Desk editors: What did you do with Braden's perfect game?

No paper Monday, but I would have teased it and put a 10-incher inside with art.

 

Led the MLB Roundup with a mug of Braden on 3B, top of page. Didn't tease to it though...a local team threw its second perfect game in a row (albeit a second 5-inning perfect game blowout win and the 2nd game had 3 pitchers combine for it), so I teased that instead.

 

I put the Jimenez no-hitter across the top on a not-too-terribly-busy Saturday night. Partly because it was the first in Rockies' history and they are the closest thing we have to a regional team (albeit several hours away).

I guess my mindset is that a good percentage of the readership is like me: adults with no kids in the schools and no ties to the local area and could care less about high schools or legion ball. So I try to balance it out. We rarely have a day with NO local stories on the cover and we rarely have a day with NO wire stories on the cover, either.

 

I don't understand this thinking. If you are a daily newspaper and that's the biggest thing that happened the day before, why bury it in lieu of other wire copy because some of your readers may have seen it already?

If that's the case, they would have seen everything in your newspaper.

 

Unless you have a really amazing local story, and maybe even still, perfect games in the majors don't happen that often. Sports front definitely, and maybe tease on front page.

And if anyone saw the National Post (one of Canada's national papers) it was huge on their front.

 

WFW. There's too many editors who out-think and abuse the "already seen it" mantra.

That rationale is fine for a run-of-the-mill game, not so for a perfect game.

 

I still by my belief that a perfect game is rare and more significant than the NBA, NHL playoff games or the golf tournament that day.

If we start going by the notion that "everyone has already seen it" we will make newspapers altogether obsolete.

 

We're a good-size metro paper, and we put all no-hitters and perfect games on the cover in some form -- refer on top, or in our news-of-the-day rail, at the very least.