Re: Raul Ibanez rips one of our OS members.
I don't disagree. In fact, he even said it wasn't fair to Ibanez. The thing is, the blog was born of a conversation he had with someone about whether or not Ibanez was juicing, NOT on the overall state of steroids in baseball and who is/isn't juicing. It lead to the overarching issue based on his look into it. It's a fine line, and I can see both sides of this.
I think the "why wasn't so and so" comments counter the point of whether or not it's fair though. You can't say it's unfair to openly wonder about Ibanez and then counter it with openly wondering about another specific player. Just my opinion, of course, but it doesn't really fit the point.
On the blog itself, I'm fairly neutral. I certainly think far too many people who use the internet irresponsibly and probably don't fully think out the potential consequences. I'm willing to bet that if the writer had it all to do over again, he probably would have chosen his words more carefully.
My issue lies with the hypocrisy in the outrage over it. It's hard to cry foul on standards of ethics in blog writing when journalists ignore them themselves. As I said earlier, Buster Olney (a colleague of Rosenthal) made similar speculation over Ortiz in an ESPN column. where's the ourtrage over that? The sports blogging/message board community is full of such debate. Heck, we had our own "who's juicing" type threads.
It simply became a case of those condemning the blog, making things worse than they need to be. It's unfortunate because in their little crusade against the evil blogger (and make no mistake, journalists take issue with "amateur" blogging in general) the only one impacted negatively is Ibanez. Instead of maybe a few hundered people reading a run-of-the-mill internet site, it became front-page nonsense for ESPN.
Anyway, my rants against modern journalists and their hypocrisy aside (
), I certainly can agree that Ibanez has every right to be upset. I can also see why some fans would be as well. I really don't care either way , I just don't lack the lack of consistency in such arguments.
EDIT: And I appreciate the fact that thus far, despite varying viewpoints on this, people have expressed their thoughts rationally.
I don't disagree. In fact, he even said it wasn't fair to Ibanez. The thing is, the blog was born of a conversation he had with someone about whether or not Ibanez was juicing, NOT on the overall state of steroids in baseball and who is/isn't juicing. It lead to the overarching issue based on his look into it. It's a fine line, and I can see both sides of this.
I think the "why wasn't so and so" comments counter the point of whether or not it's fair though. You can't say it's unfair to openly wonder about Ibanez and then counter it with openly wondering about another specific player. Just my opinion, of course, but it doesn't really fit the point.
On the blog itself, I'm fairly neutral. I certainly think far too many people who use the internet irresponsibly and probably don't fully think out the potential consequences. I'm willing to bet that if the writer had it all to do over again, he probably would have chosen his words more carefully.
My issue lies with the hypocrisy in the outrage over it. It's hard to cry foul on standards of ethics in blog writing when journalists ignore them themselves. As I said earlier, Buster Olney (a colleague of Rosenthal) made similar speculation over Ortiz in an ESPN column. where's the ourtrage over that? The sports blogging/message board community is full of such debate. Heck, we had our own "who's juicing" type threads.
It simply became a case of those condemning the blog, making things worse than they need to be. It's unfortunate because in their little crusade against the evil blogger (and make no mistake, journalists take issue with "amateur" blogging in general) the only one impacted negatively is Ibanez. Instead of maybe a few hundered people reading a run-of-the-mill internet site, it became front-page nonsense for ESPN.
Anyway, my rants against modern journalists and their hypocrisy aside (
), I certainly can agree that Ibanez has every right to be upset. I can also see why some fans would be as well. I really don't care either way , I just don't lack the lack of consistency in such arguments.EDIT: And I appreciate the fact that thus far, despite varying viewpoints on this, people have expressed their thoughts rationally.
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