You beat me to this statement. Blogs are overdone and in 99.9% of the cases, worthless. Yeah but as Raisin pointed out this one is on the Houston Chronicle website and is written by the papers's Astros beat writer. I don't know about the rest of the journalists on this site but I know at my paper and throughout our entire corporation (and odds are pretty good you've read one of our papers/websites before) the standards for blog writing are pretty much the same as for a story you'd write for the print product or website.