Comments on: Pray for your local beat writer for they have to endure some horrible, horrible cliches

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Thu, 26 May 2011 21:35:42 +0000

Yes, and if I were a pro-vivisectionist cosmetics industry laboratory slave, I’d remove the rudimentary vocal centers of an Orang-Utan’s brain and find whatever it said after it emerged from anaesthesia just as amusing.

By: stackers1

stackers1 — Thu, 26 May 2011 20:05:54 +0000

Everyone can’t be Ozzie Guillen. He’s really very amusing to a non White Sox fan.

By: fearlessleader

fearlessleader — Thu, 26 May 2011 19:20:40 +0000

Along the very same lines:

http://ablogoftheirown.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/rainy-days-and-mondays/

By: yankeesfanlen

yankeesfanlen — Thu, 26 May 2011 18:39:36 +0000

Obviously a couple of years ago, before we taught him his manners.

By: yankeesfanlen

yankeesfanlen — Thu, 26 May 2011 18:36:31 +0000

Don’t worry about the no votes, I get them too from misguided Yankee haters. And what do I do? Compose twisted limericks, employ the Royal “We” when talking about the Universe?
Partake of nicknames like Beep-beep, Grumpy, and THE FAT TOAD to boost our team enthusiasm?
At least I don’t wear a pink cap. Dese guys pull your chain sometimes.Fuggettaboutit!

By: spindervish

spindervish — Thu, 26 May 2011 18:35:08 +0000

You know, I hear people say this about him all the time, but when he did a stint on Baseball Tonight a couple years back, I was thoroughly unimpressed. And he uses the phrase “go ‘head” unnecessarily and waaaay too often. As in: “You know, you just gotta go ‘head and go out there and play hard and go ‘head and try to get it done.” Bugged me to no end.

By: yankeesgameday

yankeesgameday — Thu, 26 May 2011 18:17:52 +0000

For all of you giving this a thumbs down, what part don’t you agree with? That baseball is populated by a vast majority of people with barely a high school education since they tend to get drafted at the end of their senior year?

That more and more Latin players are from third world countries whose talent alone sends them to baseball only camps where Education is an after thought and English is a second language?

Do you disagree with the thought that asking these groups of players to come up with insight is asking too much because they’ve never been asked to do a whole lot of critical thinking I’m their lives?

Or do you think beat writers don’t neeed to follow up their question with another in order to get the player to think passed their original cliche? Composing a question and its follow up is as much the writer’s job as watching the game and writing the summary.

So for all the random thumbs down folks out there, could you take a minute to explain what is so wrong with thinking this is a closed ended system where writer and player just keep contributing to making each other look bad and that the power to change it lies with the writers themselves through a little extra effort?

By: umrguy42

umrguy42 — Thu, 26 May 2011 17:34:06 +0000

“Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains. Think about that for a while.” :p

By: yankeesgameday

yankeesgameday — Thu, 26 May 2011 16:53:52 +0000

Reporters need to simply ask better questions and actually use follow up questions to get a player to apply a little critical thought to the situation they are being asked to comment upon. Cliched answers making it into beat writer stories are from laziness on the writer front and the barely graduated high school players, many of whom are foreign born and attended only baseball academies since they were young, who aren’t prone to self reflection or insight.

By: dexterismyhero

dexterismyhero — Thu, 26 May 2011 16:41:40 +0000

they need to have Chris Johnson from the Titans football team give interviews to everyone. That could be a show all in itself.

By: hughhansen

hughhansen — Thu, 26 May 2011 16:24:55 +0000

I should add that I find the stuff the players say before the game to be often interesting (as it’s relayed by the broadcasters/sideline reporters during the game), so we should keep that.

By: bigxrob

bigxrob — Thu, 26 May 2011 16:22:59 +0000

And when the players (Fuentes) or owner (Wilpon) actually say what they want, there is an uproar and people have to apologize.

By: hughhansen

hughhansen — Thu, 26 May 2011 16:22:15 +0000

So, it sucks for the press to have to talk to the players after every game, it sucks for the players to have to face the press after every game and it sucks for the people that read the games stories…

That’s an oversimplification, but still.

By: rebarratige

rebarratige — Thu, 26 May 2011 16:19:20 +0000

OT: The man who fell down the stairwell at Coors Field has died.

By: halladaysbicepts

halladaysbicepts — Thu, 26 May 2011 16:11:48 +0000

Question from beat writer to manager: “So, what does you’re team need to do to start winning again.”

Manager responds to question: “Well, I think we need to take it one game at a time.”

By: yankeesfanlen

yankeesfanlen — Thu, 26 May 2011 16:11:34 +0000

The most intelligent sounding, thoughtful, and non-redundant baseball interview is Curtis Granderson.