Torture

by Matt in LA on Oct 23, 2007 9:53 PM EDT Comment 4 comments

For those who haven't seen this yet...

Only click if you are a masochist!

http://blog.cleveland.com/sports/2007/10/believe_it_someday_indians_in.html

I'm not sure if this is worse than when the Yankees AL East champs clothing went on sale, but it hits much closer to home.

Also, I know these guys are on deadlines, but does the form need to be so generic?

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Re: Torture

more or less confirms my suspicions about what percentage, on average, of a baseball column has nothing whatsoever to do with the game it's describing.

by emil minty on Oct 24, 2007 9:08 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Re: Torture

I'll say it again: newspaper sports writing is an anachronism that will die if it does not adapt. This piece explains why.

Nothing in the piece would be news. Nothing in the piece would be fresh. Nothing in the piece would be insightful.

It is pure filler now. We have blogs, endless video highlights and analysis, and network websites bringing us everything we need.

Someone who works at the PD -- plenty of people, I'm sure -- think there is still a place for this kind of "journalism." Some day soon they'll wake up with no audience and wonder how it happened.

by tabler84 on Oct 24, 2007 10:00 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

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i noticed this post-season that there was only two types of sports-writing i had any interest in:

(1) the national punditry (and most of the time this was to just get myself extra-excited about an indians win); and

(2) new york, and then boston, press (as local papers usually give up some small little nuggets about an opposing team you can't find anywhere else).

but for the first time in my memory, i didn't even bother reading the local press on the tribe. and i'm pretty sure i didn't miss anything more than a lot of fluff (midge masks! against the red sox?!) and almost no analysis.

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by jonnykilbane on Oct 24, 2007 10:11 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs