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On the Mets beat, 2022

Marshmallowmilkshake Feb 10 2022 06:14 AM

Ken Davidoff leaving the Post as of the end of the month. Reading between the lines, it doesn't sound like it was his decision. [url]https://newyorkmets.medium.com/wishing-ken-davidoff-the-best-b3562dc144fc

Johnny Lunchbucket Feb 10 2022 06:57 AM Re: On the Mets beat, 2022

Justin Toscano who did pretty good work for the Jersey papers, will cover the Braves for AJC this year

Edgy MD Feb 10 2022 11:34 AM Re: On the Mets beat, 2022

Look at Justin leaving the Gannett family.

G-Fafif Feb 10 2022 01:04 PM Re: On the Mets beat, 2022

Davidoff knew how to push buttons, for better and otherwise. His Ron Hunt in twilight profiles were beauties.

G-Fafif Apr 05 2022 08:44 PM Re: On the Mets beat, 2022

Jon Heyman will take Davidoff's role at the Post.

G-Fafif Apr 10 2022 09:15 AM Re: On the Mets beat, 2022

A valentine to the disappearing agate type sports page. One more nail was hammered into the societal coffin this week when The New York Times published its Sports Section agate page for the last time. Those under the age of 40 will be wondering, “What's an agate page?” Those under the age of 20 will be wondering, “What's a Sports Section?” All good questions. So for those who need a quick education, the agate page is easily the most dense, most information-packed part of the Sports Section, or the entire newspaper for that matter. It's a daily compendium of sporting tidbits, a World Almanac of obscure information that zero people are interested in, at least you would think. It's where you go for box scores, the schedule of games tomorrow in the National Hockey League, boxing weigh-ins, horse racing schedules, results from the Miami Open — is the Miami Open tennis or golf? Who knows? Who cares? — standings in the NBA and preseason baseball games, high school lacrosse scores, the distance traveled by a javelin thrown by the third place finisher in a Boise track and field meet, and startling news including the revelation that the Minnesota Vikings have agreed to terms with guard Chris Reed on a one-year contract, and that Washington Nationals outfielder Andrew Stevenson has cleared waivers and been optioned to Triple A Rochester. https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/story/opinion/2022/04/06/nostalgia-agate-page-belied-need-magnifying-glass-read-tim-rowland-new-york-times-sports/9481345002/

Willets Point Apr 10 2022 09:28 AM Re: On the Mets beat, 2022

One of those things the internet does better, as much as they have nostalgic appeal. Like, the Baseball Encyclopedia was fun, but baseball-reference.com does all the same things and more and is up to date to the minute.

batmagadanleadoff Apr 10 2022 10:09 AM Re: On the Mets beat, 2022

So why bother having newspapers at all? The internet does everything a newspaper does better. To tell you ths truth, we're probably trending towards a newspaper-less world.

Willets Point Apr 10 2022 02:11 PM Re: On the Mets beat, 2022

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=88934 time=1649606957 user_id=68] The internet does everything a newspaper does better.

I would disagree with this. There are things that newspapers do better (specifically, news), and its best that they focus on those things instead of wasting trees on publishing data when computers can handle that stuff by design. I mean, even the Baseball Encyclopedia was compiled on a computer and basically printed out. Once it became practical to share that data online, it outlived its usefulness.

batmagadanleadoff Apr 11 2022 04:47 PM Re: On the Mets beat, 2022

Willets Point wrote: =batmagadanleadoff post_id=88934 time=1649606957 user_id=68] The internet does everything a newspaper does better. I would disagree with this. There are things that newspapers do better (specifically, news), and its best that they focus on those things instead of wasting trees on publishing data when computers can handle that stuff by design. I mean, even the Baseball Encyclopedia was compiled on a computer and basically printed out. Once it became practical to share that data online, it outlived its usefulness.

Well yeah -- people do the reporting and the investigating and create the journalistic pieces. But the finished product is better disseminated through the web than through physical, hard copy newspapers. For starters I can get a web article without leaving my house, without leaving my bed, and in fact, without even bothering to get dressed. Updated articles or error-corrected articles can be published instantaneously on the web instead of having to wait for next day's paper or the next edition for those few remaining papers that still print more than one edition in a 24 hour period. I think that print media is headed towards extinction.