Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
February 09, 2006
McCoy's Mistake

Hal McCoy owns up to his mistake of yesterday:

I was misled by a couple of outside sources, who believed Beattie was the choice. They were wrong and I was submarined. I have never been so happy to be so wrong.

This is why you shouldn't trust anonymous sources. I wonder if the sources had an agenda where they wanted Beattie hired? Will never know, although when a source is this wrong I wonder if they're really worth protecting. After all, is McCoy going to trust them again?

Krivsky responded well to the payroll question:

Krivsky, a man with a smile nearly always in place, almost sneered when payroll was mentioned.

"The payroll thing? Hogwash," he said. "Forget it. I'm not here to talk about budget or money. We'll do it within our means. It's how you spend it. The roadside is littered with high-spending teams that don't win."


Posted by David Pinto at 08:34 AM | News Media | TrackBack (0)
Comments

Sure, you can give up a source that's not worth protecting -- if you don't mind your reliable sources deciding that you're not worth the risk to talking to, either. A blogger might not know that, but most Journalists do.

Posted by: Wooden U. Lykteneau at February 9, 2006 10:14 AM

Or you could just not rely on anonymous sources at all. It's all about transparency.

Posted by: David Pinto at February 9, 2006 10:53 AM

Or conversely your legitimate anonymous sources wouldn't feed you bs information because they know that it's not going to be the propaganda boost they're looking for. Most journalist are too lazy waiting for someone to call them up with the story to get the story straight.

Posted by: Jason at February 9, 2006 11:04 AM

Why don't you muse a little bit about Tony Who?
becoming a Monday Night Football analyst?
This surely is a joke. Isn't it?
Why don't they hire Wilbon and make a real circus out of this?
They are prostituting an American institution and should be ashamed of themselves...

Posted by: Don Cohen at February 9, 2006 05:02 PM

hey, a whole article about a new GM and not a SINGLE comment bout him being old, not having a computer or (shudder) a college degree

- and don cohen, this is a BASEBALL site. don't nobody care if tony, larry, moe or curly be doing football ANY night. and it's over with now anyhow, thank goodness

Posted by: lisa gray at February 9, 2006 08:06 PM

Shouldn't we all be posting about a general manger of a baseball team who, in the year 2006, is using the term "Hogwash"? Just saying...

Posted by: david at February 9, 2006 11:42 PM
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