Dear dimwit on the phone

Yeah. That makes it much better. A little sugar instead of salt after whipping you around.

 

LMAO.

Why is the email a hyperlink?

 

Comes out as blue font here ... and given the SportsJournalists.com tradition of blue font, it's even funnier.

 

I ran my cursor over it and clicked. My email program opened and that entire paregraph appeared in the address line.

 

Not sure how this guy got connected to sports, but ...

"Do you know if they are any rummage sales going on today? I need to buy some pants."

 

Dear Little League mom...thanks for telling us vague details about the wonderful team you coached to a district title A MONTH ago. Especially important is your detailed description of the festive car ride to the remote part of our state for the follow-up tourney.

No, I don't think I'll be able to turn this into a "story that every one in the local area will care about" because quite frankly I doubt many do, and it's a month old.

Talk to your league rep, yes the one you CC'd on your email to me, and ask him why he never responded to our multiple requests for all-star rosters/results when I sent those out at the start of the all-star season.

 

Her day job must involve working for the NBC Olympics coverage crew.

 

At night and on weekends, all the outside lines got routed to my desk. They figured we'd need them for people calling in scores and such after hours. Oh, the stories I could tell. Some poor souls have a crisis and nowhere else to turn.

One of the less tragic cases was..... "My cat is stuck in a tree and won't come down. Could you send someone out?'... Looking around a nearly empty-newsroom (several people on furlough, ya know), I said "Maam, no one is available at the moment. Besides do you really want to have a cat AND a reporter stuck in your tree?"

 

"Maam, no one is available at the moment. Besides do you really want to have a cat AND a reporter stuck in your tree?"

GREAT line!

 

Yeah, I'm not exactly sure what I clicked on there. Oh well.

Legion Dad replied to my email and said that the players and parents consider it to be much more than an exhibition game, and he "sincerely" hopes we can give full coverage to Monday's game.

I'm not sure what makes this more than an exhibition (since that's exactly what it is), but I don't want him to send another email to my publisher, so I'm not even responding to this one.

 

Every dad and player consider it "much more than an exhibition game". Well, good for them. They'll try hard.

My worry would be what kind of Pandora's Box are you opening and are you committing yourself to covering every sort of all-star game in the area? One place I worked did that and it became a nightmare on weeks we had real stuff that we needed to cover. Maybe this is where "citizen journalists" come to the rescue.

 

More than an exhibition? You mean, this time it counts? [/mlbonfox]