Joe Posnanski to SI full-time?

[mediaguy]

This tweet from @JoePosnanski: Weird to be tweeted about. Story is mostly true. I'm leaving for SI. But we're staying in KC and I'll still write for Star. Details to folo.

Didn't see another thread on it, so figured I'd post ...

Story here ...

http://thebiglead.com/?p=16920

 

[Diabeetus]

Damn...you beat me to it.

 

[Diabeetus]

His column explaining it: http://www.kansascity.com/180/story/1365630.html

 

[Shaggy]

The beancounters are having a celebration tonight because that six-figure salary is off the books.

It's probably only secondary that they lost one of the best writers in the biz.

I'm guessing he won't be replaced.

 

[buckweaver]

As great and prominent as he is, is the Star paying him six figures?

Seems like a lot for K.C. (although, admittedly, I know nothing of that market.)

 

[imjustagirl]

As great and prominent as he is, is the Star paying him six figures?

Seems like a lot for K.C. (although, admittedly, I know nothing of that market.)

I can't imagine how they wouldn't be. I mean, at a paper that size, I'd say low six would be what a columnist would be making.

 

[SockPuppet]

Good for Joe. He's one of the nicest, most decent guys in the biz. I'm jealous only because he can out-write me 24-7-365. He's a writer, dammit, and a good one.

 

[shockey]

Good for Joe. He's one of the nicest, most decent guys in the biz. I'm jealous only because he can out-write me 24-7-365. He's a writer, dammit, and a good one.

yup. 8) 8) 8)

 

[Tarheel316]

No question he's a greater writer. But I don't see how any paper can afford a six-figure columnist now. He surely won't be replaced at K.C. and that might save a few jobs.

 

[Wenders]

If he's not making six-figures, they're definitely shelling out that much for the combo of Whitlock at Poz. Now the Star gets the best of both worlds: a Posnanski column without having to pay him.

Poz deserves it though.

 

[dkbxt5]

His column explaining it: http://www.kansascity.com/180/story/1365630.html

Great read, as he always is. It took a while for the site to load for me. Must be a lot of traffic wanting to read it.

 

[zimmaniac06]

He's got something else up on his blog now, too: http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2009/08/04/yuni-watch-and-yes-my-life/

Just curious--does this mean SI is going to phase someone out to make up for it, or do they have the money to make him full-time without any problems?

 

[Den1983]

Good for Pos, and good move by SI. I definitely look forward to reading more of his stuff.

 

[Joe Williams]

Wasn't all that long ago that newspaper sports editors would sit around and lust over their "dream team" potential hires. I'd hear Joe's name a lot at my shop, even though the place never was going to make an offer or have a chance.

Do the SEs even bother with such fantasyland stuff these days? Never mind hiring "dream teamers," many of them aren't permitted to hire anyone and instead hope they don't have to dump too many of the stiffs they already have. It's like they've gone from Yankees dreams to Pirates reality, the whole damn newspaper industry.

Good for Joe and good for SI. Since I'm a reader who doesn't give a hoot about "hyperlocal" in most cases, the daily newspapers' obsession with that is only furthering their obsolescence in our household.

 

[Rockbottom]

No question he's a greater writer. But I don't see how any paper can afford a six-figure columnist now. He surely won't be replaced at K.C. and that might save a few jobs.

She-eet, the columnist/"sports editor" at MY former rag managed to rope the powers-that-be into a six-figure salary! And, as far as I know, is still "earning" that wage.

rb

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Good for Joe.

I've never met him, but he's probably the only writer in America who could get me to read a single word about the KC Royals.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

Joyce DeWitt's DUI from weeks ago is the most-read story on the kc site?

Wowza.

 

[Songbird]

Joyce DeWitt's DUI from weeks ago is the most-read story on the kc site?

Wowza.

She may not rank ahead of Greinke in Joe's eyes, but he probably still ranked her ahead of Lincecum.

 

[exmediahack]

If the Star was paying less than $250,000 a year for Poz... they got a bargain.

I imagine that, over the past two years or so, the beancounters got tense at the cost of Whitlock & Posnanski. That has to be about 450-500k for the two.

 

[playthrough]

Good for Joe. He's one of the nicest, most decent guys in the biz. I'm jealous only because he can out-write me 24-7-365. He's a writer, dammit, and a good one.

That's what I've always liked. Surely he has had offers to be a talking head somewhere, yet I can't recall him even as a guest on ESPN or anywhere else. If he didn't have a columnist mugshot, I wouldn't know what he looked like. I think that's an excellent thing for a true writer.