I know it's Bleacher Report, but...

Steroids don't help.
Just ask the Cubs.

All have spent at least one season with the Cubs since '99.

Kerry Wood
Mark Prior
Matt Clement
Carlos Zambrano
Alfonso Soriano
Derrek Lee
Sammy Sosa
Nomar Garciaparra
Jerry Hairston
Milton Bradley
Cliff Floyd
Jeromy Burnitz
Moises Alou
Corey Patterson
Antonio Alfonseca
Juan Cruz
Aramis Ramirez
Benito Santiago

 

So I should delete that off my resume? I was an "editor" for a little over a month last summer. I stopped due to lack of pay and, you know, the desire to write/edit for a real media outlet.

 

I don't know if I'd go that far. I just hope that you have some other stuff too.

 

I would delete it, yeah. It's not relevant professional experience, and I say that mostly because it's such an amateurish site. (Which is about the nicest thing I can say about it.)

Hey, if you want to write for the site, fine. Got nothing against the people who do. But it's not resume-worthy. Not for anyone serious about working in sports media.

For me, I admit seeing that site on a resume would be somewhat of a red flag. Better to leave it off.

 

I do. I'd say BR is a tiny footnote in the list of my experiences, which is why after reading this I was toying with deleting it.

 

Bleacher Report has been the home of so many great posters of SportsJournalists.com. Remember Minnesota4Ever?

http://bleacherreport.com/users/124216-leslie-monteiro

 

Seriously: If somebody's resume goes into the waste basket simply because Bleacher Report is listed on their resume, you're going to eliminate some talented people -- and that's going to be more and more the case in the future, not less.

They have a lot of hacks -- they also have some pretty talented young people who are using BR as a place to get published and try things, particularly given the lack of opportunities in this job market.

This is another one of those "rules" that you should think twice about.