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Contrary to popular opinion, we love newspapers. We once waited up outside our dorm for our first ever published article, a review of Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery. (When the delivery guy showed up, we pretty much attacked him. It was 5:30 a.m., and we were somewhat deranged.) Of course, this makes us a relic; our 14-year-old cousins find newspapers amusing, like an eight-track, or a laserdisc player. (If they knew what either of those were, that is.)
Anyway, in the world of newspapers, few sections are more respected than The Boston Globe's sports section. Back in the heyday, they featured Peter Gammons, Will McDonough, Bob Ryan, that whole crew; not only did they change the way papers covered sports, they predated the Web's triumph of short-tidbits-of-important-information over long-winded-blather-over-Kevin-McHale's-"heart." And now, perhaps fittingly, the section is being gutted by the Web. We mentioned yesterday that Gordon Edes was leaving the paper, and now Scott's Shots reports that Peter May, the paper's senior basketball writer, is accepting the paper's buyout in the middle of the Celtics' playoff run.
Bill Simmons has written how, frustrated by the glacial pace of promotion at newspapers, he decided to go out on his own rather than wait for, you know, the old people to die. And now the paper would probably kill to have Simmons on staff ... not that they could afford him if it had the opportunity. Stupid Web, ruining everything.
Mays' Days Dwindle At Globe [Scott's Shots]
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Simmons is what, $1.5 mil per annum?
If Simmons were at the Globe, he'd probably live forever. Instead he's on tWWL's Page 2.
Oops.
Will, you know I love it when you talk writer.
"Kevin, that's not an X-Ray of your heart?"
"Let's see what it says...adult male gorilla. Not me. Could be Laimbeer."
Yeah, but you can't wrap fish with the internet.
Ironically, I heard when old newspaper writers retire, they end up living in their kids' basement.
How will I ever know the showtimes for strip club entertainers if my sports page goes buh-bye. The 2:15(a.m.) show for Misty Canyons was amazing. Long live T-s Lounge.
You can't read Deadspin in the bathroom.
Yet.
Now, ironically, blog people would rather wait for, you know, Simmons to die.
And yet somehow Dan Shaugnessy is allowed to wantonly waste gallons of ink every day.
I'm not sure that a typical 14-year-old of any era found much use for newspaper, but the overall point is valid. The cluelessness with which these guys operate is astounding, as they hemorrhage money during a time when people crave information more than ever.
@Suss--: Laptop?
Sports page? Does it have lots of pictures? I had the understanding that most Masshole sports fans couldnt read anyways.
Try nailing a laptop on the corkboard over a urinal in a sports bar bathroom you DS iconoclastic BASTARD !
@RachelRayIsTheDevil: :or where to visit a "spa" just off the turnpike!
@Suss--: blackberry suss, blackberry.
@Suss--: iPhone. Or so I've heard.
Lupica is trying to figure out a way to keep Lisa Olson off the internets
@Suss--: You obviously don't own an iTouch.
@Suss--: I enjoy looking at books about French Impressionists when I'm using the bathroom.
Another way websites are inferior to newspapers: you can't awkwardly fold them in half and yet still poke somebody in the face with them for 18 subway stops, like some guy did to me on the A train this morning.
I am willing to be Simmons' intern while he prepares his resume for the Globe.
No sexual favors.
@Suss--: It's not that hard
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@Burning River:
That headline up there says, "World Series ticket"
Can't see the dateline but it could be after the Indians blew a 3-1 lead in the playoffs last year.
Do BlackBerryIWebReaderGizmos cost 50 cents yet?
And they haven't covered actual globes in years! You make me sick.
-rmcnally
@Secret Identity: +1
Stupid Web, running everything.
/Bill Gates'd (or Al Gore'd)
@Suss--: Speak for yourself...I read it on mobile web (but NOT from my Blackberry Wireless, cuz that would be lame).
@SlantedAndDisenchanted: Fortunately i was in a drunken haze all of last October in preparation for that. It's a little fuzzy but you may be right.
@Burning River: I see what you did there!
You completely ignored the premise of the post that the Boston paper of record has one of the most storied sports sections in the country.
Did I spell everything right?
I loved the Globe in college cuz they would actually print the "results" of WWF (sic) wrestling on their scoreboard page. It was very important to know whether Ivan Putski won by pin or DQ in those days.
Can't frame a webpage denoting your team's victory and hang in the game room either.
(Well, you could, but that's pretty sad.)
@shea_guevara: You take the A too? Mine had the deaf guy selling keychains this morning.
@Camp Tiger Claw: Has or had? From actually reading the post, I gathered that this "storied" sports page was past tense. Particularly the words "Back in the Heyday."
@Matt_T: I have never skinned my carrot to a downloaded iphone photo. Never.
@SlantedAndDisenchanted: That page is from 2004 after the Yanks choked up a 3-0 lead in the ALCS
@shea_guevara:
Hey, if that's the worst thing that ever happened to you on the A-Train, you're a lucky man.
@TheStarterWife: I print out and scrapbook pages any time I get a +1. It's very relaxing.
Maybe someday...
The Boston Globe Sports Section: Return to Glory
...or maybe not.
@SlantedAndDisenchanted: Doug Eyechart is clearly visible in the picture, making it from 2004.
@Weed Against Speed:
While Cinnamon sits around in her underwear and blogs about sports? You two completely misunderstand your gender roles!
Newspapers may be dying, but the internet doesn't have crusty old cigar-chomping editors demanding photos of that fraud Spiderman.
Wow, and here I am thinking I was ahead of the technology curve.
/sets laptop on the floor
//wipes ass
And speaking of wiping my ass, the Boston Globe.
Do BlackBerryIWebReaderGizmos cost 50 cents yet?
Only to manufacture.
@PenskeMaterial: +1 (just to make you do the work)
Marc Spears - the new guy covering the Celtics at the Globe - mentioned that some of the Red Sox including "Justin Pedroia" were in attendance at the Celtics game sunday night.
@mannybeingmanny: Here's a tip, it's AIN'T from any year from 1976 to 1985 or 1987 to 2003; that's for damned sure.
I actually still enjoy the paper on Sunday morning, over breakfast.
Thing is, I usually grab Sports last, since I was on the innertubes/tv the previous night and thus already updated.
@Burning River: Yes, a tragic turn of events brought on by a sudden and staggering increase in illiteracy.
If there aren't newspapers, how are boys supposed to learn that for the rest of your life you're going to get totally fucked over by your employers?
/bitter former paperboy
I'm late for this, but:
HAHAHAHA!!! Fuck you, Portudiver.
Metro Sports Page > Boston Globe
@Burning River:
Thats what she said
@Weed Against Speed: are you bitter because the you kept getting hit by the break dancer in the middle of the street and all your subscribers canceled?