Another great piece. I just sat back down at my desk after standing in front of a mirror trying to see what flying open looks like on me. You and your sources were/are spot on. I'm pretty sure my dreams of a late life MLB career are shot and I think I'm going to have to ice my shoulder.
I admire players for their ability to perform under pressure, but I think I admire reporters sometimes more for their ability to stand there and ask stupid, repetitive questions knowing how players feel about them and their stupid, repetitive questions. As a shy person I would rather dissolve into a puddle of goo than have to do that.
On the back of my one and only Royals jersey is the name of THE key player on the offense of the 2015 team: Morales.
If everything in the universe is on the internet (and therefore unquestioningly reliable), where can a person find a list of the Unwritten Rules of baseball and a list of the counter argument to those rules?
To be totally honest, I'm not sure how many reporters realize what athletes think of them. I was lucky, I knew ballplayers before I started writing about them and heard a lot about what bugged them about the media.
As for unwritten rules, I wrote about them when I first started blogging on WordPress and I'll repost what I wrote back then.
Thanks! Now I realize those voices I hear criticizing me aren't just my mother (may she rest in peace), but reporters...
But as a fan, I was seriously puzzled by Johnny Cueto and posted in a fan group on Facebook that I was disappointed in him. A fellow fan shot me down, telling me I didn't understand how hard he was working and he'd get it... I should wait and see...
When Johnny got his groove back! That was fun to watch.
You weren't alone in being disappointed by Cueto at first, so were the Royals. But pitching motions and swings are fragile and I wanted fans to understand what went wrong and what he was trying to fix: which he did in the nick of time.
Another great piece. I just sat back down at my desk after standing in front of a mirror trying to see what flying open looks like on me. You and your sources were/are spot on. I'm pretty sure my dreams of a late life MLB career are shot and I think I'm going to have to ice my shoulder.
I admire players for their ability to perform under pressure, but I think I admire reporters sometimes more for their ability to stand there and ask stupid, repetitive questions knowing how players feel about them and their stupid, repetitive questions. As a shy person I would rather dissolve into a puddle of goo than have to do that.
On the back of my one and only Royals jersey is the name of THE key player on the offense of the 2015 team: Morales.
If everything in the universe is on the internet (and therefore unquestioningly reliable), where can a person find a list of the Unwritten Rules of baseball and a list of the counter argument to those rules?
To be totally honest, I'm not sure how many reporters realize what athletes think of them. I was lucky, I knew ballplayers before I started writing about them and heard a lot about what bugged them about the media.
As for unwritten rules, I wrote about them when I first started blogging on WordPress and I'll repost what I wrote back then.
Thanks! Now I realize those voices I hear criticizing me aren't just my mother (may she rest in peace), but reporters...
But as a fan, I was seriously puzzled by Johnny Cueto and posted in a fan group on Facebook that I was disappointed in him. A fellow fan shot me down, telling me I didn't understand how hard he was working and he'd get it... I should wait and see...
When Johnny got his groove back! That was fun to watch.
You weren't alone in being disappointed by Cueto at first, so were the Royals. But pitching motions and swings are fragile and I wanted fans to understand what went wrong and what he was trying to fix: which he did in the nick of time.