Will Carroll of Baseball Prospectus and The Juice Blog has launched a new blog endeavor: The Year of Living Chemically. Caroll will be blogging his efforts to get into top physical condition – using legal and generally accepted methods:
So I’ve decided to do what I should have been doing all along and combining it with my quest to bring out the truth – the real truth – about steroids and supplements. I would spend a year using the most advanced legal technology to bring my weight down, my strength up, my cardio to a solid level, and most importantly, prove that steroids aren’t needed to make the type of gains that we’ve all secretly wondered about.
I’m curious to find out if Carroll will use super jock dietician Sari Mellman in his experiment.
From a blogging standpoint, it is interesting that Carroll is doing this on MLBlogs. He already has a couple outlets available to him which have a higher profile.
I acutally find the whole MLBlogs concept curious. While I applaud MLB for embracing blogging, this just seems like an attempt to embrace it and control it at the same time. Also, mixing paid bloggers (Tommy Lasorda among other “celebs”) alongside general fans who need to pay to blog is odd – at least to me. Also, given the number of free and low cost blogging options available I’m not sure why people would choose to pay $50 a year for the right to blog about a singular topic and have little control over layout or design.
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I like the idea that thely are speading the good word about blogging, but whoever signs up with them and really gets into blogging is going to want a real blog before long, and it will likely be free.