Snaking assignments

The suspense is killing me: Did he go anyway?

 

No. I think he saw the daggers coming from my eyes and backed off.

 

It's been done and it will continue to be done. By publications large and small. I know most reporters HATE being put in that position at the expense of another reporter. You'd at least like to think it could be handled with some class.

 

Wasn't someone here just talking about a publisher taking over for the NFL playoffs?

 

I bet Mark Cuban wishes he had this option wih Avery Johnson. Mighta saved Avery's job.

But yeah, be ticked. Had an old SE who used to do this. Always wanted to take over the "winning" beats.

 

I was on the other side of this once. Handed a sweet beat just as it was getting good. Felt bad for the guy ... a young writer and a guy who meant well, but had no work ethic and was a hack. The guy was gone within six months.

 

Looking back at the OP's previous posts, he/she works at a weekly. That has to hurt since aren't most weeklies one-person sports desks?

 

Know of at least two MEs -- at a big paper -- who used credentials to attend big games and sit in the pressboxes, though they didn't work a lick that day. Fans, one of the local MLB club, the other of his alma mater. Two frauds who lost all sorts of respect from the troops on the days in question, though they were oblivious to how bush-league they looked.

 

Well, we know that ain't Marty Morningweg. He'd be lucky to win 10 games at all.

 

The bar is still high for Marty.

 

I work at a three-person desk, the other reporter has another spring playoff covered and I am not the bossman if you get my drift.