baseball blogs

11 Things: Inside Baseball/Blogs

Thursday, April 6, 2006

1. San Francisco Giants: The Splash, on www.sfgate.com, and www.onlybaseballmatters.com. The good: Barry Bonds. The bad: Barry Bonds. The ugly: Barry Bonds.

2. Oakland A's: The Drumbeat on www.sfgate.com and www.athleticsnation.com. The good: Youth Brigade! The bad: Milton Bradley's temper. The ugly: attendance.

3. Los Angeles Dodgers: www.dodgerblues.com and www.6-4-2.blogspot.com (Dodgers/Angels blog). The good: They got rid of Jeff Weaver. The bad: press conferences with Grady Little. The ugly: Nomar's already injured.

4. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim: www.halosheaven.com and www.mattwelch.com/warblog.html. The good: Vlad, the Impaler. The bad: the Lost Angels Angels of Anaheim? Sounds about right. The ugly: Disneyland.

5. Boston Red Sox: www.bostondirtdogs.com and www.sonsofsamhorn.com. The good: Coco Crisp. The bad: Beckett's blisters. The ugly: Tavarez.

6. New York Yankees: www.ingeorgewetrust.blogspot.com and www.waswatching.com. The good: money, money, money. The bad: the Curse of Pay-Rod. The ugly: Johnny Damon sold his soul to Satan.

7. New York Mets: www.metsblog.com and www.metsville.com. The good: Carlos (Beltran and Delgado). The bad: Pedro's toe. The ugly: Pedro's hair.

8. Chicago Cubs: www.viewfromthebleachers.com and www.bleedcubbieblue.com. The good: opening day beatdown on the Reds. The bad: Bartman. The ugly: billy goats.

9. Chicago White Sox: www.southsidesox.com and www.soxmachine.com. The good: Ozzie Guillen. The bad: A.J. Pierzynski. The ugly: They're scary good.

10. San Diego Padres: www.sdpf.blogspot.com and www.gaslampball.com. The good: Peavy! The bad: Piazza? The ugly: those godforsaken military camouflage uniforms.

11. Seattle Mariners: www.niceguysfinishthird.com and www.marinerds.blogspot.com. The good: Ichiro Suzuki and Kenji Johjima. The bad: that entire pitching staff. The ugly: Guardado meltdowns.

Tim Sullivan, tsullivan@sfchronicle.com

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This article appeared on page H - 3 of the San Francisco Chronicle