An Interesting Career Move

[huntsie]

I too, am wondering about the "silver spoon" comment. Who's his dad/contact/leg up? And the bottom line, I guess, is that you still have to make it on your own. Red Sox at 24 and then making a move on his own terms? The kid made it on his own

 

[BYH]

Why are you all wasting time discussing the life of a child born with a silver spoon in his mouth?

Silver spoon or not, always seemed to me he had the talent to back everything he was "given".

The one story of his I read in the Globe was cliche from word one. If that passes for talent...

You've clearly never read him.

Another jealous never-was checks in. Thanks for stopping by!

Learn to read, pal. I commented on the one story of his I have read. Maybe everything else he has ever written has been genius, but I didn't comment on his entire body of work. I commented on one story. Take that for what it's worth.

I did not mean to rile up the wrath of the great and mighty BYH. With your 17 thousand careers posts you clearly know more than I.

Yet you come on and smear his name after reading one story.

Dumb ****ing ass.

 

[EE94]

A native of New England, Snow will work closely with assistant general manager Tom Lynn and hold a wide range of responsibilities, including statistical analysis, player contract research, supporting staff in training camps, team travel and scouting as well as providing content for the club's Web site.

Unintentionally hilarious. The director of hockey ops has to provide website content? No wonder they hired a journo!

My guess is the kid got a fancy title, but will be doing joe-jobs with the promise of learning and perhaps progressing.
But he'd be naive to think he'll be a GM one day. In the hockey world, there is only derision for anyone who never played the game at a serious level.

 

[shockey]

chris snow leaving the globe for the wild speaks more to the absurdity of that nhl franchise than it does to the state of journalism and the boston globe. best of luck to him. he'll need it. then again, his luck has been darn good thus far.

 

[Lester Bangs]

This kid sounds damn bright, so if your organizational philosophy is "get as many good people on board as possible," he sounds like he fits the bill, even without the organizational experience. No matter what some of these morons (Isiah) want us to believe, their not neurosurgeons, so a guy who's 25 and bright will probably be a killer by the time he's 30 ... and the Wild are probably getting him on the relative cheap.

BTW, B&B, if you're going to be chicken**** and take a cheapshot, at least stand behind it in your anonymity as opposed to trying to act like you had no beef with the guy.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

Come on, people. I don't know Chris Snow from a snowcone, but the Wild aren't just gonna hire a guy because they like him. I'm sure they think he's got the same thing any first-round pick of theirs has - talent and potential. They think he's already good, and he's young, so he's gonna get better, and getting him now will probably be cheaper and easier than doing so in 5-10 years. So why not? He's got to be a hard-worker to have had a beat like he had, and I have no doube he's very intelligent. So where's the problem here? He can learn. Assistant GM or whatever it is isn't brain surgery - a little training, a little experience and he'll get it fine.

I think it's just jealousy from people on here that he's done more and been more successful by age 25 than some will ever be. Which just tells me he's more mature than most, too.

 

[friend of the friendless]

Mr Shackleford,

Comparing the Wild's first-rounders and Snow ... interesting, maybe even apropos. Does that mean he's Gaborik or Brent Burns? (hiockey joke)

YHS, etc

 

[insideman]

I don't know what the Wild are thinking, but I can tell you that the silver spoon stuff is crap. Snow is bright, aggressive and talented. He interned for the Globe, cut his teeth in Minnesota and was asked back to Boston. The Globe has undergone a youth movement in recent years. They hired Shira Springer to cover the Celtics in much the same manner.
I've heard that he'll only make $40-50,000 in his new job. It's not like he's becoming the GM. He's going to be a cross-checker of contracts and statistics, things like that. It's not brain surgery but it's a good way for him to break into the business. He has little to lose. He's good enough that if it doesn't work out he can easily move back to writing.
That said, there are people in the Fenway press box who aren't shedding any tears. He can be a bit brash and arrogant, although he's never been nasty to anyone, and I'm sure there's the age thing that rubs some people the wrong way.
One more thing: about this business of immediately removing him from the beat? Am I missing something? Where's the conflict? It's not like he accepted a job at the Herald. He's moving to an entirely different job in an entirely different setting.
OK, one more thing: Amalie Benjamin is in no way ready to take over that beat.

 

[Lester Bangs]

I don't know what the Wild are thinking, but I can tell you that the silver spoon stuff is crap. Snow is bright, aggressive and talented. He interned for the Globe, cut his teeth in Minnesota and was asked back to Boston. The Globe has undergone a youth movement in recent years. They hired Shira Springer to cover the Celtics in much the same manner.
I've heard that he'll only make $40-50,000 in his new job. It's not like he's becoming the GM. He's going to be a cross-checker of contracts and statistics, things like that. It's not brain surgery but it's a good way for him to break into the business. He has little to lose. He's good enough that if it doesn't work out he can easily move back to writing.
That said, there are people in the Fenway press box who aren't shedding any tears. He can be a bit brash and arrogant, although he's never been nasty to anyone, and I'm sure there's the age thing that rubs some people the wrong way.
One more thing: about this business of immediately removing him from the beat? Am I missing something? Where's the conflict? It's not like he accepted a job at the Herald. He's moving to an entirely different job in an entirely different setting.
OK, one more thing: Amalie Benjamin is in no way ready to take over that beat.

You've hit on the problem a lot of people have with guys like Snow and Benjamin ... that the best writers are not always on the best beats. I am certain Snow (and Benjamin, too) is fine, but there are plenty more with more experience who are, yeah, probably better, at least at this point in their careers. That people who have put in their time, expanded their Rolodex and have seen much, much more than these two don't get called up for these jobs rankles some to no end. And they have a point. Been there myself.

But life ain't fair and anybody who expects it to be should go head on back to pre-school, where I know for a fact my kid got the same amount of crackers today as the girl next to him and they all got along famously. Bottom line ... if you have game, you'll get a shot someplace and make your mark. If you do not, you won't and you can come here to **** on the lucky bastards who didn't have to pay their dues to get ahead, which is a lot like being pissed at your asshole brother-in-law for winning the lottery. Therapeutic, but pointless, and makes you look bitter and sad.