April 9, 2004: So I've been spending way too much time obsessing over my fantasy baseball team (Is Smoltz fully recovered from surgery? Will playing in Chicago boost Derrek Lee's power numbers? You get the picture.) The funny thing I've noticed is that the net has done to being a baseball fan what it's done to being a music listener. I no longer think in terms of albums and teams; it's all about individual songs and players. And, poetically at least, it makes perfect sense that a communications medium based on individual bits and objects would emphasize the individual over the collective. Not that I'm making any big claim that this is inherent to digital media, but....