blog.

I guess that Minnesota guy hates all them.

I'm betting Gammons, Olney and Stark were told they had to do a blog.

ESPN.com's blogs do not mark it as a beacon of journalistic quality.

The other ones, I do not care about.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Peter Gammons has a blog.

Buster Olney has a blog.

Jayson Stark has a blog.

In fact, ESPN.com has a tab dedicated to its blogs.

Aaron Gleeman has a blog.

Ben Maller has a blog (that has apparently just been pulled into the FoxSports.com site).

BadJocks.com has a blog.

Baseball Primer has a blog.

I guess that Minnesota guy hates all them.

I'm betting Gammons, Olney and Stark were told they had to do a blog.

ESPN.com's blogs do not mark it as a beacon of journalistic quality.

The other ones, I do not care about.

Olney's blog is one of the best baseball columns you can find, blog or no blog. Who cares if these guys were told to write blogs -- the point is that they do.

 

[Cosmo]

We really need a Wonderlic here.

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Well done, sir.

 

[Pringle]

If Olney was told to do one, he sure seems to have taken to it. The guy has to put hours into it every day.

I like doing it on our newspaper Web site. It's like my little corner of the WWW every day.

But I think the initial poster is referring more to fan blogs or layman blogs by people who either do it for the hell of it or try to make a go of it for some payoff down the road.

I pointed this out on another thread, but Time had a good story last week about volunteerism on the Web (specifically about Wikipedia, but could apply to blogs). The thrust was that the next 10-20 years will tell whether people really want to continue to be writers for free, or whether they'll begin to get bored with it like any other passing fad hobby. Except for the really good ones like Gleeman, it's a lot of work for a small audience, and that will get to anyone except the most dedicated blogger after a certain period of time.

How those next 10-20 years turn out, of course, will have a big impact on our industry and the people working in it.