Morris Braves Beat Writer

That I can't tell you.

And, Claude: Funny!

 

I had a beer or two with Travis when he was in Augusta. He seemed like a nice guy, and he did a good job when he was in the A-U-G. I didn't really follow his stuff covering the Braves though.

 

Charlie Bennett remains at the P&C covering CofC.

As for the layout duties, the news service produces weekly feature pages, including one on NASCAR, that come out of the Atlanta office. I produce the NASCAR page every week in addition to my Georgia Tech and general assignment duties. The Braves person ideally would have the Quark skills to fill in a handful of times a year when I'm on vacation or otherwise pre-disposed.

 

Start munching away, Ellis.

Looks like it was filled by Brian Costa of the Miami Herald

 

I hope it's been filled by someone good. They've had some chumps covering the Braves the last week or two.

 

Well, fuck me gently with a chainsaw. Anyone have some hot sauce?

 

Here's hoping you were wearing a porkpie hat ...

 

I wouldn't call Adam Van Brimmer a chump. Nor would I call hockeybeat a chump for the one time he covered them.

 

They had an excellent in-house candidate as well. They were going to come out pretty good regardless of who they hired. Congrats to Brian.

 

Indeed they did have an excellent-in houser.

 

I've been called many things, but never a chump before. Anyway, to my knowledge (and no, I was not part of the interview process), there were four strong candidates. Brian Costa did a good job in his internship with Miami and came highly recommended by Jorge Rojas.