Talk:Bloggers and Media Credentials/@comment-Coreyisarealboy-2006050491722

Fantastic post. As someone who has had media passes and sat in press boxes and courtside and been on the field during training camp, my immediate response to the idea of bloggers having credentials is "Where does it end?" Now does any old schmuck with Internet access create a crummy blog that nobody reads for free passes to the games and a cheap meal. This is a great concept if there was a little bit of discretion on the part of fans and bloggers alike.

With one major newspaper in Milwaukee, the press box is I can imagine a lot emptier game-to-game than a Yankees or Red Sox game for example, and only the special events get the biggest crowds of media, like for example this week&quot;s Bonds visit. How crowded would these events get if bloggers were given credentials? What about playoff games and championship games? The media would be spilling out into the stands.

Along the same lines, whenever I was in a clubhouse or locker room, most of the media do want to only talk about the night&quot;s game. They&quot;re on deadline and have to get out, but the thing I always saw was that they&quot;d only go for the LeBrons and Kobes or the Lees and Pujols&quot;s of the world, leaving the rest of the locker room open for those exclusives that Abbott mentioned.

It would work and is a great idea, but it has the possibility to get out of control very quickly.