Dustup over new Astros beat writer for Chron.com

They’re covering the cheating Astros. Lowering standards for all involved.

 

Probably not too much.

What I’ve learned since moving into management - involuntarily - six months ago.

The media business is full of SO many bad managers. Especially managers who want to hire “unique”.

She’ll always have a suitor in this field.

 

Was wondering, because I knew Matt Kawahara fled covering the A's for the SF Chronicle for the Stros.

 

On the scale of Stephen A. "rants", this doesn't even get into the parking lot of the stadium.

 

Chron, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good or bad. Why we fought, or why we tweeted. No, all that matters is that one stood against many. That's what important! Pulitzers please you Chron. So grant me one request: grant me job security. And if you do not listen, then the hell with you!

 

It’ll be real interesting the first time she tries to interview Altuve.

 

By now Altuve has undoubtedly been made aware of her critical Xeet, but in a vacuum it would've faded into the noise. I'm guessing one clear-the-air meeting and it'll all be good.

 

Chron sounds like a respiratory disease. But it's far better than Tronc, which was a bowel discharge.

 

Thankful there was no Twitter when I was in my 20s and covering sports.

25-year-old me would have pissed off everyone I covered.

 

Hell yes, Ex.

I would have been literally un-hireable then because of what my social media footprint would have looked like.

 

I’m not edgy anymore on social media. Once I saw too many people get fired or suspended from tweets, I realized posting on Twitter has very little upside and is a resignation letter waiting to happen.

A couple years ago, I had an interview for an anchor job in a market that I had taken delight in going after the fan base for years.

Took about a half hour to take out anything with my handle and “Vols” “Volunteers” “Tennessee” “Butch” “Dooley” and “frauds”.

 

Many of these responses are reminders of what I've recently read in new books by Martin Baron and Kat Timpf.