Other Yankee Blogs

Some baseball columnists also have their own blogs to satisfy the blogger community, which is larger than one would imagine. One of the blogs I frequent is written by Jim Baumbach, a sports reporter from Newsday. I really like his writing and just about every one of his reports and every player or prospect he profiles is accurate and well-written.

A few days ago he introduced a new contributer to his blog, Kat O'Brien. Originally from Iowa, she graduated from Notre Dame and covered the Texas Rangers starting in 2003. She's awful. While Jim updated the blog during the game, almost play-by-play, this new woman posts well after the games, and her analysis isn't any good. One thing she's really good at is stating the obvious. "Jose Tabata is young and limited English skills" Duh. We know that. It's common domain by now. Jim was excellent at getting inside information from inside the clubhouse and catching the Yankee players to get his own quotes. Not this lady. Nothing. She gives you basically what I take off the MLB site. Who the Yankees play next and who's starting. Jim usually had the lineup and injury updates. None of that now.

Something that you wouldn't think mattered much would be the small typing issues. Like capitalizing the beginning of your sentences and names of players. It's kind of hit and miss with Kat.

I really like Baumbach's blog, but he hasn't posted much the past few days. I think that this new woman is getting her own blog, which will mean Jim should take back over the blogging duties. Maybe I'm spoiled. I got used to Jim's A level blogging, only to be relegated to listening to the B-team.