Yahoo Cuts A Comin'

OK, I'm a rival (not Rivals.com), but think Yahoo does a lot of great work, very solid writers. And a LOT of people use Yahoo as one of their primary sports sites.

I think apseloser is in my top five of people I most consistently disagree with here.

 

Am I No. 2 or 3?

 

Wrapper, you're reasonably high on the other list, actually.

 

Ah, a top-five list I can actually make now.

 

Disagree with me about the quality of the site all you want, but apseloser knows what he's talking about with the in-fighting that exists there. It is UGLY.

 

It's just apseloser being apseloser.

Anyhoo, Yahoo has had financial issues for months, so it's not surprising that some trimming could take place.

 

Re: The shot above that apseloser take at Dave Morgan. "A real visionary," apseloser says sarcastically.

I think what APSEloser might have been referring to was a recent APSE article in which Morgan tells us what he would do over again if he returned to newspapers.

The implication that all of a sudden he's such an expert is a little irritating. The advice he gave wasn't too fresh.

 

Me too.

 

Question: If you're not going to at least hear what he's saying, then who?

 

Nothing wrong with listening; I'm just saying he had nothing new to offer in what he wrote. He got a good job at a big online operation, but that doesn't make him an expert on what went wrong at newspapers. What went wrong is that classified advertising went away. that's no. 1.

I'd rather listen to ESPN's John Walsh (who invented Inside Sports way back when); or the guy who created ProFootballTalk from ground zero; or the journalists today who are making intelligent choices about sharing resources.

 

Yeah, because the founding of Inside Sports is so relevant to the state of sports journalism at the end of 2008.

 

No, because Walsh, besides doing many good things at ESPN, is a man of original ideas. That doesn't go away.