Seattle Mariners at Baltimore Orioles: 06/11/2009

You can all see from the photo above that tonight's game might not start on time. The rain has stopped now, but there are still showers in the area. Just below, you can see what it looked like 10 minutes ago. Anyhow, I was enjoying the discussion/debate on today's earlier post very much. Aside from the usual digs at mainstream media, I felt it was a lively discussion about something that is not going away. Blogs are here to stay. And so are bloggers. We have some very reputable bloggers locally who do not throw names around with reckless abandon. And you have other types -- your "basement bloggers'' that Raul Ibanez was trying to reference -- who need a little reigning in. Nobody is calling for a banishment of blogs. I've mentioned before that I enjoy this new form of writing and look at blogs on a daily basis as a source of information. But there are limits. When I talk about "training" I don't mean everyone should go to journalism school. Ma...