AP bowl bitching thread

[shotglass]

Alamo Bowl ends at 11:57 p.m. Eastern.

Chicago Tribune story, 19 inches live, moves at 12:14 a.m. Eastern.

AP moves FOUR PARAGRAPHS at 12:15 a.m. Eastern.

Sickening, embarrassing, shameful.

 

[shotglass]

Unbelievable. It's 12:28, and if people don't have the McClatchy wire, they're sitting on 5.2 inches of Alamo Bowl copy.

Somebody forget that East Coast papers have deadlines?

 

[satchmo]

I loved all the sweet Northwestern shots and the total lack of anything resembling a Missouri player doing anything but running for his life — if we're voting.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

Unbelievable. It's 12:28, and if people don't have the McClatchy wire, they're sitting on 5.2 inches of Alamo Bowl copy.

Somebody forget that East Coast papers have deadlines?

Under our old deadline (12:45 a.m. EST), we could have gotten the game in the paper. But now, our deadline is 11:45, which we missed by a good 30 minutes tonight while finishing up high school roundups and waiting for our SE to get his column in after computer troubles.

 

[2underpar]

i left about a 12-inch hole. filled with a photo and that quality 4 inches of AP copy. it looks like crap but i had to do something to move the page.

 

[friend of a friend]

This would fit better in an ESPN bowl bitching thread, but can anyone tell me why ESPN showed Chase Daniel's family after ever ****ing play in the final quarter/OT? (They may have done it after every play of the game, but I only watched the last half-hour.)

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

What exactly is the deal with speed of box scores moving on the AP wire and bowl games? It seems like they take forever and a day to move. When a reasonable amount of time passes you get an advisory from AP saying there's a problem at the source. Why is this?

 

[spnited]

i left about a 12-inch hole. filled with a photo and that quality 4 inches of AP copy. it looks like crap but i had to do something to move the page.

Is either Mizzou or Northwestern "local" to you? If not, why would you need 12 inches on that game?

 

[shotglass]

i left about a 12-inch hole. filled with a photo and that quality 4 inches of AP copy. it looks like crap but i had to do something to move the page.

Is either Mizzou or Northwestern "local" to you? If not, why would you need 12 inches on that game?

Because it's a bowl game, and we have room to use 12 inches on a bowl game?

12 inches on a nationally televised football game is hardly worthy of question.

 

[spnited]

Some of us don't have that kind of space for an out-of-area useless bowl game with too much other stuff going on

 

[shotglass]

It's no big thing. We got a 20-page section; we had room. Some do.

I had an open tab page for two bowl games.

 

[shotglass]

Well, I know where he's going with it, buck. If you're in a heavy prep market like us, you have plenty going on.

 

[spnited]

NFL coach gets canned; State U wins its bowl game; local NHL and NBA teams playing tonight; boatloads of high school basketball and wresting holiday tournaments ... 10-page section fills up fast.
Alamo Bowl, ending close to second edition deadline is barely a blip

 

[shotglass]

See, where we are, the NBA and the NHL are what barely merit a blip. Bowl game is way over that ... for us.

 

[spnited]

Yup. Market differences

 

[Angola!]

market differences aside, ap should still move more than 4 inches of copy at that point.

 

[spnited]

market differences aside, ap should still move more than 4 inches of copy at that point.

No doubt. But they've been bad on all of these night bowl games.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Just think if they ever play a bowl in Mississippi.

 

[shotglass]

I don't believe I'll ever have to think about that.

The Branson Bowl before anything in Mississippi.

 

[JakeandElwood]

Unbelievable. It's 12:28, and if people don't have the McClatchy wire, they're sitting on 5.2 inches of Alamo Bowl copy.

Somebody forget that East Coast papers have deadlines?

Under our old deadline (12:45 a.m. EST), we could have gotten the game in the paper. But now, our deadline is 11:45, which we missed by a good 30 minutes tonight while finishing up high school roundups and waiting for our SE to get his column in after computer troubles.

Count your blessings. Our deadline is 9:30 right now.

Yikes.