I haven't had a post in a while, first to honor Scott's heartfelt post and let people read it, but also because it's the lull. There's nothing really happening in baseball that I have the primacy to add something to the discussion.

Yet this made me think about how the last four years have changed the way I look at baseball. Instead of being "just a fan" - to me, still the highest calling in the game - I've started thinking of the game as areas, represented by people. Sure, I could write about something more than injuries (and do here) but when it comes to what's happening right now, there's better people. If I want to know the latest scuttlebutt (Gammons, Rosenthal), I know where to go. If I'd like to know what the players are thinking (Stark, Crasnick) or who got sent down (Kahrl, Ruzich), then I know where to go. I check in on the teams I like (Ciepley, Smart, Miles) and the teams I don't (Leach, Miklasz). I check on players that I have on my fantasy teams (Sherman, Belth, Gorman, Perricone, Olson). I look for original thought (Sheehan, Neyer) and original numbers (Woolner, Silver, Click). I know there's prospects coming (Callis, Goldstein, Sickels, Smith) and fantasy things I need to know (Erickson, Shandler).

Somehow, it's always been about people for me. Why should baseball be any different?

Play Ball.