Advisory: navel-gazing is about to commence. If you wish to avoid it, skip down to "Previously", although I hope you won't.
There is a very interesting divide in sports journalism these days, as anyone who follows the media even slightly is well aware. On the one side, you have the mainstream media -- the newspapers, the beat writers, the television networks and their assorted talent. On the other, there's... well, there's us. And there's often a lot of bitterness from both sides toward the other; mainstream guys sniping at bloggers with the tired old mom's basement insults, bloggers ripping mainstream folks for either honestly knowing less than they do (in the case of national pundits) or for pandering to the programs they cover (in the case of beat writers).