Out here in the land of bloggers, news that Curt Schilling was planning to take on a blog - and seems relatively informed about the process in general - was encouraging. More information the better, I say, and if players are providing that information, that just makes the entire process more egalitarian. Sure beats learning everything through a tight-lipped PR person, right?Not for Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy. He would prefer access be tightened, it seems:
Getting a little tired and bored here in the final week of the Grapefruit League circuit so I thought I'd take the day off and let Curt Schilling do the work. Schill started writing his own blog a few weeks ago, so today he fills the space with his latest Q & A session with fellow bloggers.(Note: This is an abridged text. Because of space limitations, we are unable to reprint the entire posting, which was approximately the same length as Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals.")
Daniel W. Drezner takes on why Shaughnessy might be feeling a bit, well, threatened by Schilling's entry into sportswriting:
If blogs can beat newspapers to the punch in reporting inside information, what is their comparative advantage? Three possibilities: 1) better analysis; 2) better writing; and 3) better controversy.
I've read enough of Shaughnessy's baseball analysis to know that's not his strength (Rob Bradford demonstrates more baseball knowledge in a single story than Shaughnessy does in an entire season). He's an OK writer, but there are plenty of Red Sox beat writers and bloggers who are better (note to Globe sports editor: give Amalie Benjamin her own full-time Sox blog). No, Shaughnessy's specialty is using his acid pen to ignite public feuds with Shaughnessy.
It seems Shaughnessy might be feeling the creeping shadow of irrelevance seeping over him; either that, or he just plain doesn't like computers, sort of like Murray Chass. Either way, keep blogging kids. Dan can't stand it.
(HT: Baseball Musings)
Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Of course he cant...he said he hated Jacksonville superbowl cause he couldnt get the new york times...so make him squirm
Shaugnessy has been a whiner for years. His tack on this issue is amusing given that The Boston Globe, for whom he pens has disallowed -any- of its writers to make guest appearances on the local sports radio channel, WEEI. (Boston) He's also known as a "backstabber" in the business. His nickname on the radio is "Shank Shaugnessy". :)
So let him pout. I just finished reading Schilling's personal blog minutes ago and found it refreshingly well written, and full of insights that would -never- be read, nevermind as fully fleshed out as Schilling's comments were.
At 52 years old, I've been reading the sports sections for years here in Boston, and it's a shame that Shaugnessy hasn't developed over the years into the grandeloquent scribe and gentleman that Bob Ryan has been and remains.