Oakland A's relief pitcher Huston Street, who we have followed since his play in Arizona Fall League, pitched a masterful fourth inning against the Giants today. His path to becoming the closer has one major obstacle--Octavio Dotel. Dotel came in and blew the Giants away in the fifth inning. Nothing like an embarrassment of riches.

How lucky can you get? There, seated in a booth over my shoulder was Dan Patrick. He was doing his radio show, but because there was no "ESPN" banner, only a few people saw him. Here's a clip of Dan.

Follow that with Jon Miller, the voice of the San Francisco Giants. Also in a booth without a banner, Jon was more conspicuous in his Hawaiian shirt.

US consumers with broadband used the internet rather than newspapers during the last presidential elections as their primary news source, a survey has revealed.

"The last election was a breakout event for the internet," said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project and one of the authors of the report.

Just under 40 per cent of those with broadband at home cited the internet as their major source of political news, compared to 36 per cent who obtained their news mainly from newspapers.

Maybe this is true, but newspapers are guilty of killing themselves. Back in the early ‘90s, when I was general manager of The Gate, I can tell you the Web put quite a scare into newspapers. As the Dot.com bust took hold, newspapers breathed a sigh of relief and went back to their “we’re invincible” mode. The rise of the user-controlled media experience and an explosion in consumer-created content have proven them not only “vincible” but darned near close to extinction. This may not be true for all newspapers, but as citizen journalism and other similar trends take hold, we’re likely to see a number of newspapers begin to downsize and take drastic measures to stay afloat. The economics of the newspaper business are just not designed to withstand this level of competition.