I Virtually Hate Bleacher Report.

This Article Originally Published at GetOutofMyBallpark.com

As some of you my know, for the past few months, SMC and I have been posting some of our work on a site known as Bleacher Report. This is a site for aspiring sports writers and other douchebags (ourselves included) to post their opinions, reactions, and predictions on anything relating to the wold of sports.

It is a great idea, and probably makes the people who came up with it a crapload of money. It has been a mostly enjoyable experience for us, as it has brought us a lot of traffic to our site—mostly because we only put half of each article on there with a link to the rest of it, which pisses some people off, but works really well.

We've also got some guidance on how to improve our work by allowing us to read the work of others like us.

In the past week, however, I have come across the seedier side of BleacherReport, and this whole internet thing in general. On Monday, we received an email (through the BR system) from our first fan on the site, a guy named Revo.

I have never met Revo, nor do I have any idea of who he actually is as a person, but he has been enjoying our work and commenting on it for a while, and generally seems to be a good guy.

In his email, Revo warned me that "due to an insulting and controversial article I wrote taking the BR leaders to task for their incompetence, it is not advisable for you to be associated with me if you are interested in not having possible harassment issues on BR."

I was shocked. First of all, having people harass me about what I write is part of the fun of it to me. Thats why SMC and I try to keep our site as anonymous as possible, so that what we say here is less likely to come back and bite us on the ass in our real lives.

Second, the fact that somebody had to warn me to not be seen as associating with him because, just by being a fan of his, people would bother me is incredible to me.

Yes, Revo did write an article (much like this one I guess) telling the people who run Bleacher Report (who have been nothing but nice to us) exactly why they should go fornicate themselves with a sharp stick, or at least run their business better, but that is the whole purpose of the site.

If it was not created for the free exchange of ideas, then why is it there?

Not being able to criticize the way that the site is run will lead to it stagnating and not getting better, which was all that Revo wanted in the first place.

Now, the site won't get better, and is actually worse, because one of the people who cared to make it better is gone (you can find Revo at therevofiles.blogspot.com for some really good Bruins stuff).

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