2:03PM
A mystery
Why do baseball writers frantically try to be the first to report news of trades on their Twitter feeds and such? Either there will be a trade, in which case the teams involved will put out a press release about two minutes after someone breaks the news, or there won't, in which case no one will give a fuck. Obviously it's about status and competitiveness and showing who's most plugged in. It's still insane.
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Agreed. It's a scoop mentality in a world of media consumers that have moved beyond scoops and exclusives and all the rest.
Why do baseball writers and commentators insist on wrting/saying RBI instead of RBIs. RBI is an acronym and should be pluralized! Sure 1 RBI... but it's 100 Rbis!
I'd rather see some meaningful analysis of a trade an hour after the fact, than a scoop 2 minutes before.
And this post you wrote is somehow not about trying to gain status? Isn't blogging a means to gain status? You waving the contrarian flag doesn't make you exempt from competitiveness in sports blogs, either.
This is more in the line of a banal observation than a bold contrarian stance. To spell the point out a bit more, the race to report does a bit to 'brand' reporters (among the miniscule number of people who care about such things), but offers nearly no value to readers and does nothing their 'platforms' can 'monetize,' and so seems to be a status competition divorced from any tangible benefits to anyone. One might of course say the same thing about keeping a website or any number of other endeavors, but this stands out as an especially absurd example.