Having written this column for almost two baseball seasons, I was thinking of trying to join the Baseball Writers Association of America. I went looking for information on the subject, and found this:

You have to be a reporter, editor, or columnist who covers baseball. You can't work for an internet-only outlet. You join after being nominated by an existing member and then being evaluated by the membership committee.

The BBWAA has a nomination and evaluation process. So first, you have to get a member to like your work enough to nominate you. Then you have to go through peer review. One would think at that point only the best writers would be a member of the organization. I don't know if this blog could get past all that, but I know I'd like to try. And there are many other fine baseball writers on the internet who deserve the chance.

Major league baseball has a history of being slow to adapt to new technologies. They were slow to embrace radio and television, even though these both brought many new fans and much wealth to the sport. With all the negative things I write about Bud Selig, under his management MLB has embraced the internet, first with radio broadcasts and now television broadcasts. The writers, however, seem to be stuck in the old mode; afraid of new technology that might rob them of readers, when it fact it will help make all baseball writing better. I hope there are some BBWAA writers seeing this. I urge you to change the rule and give the talented internet writers a chance to proved themselves.

Of course, we could always form the IBWAA!