S.F. Chronicle has two front pages Saturday for Bonds story

Innovation: Something our industry is lacking.

 

If finding ways to do more of the same with fewer people isn't innovative, I don't know what is.

 

I'm speaking more to the upper-echelon, glass-office folks. There are more of those than ever.

 

I'm certain it's not this way in San Fran, but has anybody else noticed how Barry seems to have disappeared in the media since he broke the record?

 

Also done here: http://cgi.ebay.com/SPIDERMAN-1-1990-2-COPIES-DIFFERENT-COVERS-NEVER-READ_W0QQitemZ130155637771QQihZ003QQcategoryZ17082QQcmdZViewItem

in the comic book world.

 

If I had to pick between the two, that'd be my choice. The one on the left just has too many elements competing for attention. The one on the right looks stark, which is appealing if Barry's as popular in San Francisco as he seems to be.

That said, I'd have a big problem with that being the front page of the entire paper if I were at the Chronicle. Didn't anything else happen that was newsworthy?

Barry's contract not being picked up would hardly merit dominating the entire front page in my opinion. Maybe a centerpiece story on A1. Probably should at least be somewhere on A1 if not above the fold. But it shouldn't be the ONLY story on the front.

If he were actually busted for steroid use, that would be above the fold worthy in my book.

 

This is an interesting take, but 80 percent of the newspapers in this country don't have the manpower to essentially have one guy dicking around trying to come up with something cool.

 

I'm sure the guys working on these were pounding out daily pages while they worked on this. It's unlikely this was the only thing they were working on.

Personally, I think it would've had greater effect if they'd used "buh-bye" rather than "bye-bye."

 

I really like that idea. Not that I'd recommend it on a daily or a semi-regular basis. But that's probably a decent way to pocket some more money and definitely a collector's dream.

 

Yeah. Editorializing.

 

I like the one on the right better, but why the black box? Why not just use the reverse type on the deadspace presented by the dugout wall?

 

Perhaps they tried it and couldn't get it to work correctly.