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March 24th, 2008

Chatting with Krasovic

Over at Ducksnorts, I’ve interviewed Tom Krasovic, who covers the Padres for the San Diego Union-Tribune. Some of it is Padres specific, but we touch on other items as well, including blogging as a medium for reporting sports:
Some newspaper writers use a blog as a launching point for their opinions on a wide variety of […]

By Geoff Young -- 0 comments

November 9th, 2007

Greetings from BlogWorld

We have a quick lunch break before afternoon sessions, but I overdid it at the buffet this morning, so I’ll post instead. We’ll have the full recap on Monday, but here’s a little of what’s transpired so far:

Arrived in Vegas Wednesday evening. Nice, easy 5-hour drive.
Dinner and drinks with fellow b5ers. I’ll name drop when […]

By Geoff Young -- 4 comments

April 1st, 2007

Assumptions We Make

I had a fascinating conversation with a reader the other day about my characterization of a particular player. Without going into great detail, this reader disagreed with my take, and told me so; I think we both learned a little something in the process.
I started writing about baseball on the Web in ‘97. We didn’t […]

By Geoff Young -- 3 comments

March 29th, 2007

Schilling Talks about His Blog

We noted a while back that Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling has started blogging. Now one of my favorite baseball writers, SI.com’s Alex Belth, interviews Schilling about the experience.
Schilling talks about interacting with baseball fans:
Fans in Boston want to know why I threw a slider 2-0, or they want to know the difference between […]

By Geoff Young -- 0 comments