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Most tiresome sports story?

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by CD Boogie, Jul 21, 2017.

  1. pseudo

    pseudo Well-Known Member

    Borrrring, right? And yet, a certain team's fans got all ticked off when their beat guys wrote about this instead:


     
  2. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Does part of that stem from the fact there are so many more baseball games than the other sports? Once the season gets rolling there's games at least five days a week. You fall into the daily grind and there's not a lot of time for players to get into other stuff most of the time. Almost all of the drama is connected to the game, unless you have an absolutely dysfunctional team.
    Football and basketball, there's more down time between games and you have to fill more dead air.
     
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  3. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    It's more a reaction to the clickbait mentality taking over the media. We've all seen the headline "Danny Doubledribble slammed on Twitter after missing layup in schoolyard game." OK, a bit extreme, but you get the drift. It's low-hanging fruit that keeps middle managers off the reporters' back.
     
  4. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Back in the late 20th century, before the Pats got good and before the Sox finally won a Series, that sort of stuff was exactly how the Red Sox were covered in Boston. In the '70s, the Herald actually hired a woman whose experience was the entertainment industry beat to cover the team.
     
  5. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    This is it, hands down.
     
  6. fossywriter8

    fossywriter8 Well-Known Member

    But at least he stopped the clock.
     
  7. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Bill Simmons.

    The plight of millennial longformers who can't find a home for their masterworks.
     
  8. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    It's low-hanging fruit that middle managers force reporters to do. I've witnessed this myself.
     
  9. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    For a single story rather than a recurring event, I'll go with God's Quarterback.
     
  10. kleeda

    kleeda Active Member

    A thousand times this.
     
  11. Prep: Two/three sports star feature.
    College: signings/recruiting
    Pros: who got snubbed from whatever all-star game, all-pro team.
    And ...
    ANYTHING sports talk radio is discussing.
     
  12. Doc Holliday

    Doc Holliday Well-Known Member

    Jim Rome getting bitch slapped by Jim "Chris" Everett. I thought that would never go away.

     
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