In the time it took to write this sentence, thousands of blogs were created around the world.

Blogging has gone from a light-speed Internet movement to a new way of life. It's changing the way people share their thoughts, changing the way political and advertising campaigns are run, changing the way information is delivered and disseminated. A blog -- short for "weblog" -- is your very own space to be yourself and draw a crowd.

Now there is an even better reason to be a blogger. Major League Baseball Advanced Media has partnered with Six Apart to introduce MLBlogs, where you can find robust, state-of-the-art blogging tools that let you create a page featuring your favorite Major League team's logo and colors. Your blog will allow you to share text and multimedia, and it will come complete with your own MLBlogs.com subdomain.

Best of all, for only $4.95 a month (with a 30-day free trial) or $49.95 per year, you'll be part of a constantly growing and eclectic community of people who already have thrown out the first pitches. We've assembled our own All-Star team of baseball bloggers that includes:

• People around the game like Dodgers legend Tommy Lasorda, Brewers broadcaster Daron Sutton and longtime MLB groundskeeping guru Murray Cook (think lawn tips), with lots of players and club personnel to come.

• MLB.com personalities like Casey Stern, MLB Radio's "Stayin' Hot" team of Seth Everett and Darryl Hamilton, Jonathan Mayo on the Minors, Gregg Klayman and The Talented Mr. Roto on fantasy, and our 13-year-old kid blogger -- the only student in his Houston school who regularly interviews MLB stars during each Astros homestand.

• A Ballpark Tour of Duty blog maintained by a pair of U.S. Army sergeants who were recently discharged after two tours in Iraq and who now are seeing as many baseball parks as possible.

• A local witness to the first season of baseball back in Washington, a corporate executive or two, an average fan who has snagged more than 2,400 baseballs at MLB parks over the past decade, and a couple of brothers named Brian and Andrew who have no sibling rivalry other than trying to out-blog each other all summer.

That kind of competition will be a big thing around MLBlogs, too. Whoever builds and maintains the best blogs is going to get the most eyeballs, and our eyeballs, in search of future talent, will be on them as well.

Need even more reason to become an MLBlogger? Here's another benefit that you won't find at any other blog community: MLBlogs.com will reward selected members of this community by adding their words of wisdom to MLB.com's online highlight reels.

Some people describe a blog as kind of an online diary or a journal, but there is one especially important distinction. Those in the past who have kept daily diaries or journaled their thoughts into notebooks were typically keeping their most treasured thoughts to themselves. A blog is meant to be shared, and that's where the combined power of MLB Advanced Media and Six Apart comes in. You will be able to look for other blogs by category and by club. Maybe you are writing a blog just about ballparks or playoff races or team uniforms. Yours will be searchable by others looking for only that category, and vice versa.

You never know what you will find when you explore MLBlogs. And you never know what someone will want to name his or her page after changing the default heading from "My Weblog" to something that stamps it as his or her own.

Take Daron Sutton's "The Dog Ate My Homework." Sutton, who covers the Brewers and is the son of Hall of Fame pitcher Don Sutton, has been filing his blog entries while traveling with the club. During one entry, Daron talked about a recent chat with Dodgers pitcher Derek Lowe, who gave insight into what motivated him during his October run with Boston -- and what he thought about being ripped for wearing a Red Sox jersey while accepting his championship ring. You can comment on Sutton's blog, you can be notified whenever he makes an updated post, and you can start your own blog about his blog.

You can do just about anything. Just keep it clean so no one will have to give you the thumb. And have fun.

If you had your own MLBlog, what would you say? Here are some thoughts:

AL East: Which side of the Yankee-Red Sox fence are you on? Will Sammy Sosa make Baltimore a contender? Is anything more fun than watching Carl Crawford run bases for Tampa Bay? Can Toronto, now Canada's lone club, return to glory in 2005?

AL Central: Will the Twins make it four straight division titles? Will Mark Buehrle of the White Sox be pitching like this in October? Is an All-Star Game just the start of excitement this summer in Detroit? Which is better: The Jake in Cleveland or KC's Kauffman Stadium?

AL West: How does Oakland look without its Big Three? Can Ichiro bat .400? Is the Angels' Frankie Rodriguez the next elite closer? Is Mark Teixeira of the Rangers the best choice in a wide-open All-Star race for AL first baseman?

NL East: Can anyone stop Atlanta's reign? Will it be the Year of the Complete Game in Florida? Can Jim Thome lead Philly to the playoffs? How do you like baseball in D.C.? Are Carlos Beltran and Pedro Martinez the answer at Shea? Matthew Cerrone already had made a name for himself as a Mets blogger, and now he has a new space here.

NL Central: Is this finally The Year for Cub fans? Albert Pujols or Roger Clemens for most star power? Are Eric Milton and the Reds ready for a playoff chase? Which team has the best chance to improve, Pittsburgh or Milwaukee?

NL West: Maybe you want to talk about the Dodgers like Lasorda ... or maybe you're a Giants fan with the opposing view. Think the Padres are poised for October? Is Arizona back? Think Coors Field is heaven?

In addition to choosing a team skin for any of those above, you also have the option to think more globally and create a blog with the MLB logo. Maybe you want to blog about your own high school or Babe Ruth League baseball team. Maybe everyone on your team wants one. Maybe you want to blog about the Pacific Coast League or about putting your favorite baseball music on your mobile phone. Talk baseball.

After you sign up, enter your profile to tell people who you are and put a picture of yourself on your page. Then write your first blog, and experiment with inserting photos and text links. Create your own photo album and keep adding to it. Tell some baseball stories, the way Lasorda is already doing.

It's going to be an incredible summer, and you can just imagine that this is going to be interesting to watch. MLBlogs.com is an official affiliate of MLB.com with unofficial opinions -- after all, this is everyone's game. It always has been.