From my inbox

[KYSportsWriter]

From my inbox:

A local U-10 and U-12 soccer team competed in the Bluegrass State Games, aka the Overrated/Don't Have To Qualify/Pay Money and Get a Medal games, and placed first and second in their respective divisions.

This is the e-mail I got from one of the "coaches."

Here is the story on the U-12 Dragons. Hopefully, you can make this a front page story (In color would be nice). Thanks, once again. If you have any questions, please call me.

And from the same lady:
Here is the story on the U-10 Gators. Please consider making this a front page story in color. These boys earned it!! Please call me if you have any questions.

Um, lady, "these boys" didn't earn shirt.

 

[Stone Cane]

Hey, the person who sent you this might have used some language that makes us cringe a bit but ultra-marathoners make great copy.

Why mock somebody who has sent you a legitimately good story idea? Do you feel like you're above it?

 

[JBHawkEye]

It doesn't hurt to do the story, but if the photos are crappy, they shouldn't run. If that upsets the person who submits them, that's too bad.

 

[Sam Craig]

What's funny is that I've receive submissions where it sounded like the person who sent me the information was looking for a big story. They were only worth a brief, sometimes as long as maybe 5 inches and instead of complaining, they were thrilled to get the 5-inches of coverage. Sometimes size doesn't matter.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

From my inbox:

A local U-10 and U-12 soccer team competed in the Bluegrass State Games, aka the Overrated/Don't Have To Qualify/Pay Money and Get a Medal games,

Also known as the "We Can't Just E-mail The Results Even Though We Can Break All That Stuff Down And Snail-mail It To You" Games.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

From my inbox:

A local U-10 and U-12 soccer team competed in the Bluegrass State Games, aka the Overrated/Don't Have To Qualify/Pay Money and Get a Medal games, and placed first and second in their respective divisions.

This is the e-mail I got from one of the "coaches."

Here is the story on the U-12 Dragons. Hopefully, you can make this a front page story (In color would be nice). Thanks, once again. If you have any questions, please call me.

And from the same lady:
Here is the story on the U-10 Gators. Please consider making this a front page story in color. These boys earned it!! Please call me if you have any questions.

Um, lady, "these boys" didn't earn shirt.

I got an e-mail Monday kind of like that.

The reader's Precious Baby played in a U-8 coach-pitch softball tournament in town, and mommy was upset there wasn't anything in our newspaper about it since it was a "NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP."

If I had $1 for every alleged national championship softball tournament held in the USA, I'd buy everybody on this board beer for the year.

 

[Big Buckin' agate_monkey]

Do you write stories on your locals who run in marathons? Cuz 50K is longer than a marathon. Why not write a story on these people?

So, does that mean they work HARDER than marathon runners?

They don't work harder -- just longer.

That's what she said.