One of the best aspects about Niners Nation is that the environment is created by fans, for fans. Many of us who write for the site have sophisticated analytical skills; others have prose comparable with the quality you might find in a beat writer or reporter. Yet, we marshal those skills in a way that (we hope) best facilitates the average 49er fan. Or, at least, that's how I understand my role here. Maybe others have a different understand, though I suspect there is some overlap.
Anyway, that fact allows me to write stuff that wouldn't really have a place elsewhere - and I'm grateful for that.