Via Daily Kos, an Athletics Nation interview with Billy Beane that mentions why Beane thinks sports blogs rule:
Right, and that’s what is interesting about these trades. And that’s what I love, for lack of a better word, about the blogger’s world. There is a tendency to really analyze things in detail. Ultimately, because there is so much conversation and investigation on a site like yours, people may not ultimately agree with it, but they stumble onto what you’re trying to do. Someone emailed me something written on a Cardinals blog, and they had nailed all the things we were talking about. The economic reasons, the personnel reasons, and the reasons we made the exchange. The world of a Web log will lend itself to a lot of investigation. And you will often stumble across the answer more than someone who has to write in two hours to meet deadline just to make sure something is out in the paper the next day.
I’ve linked to Athletics Nation before, to an interview they did with Michael Lewis - it’s really one of the best baseball blogs around. Can’t say my occasionally puerile humour counts as “analysing things in detail”, but hey, it’s nice that even people within baseball (albeit a maverick like Beane) are noticing blogs.