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Idk, isn't this sort of what big well-funded sports journalism business should be doing? Who goes to the Athletic or NYT for box scores or game recaps? In this day and age, you have every game you could ever want to watch at your fingertips, and more analytic data than you could go through in your whole life. You don't really need sports coverage to tell you who the best players are or what the rest of the league is up to like you did 30+ years ago. The tabloid drama, legitimate scandals, and feel-good stories, and various other "behind the scenes" stuff that only people with the right juice can get to is an essential part of sports media that your average joe won't be able to discern just from watching games and highlights. Of course, whether or not they will do this *well* is another issue entirely.
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The Athletic, specifically, was founded on the premise that they would have a beat writer for *your* professional sports team, whoever that was and whatever sport it was in. This is the opposite of that.
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Jul 10, 2023 20:15
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zoux posted:Lol Framber was like "I'm only pitching if I'm starting" and Dusty said "Gerrit Cole it is" If you are in the business of printing stuff, why would you sell the printing press???
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:If you are in the business of printing stuff, why would you sell the printing press??? Huge real estate footprint plus costs. Very few papers own their own print shops these days. e: I shouldn't say that like it's a fact - I"m pretty sure that very few papers own their own print shops these days but I also haven't dug very deeply into it.
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Jul 10, 2023 20:16
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zoux posted:The Athletic, specifically, was founded on the premise that they would have a beat writer for *your* professional sports team, whoever that was and whatever sport it was in. This is the opposite of that. It's clear NYT didn't actually know what the hell their plan was when they bought The Athletic and was primarily done as way too be able to pivot back to shareholders and say "GROWTH!!!" They first came in and told The Athletic folks "okay no more politics stick to sports" but now apparently they're pivoting in the opposite direction and getting rid of a ton of beat writers and don't want to write about the actual sports but rather the surrounding politics. Also hey a convenient excuse to cut costs by removing our own legacy sports desk!  The Athletic was already heavily involved in reporting on things like how sports intersects with culture/money/politics/etc, it's just that they also did beat reporting on top. So now they're just going to be a lesser version of what they were before the NYT bought them, which was the most predictable outcome possible given the NYT is an absolute loving rag run by empty suit dipshits who don't know the first thing about what actual good journalism looks like, as evidenced by the NYT being completely bereft of it in any capacity.
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Jul 10, 2023 20:22
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zoux posted:The Athletic, specifically, was founded on the premise that they would have a beat writer for *your* professional sports team, whoever that was and whatever sport it was in. This is the opposite of that. Ya this. They've been going down hill even before NYT bought them. They used to have really interesting articles and writers that actually seemed to give a poo poo. Now it's mostly just garbage. Not AI article bad but it's definitely going in that direction. Lots of top 50 players this or top free agents that. Lots of click bait articles.
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The worst thing that the athletic seems to do is put out these "How this massive thing happened and the behind the scenes things that made it happen" articles. Then you read it and there is absolutely no new or secret info in the article. It's all the basic poo poo that was already known and they have already written about in previous articles. Now that is probably just a staple of the media/newspaper industry but holy poo poo is it annoying.
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zoux posted:The Athletic, specifically, was founded on the premise that they would have a beat writer for *your* professional sports team, whoever that was and whatever sport it was in. This is the opposite of that. Does every team not have a beat writer elsewhere (serious question)? I assumed the newspaper or TV stations of the major cities would have a beat reporter with a twitter account or some way to easily follow local team news?
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Jul 10, 2023 20:33
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Carlosologist posted:https://twitter.com/talkinyanks/status/1678455265790763027?s=46&t=EhzTvpa5Lh8bIAryRijIPQ Good for him. Also: Sean Casey lol?
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Blind Pineapple posted:Does every team not have a beat writer elsewhere (serious question)? I assumed the newspaper or TV stations of the major cities would have a beat reporter with a twitter account or some way to easily follow local team news? Probably not for big three teams but stuff like MLS and hockey, not every team had a dedicated reporter. https://twitter.com/MLBNetworkPR/status/1678483547831820289 And if you don't let him pitch when he wants...  Also it's insane how much better he looks like that than under the NYY grooming standards.
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if you have Defector or just haven't burned through your free articles this month or whatever, this is worth a read: https://twitter.com/DefectorMedia/status/1678444139828977668?s=20 for my own part i'm awaiting the inevitability of sports coverage mostly becoming AI-penned game summaries and listicles lightly (if even) airbrushed by an intern while the execs head off to whatever it is wealthy people do other than their ostensible jobs
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The NYY grooming policy is an abomination. part of the aesthetic of baseball is gross beards and long hair
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Carlosologist posted:The NYY grooming policy is an abomination. part of the aesthetic of baseball is gross beards and long hair If the Yankees are going to insist on mustache only, they need to invest some of that mad Yankees Money into mustache R&D. Ensure that all Yankees players can grow Old Hoss Radbourne mustaches over the course of no more than one offseason.
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Your moostache hairs are in violations, growin beyond the corner of you mouf. I heard Steinbrenner hisself say, you look like a bum.
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zoux posted:Your moostache hairs are in violations, growin beyond the corner of you mouf. I heard Steinbrenner hisself say, you look like a bum. A buncha Ehvises out there.
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Devastated that Schwarber didn't make the ASG to hit a homer off Gerrit Cole 
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Carlosologist posted:The NYY grooming policy is an abomination. part of the aesthetic of baseball is gross beards and long hair Hey now, NY gives their players two whole grooming options; “None” or “cop on paid suspension”
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zoux posted:Your moostache hairs are in violations, growin beyond the corner of you mouf. I heard Steinbrenner hisself say, you look like a bum. LOL
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https://twitter.com/MaxTGoodman/status/1678517440601260033 Imagine trying to sell to a fanbase that the reason for your offense being utter dogshit is that the players aren't inspired enough LMAO
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Redeye Flight posted:If the Yankees are going to insist on mustache only, they need to invest some of that mad Yankees Money into mustache R&D. Ensure that all Yankees players can grow Old Hoss Radbourne mustaches over the course of no more than one offseason. As a Yankees fan, I heartily second this motion.
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Sean Casey implementing a novel technique of booing his hitters in the batting cages
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I don't know if anyone even remembers this, but the Marlins signed two Cuban brothers for a bunch of money in 2018 and both of them have been pretty terrible. But the older brother (VV Mesa) has been far worse than anyone ever would have imagined and is probably done with the org https://twitter.com/francysromeroFR/status/1678527728398618624?s=20
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Yeah I remember there being an insane amount of hype around VVM. You just never know with young international guys.
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MrMidnight posted:The boos during the Astros pick totally hosed Manfred up lol This is funny but I do feel kinda bad for Brice Matthews
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MrMidnight posted:The boos during the Astros pick totally hosed Manfred up lol Dude looks so butthurt lmao
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Carlosologist posted:The NYY grooming policy is an abomination. part of the aesthetic of baseball is gross beards and long hair I kind of like the Yankees having a useless stupid old timey rule. Kind of like letting pitchers hit, it adds a unique flavor of "You there, this is the made-up rule that sets an unbreakable tradition, now buckle down!" from the olden days. As long as it's not racist, I'm all on board with each team having a bizarre quirk. Let the White Sox wear shorts again. Bring back a jersey with the laces on the collar for the Tigers or somebody. Let the Rays have a pool full of sea creatures in the ballpark, perhaps!
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MrMidnight posted:The boos during the Astros pick totally hosed Manfred up lol That's my city 
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Red posted:I kind of like the Yankees having a useless stupid old timey rule. Kind of like letting pitchers hit, it adds a unique flavor of "You there, this is the made-up rule that sets an unbreakable tradition, now buckle down!" from the olden days. The hair policy isn’t racist but it gets iffy culturally when we’re not talking about gross white dudes making poor personal hygiene choices.
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Red posted:I kind of like the Yankees having a useless stupid old timey rule. Kind of like letting pitchers hit, it adds a unique flavor of "You there, this is the made-up rule that sets an unbreakable tradition, now buckle down!" from the olden days.  It's good.
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I’m against the Yankees’ facial hair policy until seeing them play against the Red Sox, who are somehow the least attractive team in baseball. There has to be a balance between the inherent racism in a facial hair policy and protecting TV from white dudes with bad 20s facial hair. I say this as a white dude that had an unironic goatee in 2005-6 because that’s all that would come in at the time.
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its messed up that we allow professional baseball players 4 consecutive days off in the middle of July
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Popete posted:its messed up that we allow professional baseball players 4 consecutive days off in the middle of July Vlad is gonna need that time to catch his breath
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I didn’t watch. Did Vlad Jr say he’d never play for the Yankees after the derby?
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Why would he want to play for the Blue Jays AAA affiliate?
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I didn't even know there was a Restricted List. Does that include, like Pete Rose or generally just PED users?
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Tayter Swift posted:I didn't even know there was a Restricted List. Does that include, like Pete Rose or generally just PED users? Just means the team has keepsies on the player if/when they decide to return. We usually see it for stuff like this or player does something stupid or illegal.
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Popete posted:its messed up that we allow professional baseball players 4 consecutive days off in the middle of July They did it last year and like four Dodgers ended up on paternity leave in April lol
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Julio hit 41 home runs in a single round and set the new record  https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1678577174549504000 I love him so much 
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