Greetings, everyone. I promise I will get back to posting Spheroids and showcasing everyone’s great MLBlogs in this community blog soon. For now, I have just started our MLB.com World Series Blog, and I hope you will be a regular there with comments during the Fall Classic. Feel free to throw your series predictions on there right now, as I just posted the first entry.

Happy blogging, and welcome to all of our newcomers in the last couple of weeks! We also will try to get the MLBlogs Active Roster current as well to keep up with you.

Mark

First of all, we have to wish a speedy recovery to our first known MLBlogger Victory Celebraton Casualty. Be sure to leave your get-well wishes to Becca, known to everyone here as the Bullpen Baker! . . .

Cliffy is Iffy, but Barry Zito, Nate Robertson and John Rodriguez will keep blogging through the LCS. And David Wright always comes through with an entry now and then. We’ll know more on Floyd’s bloggin status Tuesday, depending on whether he’s on the NLCS roster.

My MLB.com colleague Ian Browne will handle the ALCS blog, and I will switch leagues and blog the NLCS. Be sure to leave lots of comment love like you did on my ALDS blog, and I will have more videos, pics and text entries from NYC and St. Louis to post.

That’s the lowdown on the blogdown this week as part of our overall worldseries.com postseason coverage.

It’s great to see so many new MLBlogs created during this postseason as the overall profile obviously has been raised around MLB.com and playoff club sites. Just added everyone to the MLBlogs Active Roster — be sure to browse there to find people with likeminded interests! . . .

Our buddy Tommy Lasorda, the first-ever MLBlogger, has just added the link to Boo-Hoo E-Cards on his blog. Now there are four more team fan bases to send those to. . . .

Blogging the Tigers-Yanks ALDS was my first experience with uploading videos from a Canon Powershot, and I have to say it’s pretty fun and easy as I’ve seen on some other MLBlogs here. It was tough the first night in the bowels of Yankee Stadium because of intermittent wireless connectivity, so the YouTube upload took forever…but it got easier. Basically you just set the camera on video, point and press, then press the snap button again to end the video. Then it uploads as an AVI file the same way as jpegs. We obviously have reams and reams of high-end video content at MLB.com, so my v-logging is just a little different perspective to help show fans what they can do through MLBlogs. . . .

This date in baseball history, 10 years ago: Jeffrey Maier reaches down and robs right fielder Tony Tarasco of a catch for a Derek Jeter home run in the ALCS.

I was thinking about doing a Spheroid on myself. But that would be kind of too self-serving so I will just remind all of you that your friendly neighborhood blog-watcher has been busy maintaining an American League Division Series blog. I have discovered the joys of uploading YouTube videos with my Canon Powershot and hope you are enjoying the little glimpses. We have our own multimedia machine at MLB.com but those folks are busier than Paul Lo Duca tagging out runners so I have been doing it this way. Please be sure to drop by and leave comments!

Our friend Kellia over at Down the Left Field Line has to be really happy to see her boi Eric Byrnes throwing down the playoff analysis on ESPN. I’m told he had to endure two flights and a delay and belatedly made it to the ESPN studios a bit disheveled, but it just looked to me like typical Byrnesy with the all-out style on the set. What a contrast between him and sartorially splendid and suave Mr. Vernon Wells on their October cast.

I hope you all are enjoying the new postseason player blogs that we have helped each player launch. It was unreal to see Barry Zito‘s immediate and humorous, revealing thoughts posted right after his masterpiece against Johan Santana in the ALDS opener. Same with Big Nate Chew right after his outing, and then another post today. All of them. And David Wright weighed in with another post on Wednesday, right before heading out to batting practice before Game 1. All of them are really good, join the comments and fire some questions — MLB.com reporters are helping each of them get it done and relaying comments. They’re blogging and they’re into the MLBlogosphere, but as you might expect, these guys aren’t just spending 24 hours a day sitting on the laptop fiddling with new fonts and what new Typelist categories to create.

Dan Haren was one of our first-ever MLBloggers, and I know a lot of you really fell in love with it. He was feeling “overextended” and you can’t fault him for that (he’s getting married next month on top of being the A’s next starter, just a couple of small details!), so he’s not going to continue blogging. We want to thank him for some pioneering work here and definitely appreciated his style and candid, entertaining posts this season. Zito is more than picking up the slack, catch what he said about leaving Minnesota up 2-0. (No Milton Bradley thoughts, though.) Cuddyer, J-Rod, Cliffy, D-Lowe, Dave Roberts. . . they’re all blogging here.

We replaced the Rookies list on the homepage during the postseason to accommodate these postseason MLB personality blogs. And that space includes yours truly’s. Oh, by the way, I also am spending this postseason writing a special feature at the end of every night called The Road to the World Series, which you will see each morning on the MLB.com homepage. Feel free to leave comments about it here or email me on the tagline of each article.

You guys are on a roll. Awesome blogs everywhere, trying to keep up with them, trying to show off player blogs, MY blog (haha), my colleague writers’ series blogs, your blogs, Tommy‘s blog, all of them. And I’ve been communicating with Six Apart on some intermittent Typepad-access issues, which I hope we never see anymore, and please definitely leave comments here whenever you notice they’re inaccessible and also send Trouble Tickets within your software at any time. OK, on to Day 3 of a very interesting postseason so far…it’s going to be a wild ride and I have to sleep.

OK, since I have spent the last year and a half telling all of you about the great blogs that you are creating and must see, please allow me to introduce myself on another blog.

ALDS: Tigers vs. Yankees

I’ll be handling that one for MLB.com here in New York and in Detroit, and I am armed with a new Canon Powershot, notepads, my video friends, and a rosin bag for a brain. I swear that if a neurosurgeon breaks open my head you will be able to just reach in, flop my brain around in your hands for a second or two, and then grip that four-seamer and throw a strike. Yep, I have baseball on my brain, just like you, around the clock. And now there is a new blog to show it.

Please come and join me, whether you are a Yankee fan, whether you are a Tiger fan, whether you are just a blog fan. My goal is to push the envelope a little and really get you inside. So leave lots of comments like our friend Lola did to kick it off.

And be sure to check out all these other great new postseason blogs we are churning out. You see the list of players on the MLBlogs homepage, and Michael Cuddyer (MIN) and John Rodriguez (STL) are scheduled to start blogging as well. The MLBlogosphere is the place to be in October, but to me it’s all one giant crowd throughout the blogosphere and I check as many out everywhere else just like you. Post your favorite baseball blog links here and your own, too. Let’s have some fun!