The term blogger doesn’t mean irrational idiot…

You rang?

Pat Neshek is the rare exception in the MLB, and his blog is pretty awesome.

Anyway, I hope Curt continues with his, since he’s one of my favorite baseball geeks. I’ll have to go add it to the player blog page later — I’d just skimmed mlblogs when trying to find this year’s list.

Is this what you’re referring to, remembering something forgotten? If it’s been linked, I never clicked on it. I actually found it Googling (which I probably should have done before 5:06 pm).

old men Moyer & Roges … Moyer works hard

How is it that you can remember that you’ve forgotten something? Furthermore, how is it that you can remember that you have forgotten something, know what it is not but still not know what it is?

I’ll give you a few minutes to think…

Boston pitcher Curt Schilling has been known for his lack of shyness in expounding on a lot of stuff both baseball-related and not. He’s posted on a couple of fans-of-AL-East-teams message boards the past couple of years, and now has started up his own blog.

He’s probably not the first baseball player to do this, but I think he’s the first high profile active player. Should be interesting reading.

#3. chrisisasavage said: The print media is really upset at blogs, “unininformed” people, freely distributing material, stealing their thunder. The smart writers are embracing it, going as far as making their own blogs.

To celebrate chris’ last sentence, let me post an excerpt from ESPN’s Buster Olney’s blog (I rarely quote him, but the subject is near and dear to my heart):

Sharing on the job in Phillies camp

Jamie Moyer has pitched two decades in the big leagues, and has been with a lot of teams and a lot of clubhouses and teammates, and he loves the makeup of the young players in the Phillies’ organization. They’re understated, he thinks, respectful of the game and of others, to the point that he wishes they would infringe on each other’s time a little bit more.

Moyer stood in a Philly clubhouse meeting the other day and encouraged other players to talk to each other, to ask questions of each other, to feel free to approach veterans. And so it came to pass that Brian Mazone, a left-handed pitcher who is in his first camp in the big leagues, got into a discussion with Moyer in the dugout about how he would pitch to a particular hitter.

And Mazone has reason to soak all this in. The left-hander is 30 years old, and this is his first time at a big league camp in spring training, having arrived after working for years at his father’s pool company and pitching in independent leagues. Mazone, undrafted years ago, pitched for the Joliet Jackhammers, but signed with the Phillies’ organization before last year — and had a stunning 2006 season, going 13-3 with a 2.03 ERA for Triple-A Scranton.

[there's more, but I posted this blurb to highlight Moyer]

He and Moyer had talked about how to work to hitters, and the other day, after the main body of Philly players had left on a road trip, Moyer was on a back field, going through mechanics with right-hander Brian Sanches. “Where was your hand that time,” he asked. Sanches stopped and held his delivery, a moment of spring training frozen in time.