The mainsteam media continues to totally get blogging. Yesterday, the L.A. Times published a ridiculous article about some make believe evolution that is occurring in blogging. Apparently, sports bloggers are putting on their big boy britches and moving out of their parent’s basement and into some realm of journalistic integrity in this post-Buzz Bissinger gone wild world. This is the first I’d heard of this evolution, probably because it’s not true. Of course, to get the facts, the Times went straight to the source of journalistic bloggers: The Big Lead, which is the US Weekly of sports blogs.

But as ridiculous as all of that is, my favorite part—for selfish reasons, naturally—was the mention of Mr. Irrelevant, along with other sites, as some sort of rebel, underground movement:

Sites such as SportsbyBrooks, Kissing Suzy Kolber, With Leather and Mr. Irrelevant have touted themselves as edgy and independent, outsiders free to write what mainstream media will not. Critics have portrayed them differently: the rabid fan sitting at a computer in his parents’ basement, in his pajamas, spewing opinion.

See, bloggers aren’t the only ones who just make stuff up out of thin air. I will pay David Wharton, the author of this article, my entire lot of Jujubees and pistachios that the Sporting News pays me if he can find one solitary example of us claiming to be “edgy” or “outsiders.”

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to practice riding my skateboard and blogging at the same time. My edgy, anarchist reputation isn’t going to maintain itself here people.

Update: Shanoff keeps it short and sweet. And probably says it better in 20 words than I did in 250.

Update 2: Leitch goes with the “oh, fuck it” approach and appropriately puts TBL on blast.

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