How long do you keep media guides?

[MTM]

I'm doing some spring cleaning and came across NHL media guides from 2002 to 2009?

Please convince me to either keep them or throw them away.

 

[imjustagirl]

Toss 'em.

 

[reformedhack]

Throw 'em ... except for each year's champion. You can sell those to fans on eBay and make a little bit of under-the-table cash.

 

[21]

Not suggesting you do this, but I keep 'em all. They're like little yearbooks to me.

Normal people, however, toss them.

 

[MeanGreenATO]

They gotta go.

 

[flexmaster33]

Throw 'em ... except for each year's champion. You can sell those to fans on eBay and make a little bit of under-the-table cash.

good idea

 

[reformedhack]

Throw 'em ... except for each year's champion. You can sell those to fans on eBay and make a little bit of under-the-table cash.

good idea

Not saying I've done it. Ain't sayin' I haven't done it, either.

 

[spikechiquet]

Throw 'em ... except for each year's champion. You can sell those to fans on eBay and make a little bit of under-the-table cash.

good idea

Not saying I've done it. Ain't sayin' I haven't done it, either.

Didn't someone get all pissy about this a few years ago on here? I am going to go look it up.

 

[joe_schmoe]

Toss em. Last week I had the same thing, found a handful and was like "Why?" Sure it's history and a nice keepsake, but mainly it's just clutter. I'll never refer back to them and in that rare case I do, most are archived in someone's database.

 

[FileNotFound]

I'm almost surprised paper media guides still exist.

 

[exmediahack]

I may have racked in $200 on eBay over a set of WNBA guides ten years ago. Again, i may not have.

 

[MTM]

Toss em. Last week I had the same thing, found a handful and was like "Why?" Sure it's history and a nice keepsake, but mainly it's just clutter. I'll never refer back to them and in that rare case I do, most are archived in someone's database.

Joe, you nailed it. They seem cool to have, but will I ever open them? Probably not.

I may offer a couple to friends who are fanbois and the rest are headed to the recycle bin.

 

[flexmaster33]

Okay...I lean heavily toward toss them, but during the summer we do a series of Where are they Now? features, and I could see looking back through to pull out information for those stories. But in this digital age, much of that history can be found somewhere online anyway.

For example, we did a CFL players from the 60s last summer, and I found pdfs of old media guides for the Argonauts online to help with that story.

 

[spikechiquet]

Okay...I lean heavily toward toss them, but during the summer we do a series of Where are they Now? features, and I could see looking back through to pull out information for those stories. But in this digital age, much of that history can be found somewhere online anyway.

Yeah, wikipedia. It is a great source to get quality info from.

 

[BYH]

I'm almost surprised paper media guides still exist.

I've been out for a while, so someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure MLB, NFL & NHL guides are online only now, which is an absolute shame. A well-worn media guide at the end of a season was like a badge of honor. And after a couple weeks you knew exactly where everything was. Better to spend a minute or less flipping thru the book and finding what you need than going to a team site, searching for the media guide, searching the table of contents and then scrolling down to maybe find what you needed (but more likely find something completely unrelated to what you needed).

But hey these teams are struggling to make ends meet so yay online media guides.

 

[apeman33]

When I first took over here in 1996, I tossed out tons of media guides the previous sports editor had kept through the years. I remember at least two KU football guides from 1977.

 

[BrianGriffin]

I'm doing some spring cleaning and came across NHL media guides from 2002 to 2009?

Please convince me to either keep them or throw them away.

I throw them out the day before I need them.

Or, at least, that's how it always seems to work.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

I'm almost surprised paper media guides still exist.

I've been out for a while, so someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure MLB, NFL & NHL guides are online only now, which is an absolute shame. A well-worn media guide at the end of a season was like a badge of honor. And after a couple weeks you knew exactly where everything was. Better to spend a minute or less flipping thru the book and finding what you need than going to a team site, searching for the media guide, searching the table of contents and then scrolling down to maybe find what you needed (but more likely find something completely unrelated to what you needed).

But hey these teams are struggling to make ends meet so yay online media guides.

Hard copies of MLB team guides still exist. I stopped taking them, though. MLB puts them all on a single flash drive, which does fine for everything aside from the home team. I still want (and keep) a real copy from the home team. But otherwise, they're just a hellish amount of clutter, given the size of the books and 30 teams.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I sold a ton of them on ebay ages ago and made several hundred dollars. I did so with my boss' blessing. They were about to throw a couple boxes out and I asked him if I could have them and told him I was going to sell them and he was completely fine with it.

I don't think you can make on ebay now what you could in the late 1990s.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I remember covering baseball in the mid-to-late 1990s where if I lost my media guide while on the road, I was dead. These days you should never need one. Everything is online...