ROB NEYER TO ESPN INSIDER
If you read Rob Neyer's latest column on Zack Greinke you might notice that about half-way down the article there is a box that says...

"Beginning June 14, you can read Rob Neyer's column four times a week as part of ESPN Insider. You will find Rob's insights at MLB Insider, as well as peppered throughout ESPN.com's baseball coverage."

For those of you who don't remember, ESPN Insider was originally "Sportstalk.com", a free website filled with sports rumors and links to articles about all major sports teams. About two years ago it was bought out by the conglomerate known as ESPN, and now they are taking Rob Neyer with them.

I hope this isn't a new trend in on-line journalism, because if so it would be a real shame. Websites like ESPN.com get so much money from advertisements as it is. For example, the billions of popups on ESPN.com right now, or the commercials they make you watch when you're trying to view a highlight. The fact that they took one of their writers who has one of the most loyal readerships on to the pay-portion of ESPN.com is a travesty and a sham and a mockery, ITS A TRAVESHAMOCKERY!!!

Is Rob Neyer to blame for any of this? Of course, by only reading his columns he doesn't seem like the kind of guy that would be for this form of whoring himself out to ESPN, but if he's bound by contract or whatever there really isn't much he can do. Either way I'm almost certain that he is going to get a little extra cash for doing this, and if he really wanted to put up a fight against this I'm not sure if ESPN.com would still have made him gone.

Please post your thoughts on the comments section of this, I'm really interested what people have to say about this.