Comments on: News Update – 3/29/10 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2010/03/29/news-update-32910/ Development site for Bronx Banter Blog's upcoming look and feel Fri, 24 May 2013 16:38:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: a.O http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2010/03/29/news-update-32910/#comment-97217 a.O Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:43:28 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=30959#comment-97217 Yes, bizarre. Billy would have been able to explain it better than me. I like the Jeter approach to media relations: Give them the vapid quotes that go with their vapid questions. Yes, bizarre. Billy would have been able to explain it better than me.

I like the Jeter approach to media relations: Give them the vapid quotes that go with their vapid questions.

]]> By: Paul http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2010/03/29/news-update-32910/#comment-97216 Paul Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:36:28 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=30959#comment-97216 <i>Does it strike anyone else as odd in a conflict of interest way to have beat writers join the people they cover for a living in a "bonding" event.</i> Of course it is. But then baseball writers pretend they're Woodward and Bernstein when really they're Abbott and Costello. Has one writer asked Cashman yet how Chamberlain's development can be complete when he hasn't gotten one full season as a starter? Or when he got 15 mL starts as compared to Hughes' 63 mL starts? Does it strike anyone else as odd in a conflict of interest way to have beat writers join the people they cover for a living in a “bonding” event.

Of course it is. But then baseball writers pretend they’re Woodward and Bernstein when really they’re Abbott and Costello. Has one writer asked Cashman yet how Chamberlain’s development can be complete when he hasn’t gotten one full season as a starter? Or when he got 15 mL starts as compared to Hughes’ 63 mL starts?

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