yea what I said was dooshy….to be even dooshier…

you spelled douchebag incorrectly

Sincerely,

Douchbag

27 outs is exactly one half a game. Do you leave after the first half?
I know it’s the mighty Yankees that you are writinbg about, but even they, when they play, must play a whole OTHER TEAM. Or do consider that only Yankee outs are real outs….

Maybe you should take one of those media savvy classes so as not to pissoff baseball fans who dont have the loin-moisties for the Yanks by signalling inadvertantly that you do.

Once upon a time baseball writers were the single most important currency the league had to romanticize the game to a country that could only read about the action on the field in the next day’s newspaper.

Those days lasted from the 1800s on through even the late 1990s. Even with weekly televised games or Johnny Bench doing “This Week in Baseball,” if you wanted to follow your team on a daily basis you went to your local newspaper. ESPN highlights, Baseball Tonight and internet based Fantasy Leagues gave us a taste of a daily dose of baseball, but nothing compares to what MLB was able to do when the internet truly exploded with broad bandwidth about six or seven years ago.

Once the technology of streaming games directly onto your computer brought every single daily game right to the fan’s office desk what need did we have to search out the paper for the local summary of the game?

Major League Baseball is more in control of bringing its games to the fans now than at any point in history and so they have no reason to coddle or encourage the myth makers and myth busters within the print media anymore. Training your players not to go off team and league message is the one of the smartest things they can do because the only thing left for the beat writer to do is trap you in a gotcha moment.

In about ten years, everything will be done in house by the league on their own twitter/website/team/player blogs and MLB You Tube Channel. There won’t be the need to allow sports writers with their own agendas anywhere near the locker rooms because they will be creating and marketing their own legends while streaming the games directly into our corneas.

Once the MLB Network on cable gets more carriage on local cable systems like Time Warner, Cablevision, Comcast etc and the channel number assigned to it is under 50, so you don’t search for it around 276 they will be able to keep all playoff games and the World Series on their own network, reaping all of the advertising dollars and if anyone like ESPN goes off message they will be able to restrict their access without worrying about repurcussions.

I agree with you, that’s the theoretical purpose, and some media types (you, JoePoz, Gammons, etc) actually aspire to those kinds of ambitions.

But the sheer overwhelming numbers of the douchey media types (I’m looking at you, T.J. Simers) who are out to get a quote or make a story out of nothing make it prohibitively expensive for players to interact this kind of way. Peter Gammons gets these kind of intimate interviews and answers, because the players respect him and trust he’ll be respectful, and players open up because of it.

Players can’t win- they say nothing (like Jeter) and they’re boring- they actually give opinions, and they’re volatile. Best for them to say nothing and go on their merry way.

How long until 1st pitch?

what if the pic is not a naked one but… say…. a picture of your junk which you then txted to a cheerleader. is that ok?