Brandt didn’t catch it but I did. It was actually on Brandt’s DVR for a few weeks but wouldn’t have caught his eye. Your speaking of the Deadspin/Clevland Journalist segment I’m guessing. The whole COSTAS now special was fascinating. I personally see both sides and point-by-point go back and forth on it. I think FightLinker would be the equivlant of what they were examining with Deadspin, which oddly enough is a site I’ve never been to considering I follow sports closely and have for 20 years.

Unfortunately though, I’d assume Brandt didn’t see it because I’ve never known him to watch any of the HBO Sports stuff i leave on his DVR for weeks.

I burned out sometime in Jan./Feb. I’m not sure if there’s a word for it now I do still love MMA and have enjoyed watching MMA in 2008 though (Brandt has HD-Net, though some of it is hard to get through). I think Brandt’s thoughts are a good follow up from a different voice who also has talked with me at length about the subject.

It’s not just my site, other sites will see entire stories reposted on other sites with a sentence or two of “Here’s what blah blah blah had to say about blah blah blah.” That’s not a story, that’s just a repost. I don’t complain because the authors who wrote the original piece still get the credit and the story still gets posted to other readers, but is it really necessary just to get that extra story to fulfill some quota of daily updates? It’s blatant overkill which has caused me to just stop posting site RSS feeds in the sidebar of MMA Opinion anymore and focus primarily on editorial stuff.

Zach Arnold posted up a good article a while back about the few main MMA sites and the many sites that dissect the news and provide commentary. Unfortunately I can not find the article after 20 minutes of searching and I forget the title so I can’t directly quote anything that was said. Basically we need a better system with MMA blogging. More people should work together and create big news blogs if that’s their focus in the blogging world. Sam Caplan seems to be on the right track, but I personally don’t enjoy the layout of his site (nothing against it, just a personal opinion) and it’s too cluttered for me to really effectively use it for anything more than reading a few of the top stories.

I feel that MMA Opinion is good for the “one a day” op-ed story to talk about basically anything and everything, even if it’s old news, just to provide a new and relevant talking point without complaining about the latest episode of TUF or how Bill Goldberg has a big stupid head. Whether anything is “new” or “relevant” to the readers, well, it’s really up all of them to decide to continue reading or move on to another site.

It’s only been a year or so since many of the sites popped up and within a couple years, many of them will die out and the big guys like MMA Junkie and Sherdog will always be around.

Hopefully MMA Opinion will be around for a little while as well.