Dear dimwit on the phone

[spikechiquet]

Got this email forwarded to me from the publisher this afternoon.

Can you please tell someone in the sports department that there is an American legion ALL STAR GAME on Monday August 6th.

I see a tiny mention of the boys that made the ALL STAR TEAM in today's paper and all the sports coverage is about the state tournament.

That's great but there are a lot of ALL STAR players who weren't on a conference winning team and these players deserve some kind of press for being the best players in the league, albeit they weren't on the best teams in the league for which they have no control over… see my point?.

PS my son is one of the All Stars

It's difficult for me to see your point when you can't even construct a coherent sentence. And, yes, we are dedicating more space to a state tournament that is being played right now than to an exhibition game that is coming up Monday. Sorry about that (I'm not really sorry). Today's paper had the time and place for Monday's All-Star Game, along with rosters for both teams. I'm sorry if that doesn't give enough credit to all of these kids who worked so hard (again, I really couldn't be less sorry).

But kudos to you for going straight to the publisher. You get a boatload of whiner points for that move.

But at least she put a smiley face at the end.

Yeah. That makes it much better. A little sugar instead of salt after whipping you around.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

Got this email forwarded to me from the publisher this afternoon.

Can you please tell someone in the sports department that there is an American legion ALL STAR GAME on Monday August 6th.

I see a tiny mention of the boys that made the ALL STAR TEAM in today's paper and all the sports coverage is about the state tournament.

That's great but there are a lot of ALL STAR players who weren't on a conference winning team and these players deserve some kind of press for being the best players in the league, albeit they weren't on the best teams in the league for which they have no control over… see my point?.

PS my son is one of the All Stars

It's difficult for me to see your point when you can't even construct a coherent sentence. And, yes, we are dedicating more space to a state tournament that is being played right now than to an exhibition game that is coming up Monday. Sorry about that (I'm not really sorry). Today's paper had the time and place for Monday's All-Star Game, along with rosters for both teams. I'm sorry if that doesn't give enough credit to all of these kids who worked so hard (again, I really couldn't be less sorry).

But kudos to you for going straight to the publisher. You get a boatload of whiner points for that move.

LMAO.

Why is the email a hyperlink?

 

[HanSenSE]

Got this email forwarded to me from the publisher this afternoon.

Can you please tell someone in the sports department that there is an American legion ALL STAR GAME on Monday August 6th.

I see a tiny mention of the boys that made the ALL STAR TEAM in today's paper and all the sports coverage is about the state tournament.

That's great but there are a lot of ALL STAR players who weren't on a conference winning team and these players deserve some kind of press for being the best players in the league, albeit they weren't on the best teams in the league for which they have no control over… see my point?.

PS my son is one of the All Stars

It's difficult for me to see your point when you can't even construct a coherent sentence. And, yes, we are dedicating more space to a state tournament that is being played right now than to an exhibition game that is coming up Monday. Sorry about that (I'm not really sorry). Today's paper had the time and place for Monday's All-Star Game, along with rosters for both teams. I'm sorry if that doesn't give enough credit to all of these kids who worked so hard (again, I really couldn't be less sorry).

But kudos to you for going straight to the publisher. You get a boatload of whiner points for that move.

LMAO.

Why is the email a hyperlink?

Comes out as blue font here ... and given the SportsJournalists.com tradition of blue font, it's even funnier.

 

[apeman33]

Got this email forwarded to me from the publisher this afternoon.

Can you please tell someone in the sports department that there is an American legion ALL STAR GAME on Monday August 6th.

I see a tiny mention of the boys that made the ALL STAR TEAM in today's paper and all the sports coverage is about the state tournament.

That's great but there are a lot of ALL STAR players who weren't on a conference winning team and these players deserve some kind of press for being the best players in the league, albeit they weren't on the best teams in the league for which they have no control over… see my point?.

PS my son is one of the All Stars

It's difficult for me to see your point when you can't even construct a coherent sentence. And, yes, we are dedicating more space to a state tournament that is being played right now than to an exhibition game that is coming up Monday. Sorry about that (I'm not really sorry). Today's paper had the time and place for Monday's All-Star Game, along with rosters for both teams. I'm sorry if that doesn't give enough credit to all of these kids who worked so hard (again, I really couldn't be less sorry).

But kudos to you for going straight to the publisher. You get a boatload of whiner points for that move.

LMAO.

Why is the email a hyperlink?

Comes out as blue font here ... and given the SportsJournalists.com tradition of blue font, it's even funnier.

I ran my cursor over it and clicked. My email program opened and that entire paregraph appeared in the address line.

 

[Illino]

Not sure how this guy got connected to sports, but ...

"Do you know if they are any rummage sales going on today? I need to buy some pants."

 

[flexmaster33]

Dear Little League mom...thanks for telling us vague details about the wonderful team you coached to a district title A MONTH ago. Especially important is your detailed description of the festive car ride to the remote part of our state for the follow-up tourney.

No, I don't think I'll be able to turn this into a "story that every one in the local area will care about" because quite frankly I doubt many do, and it's a month old.

Talk to your league rep, yes the one you CC'd on your email to me, and ask him why he never responded to our multiple requests for all-star rosters/results when I sent those out at the start of the all-star season.

 

[fossywriter8]

Dear Little League mom...thanks for telling us vague details about the wonderful team you coached to a district title A MONTH ago. Especially important is your detailed description of the festive car ride to the remote part of our state for the follow-up tourney.

No, I don't think I'll be able to turn this into a "story that every one in the local area will care about" because quite frankly I doubt many do, and it's a month old.

Talk to your league rep, yes the one you CC'd on your email to me, and ask him why he never responded to our multiple requests for all-star rosters/results when I sent those out at the start of the all-star season.

Her day job must involve working for the NBC Olympics coverage crew.

 

[Mark2010]

Not sure how this guy got connected to sports, but ...

"Do you know if they are any rummage sales going on today? I need to buy some pants."

At night and on weekends, all the outside lines got routed to my desk. They figured we'd need them for people calling in scores and such after hours. Oh, the stories I could tell. Some poor souls have a crisis and nowhere else to turn.

One of the less tragic cases was..... "My cat is stuck in a tree and won't come down. Could you send someone out?'... Looking around a nearly empty-newsroom (several people on furlough, ya know), I said "Maam, no one is available at the moment. Besides do you really want to have a cat AND a reporter stuck in your tree?"

 

[WolvEagle]

"Maam, no one is available at the moment. Besides do you really want to have a cat AND a reporter stuck in your tree?"

GREAT line!

 

[MightyMouse]

Got this email forwarded to me from the publisher this afternoon.

Can you please tell someone in the sports department that there is an American legion ALL STAR GAME on Monday August 6th.

I see a tiny mention of the boys that made the ALL STAR TEAM in today's paper and all the sports coverage is about the state tournament.

That's great but there are a lot of ALL STAR players who weren't on a conference winning team and these players deserve some kind of press for being the best players in the league, albeit they weren't on the best teams in the league for which they have no control over… see my point?.

PS my son is one of the All Stars

It's difficult for me to see your point when you can't even construct a coherent sentence. And, yes, we are dedicating more space to a state tournament that is being played right now than to an exhibition game that is coming up Monday. Sorry about that (I'm not really sorry). Today's paper had the time and place for Monday's All-Star Game, along with rosters for both teams. I'm sorry if that doesn't give enough credit to all of these kids who worked so hard (again, I really couldn't be less sorry).

But kudos to you for going straight to the publisher. You get a boatload of whiner points for that move.

LMAO.

Why is the email a hyperlink?

Comes out as blue font here ... and given the SportsJournalists.com tradition of blue font, it's even funnier.

I ran my cursor over it and clicked. My email program opened and that entire paregraph appeared in the address line.

Yeah, I'm not exactly sure what I clicked on there. Oh well.

Legion Dad replied to my email and said that the players and parents consider it to be much more than an exhibition game, and he "sincerely" hopes we can give full coverage to Monday's game.

I'm not sure what makes this more than an exhibition (since that's exactly what it is), but I don't want him to send another email to my publisher, so I'm not even responding to this one.

 

[Mark2010]

Every dad and player consider it "much more than an exhibition game". Well, good for them. They'll try hard.

My worry would be what kind of Pandora's Box are you opening and are you committing yourself to covering every sort of all-star game in the area? One place I worked did that and it became a nightmare on weeks we had real stuff that we needed to cover. Maybe this is where "citizen journalists" come to the rescue.

 

[HanSenSE]

More than an exhibition? You mean, this time it counts? [/mlbonfox]