Is this the year we stop running MLB boxes?

And that's why I say if we could only put out one page of sports per day, it should be the scoreboard page.

Of course, I've always said that without thinking it might someday come to that.

 

we already dropped the roundups a few years ago.

 

That logic is what is ruining newspapers. My god. Yeah, like people don't want to pick up a paper at the pool in the summer and leisurely read boxes.

 

i agree to a point, but if i only have 4 pages i'm not wasting space on mlb boxes. every market is different.

 

yeah, fred. that's what did it.
(if you say so.)

 

I agree. It's a space issue, plain and simple. In a perfect world, you could run every boxscore from every pro and college and high school team. That's the beauty of the internet.

I agree with major metros running them. Of course, major metros have at least 6-8 pages even on the slowest of days. Not so for smaller papers.

Got into a major argument with an SE last spring about running a full list of MLB player and team statistics every Sunday. My point was that as a copy desk guy, I could use that 45 inches more efficiently.

 

Our readers are all 100 years old. They don't know how to use the Internet.

 

Then you have a bigger problem than whether to run MLB boxes.

 

By "our" I meant "newspapers" .... and, yeah, we have problems, as no doubt you've noticed.

 

30K here in Dubuque, IA.
Closest MLB teams are in Chicago and Milwaukee, some 3 hours away.
Only a 4-page sports section every day.

We stopped running MLB boxes a few years back.

It prompted far and away the biggest reader backlash we've had in my 7 years at the paper.

The boxes were back within a week.

 

My paper is based in a minor-league city between two large metropolitan areas, each with MLB and NBA teams.

We tried to take out the NBA boxes before the season and were given hell for it. I don't know if thought has yet been given to the MLB boxes, but I almost guarantee they'll all be in there - even the previous night's late games.

 

30K and the most you get is four pages??