Cole Hamels, Mets, WatchDog all choke, in that order
The editor sent me to the Mets game as a columnist Wednesday, what with most of the staff at Bethpage waiting for the next big name to show up for a practice round.
Madonna? Kate Hudson? Charles Barkley? Bill Murray?
All was going well until the Mets blew a three-run lead in the seventh, then left 30 or 40 runners on base, resulting in an incoherent column for the first edition, the deadline for which came and went with the score still tied.
Here's the later, slightly more coherent version.
Baseball writers have by far the most difficult job on the staff.
Speaking of newspapers and the Web, click below to read me criticizing a boneheaded decision by our friends at The New York Times.
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Here is a disturbing segment from "The Daily Show" Wednesday that cuts way too close to home, in which The New York Times makes the unfortunate error of allowing one of Jon Stewart's correspondents into its news room - then compounds it by failing to make sure its executives point out that in addition to publishing a printed newspaper, the Times offers one of the most popular and comprehensive newsgathering Web sites on the Internet.
So does Newsday, by the way, especially for matters of interest to Long Islanders.
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It may be so, but if you look at NYTimes.com, they still would have the stories from the day's print edition on its front page. Therefore, NYTimes.com also offers nothing but yesterday's news.
They do have a great mobile site, for all you Blackberry users out there. Newsday mobile site is terrific as well.
I remember reading a blog from a Daily Show interview victim a few years back about the whole process. They'll conduct a long exhausting sitdown, and even if you make perfectly sound points for 95% of the interview, they'll have enough material in the remaining 5% and cut it up to make you look like the world's biggest idiot.
Maybe the Times thought that they'd get a softy since they share mostly the same political ideology of the Daily Show (without the humor).
Fair point, Gary. In which case, the Times was mistaken.
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