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This Could Work Out!

Edgy DC Mar 26 2009 07:47 AM

<a href="http://www.observer.com/2009/media/anatomy-spring-training-story" target="_blank">The New York Observer</a> takes a look at Spring Training journalism. Not always fair, but well pointed.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 26 2009 07:59 AM

Whatever.

Edgy DC Mar 26 2009 08:14 AM

Well, your happy moderators are trying to find interesting topics of exchange. What he's missing is that, because a player says he's working on a new approach, the writer isn't promising anything. Of course they're working on finding new edges and adjustments, and perhaps 70% of them will be discarded by the time camp breaks. They're athletes and that's part of their job. And reporting on changes and things that are new is part of the reporter's job --- even (if not especially) the most cynical of reporters. They also do a good job, I think, of telling what you hope is new, but isn't new at all --- who isn't fully rehabbed, who hasn't slimmed down, who hasn't gotten the velocity back that you hope to get in the second year after TJ surgery. They don't just stoke hopes, though a lot of Wally Matthews types might be out there claimiing everybody else but him is stoking.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 26 2009 10:48 AM

Sorry. Just thought that wasn;t much of a topic

Edgy DC Mar 26 2009 10:59 AM

Your turn, ace.

metirish Mar 26 2009 11:12 AM

It was an OK article. I certainly didn't think that Ollie was going to win 20 games after reading last week how the Mets found that kink in his delivery , it's a typical story from down there. But there is always hope that fixing that kink will enable Perez to win 20.