Joe Posnanski gets his own "longform" website

I could be wrong, but my feeling has always been that journalists love longform. Readers are more meh. Take it or leave it (or at least take it just once in a while, but not being clubbed over the head with it).

 

Agree that it'll probably last two years, like most sportswriting start-ups. But it's nice to see a sportswriting longform site run by someone who doesn't actively loathe sportswriters.

 

You mean as opposed to Gannett?

 

As opposed to Grantland.

 

Readers like interesting stories. I'm not sure they distinguish it the way we do. "Longform" works best, as far as keeping a reader reading, when it's written as a narrative, not when it's a writer bloviating. Action. Cliffhangers. If it's written like a short story, they'll keep going.

 

As much SB Nation as Grantland.

 

How so SB Nation?

 

Featuring Ned Yost as the first article is a sure-fire way for Posnanski to cement his reputation as the greatest milquetoast sports writer in history.

 

If it's written like most short stories, Dick, it'll probably stink. Short fiction is the domain of writerly genuflecting. It's kind of a requirement to get into many lit journals, insomuch that they still function and exist.

 

Disagree, and disagree 1,000 percent. Not good ones. And they are better now, and more urgent and less writerley, than they used to be.

 

Didn't get the move from SI, and it seems like the Paterno book sapped his mojo. Or maybe, karma.

 

Better than they were when? In the late 90s and early 2000s? Sure. I'll agree with that.