Comments on: Miami Herald Loses One … More to Come?

By: chris.dankberg

chris.dankberg — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:19:21 +0000

I do wonder what the gameplan is at these papers. Does anybody have any idea what they’re doing? I love the NY Times website (not for their slant), but for the amount of effort they seem to be putting into keeping me entertained. The Tech section, Business, Sports, Arts, they’re all just impeccably maintained. It puts just about everybody else on the web to shame.

Anyway, Mike in NYC, what year did you graduate? I read in here a fair amount, just noticed your logo. Class of ‘02.

By: PurdueMatt

PurdueMatt — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:10:49 +0000

What if Tyler Hansbrough were black? Would he still be leaving? What if Michael Beasley were white?

By: Sean Jean

Sean Jean — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:09:05 +0000

I’ve always liked LeBatard. That may be just because I follow Miami sports and was exposed to him a lot, but he always seemed like a straight shooter who took a pretty logical approach to everything. He is also pretty good on PTI and Sports Reporters when he has been on there. He is the only one who can fill in for Tony or Mike on PTI and it not totally suck Donkey Balls.

Also, for the record, Sports Reporters is brutal. It was only good back in the days when Schaap, Kornheiser and Wilbon were on it. Now it’s Mike Lupica screaming over everyone. ug.

By: xv43

xv43 — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:38:55 +0000

How badly hurt would the newspaper be? Probably not very.

Lots of people get all their sports reporting content online now, I doubt there are very many people who subscribe to a newspaper in order to read the sports section. Sure, it’s the first thing we turn to if we have a paper in our hands, but I know I don’t subscribe to any newspapers. Do you?

You’ll notice most of the calls for newspapers being a dead medium seem to come from sports blogs. Guys covering economics don’t think the WSJ is dead. It might actually be beneficial to a newspaper to jettison its highly paid sportswriters who trade on name recognition in favor of anonymous reporters trawling for news content.

By: Ben60657

Ben60657 — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:36:55 +0000

Those belong in the Python Pantheon!

No moratorium! Long live TBL bicep jokes!

By: cbh49er

cbh49er — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:32:18 +0000

Is there going to be a moratorium at some point on the TBL bicep joke?

I think it might have been run into the ground, buried, dug up, buried, dug up, buried.

By: cortes

cortes — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:25:41 +0000

mike have you ever listened to his radio show? ever emailed him about ANYTHING? he’s a nice dude and hes really smart.. read some of his stuff sometimes instead of that gasbag midget lupica

By: Gangsta D

Gangsta D — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:25:21 +0000

Didn’t know about the scrubbed racist comments. Never mind:)

By: Gangsta D

Gangsta D — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:24:26 +0000

Hef is right. Jay could be a bit of a dick. But he was entertaining, and entertaining goes a long way.

By: RomanWarHelmet

RomanWarHelmet — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:24:13 +0000

Gansta…Jay showed up on TBL outing day and dropped some racist comments that were actaully erased they were that bad..haven;t seen him since..remember Johhny…that guy was a lunatic..you’d mention Barry Bonds and he would go off