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Good Lord, the LA Times sports page looks like garbage today

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by poindexter, Oct 20, 2011.

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  1. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    Worse than the Herschel Walker trade or Randy White for Craig Morton?
     
    PCLoadLetter, Oct 20, 2011
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  2. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    I know, asking for context not absolutism. Hate to thread jack it, but it's over paying for a desperate need, but one of the worst all time trades.[/at least it's too early for that hyperbole]
     
    heyabbott, Oct 20, 2011
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  3. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    Yeah, might be a little dramatic...

    But they traded potentially two first-round picks for a washed-up, semi-retired quarterback because their starting quarterback -- who they like -- is injured and will miss several games.

    Even Al wouldn't have done that.
     
    PCLoadLetter, Oct 20, 2011
    #15
  4. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    No national baseball writer? Did Bill Shaikin leave? He's been all over the McCourt divorce story. I noticed they had Kevin Baxter at the Series instead of the Dodger or Angels beat writer? And is Sam Farmer not the NFL guy any more?
     
    HanSenSE, Oct 20, 2011
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  5. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    Are you really going to argue that?

    I grew up reading the Times every morning. Somehow they managed to find stories to fill a section twice that size in the slowest parts of the year.

    I was going through and pointing out that each example of why there was nothing to report was off-base. They could always cover other stuff that wasn't on the list... like, you know, game one of the World Series.
     
    PCLoadLetter, Oct 20, 2011
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  6. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    LA's had crappy teams lots of times... the sports page has never looked like this.
     
    poindexter, Oct 20, 2011
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  7. YGBFKM

    YGBFKM Guest

    TTIUWOP
     
    YGBFKM, Oct 20, 2011
    #19
  8. SoCalDude

    SoCalDude Active Member

    Shaikin is the national baseball writer. He is locked in to the McCourt story, which he owns. How many of you have ever owned a story that has been ongoing for more than a year?
     
    SoCalDude, Oct 20, 2011
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  9. Birdscribe

    Birdscribe Active Member

    There will be more than that, I assure you (flack'sagencyhelpingMLShere) ;)
     
    Birdscribe, Oct 20, 2011
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  10. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    I grew up with the World Champion. Devoured it every morning. First thing I pick up when I go back home, after a double-double. My goal was to work there some day. Hopefully, it's not as bad as is being portrayed. But lots of newspapers have taken steps back, sadly. Hell, the local broadsheet out here didn't even send anyone to the World Series and only did a glorified refer off the sports front this morning for the World Series, so at least Baxter is there. I guess.
     
    MileHigh, Oct 20, 2011
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  11. rpmmutant

    rpmmutant Member

    Stories on ESPNLA that were not in the LA Times:
    Angels GM search continues
    Hopkins decision overturned
    UCLA basketball ranked in preseason top 20

    Stories that LA Times didn't give justice that were on the ESPNLA.com website
    UCLA vs Arizona football game
    USC Marc Tyler story (They are playing Notre Dame this weekend)
    Galaxy soccer story
    Kings hockey story

    Plenty to write about without a national angle.
     
    rpmmutant, Oct 20, 2011
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  12. Quakes

    Quakes Guest

    I lived in Southern California for a while in the '90s. The sports section in the Times was incredible. Working there was a goal of mine, too, although an extremely unrealistic one in my case. I've never seen a better sports section, or even one as good. (Admittedly, I was not around for the halcyon days in the '70s and '80s.) And they did it every day. Sad to hear that the decline has been so steep.
     
    Quakes, Oct 21, 2011
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