Updated 2:52 pm ET Tuesday: Congrats to Mark and steve.pfeifer for correctly mentioning our new dude in the Sphere. Geoff Jenkins’ introductory post was saved before the Brewers’ scheduled game today at Philadelphia. Fans voted him into the All-Star Game as the American League Final Vote selection in 2003, our second year of giving fans that opportunity. (By the way, did I mention that the guy who sits next to me here at BAM invented the Final Vote?) OK, here was the original quiz, and congrats again to our winners. Enjoy Jenks’ new MLBlog! Not a bad year so far…

Look for an introductory post from another Major Leaguer hopefully tonight or Tuesday, and in the meantime let’s have a little fun trying to guess who this new player blog is coming from.

Hints:

He’s an active everyday player on a Major League roster.

Past All-Star, thanks to the fans.

Among the top 20 home run leaders this season.

Has been with same MLB club since first coming to The Show.

That’s it. All we know so far is that he’s ready to be an MLBlogger. You’ll know if you were right whenever you see the first post show up!

That’s me and my buddy CJ Wilson, who was in New York for the series against the Yankees and here at our MLB.com studios to appear on the MLB.com MIDDAY Show. Great appearance, and you can see all of it on-demand now if you missed it. As a dart-thrower, he is an awesome baseball reliever. I told him how much we appreciate that he just does his own thing with his MLBlog like the fans, posting wherever/whenever, all him. I think we will gradually see more of this as the myspace generation grows up and continues to pervade everything. CJ definitely marches to the beat of his own drummer, and one thing he loves about the whole blogging thing is how certain fans will take control of a comment structure and basically render the haters/trolls of our world useless and irrelevant. He cited Alyssa Milano’s traffic-record-smashing MLBlog as an example of that, and he’s right. . . . At the other end of the baseball spectrum is a Class A pitcher named Mike Eisenberg who has been posting an excellent MLBlog about everything from his all-baseball-movie roster to thoughts about the reality of a professional baseball career and its aspirations. Must reading. . . . One last thing worth relating in chatting with CJ before and after his studio visit. He likes blogging because it’s a shared experience with fans, and again the majority tend to "educate" others along the way. Specifically, he said it bothers him that he might have to run to a duty at the ballpark and not be able to sign an autograph, "and I wonder if that person knows that I stayed two hours the day before signing every autograph I could." It’s nice that a pro athlete is concerned about that person’s perception, and he thinks something like a blog can be a place where it all becomes clearer. . . . Help welcome a new Giants MLBlogger. There haven’t been nearly enough of those in our run here, I think largely because the SF area is the blog capital of the world and I suspect many fans already have about 50 or 60 personal blogs and spaces! And while we’re on the subject of the Giants, guess who is now just 10 home runs away from tying the most hallowed individual record in sports.

First of all, can everyone please take a deep breath and read Yogi Brewer? The Milwaukee Brewers were just a bit overshadowed Sunday, but they have the best record in Major League Baseball right now and here’s an MLBlogger who just rose to the occasion. Even a video.

OK. I was working the 2003 World Series and remember the dramatic moment when Florida Marlins players came out of the dugout to join those in the standing ovation for Roger Clemens as he pitched what was thought by many to be his final Major League outing.

Well.

Everyone is having his and her say now that the Rocket, 44, has just announced his return to pinstripes. One thing that struck me is how much the world has changed since that night in Florida. Specifically, I am thinking about the power of the consumer and the massive roar of the blogging crowd.

There were blogs in 2002. But most people were still looking at them curiously and trying to figure out how to join in and actually have people read your words. There was no MLBlogs, as I pointed out on the MLBlogs.com homepage after the announcement. It is a key difference that so many baseball fans now can just log in and be the voice of the moment. I have read through all of the MLBlogs that I can find that deal with the Rocket news, and we have tried to showcase as many of them as possible. Many more probably will post after this posting by me. Just click the numbers, which mix Yankee blogs with Red Sox blogs and anyone else who covers the topic. It’s your place to react, and we added the link to MLBlogs from our main coverage of the Rocket on MLB.com.

(Another reason fans subscribe for their own MLBlog…there’s a gateway audience of many million who can find your links simply by browsing by team template or now looking through the Clemens bloggage.)

If you’ve blogged about Clemens and your link isn’t included there, no problem, just post a comment here and remember to include your URL.

How much has life changed since Clemens "retired" for the first time? Here is a passage from our friends at Wikipedia (which I never used before 2004):

In 2004, the role of blogs became increasingly mainstream, as political consultants, news services and candidates began using them as tools for outreach and opinion forming. Even politicians not actively campaigning, such as the UK’s Labour Party’s MP Tom Watson, began to blog to bond with constituents.

Minnesota Public Radio broadcast a program by Christopher Lydon and Matt Stoller called "The blogging of the President," which covered a transformation in politics that blogging seemed to presage. The Columbia Journalism Review began regular coverage of blogs and blogging. Anthologies of blog pieces reached print, and blogging personalities began appearing on radio and television. In the summer of 2004, both United States Democratic and Republican Parties’ conventions credentialed bloggers, and blogs became a standard part of the publicity arsenal. Mainstream television programs, such as Chris Matthews’ Hardball, formed their own blogs. Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary declared "blog" as the word of the year in 2004.

Blogs were among the driving forces behind the "Rathergate" scandal, to wit: (television journalist) Dan Rather presented documents (on the CBS show 60 Minutes) that conflicted with accepted accounts of President Bush’s military service record. Bloggers declared the documents to be forgeries and presented evidence and arguments in support of that view, and CBS apologized for what it said were inadequate reporting techniques (see Little Green Footballs). Many bloggers view this scandal as the advent of blogs’ acceptance by the mass media, both as a news source and opinion and as means of applying political pressure.

Some bloggers have moved over to other media. The following bloggers (and others) have appeared on radio and television: Duncan Black (known widely by his pseudonym, Atrios), Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit), Markos Moulitsas Zúniga (Daily Kos), Alex Steffen (Worldchanging) and Ana Marie Cox (Wonkette). In counter-point, Hugh Hewitt exemplifies a mass media personality who has moved in the other direction, adding to his reach in "old media" by being an influential blogger.

Some blogs were an important news source during the December 2004 Tsunami such as Medecins Sans Frontieres, which used SMS text messaging to report from affected areas in Sri Lanka and Southern India. Similarly, during Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and the aftermath a few blogs which were located in New Orleans, including the Interdictor and Gulfsails were able to maintain power and an Internet connection and disseminate information that was not covered by the Main Stream Media.

In the United Kingdom, The Guardian newspaper launched a redesign in September 2005, which included a daily digest of blogs on page 2. Also in June 2006, BBC News launched a weblog for its editors, following other news companies.

In January 2005, Fortune magazine listed eight bloggers that business people "could not ignore": Peter Rojas, Xeni Jardin, Ben Trott, Mena Trott, Jonathan Schwartz, Jason Goldman, Robert Scoble, and Jason Calacanis.

In 2007, Tim O’Reilly proposed a Blogger’s Code of Conduct.

Just imagine how different the world of content will be four years from now. I’m pretty sure Clemens will be retired for good at that point. Probably.

Now that An Incaviglia Truth has been created, it’s time to ask the question:

What is your favorite MLBlogs title?

(Other than your own, of course.)

Please post any nominees right here as comments, and include the URL if you know it.

We’ll take an informal tally of the comment list and then showcase the "winner." Please nominate only MLBlogs that are active — meaning they don’t have
cobwebs all over the place. If the winner is one on the browse-by-team
list that is a relic, we’ll go with second place. MLBlogs only.

Some general notes about MLBlogs titles:

"My Weblog" is not a blog title. But we all were there once in life.

David Wright asked fans to name his. He settled on "Wright Now." Unfortunately it’s not active Wright Now, but it was right good in 2006.

It just seems like some variation of "In the Cards" has become the biggest cliche title.

Every time I see The Drunken Tacoman, I just think of someone going through the after-hours drive-thru at Taco Bell — even though it’s about the Tacoma region.

Coral Rae probably still holds the record for longest MLBlogs title with West Coast College Student Looking For East Coast Baseball Knowledge, but maybe you have seen a longer one. Down the Line: Life, Baseball & Eric Byrnes was the longest for a while.

Titles often help the author market something near and dear to them, which has been highly encouraged ever since we launched in April 2005. MLBlogs can be an awesome marketing vehicle. Just look at Pick Me Up Some Mets!, which is a variation on Zoe’s book Pick Me Up that was in all the Barnes & Nobles at the time she created her MLBlog.

Clarity often helps the blogger. Larry Shenk just changed Baron’s Corner to Phillies Insider, to make it crystal clear what the reader will find year-round — unfiltered front office/fan communication (ie no traditional media involved in the message). He is the dean of all Major League Baseball PR directors and the Phillies’ VP of Public Relations, and "Baron’s Corner" was the name of a column he has written in various media for decades.

Our colleague Matthew Leach, the Cardinals beat writer for MLB.com, was
fortunately one of the first to give some real serious thought to this
matter. He could have come up with a Cardinal naming cliche. He opted
for Obviously You’re Not a Golfer, right out of the 1998 movie The Big Lebowski. As you can see from his Archive index,
he started in July 2005, as the first MLB.com beat writer to blog. And
if you ever want to know how to find someone’s Archive index — since
Typepad only lets you see the last 10 months in a side panel — just
click the blog’s title, then add "/archives.html" to the end of the URL. By the way, I just did that for this blog, and it was kind of funny to see what comments I had here on the first post. Obviously we were in test mode!

I just asked Jake, our MLBlogs editorial producer, and he said Leach gets this one hands-down. Will be interested in your "votes."

OK. Tell us your favorite MLBlogs title!

It has been great to so many MLBloggers putting the month of April into perspective. Kellia even compared Byrnsie’s April 2006 and this one. . . . Announcement: Larry Shenk’s MLBlog has been changed from Baron’s Corner to Phillies Insider. For those who might not be aware, Larry is the dean of Major League Baseball PR directors, and the Vice President of Public Relations for the Phillies. It’s an incredible opportunity to communicate one-on-one with someone at that level who is the inside. Please leave Larry comments. . . . Speaking of MLBlogs titles, we noticed that Tiff is still going strong with Party Like It’s 1982. Whatever happened to that name change after the Cardinals ended their longest title drought in club history? Sometimes you don’t mess with MLBlogs branding! . . . Just spent the past weekend in Oklahoma City hanging with a top Triple A prospect, his Mom, and her great friend Eleanor, who happens to be the author of a very impressive MLBlog called Girls Don’t Know Anything About Baseball. Get to know her — she is incredibly knowledgeable about the game and well-connected. . . . When I got to the rental car counter in OKC, I found out the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon was the next day, so yours truly registered for the Half and put it out there on the streets for 13.1 miles. Didn’t exactly prepare for this one, but it was a 2:19 finish. The 168-second moment of silence for the OKC bombing victims was incredibly moving, and a woman in front of me at the start had a sign on her back that said: "RUNNING IN HONOR OF: DAD." That’s me in the lei, courtesy of the Mile 11 fluid station volunteers, and nice blood stain on my new shirt from chafing. But not bad form considering those timing mats are the finish line. . . . Jake at Bucco Blog would appreciate your vote for Best Sports Blog. . . . Might as well stay with The Three-Dot Lounge format here. That’s my nod for Bruce Jenkins and previously Herb Caen at the SF Chronicle. I’ve always loved three-dot columns. We don’t need no stinkin’ paragraphs unless I’m writing articles like this one on the MLB.com homepage. I’d love to see someone blog about their bidding competition for a Jackie Jersey. Personally I love the Torii Hunter No. 42 version with that awesome reddish stain in front. Can someone tell me why it’s reddish? Can’t be the dirt, right? I wasn’t sure if they had a grass painting or if was a wall climb or what. . . CJ Wilson cracks me up. He definitely moves to the beat of a different drummer. One thing to know about him is that we never know when he will post; he does it all from his own computer. Some players will have a person facilitate "as told to" — very common in pro sports. You have to respect that they have schedules that sometimes require that, and either way it is the words coming from the mind of that person. But in his case, he just does his own MLBlogs and myspace thing like any of the rest of us do. It doesn’t really matter, but it’s just cool to think of a player going home after a game and getting on a laptop and managing the Typepad. His latest post is funny. Definitely should be a lot more comments there for a Major League pitcher, folks — again a unique opportunity that more people should be aware of. . . . Be on the lookout soon for an MLBlog from a famous movie director. . . . Where to "hang" before and after games in Milwaukee? New Brewers broadcaster Brian Anderson is sharing what he’s heard and taking advice at his House of Blogs. Say hi to him. Always nice when club personnel take the time to blog here with us. . . . Everyone have fun blogging. My legs still hurt and I’m amazed how beautiful the Bricktown park in Oklahoma City is. Great place to watch a game.