new york daily news: torre to be canned

Confucius say: Reporters who hastily jump to conclusions frequently break ankles.

 

Exactly - this was win win for all concerned except The Mets and Joe Torre. Madden gets a story, Pinella name gets put in play, Yankees control back page, and Post gets follow up exclusive that Joe is staying.

Lets see - When Mets win NLCS - watch for the A- Rod to Cubs Story to break.

This was so predictable down to even who would write it.

 

Bottom line is what probably happened is that Madden called George 5-10 mins. after Saturday's game ended and George said, 'I'm gonna fire that SOB. This time I mean it and you can print it.'

And then, as often happens, cooler heads prevailed. So I understand where Madden was coming from, but it still doesn't look all that good for him. He probably should've taken it with the proverbial container of salt, knowing that George isn't quite what he used to be.

 

actually, suburbanite, madden wrote it with a grain of salt. his tabloid editors just didn't do the same with their screaming, no wiggle-room headlines.

 

Well, that's true. And then ESPN trumpeting it on their crawl didn't help.

 

So, Madden can do this shill work for his pal Sweet Lou, and he gets a free pass, because
of those twisted headline writers? Uh, uh.

 

New York is a completely different animal where all this stuff is concerned. That's what makes newspapers in that city so much fun, in my opinion.

All of the theoretical, holier-than-thou, this-is-how-journalists-should-be-doing-their-jobs-with-three-on-the-record-sources platitudes kind of have to be thrown out the window.

Nice in theory, not in the ballpark in actual practice in that market, by far the most competitive and cutthroat in the nation.

 

If Torre isn't being "canned" will the Daily News writer be canned?

 

Now that is terribly unfair to Madden. If any of us were given the same information he had, we would have written it, too, and with the same hedges Madden had. It was a story that day and, if you work for a NY tabloid, they love it.

What happened after that won't be remembered next April.

 

Understand all that . . . but given the Madden/Lou hip-connection, it's too cute for words.

 

And when Piniella takes another job (Cubs, Giants, Rangers???), this, too, will be forgotten.

 

when all is said and done, this is the ULTIMATE n.y. tab story. boss speaks, news writes with tab heds, boss cools down, backs off, news offers half-assed "we were wrong but not really" stories.

only in n.y., boys. oh, how i don't miss this crap! only in these tabs can you be wrong but spin it as not.

again, the only way around stuff like this is to never use unattributed sources. use the info to lead in that direction, but don't even give the hedline terrorists the chance to embarrass you.