Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
September 23, 2008
Ringolsby Interview

Maury Brown sits down with Tracy Ringolsby and discusses BBWAA membership for internet authors:

Bizball: Has the proliferation of bloggers, and the crossover of print journalists who now add blogs to their published content, create a graying of what a credible sports journalist is?

Ringolsby: It's not the avenue of providing information that causes problems, but rather those who use the avenue. There are some blogs that I find entertaining and informative. There are others that seem to be creations of people with an ax to grind, and those are just as boring as reading the columnist who always has to hate whatever he is writing about.

Bizball: The internet is simply a platform in which to publish content on. Whether it's Buzz Bissinger or Murray Chass, or Steven A. Smith, the word "blogger" incites an angry element. At the same time, someone like Jay Mariotti isn't exactly the poster child for responsible journalism. Speaking philosophically, is it fair to rate any one medium for publishing as better or worse, rather than simply looking at the author and their content?

Ringolsby: With anything in life, we are all better served to evaluate each incident and individual separately and not stereotype.

Mr. Ringolsby appears to have an open mind about the new media.


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Comments

The only reason the BBWAA matters at all is the Hall of Fame vote. And a lot of BBWAA members have no clue about the vote (see Santo, Ron among many others).

Do we really want to extend membership in the HOF vote to even more clueless people? Things are bad enough as is.

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