There’s a problem plaguing the sports blog community, and it’s time we look ourselves in the mirror and admit the truth. It’s something the mainstream media and athletes have pointed out and it needs to be addressed.

If you read any critique about sports blogs you’ll learn that bloggers live in their mother’s basement. Their MOTHER’s basement. The obvious question is “Where’s Daddy?”

It’s possible for a sports blogger to grow up being raised by their mother and behave like a real journalist, but it’s unlikely. A true journalist needs to grow up in a two-parent home, and have an upstairs bedroom with windows.. And a “Holier-than-thou” attitude.

I know I’m gonna take heat from the sports blog community for this post and I’m willing to do it if it means starting the conversation. We must get a man upstairs with mom if we want to be successful and respected. Yeah, I said it.

The Blog KKK will spout “Look at Bill Simmons, look at Will Leitch,” and I say those are the exceptions, not the rules. For every Simmons and Leitch I’ll name 500,000 guys that are downstairs in their underwear watching Maury while surfing for Erin Andrews pictures and other linkbait. That’s why the MSM thinks the sports blogosphere is nothing but a bunch of basement-dwellers standing on digital corners slangin’ stepped on stories for a little cpm. A father-figure could help change this image and break the tragic cycle.

A father in the house gives sports bloggers credibility and can teach the blogger how to be a journalist. The writers at the Los Angeles Times are doing just fine after wrongly accusing Roger Clemens of being in the Jason Grimsley affidavit. Chris McCosky is still employed by the Detroit News even though his “Allen Iverson Banned from Two Casinos” story was bunk. And the real journalists were able to let the steroid era rage through three decades without anybody holding their asses to the fire. All because they had a positive male role model around.

It seems like every other month the MSM is pissed off at a sports blog or bloggers in general, leading to a run-of-the-mill, uninformed article/rant. The author’s only effect is proving why people are trending towards fatherless bloggers and away from the dying print media.

The MSMers rail on the usual topics: Bloggers are anonymous, bloggers are lazy, and bloggers will type anything for pageviews. They never mention the damage that living in a basement without a male role model can do to a person.

Having a father isn’t a cure for all of the bloggers woes, but it’s a good place to start making a change. I believe that with a dad living upstairs Will Leitch would’ve been less Emo and had more access, Brooks wouldn’t have been addicted to women, Diana wouldn’t call herself a biotch, Ufford wouldn’t be as mad, and The Big Lead wouldn’t be so stubborn and unbeholden. A dad in the house wouldn’t help every sports blog though. Can’t Stop The Bleeding should’ve talked to mom.

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