Running AP gripe thread

[greenlantern]

You think a Packers-Bears box would be too much to ask? The game's been over for almost half an hour.

 

[jlee]

Re: Dammit AP

It's "damn it " AP, according to AP, I believe.

 

[HanSenSE]

Re: Dammit AP

Seems like the boxes were a little slow trickling in during preseason. I don't worry too much about it during the season since we're a pm'er and can grab them all when all the games are done, but one thing they didn't do tonight is put all the boxes in one or two files. That and I neglected to rewrite some of our stylesheets/paragraph styles (I speak InDesign and Quark) for NFL, gotta sit down with the paginators.

 

[UPChip]

Re: Dammit AP

Today's AP gripe:

A Detroit Red Wings season preview article did not move before 2:23 p.m. Thursday. Their season starts with a game today at 3 p.m. in Sweden. I was hoping to run it big in my Thursday PM (nothing happens here as far as preps on Wednesday nights and hockey is HUGE here), when I had a lot of space, but because it wasn't available, I had to shoehorn about 30 percent of it onto an inside page with no art and most of my readers will see it after the first game has already started.

Dammit, AP.

 

[greenlantern]

Re: Dammit AP

Should I change the title of this thread to "Running AP Gripe Thread?"

 

[Den1983]

Re: Dammit AP

Should I change the title of this thread to "Running AP Gripe Thread?"

Yes.

Yes you should.

 

[greenlantern]

Should I change the title of this thread to "Running AP Gripe Thread?"

Yes.

Yes you should.

Done

 

[HejiraHenry]

I got nothing, oddly.

But, I was working all local copy Friday night and I was out of pocket Thursday night, watching a football game (So. Miss @ UAB) that may have set the sport back 20 years.

 

[TheMethod]

Seriously, what's with all these adjectives, amirite?

 

[HanSenSE]

Should I change the title of this thread to "Running AP Gripe Thread?"

And we thank you!
Yes.

Yes you should.

Done

 

[Trey Beamon]

Some Top 25 capsules would be nice.

(Yes, I know I can put them together myself ... I'm just lazy like that)

EDIT: Ah, the power of SJ.

 

[greenlantern]

You think a Packers-Bears Chargers-Steelers box would be too much to ask? The game's been over for almost half an hour.

 

[Mark2010]

I'm assuming AP has just stopped running agate on the LPGA Tour events. Granted, it's not a real high priority at this time of the year, but I had been running the results for most of the season. But nothing coming over the wire in the past four weeks.

 

[Songbird]

dear ap,

i see you've retooled the exchange somewhat. eh, it's stilll the same unless there are new features that are invisible.

i have a question: how in tarnations do you turn the auto-update off? no, really, it's annoying.

now for the biggest gripe: i am a visual person. i use standalone pics liberally (well, when there is space). do you think you can start uploading those kinds of really cool pictures again? don't get me wrong, fashion show shots are great, but i need more variety (cute kids, cute animals, sexy shots with vibrant colors, etc.).

thanks,
xan

this post will auto-update in 5 seconds.

 

[HanSenSE]

Any thoughts on the new style for standings in the NHL and a couple of the larger minor leagues, adding a "games played" column? Good idea, or another step in the soccerification of America? I needed to have the paragraph styles rewritten anyway since we went to narrow width during hockey's offseason, this just hastened it.

 

[Mark2010]

Any thoughts on the new style for standings in the NHL and a couple of the larger minor leagues, adding a "games played" column? Good idea, or another step in the soccerification of America? I needed to have the paragraph styles rewritten anyway since we went to narrow width during hockey's offseason, this just hastened it.

Hate it. Just one more column to delete to make it fit.

Why don't they do that with the other sports where not all teams have the same number of games played?

 

[SoCalDude]

It'll be beneficial late in the season when you're trying to figure out games-in-hand scenarios.
We've got a guy redesigning some of the template pages and he's a hockey fan. So he made the standings template wider than it used to be. Before, they were unreadable when teams got to triple figures in goals and goals-against, then later to 100 points.

 

[Trey Beamon]

Can I get a WVU-Portland writethru and box sometime this century?

Jesus Christ, the last 2:00 of game action took about a half hour of real time.

EDIT: And, of course, the first writethru sent nearly 20 minutes later is 5.9 inches. WTF.

 

[HanSenSE]

Bumping up for spring training ...

Hey AP (or Stats LLC): Would it be too much to ask, when moving the spring training linescores, to somehow indicate in games involving teams from Los Angeles, Chicago or New York, which team is playing, like you did in the good ol' days (say, last spring?) with an N or A?

 

[OnTheRiver]

Bumping up for spring training ...

Hey AP (or Stats LLC): Would it be too much to ask, when moving the spring training linescores, to somehow indicate in games involving teams from Los Angeles, Chicago or New York, which team is playing, like you did in the good ol' days (say, last spring?) with an N or A?

I had no idea New York still had a National League team.