Pearlman on sportsjournalist.com: "long-faded turf"

I think I remember looking her up a few years ago out of curiosity and she was in PR.

 

2007 for me, so I'm hitting the 15-year mark. My biggest change was to look at the Politics thread. I never did. Then, when you-know-who showed up, it almost became mandatory. I powered through thousands of posts. Now, I zero out the New Post column every day, often more than once.
Just to zero them out, I click on and click out of several threads I don't care about -- religion, pro wrestling, all the star wars and sci-fi stuff, fantasy sports.

 

Pearlman holding a grudge after all these years.

Prolific putz.

 

Yeah, I was doing that for a while ... now I just check the threads I'm already on and sometimes glance at new stuff.

 

I lurked for years, dating back to a few days after leaving J-School, not daring to post because the fact that big-timers were posting here was intimidating.

Now it’s a place for me to put down thoughts so I don’t drive the actual human beings in my life crazy with my inane thoughts and jokes. I figure there’s an ignore button if my oversharing is too much for people.

I like Pearlman’s books. As for his public persona… I like his books.

 

I'll admit, I'd never heard of Pearlman before the Rocker piece. Any difference before/after?

 

I remember what it was like to be a young journalist on this site 15-20 years ago, and the camaraderie that was felt and the feeling like we knew who our heroes were and how to get there. Watching the APSE awards posted every year was so fun and exciting and depressing. I even had a stalker on here.

I can't believe how far the business, and this place, have come, and not in a good way, one directly related to the other. It's just so fucking sad.

 

Jeff was 26 or 27 when he wrote the Rocker piece in '99.

The story I don't remember reading, but may not have even been written, is Rocker's first game back to Shea and the 1-2-3 inning he pitched. That was a fucking moment of moments. I have looked far and wide for the clip on YouTube but doubt it'll ever surface.

 

They’re sorta related.

Twitter is the biggest factor. A lot of journalists live there.

 

But not a lot of “regular” people — I’ve noticed that as I return to reporting.

Facebook, Instagram, even good ol’ websites? My sources use those. But few use or see much on Twitter.

 

Does Pearlman still blog about the dumps he takes?

 

Fewer people are signing up for Twitter. Covering preps, I used to get dozens of retweets (I’m talking, roughly, 2011-2018) every time I tweeted out a final score. Many of those retweets were from the athletes. Now, I tweet in the same style, having acquired more followers, but the athletes just aren’t there to share the news.

People are spending less time on Instagram. The content just isn’t there. Sure, brands and influencers post multiple times per day or week. But young people treat their Instagram account like it is sacred, posting as little as a few times per year. Also, the Frances Haugen leaks about IG and teenagers and depression and body image issues were damning.

Facebook? It’s just not cool. It’s a place for moms and dads, grannies and grandpas. Who knows if, when and why young people will get more engaged there.

TikTok is cool now — I’ll admit, I get sucked in for multiple videos every time I log in — but so was SnapChat five years ago (wait, is SnapChat still hip?).

It will be interesting to revisit these apps and their reputations another five years from now. Twitter remains my favorite app, by far, but the trend about fewer people signing up is troubling. Gaining your first 1,000 followers on Twitter today is MUCH more difficult today than it once was.