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Monday, April 18, 2005

N.Y. Times: A Blog for Baseball Fans Builds a League of Sites

The Kos...Blez...Blog...Cog.

Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, on starting up SportsBlogs.....I realized that blogs were really effective for partisan audiences. One of them is sports. Sports is huge - where you’ve got your Red Sox and Yankees situation - and religion is another, but in religion, people kill each other, so I decided I’d rather stay away from religion.

Thanks to bob gaj

Repoz Posted: April 18, 2005 at 09:10 AM | 17 comment(s)
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1. chris p Posted: April 18, 2005 at 10:37 AM (#1266445)

why doesn't the New York Times report on the all the baseball blogs that the guy from lgf started? liberal media!!! evil liberal media!!!

2. chris p Posted: April 18, 2005 at 10:40 AM (#1266450)

frist

3. Sandlapper Spike Posted: April 18, 2005 at 11:10 AM (#1266523)

Style question:

The Times references him at the beginning of the article as Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, but then calls him Mr. Moulitsas throughout the rest of the piece. Is Moulitsas considered his last name?

4. Brandon in MO (for America!) Posted: April 18, 2005 at 11:17 AM (#1266545)

Yeah, Zuniga is his mother's maiden name. Most people don't know that. It's a Hispanic naming thing.

Chris P, you do know that mentioning LGF increases the chances that Charles links this thread or that story, right?

5. The Balls of Summer Posted: April 18, 2005 at 12:05 PM (#1266704)

Of course, some might argue that such blogs are essentially mouthpieces for teams like the A's

Or, in the case of most blogs, a mouthpiece for critics of the organization.

6. Joey B. Posted: April 18, 2005 at 01:27 PM (#1267014)

I'm not going to touch the part about religion.

And yes, this story is basically little more than a piece of free advertising. It's their paper, so the folks at the Times can give free advertising to whoever they want to.

7. Answer Guy Posted: April 18, 2005 at 01:36 PM (#1267030)

Did the habit of posting "First" or its variant "Frist" on Atrios (where its tolerated) and Daily Kos (where it's very much frowned upon) come from BTF?

8. chris p Posted: April 18, 2005 at 01:43 PM (#1267055)

"first" was a slashdot thing

9. Answer Guy Posted: April 18, 2005 at 01:46 PM (#1267064)

Ah. I feel like I should be reading Slashdot, but usually I find my needs for those sort of things filled by, as loath as I am to admit it, Something Awful.

10. RMc is the President of the United States Posted: April 18, 2005 at 02:58 PM (#1267363)

As the man himself said, "Screw 'em."

11. The Clarence Thomas of BTF (scott) Posted: April 18, 2005 at 03:31 PM (#1267459)

minor league ball is fantastic.

i generally check out the sox and mets sites, and athletics nation.

12. Halofan Posted: April 18, 2005 at 04:54 PM (#1267673)

Sports Blogs have been berry berry goot to me.

13. Inquisitor Posted: April 18, 2005 at 07:53 PM (#1268255)

>"Of course, some might argue that such blogs are essentially mouthpieces for teams like the A's."

Yeah, everyone knows that the A's are the darlings of the mainstream media.

14. Miko Posted: April 18, 2005 at 08:02 PM (#1268316)

"first" was a slashdot thing

Wikipedia on first posts.

It claims the practice originated on BBS'es in the pre-web days.

15. Floyd Thursby Posted: April 18, 2005 at 09:47 PM (#1268999)

i generally check out the sox and mets sites, and athletics nation.

You're missing out. The Giants site is like having an intimate chat with the bastard son of Ernest Hemingway and Leonard Koppett.

Or, maybe, Joe Ezterhas and Rick Sutcliffe?

16. Floyd Thursby Posted: April 18, 2005 at 09:49 PM (#1269008)

Oh, come now. I can't even quote a Simpsons episode if I wanted to?

"Bastard bastard bastard! Bastard bastard bastard!"

17. Floyd Thursby Posted: April 18, 2005 at 09:50 PM (#1269020)

And why would it allow the middle bastard of a three-bastard set?

Okay. I'm done with this now.

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