Not True, I respect a reporter that actually works for his paycheck, a reporter who digs for the under story is worth it, I feel what jay Glazer has discovered and reported in the last two years, is worth more than 30 local paper MLB beat writers for the last 5 years, they need to dig deeper…not this column telling us what we saw already,….but explain why managers do different thing, call out players for not hustling, report outrage on a bad calls that decides a game.
When Jordan was in his prime writers had to get creative and write something other than he’d good and his team won, without telling the public how terrible he was as a person they still let us know alot about him creatively,…….local paper MLB beat writers are not necessary sit in the press box for two games and you’ll realize that.

But there is alot of waste of money in the media,

If you ever saw the media credential list at a laker, USC or dodger game for every employee that works for ESPN, its two pages long in 8pt type, For FOX its one page long,

It does not take 180 people from just two networks to cover a game thats only broadcasts by one network, its because its a great paid job and its cool to be there,…plus the pre media meals arent bad.

I think old fat baseball news guys going to the ballpark is just tradition, its really just a paid getaway for guys that just want to eat the free media meal, park for free and watch the game free, with their buddies from other news networks that theyve known for years.

a sports writer could just as easy do interviews before the game ( once a week) stay home watch the game with a lap top and report from there. and get any extra info from the teams P.R staff via emails.

Newspapers arent doing that well these days to pay for some hack to watch a game from four stories up, feed him pay gas money and report on something we saw already, then watched highlights of 20 times