One more thing.
They are talking about a career.
Did she actually get paid for writing at these blogs?
She was paid. ‘Baseball Prospectus’ is not a blog, but a respected source of statistical analysis of MLB. Political prognosticator Nate Silver was once with Baseball Prospectus.
Quite likely, yes. In the blogoverse, you can start small as a little known poster, but if you get enough attention and eyes/views, you can become a ‘contributor’, in which case you will receive a small sum based on the number of views/clicks your articles attract.
This is part of why many people pimp their blogs/articles on FR, to get the views/clicks/moneyz.
From the sounds of things, she was fairly ‘successful’. She probably could have continued the lie and made decent money at it.
Decent being a relative term, that is...