Eric emailed me to tip me off about a certain Mets-article I’ll probably tackle tomorrow, then we got into a back-in-forth about blogs as media watchdogs that made me laugh.

He wrote:

My friends and I talk half seriously about a site devoted to covering the NY media, because there’s so much of this stuff. Unfortunately we also talk completely seriously about the fact that we’re probably too lazy to do it right.

I responded:

I think it’d be really funny to keep a blog entirely dedicated to critiquing Phil Mushnick, Bob Raissman, Richard Sandomir and Neil Best -– the NY sports-media critics –- just for the sake of meta-ness.

To which Eric said:

My favorite thing about those guys is how many levels removed they are from what a traditional society would consider real work. You have a bunch of men whose profession it is to hit a ball with a stick for the amusement of others. In turn you have men whose profession it is to write stories about said ball/stick games. And then you have Mushnick, whose profession is to write stories about the men who write stories about the ball/stick games. I might just start the blog you’re proposing – If I’m successful, I could be a whole four steps away from anything that adds value to society. Then again, I’m a lawyer, so I probably have that covered already.