Inky reporter vs. Brett Myers

I spell "retard" Zeke12.

 

Sigh.

No, it isn't. Getting called a retard isn't part of the job. You can call on someone to be the better man in the exchange -- and lord knows, many have -- but getting called a retard isn't part of the job.

 

I've seen your copy, and you probably are only half joking...

 

Go fuck yourself and have a happy a reporter stood up to Brett Myers day!!!!

 

You just be glad I let you write for the Blaze, you no-talent hack. I could have Emily Valentine back writing poems LIKE THAT!

 

Pissing people off is. They don't like having their failures aired in the newspaper so they're going to go off on you. When the reporter responds like this, it becomes personal and people are going to construe anything you write as being personal.

Shit, I've had sources say and do a lot worse than call me a retard and I didn't show my ass.

 

Agree with those who think reporter was in the wrong. A reporter enters the clubhouse, someone else's workplace, someone else's sanctum sanctorum. And those athletes don't have to speak with the reporter. Yes, I know they should and all that, but a Myers can easily slip out the back before speaking to media. The press box is our area; the clubhouse is theirs.

And when there, if challenged by an athlete, you are behind enemy lines. Clear the hell out when dude tries to be an ass to you. Don't try to act smart, don't try to act like "Hey MAN!! I'm not afraid of YOU!!!!" Be smart.

As for Mr. Carchidi . . . . I'm not an east Coast guy, and so I had to look him up when his name was mentioned here. I guess dude has written a couple of books on interesting subjects (like Adam taliaferro) , so he's definitely done something there a lot of us would like to do. I mention this so we get a fuller measure of dude, instead of just noting that he's been in the BBWAA for 30 years and covers high schools a lot. In certain venues, he obviously gets the job done.

In this one, he was woefully overmatched and out of line.

 

I would. And I'd make sure he doesn't go beyond preps for as long as he's at the Inky.

 

Doesn't mean he doesn't know baseball does it?

 

Uh, where in my post did I question his baseball knowledge? All I wrote was what his main role at the paper is.

 

Carchidi tells local TV station he wants an apology from Myers.

http://www.myfoxphilly.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=4179040&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1

 

People in Hell want ice water. That doesn't mean they'll get it.

Toolbag.