Cowboys reporter out here spiking footballs of her own.

[spikechiquet]

Speaking of learning, in the bad old days we'd write a gross of high school game capsules on a busy night. One guy (NOT me) tested whether anyone (including editors) actually read them, ending a baseball write-up with "and that was the whole can of corn."

It got zero reaction from readers or edit staff.

TBH ... it's better than "some forker"

 

[Twirling Time]

Speaking of learning, in the bad old days we'd write a gross of high school game capsules on a busy night. One guy (NOT me) tested whether anyone (including editors) actually read them, ending a baseball write-up with "and that was the whole can of corn."

It got zero reaction from readers or edit staff.

I'm going to steal that in ball season.

 

[DanOregon]

One of my favorite SI articles was a deep dive they did on a single day on the Transactions agate. (When did SI put the Archive behind a paywall?)

TRANSACTIONS

 

[Tarheel316]

Talk of kerning gives me PTSD. Had a former sports editor who when trying to shoehorn a story to fit the space, instead of searching out and kerning grafs that had a single word or two on the last line, would highlight the entire story, then do the knucklebuster+< and kern the entire damn thing until it fit.

He got into a near-shouting match with a caller who complained about a couple of grafs in one story being almost impossible to read because it was smashed together so tight.

This reminds me so much of a retired SE who was working part-time for me. Dude had a volcanic temper.

 

[playthrough]

One of my favorite SI articles was a deep dive they did on a single day on the Transactions agate. (When did SI put the Archive behind a paywall?)

TRANSACTIONS

I'm amazed SI used to give away the Vault for free.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I'm a former preps writer who is still pretty young. But I'm an anomaly.

And I think that goes back to the beginning of this thread. When I was coming up even just a decade ago, there were a ton of reporters who showed me the ropes and how to act in and out of the newsroom. With newsrooms getting younger and losing more resources, people are getting thrown into jobs without having any idea of how to operate inside of them. And so we see reporters publicly feeling things out and learning what they should and shouldn't do.

And you get more and more people landing prime gigs as their first gigs and not handling themselves in a traditional way. I've seen some shirt while covering MLB this season that makes me cringe. Of course, I also understand it's a far different world than 25 years ago, and that 20-somethings shouldn't treat anything in this business with reverence, and that you only get one chance to operate unencumbered by what you're not supposed to know. But I did like it when a kid clearly on his first assignment asked where he should sit instead of just plopping himself down on prime real estate in the press box. (And of course, 25 years ago, all that real estate would have been taken long before he got there, so...)

 

[Fdufta]

And you get more and more people landing prime gigs as their first gigs and not handling themselves in a traditional way. I've seen some shirt while covering MLB this season that makes me cringe.

I'm curious BYH, what are those things you've seen this season

 

[Dog8Cats]

... and that you only get one chance to operate unencumbered by what you're not supposed to know.

I don't know if that's original with you, but that's an absolutely brilliant observation. I hope to memorize it and pull it out when appropriate.

But should it be "not supposed to know" or "SUPPOSED to know"?

 

[clintrichardson]

One of my favorite SI articles was a deep dive they did on a single day on the Transactions agate. (When did SI put the Archive behind a paywall?)

TRANSACTIONS

Had never seen that one before, it's great, thanks for posting. And I love that one of the "transactions" they went deep on was Temple firing Bruce Arians.

 

[OscarMadison]

Just to get back to this…

When I started wading through this thread, my first reaction was that it's 2022 and let's lay off the clothes/looks/speaks shirt because she is a woman.

Then I looked up DT201 or what ever that is…

It's literally pushing hot women talking sports. I hope she gets a better gig before she ages out of that job. That's horrible to say, but that's the course she chose to play and this is where the ball lies.

And, a few thousand Twitter followers and 20,000 Insta followers at 201 isn't making it. It just makes you one of the 950 people on an NFL sideline. Best of luck getting the long snapper's thoughts on the game.

Everything about this just sucks.

@Scout, what they do borders on employing the Lolli aesthetic. The Bad Little Girl tip annoyed most if not all of my female cohort a decade ago. Those who worked at the same shop saw our pictures (and my cartoon rendering of me) sharing space with women posing in nothing but hockey sweaters while they straddled Warrior sticks, head shots of our colleagues fondling skates or shoulder pads and one little miss whose picture consisted of her seated at a table with Timbits and poutine while she bit into a puck. (Okay the last one was funny. If only that sensibility came out in her writing.)

We tried to move around the BrittBrats of the shop without disturbing them or the editors who felt we couldn't function without them.

XOXO
Oscar "There's no such word as 'intrickle,' you dangerously overbred puckbunny!" Madison

 

[Huggy]

Riiiiiight.......

 

[Della9250]

Riiiiiight.......

Says the woman responding at 2:13 a.m. on a Tuesday morning.