Well, it looks like another “well-respected” member of the media stole work from a “lowly” blogger. The guys over at FoulBalls came up with a clever joke about the rookie who was to face Barry Bonds during a weekend series. Guess what happens next, magically the same joke almost verbatim shows up in Mariotti’s column the next day. What an ass! No matter how big of an ass Mariotti is, he is not the only one who has taken work from blogs without credit. The guys at SI.com took Ms. Gossip blog post pretending to interview P.Diddy on NBA draft day fashion. Not only did SI take it without credit, but they presented it as fact. Assclowns!

While nobody would even think of stealing any of my work, because quite frankly I don’t think I am funny or good enough, but I have formulation a opinion on this problem that is being presented to bloggers. It’s not like these”big time” media guys are stealing numbers or quotes (mostly) from us bloggers, no they get those handed to them on a silver platter. No, they are stealing the stuff they can’t provide. The humor and creativity that most bloggers are known for…these reporters guys got their fancy journalism degrees, and know how to write but they are mostly stale and unfunny. So these “big time” media guys take the thing that is most important to us bloggers, our creativity, and they are so full of themselves, that they think that we will be pleased that they took it from us without credit. When in all actuality, if they just provide a link, (speaking for myself), we would be fine with our work being used.

Well, sorry for that little rant, just felt that I should share my opinion on this topic.  For all those Mariners’ fans out there, we got a huge series starting out tonight, 3 games with the Angels while we are 4 back.  Check into TheBenchWarmer to see all of the action live, on my blog.  The next best thing to watching it live.