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Joe Girardi rips into Joel Sherman

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Versatile, Sep 10, 2012.

  1. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    You want "hits" or "credibility and respect"? Seems to me that if he wrote about it his job covering The Yankees would have gotten a lot harder.
     
  2. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    My bosses at my last two papers wanted the hits.
    And they said it out loud when I asked that question specifically.
    One of the (many) reasons I finally left the business.
     
  3. Versatile

    Versatile Active Member

    It doesn't have to be one or the other, even in this case. If Sherman went off on Girardi, sure, he'd have a hard time. If he explained what happened in a calm and rational matter, trying to see it from both sides, he'd get the hits and keep the credibility. It seems more disingenuous, to me, to call the Yankees a bunch of complainers who are spiraling out of the division lead and not mention that you just had a blowup with the manager, one that your own newspaper is reporting.
     
  4. BillyT

    BillyT Active Member

    Because being polite is more important than being "right."
     
  5. SixToe

    SixToe Well-Known Member

    Not always.
     
  6. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    He could have always used the lame .... "a writer at Girardi post game press conference got into a dust up with Girardi over a question he asked."
     
  7. 21

    21 Well-Known Member

    Polite? Or did you mean professional? Not the same thing in this business.
     
  8. Smasher_Sloan

    Smasher_Sloan Active Member

    This isn't the same situation, but it's a relevant tangent.

    Older timers say Ralph Houk loved to yell at writers after a negative story or column. He'd made a big production of it in front of the players, either yelling at the guy in the clubhouse or otherwise within earshot. He'd really let the guy have it so the players would think, "Yeah, Ralph has our back."

    The other part of it was Houk would always apologize to the writer later. But the apology was always quiet and in private.
     
  9. SixToe

    SixToe Well-Known Member

    So Houk was being professional and polite.
     
  10. Donny in his element

    Donny in his element Well-Known Member

    I wish I had a witty retort for that time Leonard Hamilton berated me for my line of questioning during a post-game presser.
     
  11. Smasher_Sloan

    Smasher_Sloan Active Member

    Not at all.
     
  12. Tarheel316

    Tarheel316 Well-Known Member

    I've had people rip me before during interviews, yell at me on the phone over stories, etc. I don't yell back. Now if I walk into a press box at a high school football game and there are no copies of the rosters, that's a whole different story.
     
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