NY Mag feature on Shams

[Azrael]

Eh.

"sports" "writing" is mostly now a matter of metrics, betting odds and the transaction wire.

In a TikTok world, the entirety of sports is an agate page.

 

[playthrough]

I don't begrudge any of these guys doing this and cashing in, but Woj is 54 and Schefter is 56. If they're still doing this well into their 60s, with two phones still surgically attached and missing movies, holidays, etc., then they've lost the plot.

 

[justgladtobehere]

Eh.

"sports" "writing" is mostly now a matter of metrics, betting odds and the transaction wire.

In a TikTok world, the entirety of sports is an agate page.

I was driving last night and was listening to a national show. They had Jason La Confora on. I thought he was a good national NFL writer. He was talking about his picks and whom he liked next week. It was kind of jarring to hear him doing gambling picks.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I don't begrudge any of these guys doing this and cashing in, but Woj is 54 and Schefter is 56. If they're still doing this well into their 60s, with two phones still surgically attached and missing movies, holidays, etc., then they've lost the plot.

I sort of see Woj as Coach K, except his "only retire the numbers of players who graduated" were his great articles. He saw how the industry was changing and went full-bore the other direction in order to stay relevant. You don't have to like it, but you have to respect it. (Actually you don't w/the weasel Coach K ) You really learn to respect guys like Jay Wright, who saw how things were changing and said nah, I'm good and content w/my legacy as is, time to stop missing movies, holidays, etc.

Schefter is like Pitino: He's always been like this and he'll always be like this and he'll be doing this in his 70s, good health and the delayed heat death of the universe permitting.

 

[Octave]

La Canfora is still at CBS Sports, is he not? I recall him saying he left his scoop job at NFL Network because of burnout. He had young kids at the time, and you never get that time back.

 

[Octave]

"sports" "writing" is mostly now a matter of metrics, betting odds and the transaction wire.

That is depressing, but valid as hell. Pure fanhood = the dodo.

 

[AD]

big picture: the victory of numbers over words, speed over music, money over craft.

 

[MileHigh]

La Canfora is still at CBS Sports, is he not? I recall him saying he left his scoop job at NFL Network because of burnout. He had young kids at the time, and you never get that time back.

CBS dumped him last year.

 

[John]

La Canfora is still at CBS Sports, is he not? I recall him saying he left his scoop job at NFL Network because of burnout. He had young kids at the time, and you never get that time back.

He writes a few times a week for the Post during football season and has a radio show in Baltimore. Also appears on Kornheiser's show on Fridays.

 

[Slacker]

You really learn to respect guys like Jay Wright, who saw how things were changing and said nah, I'm good and content w/my legacy as is, time to stop missing movies, holidays, etc.

Yeah, this right here.

 

[Octave]

big picture: the victory of numbers over words, speed over music, money over craft.

I think we've learned quite a bit about our fellow travellers during the last generation of time or so.
They don't want what we sell, and they mean it this time.
Jefferson always said a generation lasts about 17 or 18 years.
That was about how long it took print journalism to die.

I had a kid come to my door yesterday trying to sell me some kind of Wi-Fi ****. There wasn't anything in the world that would have made me give him the three or five minutes to make his presentation. I didn't have time, I didn't care and I wasn't interested. They aren't interested in newspapers' way of doing things, either. For a number of reasons.

I spent quite a bit of time (!!!) in a rest home lately and not one (1) person I saw was reading a newspaper. Not a one.