The Sporting News continues to suck more and more

[Benjamin Grimm]

For the last couple of years, I was pasting box scores from The Sporting News' web site as the basis for the UMDB box scores. I had to find a new source this year because TSN continues to dumb itself down.

Check this out: http://sportingnews.hosted.core.optasports.com/?sport=baseball&page=match&id=44729

Is this the worst box score ever? It doesn't tell you what position anyone played. It doesn't list any extra-base hits. Did they determine at some point over the winter that people want less information in their box scores?

It's been more than twenty years since The Sporting News stopped taking itself seriously, and I still find it hard to believe. Why and how is The Sporting News even still a thing?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I imagine they subscribe to whatever wire service transmits these things so its possible the decision not to include positions could have been made further up the line. You might know if you see others doing it.

[Ceetar]

might be better to code something to parse the data directly:

http://gd2.mlb.com/components/game/mlb/year_2015/month_04/day_08/gid_2015_04_08_nynmlb_wasmlb_1/boxscore.xml

[Guest d'Kong76]

Last year when I was doing those preview things I was
borrowing them from The Denver Post which uses Sports
Direct... maybe this will help?

http://stats.denverpost.com/sports-scores/Baseball-Scores-Matchups.aspx?Year=2015&Period=0408&CurrentSeason=2015

[Benjamin Grimm]

might be better to code something to parse the data directly: http://gd2.mlb.com/components/game/mlb/year_2015/month_04/day_08/gid_2015_04_08_nynmlb_wasmlb_1/boxscore.xml

That's interesting. I may play around with that a bit. Thanks. I did come up with another solution; I was able to revise my code to parse the box score from Baseball Reference.

[Ceetar]

might be better to code something to parse the data directly: http://gd2.mlb.com/components/game/mlb/year_2015/month_04/day_08/gid_2015_04_08_nynmlb_wasmlb_1/boxscore.xml That's interesting. I may play around with that a bit. Thanks. I did come up with another solution; I was able to revise my code to parse the box score from Baseball Reference.

that was going to be the other thing I linked but I got distracted by this "Mets record by uniform type" site

http://www.sportslogos.net/uniforms/list_by_team/201567/New_York_Mets_2015/