Covering MLB a privilege, blessing

The best farewells are generally the shortest. My problem with this one is that if I thanked everyone who has made my life better over the last 16 seasons, even cyberspace might become crowded.

But this piece needs to be at least as much a thank you as a goodbye. It is true that I am departing from MLB.com, but I will attempt another form of writing. This will allow me to use the term “self-employed” rather than “retired” in describing my next status.

It has been a privilege to cover baseball for MLB.com. When MLB Advanced Media took flight, it was a concept. Then it was a success. Then it was an even larger success.

I think my presence was largely incidental to that process. I do remember in 2001 people saying to me: “You’re leaving a job as a newspaper columnist to work on an Internet site? You must be crazy.”

I don’t recall being crazy at the time. But I was probably never as intelligent as this decision later made me appear. Very few could have accurately predicted the dire problems that would eventually face the newspaper industry.

What I knew for sure at that point was that this was not simply another Internet site. This was baseball. This endeavor had the full support of then-Commissioner Bud Selig. And Bob DuPuy, at that time the president and chief operating officer of Major League Baseball, …

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