The Athletic keeps growing .......

Imagine paying $5 to read about the quality of the hot dogs in the Montreal press box.

 

That probably cancels out Cleveland.com’s ranking of Progressive Field’s food this spring.

 

I an sure the hot dogs are great in the Montreal press box. But one of the problems with a lot of internet writing is that they run to damn long. I bet this story would have been better if it had been shorter.

 

Imagine thinking that's the only story The Athletic ran across all its platforms all month.

 

I'm from Montreal, I work as a sportswriter, and I couldn't even get through that story. The hot dogs are weirdly good, here's a couple fun stories, fin. There's zero problem with the story idea, but it needed an editor to work with the writer and cut the story by half.

 

Disney+ is $6.99, with endless content.

 

I don't know if it's coincidence or not but the Hurricanes reporter changed her Twitter picture this weekend.

 

I believe the Kansas City Star had stories on its Sunday sports front that were 120+ inches, 60+ inches and 40+ inches the other day.

All written for the internet, of course. But some poor designer had to squeeze them in a small sports section.

That paper could write 50 inches about the pebbling on a basketball.

 

I recently ran into a writer for The Athletic who I hadn’t seen since he started there and he said his biggest battle is not writing too long since he’s not limited by inch count.

 

I write for a website (not the Athletic) and I'm a big believer that you need a good reason to go over 1,000 words with most stories.