Daily Baseball Reading

I check out a few baseball columns on the internet almost daily (They're listed on my front page.) I do this to keep up on the thinking side of baseball: Too much of today's baseball coverage is full of tired, old cliches and sometimes unfortunately WRONG information.



One *thinking* reporter I have read since 1997 or so in ESPN's baseball coverage is Rob Neyer. Since I've been reading Rob's columns, they've always been provided as part of the free ESPN baseball coverage. But today, I read that ESPN has decided to move Rob's columns to their "ESPN Insider" coverage.



Combined with the ESPN dumbing down of baseball (How the heck does just playing the game, make someone an expert and/or a worthy commentator/columnist?), this just reduces the amount of truly knowledgeable sources of baseball information available for free on the internet. I'm probably going to subscribe to ESPN's "Insider" so I can get my daily fix of Neyer from time to time, but it is sad to see the site move...