Hey, all you whippersnapping bloggers. Surely you remember this one old guy that worked for the New York Times. No? His name was Murray Chass, he was a baseball writer, and he really, really hated bloggers. Then he lost his job. Perhaps you had forgotten. But guess what? Murray now has a web site, where he will be logging his thoughts on the game of baseball. Ingenious! Don't worry, he won't be blogging. He'll just be typing, and then publishing to the web. Not blogging! Never!
This is a site for baseball columns, not for baseball blogs. The proprietor of the site is not a fan of blogs. He made that abundantly clear on a radio show with Charlie Steiner when Steiner asked him what he thought of blogs and he replied, "I hate blogs." He later heartily applauded Buzz Bissinger when the best-selling author denounced bloggers on a Bob Costas HBO show. [...] 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.That Murray could write the above in the "About" section of his web site with a straight face is not only darkly comical -- like when an old dog is too tired to chase its favorite ball -- it 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)
