Dear dimwit on the phone

Ohhhh, snap! Even I know that reference and I haven't watched "wrastlin'" in 5 or 6 years!

 

You certainly urned his ire on that one.

Although if I were you, I would've gone all Papa Shango on his ass.

 

Dear soccer coach/mom,
There is no way, when writing a roundup of the day's games, that we will include EVERY SINGLE FREAKING ASSIST from a game. And I'm sorry if you think only the "superstars" are getting attention in our paper, but that was all the information the boys' coach gave us. I'm sorry that your son had an assist and didn't get mentioned.

But don't blame me or my coworkers.

Also, you may want to re-check the rosters you gave us at the start of the season. You had one player listed as a senior, and we've been listing her as such whenever she's mentioned in a roundup. So don't get pissed when we call her a senior when she's really a junior and you didn't bother to tell us until today.

Frustratingly yours,
KY

 

honest question: why would you randomly wing in their grades just for the fuck of it unless it factors into the roundup ... such as a freshman coming through in the clutch or something along those lines?

 

TP: In my experience at smaller papers and one larger one, SEs want writers to throw those details into a story or roundup.

 

i always told my people not to unless it was a preview or if it factored into the roundup/story somehow ... just another way to get something wrong. back in the day you used to be able to trust a high school coach to tell you what grade a kid was in because 99 percent of the time they worked at the school. nowadays, not so much.

that's just the way i approached it. not saying i was right or wrong ... but i do know i stopped taking calls about IDing wrong grades when, in the bigger picture, it really didn't add nothing to the piece, IMO.

 

When I first started, I was told to put in the grades of the kids. Then if I was pressed for time and I couldn't remember, I'd have to stop and get out a roster to make sure. But it hit me one day when someone said, "Why do you always say 'freshman So-and-So'? Does it really matter?" Then I realized that most of the time, it doesn't.

 

KY, the last paper I was at, we did normally list all of the assists in a game in the roundup. However, it was a daily and only have three public and two private schools in its coverage area (meaning at most 10 soccer teams playing in a specific day), whereas from the sounds of it you probably have a lot more teams to deal with.

 

Now this is a great pro wrestling reference right here.

 

That's a damn good point, TP.

 

It's just how we do things here, TP. Always have for as long as I can remember.

 

hahahaha. if my kid said something along those lines, i'd hold her back a year in school.


and thanks, expendable.