I Am The Rain King: MLB Blogs

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"Before you know it as the years go by, you're just like other people you have seen, with all those peculiar human ailments. Just another vehicle for temper and vanity and rashness and all the rest. Who wants it? Who needs it? These things occupy the place where a man's soul should be." -- Henderson the Rain King

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

MLB Blogs

Major League Baseball recently launched it's own blogging service featuring blogs by former MLB stars such as Tommy Lasorda, Brooks Robinson and Jim Deshaies (oops, did I say former *stars*?...um did I mention Brooks Robinson?...heck of a third baseman he was) as well as blogs by announcers, fans, groundskeepers and other people interested in the game.

It's cool to see baseball is once again ahead of the curve on adopting internet technologies (their streaming video service is way cool), though I'm surprised that they're charging $50 a year for the service when you can easily get similar capabilities for free from Blogger, MoveableType, etc. Competition in this space is bound to be tight, as there are already loads of great baseball blogs out there. A couple of my favorite Seattle Mariners related blogs are Lookout Landing and USS Mariner. Lookout Landing has well sorted link to blogs for other teams, so it's a good place to get started even if you're not a Mariners fan (lucky you).

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