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Peace be with you if you cover baseball for the AP

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by TheHacker, Mar 16, 2011.

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  1. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Probably. If a writer leads with, as in the above example, a guy that goes 3-for-4 on the wrong end of a blowout, he's full of fail. If I'm a reader and a fan of the bad team, I'm insulted by that. I'll look at the box score to see who played worth a crap on my team. I can handle the gory details of the loss in a story.
     
    playthrough, Mar 18, 2011
    #25
  2. Roland of Gilead

    Roland of Gilead Member

    But we can still expect the usual selection of photos featuring each starting pitcher and one guy sliding into second base, right?
     
    Roland of Gilead, Mar 18, 2011
    #26
  3. Smasher_Sloan

    Smasher_Sloan Active Member

    You're expecting a thoughtful analysis of the losing team's long-term middle infield situation?

    Taylor said this stuff will be out 60 to 75 minutes after the last out. Prepare for the obvious.
     
    Smasher_Sloan, Mar 18, 2011
    #27
  4. dkphxf

    dkphxf Member

    60-75 is easily enough time to write a good game story.
     
    dkphxf, Mar 18, 2011
    #28
  5. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    It's also enough time write a lousy one.
     
    slappy4428, Mar 18, 2011
    #29
  6. Smasher_Sloan

    Smasher_Sloan Active Member

    Is it enough time to write two? That's the point here.
     
    Smasher_Sloan, Mar 18, 2011
    #30
  7. Tucsondriver

    Tucsondriver Member

    60 is probably enough time to write two bad ones. 75 should get you two decent ones, as long as they're not expecting them to be that different.
     
    Tucsondriver, Mar 18, 2011
    #31
  8. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    But how many times can you write "Pirates lose again, but try really, really hard." I think most fans are smart enough to know that their team may not be the story every day.
     
    HanSenSE, Mar 19, 2011
    #32
  9. BB Bobcat

    BB Bobcat Active Member

    Who says you have to write something positive in the lead? That's not what beat writers do.

    I think one story can lead with "Albert Pujols had two homers" and the other with "Ross Ohlendorf got ripped again..."

    Shouldn't be that hard to make the top 6-8 graphs different and have the same bottom.
     
    BB Bobcat, Mar 19, 2011
    #33
  10. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Why would fans in western Pennsylvania want any other team to be the story?
     
    LongTimeListener, Mar 19, 2011
    #34
  11. Versatile

    Versatile Active Member

    Amen.
     
    Versatile, Mar 21, 2011
    #35
  12. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    This. Baseball is pretty zero-sum. If someone succeeded, someone else failed equally.
     
    RickStain, Mar 21, 2011
    #36
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