Wait a minute. Did I totally black out during this video and miss the part where this blogger said he actually stuck a needle in Raul Ibanez’s ass or something? I must have right? Because how else can you explain all this hoopla? I mean are you shitting me? Are people really getting worked up because some no name dude theorized that since Raul Ibanez’s numbers are getting better as he gets older, he may be on steroids? Geez ya think? Listen I don’t care if he said Raul Ibanez is descended from alligators. I don’t care if he said the Red Sox are racists like Ken Rosenthal did. It doesn’t fucking matter. He can say whatever the fuck he wants to say on his blog. This guy isn’t claiming to be CNN or have some inside scoop. He’s writing about baseball from a fan’s perspective on his personal website which last time I checked was his right.

So as much as John Gonzalez claims he gets blogging he obviously doesn’t. I mean did he really say he had no choice to publish this story on Philly.com because it was linked on a couple blogs and was on twitter?  Are you serious?  What’s next?   Pulling quotes from the Onion and ripping them for being inaccurate?   If anybody should be getting chastised here for sloppy journalism it’s him for making a national story out of nothing.   But more importantly let’s call a spade a spade. This has absolutely nothing to do with what this guy said or about Raul Ibanez being pissed. This is simply about the traditional media being scared shitless about losing their jobs and trying to make bloggers seem like the enemy.  They can’t stand the fact that anybody with a computer now can express themselves and compete with them.  They can’t stand that lots of times these bloggers are better at gaining a readership than they are.  So they pout, stomp their feet and try to discredit people who blog with silly stories like these.  It’s the last refuge of desperate men.