Very ugly day at CBSSports.com

Both excellent guys with strong reputations in the industry. Does CBS even have a plan for its online product? It really sucks at this point.

 

Not 20+ years (that would put him at 1993), I'd say more like around 11 or 12 years. Still a long time, obviously.

 

Down to 1 columnist on baseball (Jon Heyman)
http://www.cbssports.com/writers/columns

 

I figure the plan revolves around not burning through money.

I so wish these guys had their jobs still. But I don't see how any of these free, national Web sites really survive at the extent they have. They're money pits.

 

Quite possibly.

With a million different internet sites (newspapers, broadcast, stand alones, etc.) there is just a glut of information beyond what any audience needs. How many different writers or columnists does one really want to read about the Aaron Hernandez or Alex Rodriguez situations?

A generation ago, you had your local newspaper and maybe one or two magazines (Sports Illustrated, Sporting News, etc.). Now, regardless of whether you live in downtown New York or out in Podunk, with a few clicks you can read any of an endless number of sites and stories about anything under the sun. It's all become redundant.

 

More "fantasy" columnists than baseball columnists.

 

Yeah, I'm friends with a couple of the guys who handle fantasy columnist jobs at some of these major sites and some of them were guys who could barely get past preps at major papers. They found their niche, that's for sure... More power to them...

 

And now anybody with a phone, who knows how to (be a) Twit, is a journalist.

It's a sad, sad state of how this business has evolved.

 

Stick around. It gets worse.

 

Or, rather, devolved.

 

Trust me. Scott Miller was at $100K-plus.

 

OK, Scott, I belive you.