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The Winter Meetings Have Jumped the Shark
Izzit just me or has the excitement of baseball’s winter meetings been surpassed by the absurdity of the event?
Thanks to digital media it’s a non-stop rumor mill of which 99% turn out to be utter nonsense.
I swear it’s worse than a junior high school playground.
These days any clown with a blog or Twitter account has the power to start a nationwide rumor. Just last week Cerrone busted (i think it was) ESPN.com for picking up and running with a story that was merely speculation on a blog.
I mean has all media now become such whores to gossip that they’ll publish anything and everything uttered when it comes to baseball trades?
Unfortunately I think the answer is yes.
Honestly I don’t even want to hear the rumors anymore. Tell me when something tangible happens but until then I don’t have enough time in my life to follow every cockamamie internet rumor.
I can only imagine what Cerrone and Michael G Baron at MetsBlog are going through this week - those dudes must be up 20 hours a day wading through all the BS.
Makes you long for the good old days of about 6 years ago when there was a healthy mix of false rumors and real inside information.
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December 8th, 2009 at 10:02 am
When all is said and done : Will payroll increase? decrease? or stay very close to the same as “09 ?
I say it stays the same .. b/c I have hope somehow or someway we get somebody to take Castillo ..
December 8th, 2009 at 11:33 am
I only hope it stays the same because increasing it isn’t going to get this team into the playoffs and will leave us a roster full overpriced, over the hill, has been’s…
December 8th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
“I mean has all media now become such whores to gossip that they’ll publish anything and everything uttered when it comes to baseball trades?”
Publishing a rumor about a baseball trade is harmless unlike, say, publishing a rumor that a player is a racist or an anti-Semite.
December 8th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Amen BMF! It’s like that in all areas of media. The market is saturated!
December 8th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
What the media whores are doing now is publishing any unfounded rumor in the hopes that should it turn out to be true, they can say they were the first to report it. They’ve become so fat and lazy for the most part that many of them just peruse twitter looking for any inlking of a rumor to blast out. The problem is that no one hammers them for putting this BS out when it turns out not to be true.
December 8th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
What worries me is there are no significant rumors regarding the Mets. Still sniffing catchers when we need pitching, lf etc. I don’t get it at all with Omar and Jeff.
Meanwhile the Yankess make a deal for Granderson to play left.
December 8th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
If Omar comes back with Johnny Damon or Hideki Matsui to play left field, I swear I will not go to one game at city next year….okay I can’t cash that check because one of the things I really enjoy in life is going to baseball games and rooting for the Mets, but I’ll be disgruntled. As if I’m not already.
December 8th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Peter Gammons is leaving ESPN.
Who says the winter meeting twitters are a waste of technology???
(That was me, by the way… and it’s true)
December 8th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
I suggest we all take the winter off and worry about this train wreck in the spring