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ballscribe,

The team didn't happen to have taken BP that day.

I think the posts here have been great, right on target, and I think 21's probably right-- the overwhelming majority of sports journalists probably supports the cause of access for all-- print or electronic media.

 

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Both the reporters in question, do a good job especially Rhonda Moss. She asks tough questions and does a great job with the Chiefs.

 

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That's right. This site is not printsportsjournalists.com or radiosportsjournalists.com or tvscumsportsjournalists.com

We are all equal. Now, some print puke, go fetch me a beer.

;D

 

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I do support and respect what you do. Just fed up with getting my head cracked open by TV cameras in close quarters, with only the rarest of apologies forthcoming. ;D

 

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Well, ballscribe, on behalf of all of the TV people here...



























You were probably in the way....

;D

 

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I'm not the biggest fan of sports-talk radio, but if anyone is denied access, two words come to mind:

Slippery slope.

For once, I agree with some of the doomsayers. I can see a lot of other teams starting to do this if KC gets away with it.

 

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I would hope that the KC media would organize some sort of boycott of the Royals, even if for one game.

 

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Keeping that crappy team out of the media might be doing the organization a favor.

 

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Gotta tell you....it's been my experience that some ML managers will do an "informal" session before games and sometimes request that no cameras are there. The other option I've seen is to give TV types a chance to ask their questions at the beginning, then shut down the cameras and continue.

Reasons? I don't know. Sometimes it's been a manager who likes to swear a lot and doesn't feel comfortable doing that on camera. In this case, I'm talking about the casual conversational profanity that is common to some baseball types, like Whitey Herzog. "Never seen a fucker get as hot as that sumbitch is right now. You can't get the cocksucker out."

In a lot of cases, managers keep their offices open as a courtesy so you can pop in and ask if there's anything new on Joe Slugger's hamstring. Maybe that leads to something else and it becomes kind of an informal, I'm-just-thinking-out-loud-now bullshit session. If the manager muses that he'd just as soon put Joe on the DL and bring up Hot Phenom and play him for two weeks straight, I can at least write there's a school of thought within the organization that feels that way. I'm sure he doesn't say anything along those lines if there's a camera and a microphone present. My goal is to get as much information in print as I can, even if I can't quote or otherwise have direct attribution.

 

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the royals better have this cleaned up before the nba finals wrap up.... won't be pretty.

 

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Excellent comeback, my friend. ;D