Not going on the road

Having spent two years covering baseball, it is one hell of an expense.

I'll bet these days we're going to see a lot of papers get selective about late-season road trips, especially if their team is out of the playoff race.

 

Who are you? How insulting.

 

Travel with a baseball team for a year and then you'll realize what a ridiculous amount of work it is and how tiring it is.

Until then, please STFU.

 

This is absolute fucking garbage.

Are you Dean Singleton? Craig Dubow, perhaps?

 

nah. just clueless.

 

After a week on the road, I was supposed to get off the road today (for a day). I was supposed to be home by mid-afternoon. My frazzled wife could hardly wait. I was going to get to see my baby girl. I can hardly wait.

I just had a flight delayed two hours. Missed my connecting flight. Can't get out of here until 9 p.m. That's five hours from now. By the time I make it home, everyone will be asleep.

But, at least I have a day off tomorrow -- until I'm back at it again.

And today wasn't my worst travel day of the past month. Not even close.

Man, am I spoiled.

 

yeah, but you'll be fine. I'll bet you stuffed some free soda and popcorn in your bag before you left the stadium.

 

And you probably haven't been working all that hard anyway.

 

This reminds me of all the people who fumed when Jay Mariotti left the Sun-Times that they had, "Just sent him to China and now he quits!!"

Heard that on here and also from friends not in the business.

"He was working."
"Are you going to tell me when you travel you don't have any fun at all?"

No explaining it to people who don't want to understand. Because, you know, there's nothing grander than that 50th trip to Detroit for a long-time baseball writer.

 

So why do you do what you do?

The hours suck, the people are a-holes, the pay is sub-par, the schedule unforgiving, the readership condescending and ungrateful, management is unappreciative. What's the upside?

 

Dude, it's a job. There's a reason they call it "work," not "adult recess." Obviously people are passionate about the work or else they wouldn't come to a message board to talk about it every day. People are proud of the work they do, and they should be. Work doesn't have to be a barrel of daily monkeys to be fulfilling. You were saying that it wasn't really work, and that's insulting.

"Now the nights are long
The driving's tough
Hotels stink, and the pay sucks
But I can't dig what I do enough, so it never gets be down."

-- Todd Snider, "Ballad of the Devil's Backbone Tavern"

 

I thought we already discussed the free popcorn and soda.