Sports media types showing their warts

[Saboteur]

In the absence of competition and drama from tweets by millionaire twenty year olds, my observation is that sport writers do not know how to write about anything that didn't happen the day before.
Baseball writers long ago lost the art of writing about strategy and tactics within a game, bowing to the STAT line to tell the story. Thus, the AI generated summation of games we so often read now.
In Pittsburgh, deprived of any reason to sound the Nutting is cheap narrative, should have resulted in some interesting stories on the demise of the Pirates when other small market teams don't suffer nearly as much. But that takes research.
In short, the art of writing has gone by the wayside (for most) and when their writing skills are exposed as non existent, writers get little attention.
One lasting impact I see from this COVId pandemic is the accelerated extinction of the so called "sports writer".
I can watch the same game they do and enjoy it far more without the clutter of their verbiage.
It seems so useless.

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

In the absence of competition and drama from tweets by millionaire twenty year olds, my observation is that they don't know how to write about anything that didn't happen the day before.
Baseball writers long ago lost the art of writing about strategy and tactics within a hame, bowing to the STAT line to tell the story. This, the AI generated summation of games we so often read now.
In Pittsburgh, deprived of any reason to sound the Nutting is cheap narrative, should have resulted in some interesting stories on the demise of the Pirates when other small market teams don't suffer nearly as much.
In short, the art of writing had gone by the wayside (for most) and when their writing skills are exposed as non existent, they get little attention.
One lasting impact I see from this COVId pandemic is the accelerated extinction of the so called "sports writer".
I can watch the same game they do and enjoy it far more without the clutter of their verbiage.
It seems so useless.

I think one of the things that caused the demise of the true "beat writer" is when every game is televised, and you have pre/post game shows and sports talk radio, really, what do you need a sportswriter to recap a game for you? I'll read Op/Ed columns, or columns on draft and recruiting prospects, but I know enough about sports that I don't need someone else recap via print. I can't tell you the last time I read a Bouchette recap of a Steelers game or a Pirate game recap. Even Pitt, I saw the game, I don't need a writer telling me what I saw because in many times (most) I know as much or more than he does.

 

[Pitt-Chains]

I think one of the things that caused the demise of the true "beat writer" is when every game is televised, and you have pre/post game shows and sports talk radio, really, what do you need a sportswriter to recap a game for you? I'll read Op/Ed columns, or columns on draft and recruiting prospects, but I know enough about sports that I don't need someone else recap via print. I can't tell you the last time I read a Bouchette recap of a Steelers game or a Pirate game recap. Even Pitt, I saw the game, I don't need a writer telling me what I saw because in many times (most) I know as much or more than he does.

In reference to PITT, if Pat Bostic where to write about the game I would read it.