Mark Cuban (the very involved owner of the Dallas Mavericks) is engaged in a debate on whether or not Bloggers from newspapers should be granted top tier access to the Mav’s locker room (read his post at BlogMaverick). His feeling is that main media outlets (Beat writers, TV analysts and Video/photographers for majors) should be given the main access, and bloggers (like your boy Vaselina) should be granted (if properly credentialed) second tier access (i.e. access to areas outside of the locker room).

I’m actually fine with this point of view. Us fans, bloggers, etc… want to get as close to the players as we can. This imposes pressure on those that work in the media to do the same. However, we fail to consider THE PLAYERS! Would you want to be bombarded with a TON of interviews after playing a highly competitive game? Now multiply that by 82 games!

I feel like Mr. Cuban’s request to limit blogger access is a good thing. I mean, if I was the owner of a professional sports team I would want my players (especially after a game) to be bothered as little as possible.

We all know the ESPN’s, Major local papers and high impact corners of media are given the access they need, because they are able to market the Mavs much more quickly and with greater reach than your common blog.

Let’s not take ourselves too seriously in thinking we’re right up there with the Stewart Scott’s or Mark Stein’s (of ESPN) when we’re just in our PJ’s writing posts bout what we think is cool, rght, wrong or otherwise.