Some nice, you'll notice now the apparent "respect" or "loathing" depending on the day, that media, upper management, and even players direct to the nation of bloggers.

What I fear is what has happened to other "underground" or grassroots type movements, (i.e. MySpace), that seem to be invaded by corporate profit mongers and eye them as yet another untapped source of influence and revenue.

The fact that myspace was bought out by 20th century fox should tell you something.  I hope some big time company doesn't start buying out all the sites, like SBNation, in order to turn it into a corporate blog site.  I'm totally cool with the cheesy "blogads".

Well back to the subject, I think meaningful, inciteful blogs do lots to promote and provoke in ways those folks, such as upper management, would never know unless they went to 20 pizza feeds a year.

As far as a social revolution, it has taken on a new meaning of interactive sports viewing, especially given I'm in Virginia but feel like I'm watching the game with all my friends from San Diego.

Blogs where arguments are accepted, challenged, and appreciated are blogs I frequent.  In a sense, low profile and low traffic blogs make me feel like I'm part of something.  I used to blog at the Padres.com main blog and I quickly stopped that as I could not stand "trollers", "flame sprayers", and could not stand that my on time blog post was 20 entries hidden in the pack.

But as with any blog, with popularity comes traffic, and with traffic comes all the problems mentioned above.

That being said, I hope gaslampball becomes a permanent pop icon or even "cult icon" in the world of San Diego Padres fans.