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We Got The Beat - 2015

John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 12 2015 12:58 PM

Outlet Beater Years on Mets Beat College Fun Fact Daily News Kristie Ackert 2 (since 2013) Syracuse Prone to Twitter typos; former Modesto Bee reporter NY Post Mike Puma 7 (since 2007) Fordam Not an actual Puma ESPN NY Adam Rubin 15 (since 2000) U Penn Was Daily News beatguy from 2000-10 Newsday Marc Carig 2 (since 2013) Nevada-Reno Former MFY beater for the Star-Ledger NY Times Tim Rohan 1 (Since 2014) Michigan Looks like Bob Seger Mets.com Anthony DiComo 7 (since 2007) Boston U Once made Dillon Gee balk. Bergen Record Matt Ehalt 1 (since 2014) Syracuse Predecessor now does social media for ShopRite Wall Street Journal Jared Diamond 4 (since 2011) Syracuse Once victim of an Opening Day headline surprise Star-Ledger Mike Vorkunov 1 (since 2014) Rutgers Broke the cheesesteak story

Ceetar Feb 12 2015 01:12 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

first time no new guys or gals in a while.

G-Fafif Feb 12 2015 01:21 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Vorkunov's the guy who has usage problems and/or an absentee editor. Not pictured: Ed Coleman, beat guy of the air since the 20th century.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 12 2015 01:43 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

I had to go to a meeting and may have left some out. The Staten Island and Westchester papers have ocassionally had reps. Then there's the local Flushing Asian lady.

Ceetar Feb 12 2015 01:52 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

I had to go to a meeting and may have left some out. The Staten Island and Westchester papers have ocassionally had reps. Then there's the local Flushing Asian lady. Dunno if those count as 'beats' if it's just sporadic coverage. But then again, it might be regular coverage come August. This is who is on DiComo's public twitter list of beat writers:

G-Fafif Feb 12 2015 02:00 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Once watched the flock follow Terry into the pregame interview room very much like ducklings on the heels of their mama. It was all kinds of adorbs.

Ceetar Feb 12 2015 02:08 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

G-Fafif wrote: Once watched the flock follow Terry into the pregame interview room very much like ducklings on the heels of their mama. It was all kinds of adorbs. With Kevin Burkhardt their shepherd. What will they do without him?

G-Fafif Feb 12 2015 02:09 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Pac-10 basketball?

MFS62 Feb 12 2015 04:27 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

G-Fafif wrote: Not pictured: Ed Coleman, beat guy of the air since the 20th century. And, he'll be at Spring Training this year. IIRC, WFAN tried to save money by having Sweeney Murti as their only ST Florida reporter when the station went over to the dark side. Now they've decided to send Eddie. Good for him and good for us, because we might listen to WFAN's ST coverage, now. Later

Edgy MD Feb 13 2015 07:36 AM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: NY Times Tim Rohan 1 (Since 2014) Looks like Bob Seger [fimg=350]https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/476086391734956032/FJIrgUOD.jpeg[/fimg] In a just world, I'd be the one they called "Mike Puma."

Edgy MD Feb 13 2015 03:02 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Adam Rubin and Michael Kay, rolling around under the bus they're trying to throw each other under.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 13 2015 07:50 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Rubin knows when he's feeding the fans red meat, so I think Kay actually has a point. But hes objecting because he knows how true it all is, and that this will usher in a new round of humiliating comparisons to Francessa. GFY, Kay. I've been reading that Carig blog I linked to in the meantime; mostly old posts from his MFY days, but good stuff. The Journal News in Westchester (LoHud) definitely used to cover the Mets on the beat. I checked tonight only to find they only have a Yankee beater. Sure that's an indictment of the newspaper industry but very much also the Wilpons.

Edgy MD Feb 13 2015 07:57 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

My problem with the Rubin-Kay beef is that Francessa comes out the winner.

Edgy MD Feb 14 2015 09:53 AM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Bring your scoops and greatest hits of the beaters. Kristie Ackert isn't really a scooper, but somebody who's good at taking a little bit different angle at the story everybody is plowing ahead with. I associate her with "Puerto Rican Mets actually liked Tony Bernazard" Not a big moment, but a good one. How about Mike Puma?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 26 2015 12:05 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Mort Zuckerman acknowledges the Snooze is up for sale.

Edgy MD Feb 26 2015 12:38 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Mike Puma isn't so much known for stories he's broken, but the manner in which he broke them. He was the guy who triggered the Mets to rally in solidarity around Bartolo Colon when he made fat cracks. He also famously infuriated Ike Davis for reporting at the start of last year that Davis had acknowledged to him that he hid an oblique injury in 2013. His reporting kinda left Davis out to dry, making it look like he was making an after-the-fact excuse while whining that he didn't want it to sound like he was making an after-the-fact excuse. He could've stuck to the facts a little more and still gotten the story, but he was right, and Davis only looked worse getting pissed at him for how he reported it. Pooms joked in the midst of it that if Davis took a swing at him, he'd probably miss. You got a good story there, Mike, but keep yourself out of it. Your Shecky act ain't playing. __________ Rubin has no shortfall in his share of scoop action, as long as he's been on the beat, but his greatest hit is still the one he put on Tony Bernazard. I don't know if it necessarily hastened the end of the Omar era by a day, but it sure seems to have pushed us along to the where we are today, presenting the Minaya regime as a potent cocktail of unprofessional management and disappointing outcomes in the development field. As the big league contracts of Bay/Perez/Castillo/Beltran/Delgado/Rodriguez/Wagner/Santana/Martinez were all collapsing on top of the organization, it was doubly damning to see how spindly the infrastructure was underneath. Rubin got that story for you. What has been Carig's big moment in his two-year tenure?

Edgy MD Mar 03 2015 02:53 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

I think the Syndergaarbage story may yet qualify as Marc Carig's big scoop.

G-Fafif Mar 04 2015 07:02 AM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Carig's shining moment, prior to Port St. Lunchgate, was a passive-aggressive Twitter war with Rubin last September the night Mejia closed out the Nationals for the Mets' only win over Washington at Citi Field. Jenrry was reeling in the last out in that colorful way he has and Rubin was all "oh, this will not go over well," and Carig got on him, though not by name, for writing up the incident as inflammatory yet not actually talking to Mejia in the postgame. Thought Carig had a point there (and that Adam was a little over the top in his "oh no" take).

Edgy MD Mar 04 2015 07:49 AM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Tim Rohan owes his career to a Horatio Alger-esque break. He came to work for the Times as an intern fresh out of school. He got menial copy editor stuff, and wire rewrites, but he begged the sports editor Jay Schrieber for an assignment. It's summer, so you can't just send the kid off to cover high school sports. So, one Friday night, the Mets beat was uncovered, and Schrieber threw the kid a bone. I mean... the Mets. Who cares, right? What's the big deal? Give it to the kid. That Friday night was June 1, 2012, with the Cardinals in town and Johan Santana on the hill. As Johan ground out the last two innings, there was as much pressure on the Rohan as there was on Santana. The Times could have dispatched a seasoned guy after the seventh inning or asked one of the wire writers to do their write-up, but Rohan brought the story home. Nice first assignment, kid.

Ceetar Mar 04 2015 08:01 AM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Edgy MD wrote: Tim Rohan owes his career to a Horatio Alger-esque break. He came to work for the Times as an intern fresh out of school. He got menial copy editor stuff, and wire rewrites, but he begged the sports editor Jay Schrieber for an assignment. It's summer, so you can't just send the kid off to cover high school sports. So, one Friday night, the Mets beat was uncovered, and Schrieber threw the kid a bone. I mean... the Mets. Who cares, right? What's the big deal? Give it to the kid. That Friday night was June 1, 2012, with the Cardinals in town and Johan Santana on the hill. As Johan ground out the last two innings, there was as much pressure on the Rohan as there was on Santana. The Times could have dispatched a seasoned guy after the seventh inning or asked one of the wire writers to do their write-up, but Rohan brought the story home. Nice first assignment, kid. I like Rohan. He wrote up a nice story the other day about all the filming the Mets do for the Citi Field scoreboard and what not. more than the snarky tweets by others "haha, Harvey can't tie a tie!" at least.

Edgy MD Mar 06 2015 05:31 AM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

[list]"The Mets are in the conversation for the N.L. East title – assuming Washington’s entire roster decides on the same day to quit baseball and enter the burgeoning marijuana business in Colorado." [list]— Andy Martino, channelling his inner Shecky Green[/list:u][/list:u] He also was disappointed the Mets didn't open the purses for... Francisco Rodriguez.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 06 2015 07:52 AM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Tracky seems like a good enough guy when he's on SNY, opinionating. And he seems to burn through a Rubinesque amount of cellphone minutes and shoe leather in doing his job. AND he shows from time to time that he knows how to turn a phrase, when he really wants/tries. So why is it that when I read his stuff, about 40 percent of the time I want to reach through the electronic reading device and shake him, like, so hard it makes his goatee flake off?

G-Fafif Mar 06 2015 08:57 AM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Tracky seems like a good enough guy when he's on SNY, opinionating. And he seems to burn through a Rubinesque amount of cellphone minutes and shoe leather in doing his job. AND he shows from time to time that he knows how to turn a phrase, when he really wants/tries. So why is it that when I read his stuff, about 40 percent of the time I want to reach through the electronic reading device and shake him, like, so hard it makes his goatee flake off? I find certain writers -- Martino, Pearlman -- compelling and repelling in the same paragraph. There's the ability to tell a story, make a point, articulate a sense, yet there's also this tendency to never let you forget whatever their core beliefs are and emit the impression that nobody sensible could possibly see it another way. (And Pearlman drops 500 words on every passing thought that afflicts him in the course of the day, making him all the less effective.) Martino in covering the playoffs in 2014 kept moaning about the possibility of having to wind up with Giants-Royals in the WS. "OMG, so boring!" he kept insisting, leaving me to wonder what the hell he was talking about. From a baseball standpoint there was nothing wrong with it. From a personality standpoint, I had no reason to be turned off by 25 Royals, 25 Giants and whatever stories they brought to bear. I still have no idea what was up his ass. That tic keeps coming back around, always with some kind of "everybody knows this is a troubling issue" or "everybody understands this guy is the best/worst" tone. The column he wrote last year about how he couldn't believe he was wrong about first base -- that Lucas Duda thrived when Ike Davis deflated -- was all his bests and worsts rolled into one. He really soul-searched and retraced his steps and questioned his assumptions but also left me thinking he'd wake up tomorrow and write "Ike's got the makeup to make it in New York, Duda doesn't" all over again. I like that there's a strain of originality to his work, which offsets a good bit of what I can't stand.

metirish Mar 06 2015 09:25 AM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Carig is decent, tends to get in to it on Twitter with people which can be fun......seriously, the dogs abuse beat writers take ?, fuck that gig.

Edgy MD Mar 06 2015 09:36 AM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

ISIS and Phil Collins. Somebody get the mic off of that guy.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 06 2015 09:56 AM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

IT'S NOT ISIS IT'S DAESH YOU'RE A PROFESSIONAL JOURNALIST YOU CLOWN As a former furtive-whiskey-nipper from Dukes of Hazzard thermoses, I approve of his poison-of-choice.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 06 2015 10:38 AM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

G-Fafif wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Tracky seems like a good enough guy when he's on SNY, opinionating. And he seems to burn through a Rubinesque amount of cellphone minutes and shoe leather in doing his job. AND he shows from time to time that he knows how to turn a phrase, when he really wants/tries. So why is it that when I read his stuff, about 40 percent of the time I want to reach through the electronic reading device and shake him, like, so hard it makes his goatee flake off? I find certain writers -- Martino, Pearlman -- compelling and repelling in the same paragraph. There's the ability to tell a story, make a point, articulate a sense, yet there's also this tendency to never let you forget whatever their core beliefs are and emit the impression that nobody sensible could possibly see it another way. (And Pearlman drops 500 words on every passing thought that afflicts him in the course of the day, making him all the less effective.) Martino in covering the playoffs in 2014 kept moaning about the possibility of having to wind up with Giants-Royals in the WS. "OMG, so boring!" he kept insisting, leaving me to wonder what the hell he was talking about. From a baseball standpoint there was nothing wrong with it. From a personality standpoint, I had no reason to be turned off by 25 Royals, 25 Giants and whatever stories they brought to bear. I still have no idea what was up his ass. That tic keeps coming back around, always with some kind of "everybody knows this is a troubling issue" or "everybody understands this guy is the best/worst" tone. The column he wrote last year about how he couldn't believe he was wrong about first base -- that Lucas Duda thrived when Ike Davis deflated -- was all his bests and worsts rolled into one. He really soul-searched and retraced his steps and questioned his assumptions but also left me thinking he'd wake up tomorrow and write "Ike's got the makeup to make it in New York, Duda doesn't" all over again. I like that there's a strain of originality to his work, which offsets a good bit of what I can't stand. Totally with you on the Paerlman-Tracky comparisons. They're both like guys perpetually in their 20s -- ambitious but lacking perspective, and absolute suckers for populist politics and committed to the belief they're the only ones with the courage to consider it.

Edgy MD Mar 06 2015 10:50 AM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Intellectually stubborn young guys in their 20s have a habit of becoming intellectually stubborn old guys in their fifties and sixties really fast no matter how much leather they wear out and how many phrases they turn. I mean, if the Great Speedo Incident of 2010 didn't wake you up to the notion that you might want to temper the know-it-all act, what will?

G-Fafif Mar 11 2015 02:50 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Bryan Curtis has the best beat in American sportswriting. He writes about other sportswriters, not to frame their flaws but spotlight their strengths...and he does it magnificently. He focuses his high beams here on the late Dave Goldberg, for a long time the AP's key reporter of NFL affairs. We live in the age of omniscient NFL “insiders.” Well, three decades ago, NFL writers were just called NFL writers. And their power was divided among newspapermen who ruled like territorial governors. Don Pierson in Chicago. Ira Miller in San Francisco. Rick Gosselin in Dallas. Chris Mortensen in Atlanta. Every week, these NFL writers left their home bases, squeezed into airplane seats, and went in search of the big game. If they were lucky, they might run into the schlump. Because Goldberg was just like them, only instead of writing for one newspaper he wrote for hundreds. “They all had their little fiefdoms,” said the Los Angeles Times’s Sam Farmer. “Dave had the whole country.” Never heard of Dave Goldberg? Neither had I. Life as a wire-service reporter will do that to your Q rating. But the guy had a story, and Curtis, as usual, tells it. Plus, for what it's worth, there's an allusion to his fondness for talking about the Mets.

G-Fafif Mar 19 2015 07:46 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Good news! John Harper has evidence Michael Cuddyer is like Jete who must not be named. Genuflect & read (retching optional). http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseb ... ts+Twitter

duan Mar 20 2015 04:31 AM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

I heard Carig on Baseball Prospectus' season previews and thought he seemed pretty good. I'll be honest and say Rubin's the one I read the most, but I'm pretty ambivalent about his style and "all the sarcasm, all the time" feel. I've always liked Tracky.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 13 2015 12:22 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Carig made what (I think) was the season debut of the Mets Insider inning, where he chats with Josh in the top of the 4th on the radio -- MFYs have done a similar thing with the Snooze for years. I like Carig but easy to see he's a writer and not a talker, although he offered up a little insights as the inning went on.

Elster88 Apr 18 2015 08:36 AM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Rubin linked to Faith and Fear in his blog today saying that F&F is undergoing a "spiritual awakening".

Edgy MD Apr 18 2015 09:21 AM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

It's about time. God, those guys have been spiritually asleep forever.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 27 2015 01:44 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

As discussed previously Rubin is an absolute animal on the Mets beat but the guy is getting murdered on the trade speculation game. He's had almost nothing, while guys like Rosenthal and Sherman almost everything. I guess being in touch with the team day to day means missing out on the agent & exec talk that the national guys traffic in, and I suspect a froisty relationship with Sandy isn't doing him any favors.

TransMonk Jul 27 2015 05:29 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Rubin can't even find a pic of Tyler Clippard.

Edgy MD Jul 27 2015 06:18 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

I blame ESPN editors. They've made him look stoopid before. Maybe they think that's Meisner.

TransMonk Jul 27 2015 07:18 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Agreed. I was just having some fun with him after JCL brought him up earlier today...should have said so. I like Rubin.

dgwphotography Jul 27 2015 07:18 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Rubin has been posting images from Binghamton tonight. I guess he doesn't believe in days off.

Ceetar Jul 27 2015 07:25 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

dgwphotography wrote: Rubin has been posting images from Binghamton tonight. I guess he doesn't believe in days off. you don't get jobs in baseball with days off.

themetfairy Jul 27 2015 07:30 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

D-Dad half expected to see Rubin in Trenton last night for the end of the 5 pm B-Mets game.

d'Kong76 Aug 06 2015 10:09 AM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

My local paper The Journal News (Gannett Company serving Westchester and Putnam counties) has virtually stop covering the Mets in their sports section. The first place New York Mets. Today's coverage: *Yankees prospect makes debut *Met Am golf story *Giants linebacker story *Boulders column *McCann sits *Some chewing tobacco story *Olympics a year away *Small AP MLB roundup *Full page USA Today baseball boxes/standings, etc. *Two more national USA Today pages *Small transactions section, horses, other misc lists *Small local field hockey blurb

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 06 2015 10:26 AM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Yeah they dropped beat coverage years ago but phased it out via a staff blogger, but I don't even know if they even bother with that anymore. Bad news for you ladies and gay guys out there: Beater Marc Carig goes off the market Saturday. You can pick up a rolling pin for the happy couple here: [url]http://www.williams-sonoma.com/registry/679ntscgxk/registry-list.html

d'Kong76 Aug 06 2015 01:48 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Yeah they dropped beat coverage years ago but phased it out via a staff blogger, but I don't even know if they even bother with that anymore. I guess people don't care, otherwise they would have to do something. If what the mayor of Rio de Janeiro is doing to prepare for the Olympics that are a year away is more important than the Mets, there are a lot of assholes reading this paper.

Lefty Specialist Aug 06 2015 07:31 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

A kid I've known since I coached him in Little League with my son is an occasional reporter for nj.com, covering the Mets and sometimes the Yankees. A 20-year-old journalism major living the dream. And yes, I feel really old. http://www.nj.com/mets/index.ssf/2015/0 ... _rumo.html

Edgy MD Aug 18 2015 08:32 AM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

John Harper trying to stir the pot by nominating Wally Backman to replace Matt Williams, even going so far as to cite a long-term relationship between Backman and Mike Rizzo. (Backman spent one year as an A ball manager with Arizona in 2004 when Rizzo was farm director.) Wouldn't the Mets have to give permission for a mid-season walkout by Backman? And wouldn't they be disposed against it?

Benjamin Grimm Aug 18 2015 08:33 AM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

I think they would have to give permission, but it's very rare that those requests are denied.

TransMonk Aug 18 2015 08:38 AM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Would the Nats really fire their manager with six weeks left in the season while their team is still in the hunt? I know the Nats have under-performed this season, but a shake-up like that seems risky.

Ceetar Aug 18 2015 08:43 AM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

TransMonk wrote: Would the Nats really fire their manager with six weeks left in the season while their team is still in the hunt? I know the Nats have under-performed this season, but a shake-up like that seems risky. certainly seems like this is a story because someone needs something to write about in this post-deadline period before we round that final turn where things get really interesting. *checks* Nope, Steinbrenner does not own the Nats. I'd be all for giving up Backman though, ask the Nats for a low-A prospect type back.

Edgy MD Aug 18 2015 09:08 AM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I think they would have to give permission, but it's very rare that those requests are denied. Yeah, but how often do they come in-season from the division rival/favorite sitting just behind you in the standings as the season's stretch run begins? It would take some hell of lot of moxie for the Nats to even ask.

G-Fafif Sep 16 2015 01:07 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Lupica, Madden, F. Bondy all out at Snooze. Would be great if it was for being overwrought hacks. Sadly, it's for budgetary reasons.

Benjamin Grimm Sep 16 2015 01:20 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Wow!

Lefty Specialist Sep 16 2015 01:28 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

How'd they get Lupica's head through the door?

Edgy MD Sep 16 2015 01:42 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Lopping off crappy, institutional name-brand baseball writers a few weeks before the post-season sounds less like budgetary constraints and more like a budgetary emergency.

Benjamin Grimm Sep 16 2015 02:01 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

The article in the Post loves pointing out that the News is struggling. Daily News columnist Mike Lupica out as Zuckerman swings ax (Although I suspect that the Post is struggling just about as much. It's not a good decade for newspapers.) I won't miss any of those three guys. I just hope they keep David Hinckley.

G-Fafif Sep 16 2015 02:11 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

When Lupica wasn't being a legendary jerk, he could be worth the hype. Here he was in the aftermath of June 16, 1997, the night Mlicki shut out the MFYs. The Mets and their fans had waited so long for innings like these. Waited through all these dreary losing seasons, one after another, six in a row. Really, this was the biggest game the Mets had played since the late 1980s, when they could still win 100 games and feel as if they owned New York and make the playoffs. They had lost their fans and watched the Yankees build themselves back into champions. They had watched the children of the city go back to wearing Yankee caps after all the years in the 80s when you walked down the street and saw more Mets caps. Sometimes the Mets felt like they were the kind of sports afterthought that the Islanders have become, that the Nets have always been in basketball. Now they had the stage again. The most famous stage. And were hearing "Let's go, Mets!"

Benjamin Grimm Sep 16 2015 02:20 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

The thing is, he's written various versions of that same paragraph about ten thousand times.

G-Fafif Sep 16 2015 02:26 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Benjamin Grimm wrote: The thing is, he's written various versions of that same paragraph about ten thousand times. And it always got me.

Benjamin Grimm Sep 16 2015 02:49 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

To each his own. I got sick of that paragraph twenty years ago.

Farmer Ted Sep 16 2015 02:53 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Bondy is scheduled to be a featured speaker at a journalism panel in my hood on Oct. 2. Hope he still gets here.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 16 2015 03:44 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Wow. That they whacked Madden suggests a real death spiral, I would say. And Bondy was always enjoyable. They are no longer trying.

dgwphotography Sep 16 2015 03:54 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Just showing what a generational thing reading the newspaper is, one of my co-workers, a huge sports fan, isn't at all familiar with Madden or Bondy, and only knew Lupica by name...

G-Fafif Sep 16 2015 09:44 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Also out: Hank Gola, Stephen Lorenzo, R.A. Dickey collaborator Wayne Coffey, occasional baseball fill-in guy Roger Rubin and sports editor Teri Thompson.

Edgy MD Sep 16 2015 10:02 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

A bloodletting. I suspect Loop resurfaces as a part-timer at Newsday, just to keep his profile up, but lives off his young adult novels and occasional TV.

G-Fafif Sep 16 2015 10:30 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Newsday just sold, along with the rest of non-MSG Cablevision, to Altice, a French telecommunications outfit. Dolans will stay at the Garden, you lucky Knicks fans.

Benjamin Grimm Sep 17 2015 04:10 AM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Wow... Does this mean that from now on Newsday will be published in French?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 21 2015 10:08 AM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

I get a journo job update thing everyday. Congrats are in order for Tracky Andy Martino was named Senior Writer on the new digital long-form team at New York Daily News. He most recently served as Sports Reporter at the publication covering Major League Baseball.

Benjamin Grimm Oct 21 2015 11:21 AM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

What's a "digital long-form team"? And does this mean he won't be covering the Mets anymore? I bet he got this gig because he sounds exactly like Michael J. Fox.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 21 2015 11:40 AM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Martino has been off the Mets beat for a few years, he most recently was a baseball columnist, kind of a minor-league Bill Madden with a focus mainly on Mets & Yanks

Benjamin Grimm Oct 21 2015 11:52 AM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

I guess he has, hasn't he? (I don't pay much attention to the bylines.) I mostly know him from Mets Hot Stove although I have seen his name on columns in the News.

Ceetar Oct 21 2015 12:07 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

this just means he'll do less "Noah pitched six innings and struggling in the 6th" and more "Noah is a racist asshole who.." or something. less news stuff more story.

Benjamin Grimm Oct 23 2015 07:33 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

"Hall of Famer" Bill Madden was on SNY's Mets Playoffs Live today. He was comparing the 2015 Mets to previous Mets pennant winners. When he got to the 2000 team, he dismissed them as having Mike Piazza, Carlos Beltran, Benny Agbayani, and not much else. Didn't that team also have Edgardo Alfonzo? And Robin Ventura? And Cleon Jones? And Hubie Brooks? (See, I can be just as ill-informed as Bill Madden.)

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 23 2015 08:20 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Beltran?

Benjamin Grimm Oct 23 2015 09:06 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

Yup. That's what he said.

Frayed Knot Oct 23 2015 09:32 PM Re: We Got The Beat - 2015

I think Madden just assumes that anyone on the current NYY roster is old to have already signed a FA contract 15 seasons ago.