On the eve of the Twins’ playoff run, the Star Tribune has profiled several members of the growing Twins-blogger contingent.
Now it should be noted that the Strib has had sort of a love/hate relationship with the Blogosphere in the last year or so- their feuds with the local coterie of conservative bloggers known as the Northern Alliance have been well-documented, and they run a site called “My 2 Cents” that may in fact be the worst blog I’ve ever read. This all led up to columnist Nick Coleman's oft-quoted, oft-mocked anti-blog jeremiad that ran last week.
However, the paper in the last month or two has made more of an effort to better understand the blogging phenomenon than most major papers, running a generally competent overview of the Rathergate scandal while placing a link on its website to a comprehensive list of political blogs that I’m happy to be on. In addition, the Strib has been hosting one of the best Twins blogs, John Bonnes’ “TwinsGeek,” since the start of baseball season.
The baseball story is relatively well-done, as it appears the author has in fact read blogs before and even was familiar with some of the ones talked about. Here’s the main part, here are some quotes, and here’s a “best of” package. But how exactly do you write about Bat-girl without mentioning Lego-Vision?
(And speaking of Ms. Ursu, she makes a Lego-free Page 2 appearance today.)
At any rate, I’ll be blogging here every day of the Twins’ postseason- even taking precedence over this week’s presidential and VP debates. I made my predictions yesterday, and all I predict today is that the New York papers will use the word “Minny” dozens of times this week. If my bleatings are not enough, check out Aaron Gleeman, TwinsGeek, Bat-Girl, Seth Speaks, The Bad Twin, and Will Young.
Posted by Stephen Silver at October 5, 2004 04:26 PMGo Twins!
Posted by: Jeff S at October 5, 2004 05:43 PM