Layoffs at MLB.com claim a few

I'm sure Smasher agrees with you, leftcoast, but he's examining this from the point of view of the worthless pieces of shit who run mlb.com.

Providing decent beat coverage has never been the goal at mlb.com. It happens by accident sometimes.

 

Pretty damn difficult to cover a beat with inexperienced people, too. That doesn't stop them from hiring people whose resume is the college paper.

 

They don't need beat writers to sit on the manager's daily briefing and post updates on injuries and lineups. They don't need beat writers to join the pack of reporters asking the guy who hit the game-winning home run how it feels.

They would need beat writers to stay on top of developments and dig out news, but why pay for that? As it is, a lot of what they have done this winter is rewrite other stories (i.e. Fox Sports reported ...)

 

Glad to see not everyone working for MLB is suffering:

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/38803467.html

Fucking disgusting.

 

For commissioning a kids game! No wonder ticket prices are so high!

 

Would you buy a car from Bud?

 

Man, that sucks. Seems like no job is sacred anymore. Except for, you know, the big boys up at the top of the chain.

Does make you scratch your head to see they're advertising a bunch of reporter jobs on Monster.com, though. I'm guessing the pay will be a lot steeper than what those guys were making.

 

Maybe this means people will start turning to newspapers for their baseball news.

 

If MLB hires free interns, teams should not credential them. I mean what the fuck? Not paying interns? I heard that was the rumor for their website this summer. Free help.

 

Um Fredrick,

Why would the teams not credential them? They're working for MLB. Of course they would credential them.

 

I'd pay good money to the reporter who asks Bud why he can cut jobs and wail about the economy while giving himself a 22% raise. I guess it's more expensive than I figured buying hot dogs down on the corner.

Piece of shit.

 

I think people are getting laid off not because what is happening directly this week or this month, but what people are afraid of three months from now or six months from now.