Beat Crazy

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

SUCKS TO INFORMATION AND BREAKING NEWS!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Bergen Record's Mike Kerwick is hanging up his fedora.

http://blog.northjersey.com/mets/2267/goodbye-and-thank-you/

[Edgy MD]

So being a corporate social media director > being a baseball beat writer. Huh. Tells you where the industry is, I guess.

We had a kid doing our social media who still had his schoolboy bacne. I loved him but they dumped him after six months.

E-mail Kerwick a Pool invite.

[Ceetar]

Edgy MD wrote: So being a corporate social media director > being a baseball beat writer. Huh. Tells you where the industry is, I guess. We had a kid doing our social media who still had his schoolboy bacne. I loved him but they dumped him after six months. E-mail Kerwick a Pool invite.

well if you factor in travel and wanting to start a real life or something I guess. but probably too. Is that what he's doing? I didn't see it mentioned.

As someone who dabbles in social media and SEO recreationally, I'm extremely skeptical of the 'pros'. It seems like a very touch and go field and one that does require a fair amount of executive buy in to work successfully.

[Ceetar]

newest dude is

Matt Ehalt for the Record. I've forgotten already who he's replacing. But I'd have a hard time connecting writer->paper overall I think.

[Edgy MD]

It's one post UP!

[G-Fafif]

New Star-Ledger/nj.com guy Mike Vorkunov wrote the other day of David Wright's workout "regiment," which tells me either the Captain is really taking his title seriously -- lining up all the enlisted men for jumping jacks -- or a relatively major metropolitan daily hired a reporter (and an editor) who can't distinguish regiment from regimen. (Or, to be charitable, maybe auto-correct kicked in and these things happen...but probably not.)

It wasn't that long ago that the reporter was touting his MFY fandom in the hopes of landing a sportswriting job. I guess it works.

If the MFYs of the '70s were around in the '30s, headline writers might have referred to them as the REGGIEMEN.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Jesus. The word "offseason" is spelled incorrectly in that article. Twice!

[Edgy MD]

Maybe that's just David's Tidewater dialect coming through.

[G-Fafif]

Edgy MD wrote: Maybe that's just David's Tidewater dialect coming through.

...the Met captain said, before declining an opportunity to impress this Jeter-loving reporter by making him eat a spoonful of cinnamont.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Edgy MD wrote: So being a corporate social media director > being a baseball beat writer. Huh. Tells you where the industry is, I guess. We had a kid doing our social media who still had his schoolboy bacne. I loved him but they dumped him after six months. E-mail Kerwick a Pool invite.

So today for my job I went out to a grocery store in New Jersey. Who was there to greet me but corporate pr guy Mike Kerwick. I didn't recognize him without the fedora.

Nice guy! Gave me a little insight into the org, said his relationship with the Wilpons was rough because Klapisch (his columnist colleague) was always killing them. Said Sandy left him a very nice message when he departed the beat but was difficult to get one on one at any other time.

Also today, an unidentified source told me Joel Sherman gets leaks from JP Riccardi.

[Ceetar]

Don't think I'd recognize him if I ran into him in a jersey supermarket. ( Hell, Jason Heyward supposedly lives in my town.)

Interesting though. I bet it's hard to really get leaks and sources if you're not one of the in guys already though. There are just so many guys.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I have a feeling you might have a slightly easier time picking out Jason Heyward.

[Ceetar]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I have a feeling you might have a slightly easier time picking out Jason Heyward.

yeah. That's probably true. But I'm the guy that was in an elevator in Jupiter with two Atlanta Braves and had no clue.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Slightly related to the "One 86 Met said" controversy, the team apparently wouldn't talk to any media last night until Mike "The Puma" Puma left the room. Snooze reports:

Apparently angry about an article in the New York Post on Friday about Bartolo Colon under the headline �LARDBALL,� the players would not talk to the media until Post writer Mike Puma left the clubhouse. Puma was asked to leave and did so without incident. Within a minute, several Mets appeared in the clubhouse. The team would not comment on the incident. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/mets-insider-mookie-team-aren-write-article-1.1769730#ixzz2zzR0ja1P

edit: also, "PRAISE THE LARD"

[Edgy MD]

That's a pretty good got-your-back-ing by the team. If Colon shuts out Puma or the media on his own, he looks soft and weak, and they can rip him for being a-scared instead of for his gut.

Puma better get square soon, though. He can't do his job this way. ON the other hand, I'd bet he had little to do with the headline.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

He was responsible for the lede: "If they checked Bartolo Colon's neck they'd only find peanut butter."

[Edgy MD]

That's a fightin' lede for sure.

[Gwreck]

Good for the Mets. Nice way to handle that. I hope they shut him out through the weekend; that should be enough of a message to send.

[Zvon]

Now this is interesting. This is the kind of thing that can propel a team. I also think they should stiff him thru the weekend, but in style: by winning tonight and tomorrow.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

How come nobody mentioned that the Times had assigned some young hipster to cover the Mets?

Meet Tim Rohan:



Or Bob Seger or some shit.



Fedoras are so 2010.

Anyway, this guy has that crazy reporter knack going on, where 99% of the battle is just showing up. He interning at the Times when he got an Met game assignment in his first week that turned out to be Johan's no-hitter. Then, working as a stringer for the Times he was at the finish line of the Boston Marathon last year, and came back with some gripping stuff. I guess he took over the Mets beat for this first time this year.

[Ceetar]

Missed him. (aren't half of them young hipsters now though?)

Been quite some turnover over the last couple of years and it's hard to keep up. I usually follow them all and unfollow at least half of them a month later.

[Edgy MD]

Wasn't too tall, could've used a few pounds
Kepner was sick, I went town
He was a Latin lefty with deadly stuff!
With skills my own, I didn't write no fluff...

[G-Fafif]

Rohan wrote one of the great Met features of recent years just as he latched onto the beat late in 2013 about the guy who delivers the mail within Citi Field.