What were baseball writers doing late last night to pass the time during the interminable All-Star game? Reading the sparkly new website of former New York Times writer Murray Chass, of course. It has the vibe of a little boy’s tree house: No bloggers allowed!

The proprietor of the site is not a fan of blogs. He made that abundantly clear on a radio show with Charlie Steiner when Steiner asked him what he thought of blogs and he replied, “I hate blogs.” … Otherwise, this site will most likely appeal primarily to older fans whose interest in good old baseball is largely ignored in this day of young bloggers who know it all, and new- fangled statistics (VORP, for one excuse-me example), which are drowning the game in numbers and making people forget that human beings, not numbers, play the games.

We’d now like to step away from the podium and hand things over to the human beings at Fire Joe Morgan. We eagerly await their reaction.

Murray Chass.com