Various stuff at MLB.com

My friend Boots, the problem as we all know is that too many people, specifically fresh-out-of-college kids, will do anything to get a job in this business, even if said full-time job was fellating a colleague all day without pay. All one needs to do is look at the jobs boards and all the low-rent Web sites that post their "experience building" freelance gigs.

And I don't know how much "journalism" is practiced at MLB.com. Yes, they run gamers and features, but I'm not seeing many enterprises pieces on the effects of steroids, for instance.

 

You won't see those stories because despite what their disclaimer says, MLB.com is MLB.

 

Well, MLB.com just filled full-time beat openings covering the Pirates and I think San Francisco is still open.

 

Do you honestly think MLB would hire people to air its own dirty laundry? Let ESPN and local media handle the soiled stuff.

 

Met a woman once who strung for MLB.com. They payed her very little and had her fill in for Dodgers, Angels and Padres games. She was fresh out of college and god awful, so I didn't feel to bad for her, commuting back and forth from L.A. to San Diego. She actually quoted me (did not use my name, just "a reporter") in a srping training gamer. But it was more of a here's what's going on at the ballpark today story. Very, very bad. But she was nice, and quite knowledgeable, just had a ways to go on the writing end. A long ways to go.

 

Both jobs are already filled, actually.

 

Chris Haft is doing the Giants, from what I just read on Bonds. He was with San Jose, right? And is Jack O'Connell newly hired full-time by the company? I saw his byline on the HOF story today. Those are two good hires.

 

...they also hired a new full-time guy for the Yankees during the offseason.

 

Actually I just was hired by the Cincinnati Reds to do some stat work for their front office

 

I thought Marge Schott was dead....