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Tex, honestly, what point are you trying to make in this thread? Fegan wrote good articles and properly covered the team. He lost his job and a lot of Sox fans are rightfully annoyed. Long form drivel driven rants on this board are obviously not a replacement for good coverage of a team. Do we need Jim Bowden's constant brain droppings sent as push alerts? Not really, but, that'll drive traffic because it's tagged as "former GM previews the trade deadline!" and then it's 10 completely asinine proposals from Bowden that won't get made in a million years. Like, if you want to be that nihilistic, we can just say "what is the point of hiring broadcasters? To narrate shitty baseball?"

I'm gonna guess Schiff has pretty good traffic with the Nets. But you're right, they probably saw a big drop and were like "this writer isn't performing as strongly as he used to."

If it's a child's game, people should do something else with their time.

Remains employed: Jim Bowden

f***, Schiff got laid off. Went to college with him. But also, there you go. The 76ers and Nets weren't worth keeping beat writers? Edit; Also...there's several coastal teams on there Tex. The Mariners, Sharks, aforementioned Sixers and Nets. And in Toronto, you'd imagine the Maple Leafs were worth keeping a beat writer. Same for the Cowboys.

Yeah, this was a specifically planned "f*** you for blaming fan turnout" game. They also changed "sell the team" so loudly the Rays pitcher couldn't hear his pitchcom.

Do we have a full list of laid off writers? For example, was the Dbacks writer laid off? Or the Rays? It'd always be hard in Cubs town.

Nah Boob says he'll be good the moment he leaves.

Blaming Pedro is hysterical, but also, Bochy was the clear choice when they decided not to hire Hinch.

Touché

Way too critical to join Chuck and Guff

I'm trying to figure out what the f*** Sportsnaut is

The Athletic was pretty much founded on the notion of a local touch that you couldn't get... ...from print media. Which The Athletic distinctly isn't. And The New York Times is far from just a print business - they're all encompassing multimedia. Video won't be standing alone at the end of this either. People like being able to read on their phones. Podcasts dominate. The first newsroom I worked in out of college was founded on social media video and they've since expanded to written articles, newsletters and podcasts, because without that, you're relying on a lot of revenue sources that can dry up in an instant due to outside forces (such as algorithm changes).

After Stephen Noh was canned, Fegan was basically what kept me subscribed to the Athletic.

Tweet in question: Absolute horseshit.

My dad. Despite growing up in a Cubs family, his first game was a Sox game and he got to meet players. Since he was a short, left handed second baseman in little league, his hero was Nellie Fox. And then my earliest memory is a Frank Thomas home run when I was 2 years old (which means it was during the '94 campaign). Bonus: My mom grew up a Cubs fan, but switched when she married my dad. She and I will never root for the Cubs because they didn't win while my grandfather was alive. That was the only way we would have rooted for them.

See how easy that was? I miss Liam ?

Lmao at this nonsense

???

I don't want Gio to leave just because Jerry is a cheap ass, but here we are.

It's because they love to hustle down the first base line. Right? ...right?

Kopech on a rollpech

Get that printed on a shirt and it'll sell out among beer league softball teams.

lmao this fucking team

Catchers avoid hitting Luis Robert's bat challenge: impossible