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Well, it only took almost a freaking year, but you’re never gonna believe who finally has a new job, folks.
That’s right: Your friend and ours, Mr. Harold Reynolds, out of a job since being fired by ESPN for now “official” reason in July, has been hired by MLB.com to work as a broadcaster. Here’s the official press release.
After the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Reynolds will appear five days per week at 2 p.m. (ET) to bring his unique viewpoint of the game directly to fans around the globe. Reynolds will also interact with fans via weekly online chats and through his blog, giving MLB.com users unprecedented, round-the-clock access to one of baseball’s most knowledgeable and popular personalities.
“I am grateful for the opportunity to work with the Major League Baseball family,” said Reynolds. “I look forward to being a part of the MLB.com team and taking full advantage of this chance to service baseball fans worldwide across Major League Baseball’s array of multimedia platforms.”
Wow, that’s all Harold, all the time: Five days a week! We would ask ESPN their view on this … but, as we all know, they refuse to admit Harold ever existed. Well, other than to respond to his lawsuits.
Welcome back, Harold. We’re glad to have you. Just to be safe, though … we think you know which restaurant chains to avoid.
Reynolds To Work At MLB.com [PDF]
Continue Reading June 11th, 2007
Well, it only took almost a freaking year, but you’re never gonna believe who finally has a new job, folks.
That’s right: Your friend and ours, Mr. Harold Reynolds, out of a job since being fired by ESPN for now “official” reason in July, has been hired by MLB.com to work as a broadcaster. Here’s the official press release.
After the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Reynolds will appear five days per week at 2 p.m. (ET) to bring his unique viewpoint of the game directly to fans around the globe. Reynolds will also interact with fans via weekly online chats and through his blog, giving MLB.com users unprecedented, round-the-clock access to one of baseball’s most knowledgeable and popular personalities.
“I am grateful for the opportunity to work with the Major League Baseball family,” said Reynolds. “I look forward to being a part of the MLB.com team and taking full advantage of this chance to service baseball fans worldwide across Major League Baseball’s array of multimedia platforms.”
Wow, that’s all Harold, all the time: Five days a week! We would ask ESPN their view on this … but, as we all know, they refuse to admit Harold ever existed. Well, other than to respond to his lawsuits.
Welcome back, Harold. We’re glad to have you. Just to be safe, though … we think you know which restaurant chains to avoid.
Reynolds To Work At MLB.com [PDF]
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So the more and more we think about this NCAA rule about no live-blogging in the press box, the more insane it seems. It might be one of the dumbest Internet decisions we’ve seen an athletic organization make, and considering Major League Baseball once did a promotion with Creed, that’s no small achievement.
Even Josh Centor over at The Double A Zone — the “official blog” of the NCAA — calls the policy “arcane” and sorta blames ESPN … but we can’t put this one on the Leader. It’s not like the College World Series marks the first time anyone has ever live-blogged something from press row that was on ESPN.
Let’s take a look at some of the parameters of the idiocy.
• If we are understanding the NCAA correctly, someone who is sitting in a press box providing “live” updates from a game is breaking some sort of ridiculous “rights” policy, but someone who is watching the game on ESPN and doing the same thing is not. We do not know if this applies to anyone who might update their site from their blackberry from the stands. We hope they eject their ass too. Oh, and if a friend of yours texts you asking the score, you better not tell write them back. The moral of the story: If someone from the NCAA is giving you grief about live blogging a game, just step 50 feet away. The NCAA has now, by definition, given the proverbial guy in the basement better access to his/her readers than someone in their own press box. SMART.
• For years, the Associated Press and other wire services have been providing in-game updates to editors from the site of important events. (This is why the game story of a title game is almost always ready the second the game’s over.) This is different because … well, because the Associated Press just stopped using typewriters, we guess. Fortunately, nothing involving the College World Series will ever be considered an “important event.” So wait: When exactly does it count as “acceptable” to file a game story? Will NCAA hoods be scoping the press box, making sure all the typing is limited strictly to Word files? DON’T HIT THAT SEND BUTTON, BUDDY.
• Hey, why didn’t they throw Chuck Klosterman out of the Final Four? That would have been incredibly entertaining to read about.
• CSTV — one of the two national media outlets that actually cares about the College World Series — had been planning on live-blogging every CWS game. They can’t now. This is an outstanding decision by the NCAA, because it denies coverage of a signature event to a fanbase that might want to read it.
It’s gonna be fun to watch them scramble in the next couple of days, though. We give this policy, oh, a week.
Continue Reading June 11th, 2007
So the more and more we think about this NCAA rule about no live-blogging in the press box, the more insane it seems. It might be one of the dumbest Internet decisions we’ve seen an athletic organization make, and considering Major League Baseball once did a promotion with Creed, that’s no small achievement.
Even Josh Centor over at The Double A Zone — the “official blog” of the NCAA — calls the policy “arcane” and sorta blames ESPN … but we can’t put this one on the Leader. It’s not like the College World Series marks the first time anyone has ever live-blogged something from press row that was on ESPN.
Let’s take a look at some of the parameters of the idiocy.
• If we are understanding the NCAA correctly, someone who is sitting in a press box providing “live” updates from a game is breaking some sort of ridiculous “rights” policy, but someone who is watching the game on ESPN and doing the same thing is not. We do not know if this applies to anyone who might update their site from their blackberry from the stands. We hope they eject their ass too. Oh, and if a friend of yours texts you asking the score, you better not tell write them back. The moral of the story: If someone from the NCAA is giving you grief about live blogging a game, just step 50 feet away. The NCAA has now, by definition, given the proverbial guy in the basement better access to his/her readers than someone in their own press box. SMART.
• For years, the Associated Press and other wire services have been providing in-game updates to editors from the site of important events. (This is why the game story of a title game is almost always ready the second the game’s over.) This is different because … well, because the Associated Press just stopped using typewriters, we guess. Fortunately, nothing involving the College World Series will ever be considered an “important event.” So wait: When exactly does it count as “acceptable” to file a game story? Will NCAA hoods be scoping the press box, making sure all the typing is limited strictly to Word files? DON’T HIT THAT SEND BUTTON, BUDDY.
• Hey, why didn’t they throw Chuck Klosterman out of the Final Four? That would have been incredibly entertaining to read about.
• CSTV — one of the two national media outlets that actually cares about the College World Series — had been planning on live-blogging every CWS game. They can’t now. This is an outstanding decision by the NCAA, because it denies coverage of a signature event to a fanbase that might want to read it.
It’s gonna be fun to watch them scramble in the next couple of days, though. We give this policy, oh, a week.
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Because no Boston Red Sox stone shall be left unturned over NESN, Scott’s Shots points out an odd video that features Manny getting intimate in his hotel room — watch yo mouth! — with his hairdresser, named LMonstro. (You have to sit through an annoying ad to watch the video.)
We’ll let Scott’s Shots describe it.
Manny, in an orange “Rock ‘n Rave Show” t-shirt (perhaps a Gio Goi?) stood with his right arm around the shoulder of Lmonstro and briefly discussed his preferred hairstyles and styling methods. “I got tired of the red,” he said. It also seems LMonstro was also heavily involved with David Ortiz’s beard from last year. [And, (almost) interestingly, Lmonstro is not the braider of Manny’s hair, that’s done by a woman in New York, according to Ramirez.]
We haven’t been able to find much about Lmonstro on the Web, which makes us think his name is actually “Harold Penderton” and he lives in south Gloucester.
Manny Being Made Up [Scott’s Shots]
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Because no Boston Red Sox stone shall be left unturned over NESN, Scott’s Shots points out an odd video that features Manny getting intimate in his hotel room — watch yo mouth! — with his hairdresser, named LMonstro. (You have to sit through an annoying ad to watch the video.)
We’ll let Scott’s Shots describe it.
Manny, in an orange “Rock ‘n Rave Show” t-shirt (perhaps a Gio Goi?) stood with his right arm around the shoulder of Lmonstro and briefly discussed his preferred hairstyles and styling methods. “I got tired of the red,” he said. It also seems LMonstro was also heavily involved with David Ortiz’s beard from last year. [And, (almost) interestingly, Lmonstro is not the braider of Manny’s hair, that’s done by a woman in New York, according to Ramirez.]
We haven’t been able to find much about Lmonstro on the Web, which makes us think his name is actually “Harold Penderton” and he lives in south Gloucester.
Manny Being Made Up [Scott’s Shots]
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If it’s Monday, it must be time for Ichiro Suzuki Quote Theater. This week’s entry concerns the Mariners’ makeup game in Cleveland, and Ichiro’s clear desire not to be there.
“To tell the truth, I’m not excited to go to Cleveland, but we have to. If I ever saw myself saying I’m excited going to Cleveland, I’d punch myself in the face, because I’m lying.”
OK then! Well, they’d rather have Grady Sizemore anyway, thank you very much.
At Least We Know Ichiro Won’t Sign With The Indians [Enjoy The Enjoyment]
Continue Reading June 11th, 2007
If it’s Monday, it must be time for Ichiro Suzuki Quote Theater. This week’s entry concerns the Mariners’ makeup game in Cleveland, and Ichiro’s clear desire not to be there.
“To tell the truth, I’m not excited to go to Cleveland, but we have to. If I ever saw myself saying I’m excited going to Cleveland, I’d punch myself in the face, because I’m lying.”
OK then! Well, they’d rather have Grady Sizemore anyway, thank you very much.
At Least We Know Ichiro Won’t Sign With The Indians [Enjoy The Enjoyment]
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