Early Season Beat Writer Change at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette?

Man, I remember my second beer.

 

Colin doesn't need me or anyone to defend his decision to do what he did. But to set the record straight, no one from the Pirates ever contacted me asking that Colin not cover the team.

 

What do you mean by

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Today or in general?

 

It's got to be today. I can't remember many details about last week.

 

The best we have, right there.

 

Hey, if I could write like that, I'd be, like, a writer.

 

I can remember my first beer ... a Carta Blanca at a beach camp in Mexico when I was 15. I remember the second, too, same place, same night.
It's the other 862,562,238,523,462,356 I can't remember.

 

A couple of beers would be mighty good about now.

 

This may be a more appropriate issue for another thread, but earlier someone mentioned something about the writer in question's being "scooped." I don't follow the Pirates all that closely, but from a distance it doesn't seem as if not being first on a AAA call-up/injury replacement is (or would have been) all that earth-shattering. In today's media world, it seems to me that the whole idea of scoops is almost anachronistic; nobody really gets scooped anymore because, honestly, is it really a scoop if one website has a story hours or minutes before another? Nowadays it seems that a sports reporter brings value to his readers NOT by pursuing scoops, but rather by adding perspective/expertise/narrative that's not available elsewhere. In my brief career as a sportswriter, I was pretty good at that but I was terrible about the whole news-chasing thing. I doubt I would have stayed in this biz much longer anyway, but I might have enjoyed the gig a bit more had I not felt like I had to play out of position.

 

Valid point, Doctor.

 

It's probably a bit frustrating when your competing with the in-house organ, but that's just me.