Thanks, Dee, for an interesting week about online sports communications. I'm currious if you have come across any sports organizations that have treated a blogger as a journalist. We've seen bloggers in White House press briefings, so are we going to see bloggers in the press box at this year's World Series?

Don, there's little question that fan blogs have an impact on the decisions made by teams and leagues. Whether or not they're considered "journalists" or not is unclear. In sports, there isn't the "credibility" or "ego" issue that exists in mainstream media. Today's dialogue about whether or not bloggers are journalists is largely ignored in the sports world.

Sportswriters are fans just like fans are fans...and watching athletes compete is at best a spectator sport...even if you're a professional chronicler. I would suggest that George Will writes about baseball with a lighter heart than he does politics.

A blogger in the White House press briefings only pisses off the "mainstream" media because they feel threatened and their credibility is challenged. The sports world doesn't have those issues. As serious as it can be made out to be...it's still just boys and girls playing games.