Sam Mellinger leaving KC Star for Royals

Ooh, I’d love to hear the stories about this.

Wasn’t Posnanski at the Star for a decent length before his career journey?

 

The Nationals have always run PR like they're a high major Division I football program--and supposedly, Mike Rizzo wanted to hire her b/c he thought someone who'd been in the trenches would improve relations--but she was an abject disaster from quite literally day one. Lurked on every interview, cut them all short after three or four questions. Unnecessarily combative with everyone, if not downright nasty (yelled at a Mets PR person when she didn't hand a microphone to a reporter before the latter asked a question in the Mets' conference room after Scherzer's no-hitter...sweet irony: that PR person took her job). The rumor is the final straw was her throwing Dusty under the bus when that whole can Strasburg pitch or not thing was happening in the 2017 NLDS. Bad, bad, bad. Even the TV and radio guys hated her guts.

 

That's interesting, considering how often she was on TV before she switched gigs. Ok, done threadjacking.

 

The Paterno book harmed him more than I think we want to admit. It was a borderline hagiography.

 

I imagine quite a few of us could identify with that at one point or another, myself included.

 

I have heard differing opinions on how Pos is to work alongside others from people who have. Really good writer, though.

 

Mellinger will be missed. He did a fine job.