Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
October 10, 2007
East Coast Coverage

AZ Snakepit seems to lack knowledge of modern media. In talking about the change in time to put the DBacks-Rockies in prime time out west:

Still, regardless of the reason, I'm glad it was changed, and it only makes sense. The East-coast ALCS and the West-coast NLCS can now both get coverage in local prime-time, without overlapping. My only qualm is that the late (10pm Eastern) start of the D-backs game will mean even less coverage there, since it'll probably finish too late to make it into the papers on Saturday.

Out here on the east coast, our reporters have something called "computers." These attach to an internet thingy, which sends their story back to the office at nearly the speed of light. Then another "computer" at the office sets the type, and the paper can be published in plenty of time! This has caused the people who set type one letter at a time to lose their jobs, but it's worth it to have them out on the street starving so we can see the results in the paper at 6 AM the next morning.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:26 AM | News Media | TrackBack (0)
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Maybe it's just because us Canadians are so backwards (what, you don't use beavers on spinning wheels to generate your electricity?), but the Toronto Star, one of Canada's biggest papers, almost never has late-game results in the paper the following morning.

The last time I can recall the final score of a game that finished after midnight making into the paper the following morning was the 1993 World Series (that being the last time the Jays were in the World Series, not coincidentally).

Fortunately this doesn't affect me, since I'll get the results off the internet if I don't manage to stay awake through the whole game, but I just thought I'd point out that not everywhere out "east" seems to have figured out how to handle west coast baseball.

Posted by: Brian at October 10, 2007 11:03 AM

My guess is that people in Canada care little about American baseball. It's not worth it to stay up late just to get a score in a newspaper.

When I first got out of college, the Boston Globe actually published all day. I liked getting the noon edition because they did have late results. But the technology is there to get papers published with boxscores even for game that end at 2 AM EDT. I wrote the software that sends AP their boxscores, and they get them within five minutes of the end of the game, usually much faster.

Posted by: David Pinto at October 10, 2007 11:25 AM

there's been plenty of occasions when I bought the NY Post to read the coverage of the Mets only to see that the previous night's game wasn't covered because it was played on the west coast.

it seems that anything the ends after 1am does not make the papers the next day.

Posted by: cal at October 10, 2007 12:12 PM

What paper would that be? My local paper (in the Eastern time zone) NEVER has coverage of west coast games. Sometimes not even games that were in the Central time zone are reported. There are print newspapers in the Eastern time zone that publish morning editions that have the scores of baseball games that ended at 1 a.m. that day? Where?

Posted by: Scott at October 10, 2007 04:22 PM

Granted, it was 12 years ago, but I remember when I was in college the NY Times never had West Coast baseball results. Even papers out here (California) will sometimes not have results if it's like a 15-inning game or such. Papers do still have cut-off times for the news.

Posted by: Adam Villani at October 11, 2007 02:19 PM
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