Peter King Compliments Non-ESPN Baseball Writers for Crediting Scoop, on the Day He Broke Russell Wilson Contract

Love how all these baseball guys--@Joelsherman1, @JonHeymanCBS, @Ken_Rosenthal, others—are so quick to credit each other on scoops.
— Peter King (@peter_king) July 31, 2015

Perhaps this was just a nice message from The MMQB’s Peter King on baseball’s trade deadline day, sent to several MLB reporters. None of them happen to work for ESPN, which is known to have an unpopular policy of not fully crediting reporters on scoops.

Maybe it had nothing to do with Peter King being the one that broke the Russell Wilson news earlier this morning, which was not credited initially by ESPN (and later, jointly credited as ESPN and @SINow without mentioning King). Maybe.

Then again, if it wasn’t a coincidence, King wouldn’t be the only one to grouse about ESPN policy. Jay Glazer was a little more direct, saying that ESPN has “such a lying, cheating, stealing policy over there” when it comes to crediting others for scoops.