Seriously. I know these people. Not all these people specifically, but journalists have the thinnest skins on planet earth. They’re all screaming like stuck pigs because their profession is going down the toilet because of the internet and smarter people being able to voice opinions now. The collective knowledge on LSB is phenomenal. I know Evan Grant has said that his goal is to write for the readers here, but he simply can’t cut it. That’s not to disparage Evan Grant. He really is a good guy. He gets ripped here and sometimes it’s deserved, sometimes it’s not. He is what he is, and in the old media world that sufficed. (In his case it more than sufficed, he was a very good beat reporter in the eyes of the old beat reporter world people.) Today it’s different. EG can’t compete against all the stuff laid out at LSB – but neither can one person at LSB. No one person anywhere can. The only thing the pros have against anyone here and other similar sites is access to players. That’s it. They can call up Joe Blow and say – hey, what do you think of this? Otherwise, they sit at their desks and write glorious bullshit like this Engel column. He deserved to have it called out like it was, and he was called out like a pro. Thumbs up, Joey M.

of that other blog being dismissed.