Poll: Globe’s Chris Snow is best Sox beat writer
Over at Boston Sports Media Watch, Bruce Allen has been running some polls about the Boston media. Bruce is away for a few weeks on a honeymoon—tip o’ the cap to him—but still manages to have the site updated regularly with good stuff.
Today he runs the results of his poll on which Sox beat writer is best. (link, you will have to scroll down a little.) The voters went with Chris Snow of the Globe as best. Then again, on the companion poll (which Sox beat writer is worst), the voters also went with Snow, albeit by a very small margin. Maybe someone here could figure out who’s really best by running some sort of Pythagorean analysis, regressing to the mean, and plussing up on an ad hoc basis the ratings of any writers who are Korean, against whom Boston fans are known to be biased. (KIDDING, KIDDING, people.)
Generally, I think Boston fans are fortunate to have a pretty darn good stable of beat writers. I don’t really read the “beat” stories enough to have a feel for who’s best and worst on a day to day basis; I tend to read the other baseball stories rather than the game stories. But that’s me. I do know, as a Washingtonian, that the beat writers for the Nationals are terrible.
See also, scrolling further down the BSMW page, that Bob Ryan easily wins best print columnist, while CHB easily wins worst print columnist. The CHB vote is spot-on. As for the Ryan vote, personally I find Ryan to be pretty vanilla, though in the interest of full disclosure I’m probably somewhat biased against him because he was repeatedly unfriendly to me many years ago when I was a struggling new sportswriter.
Toby
Posted: May 04, 2006 at 02:22 PM |
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I agree about the beat writers, though. I think Rob Bradford is clearly the best, but Snow is very solid as big-city paper guys go. Silverman's quite solid, too.
I really don't read the Boston columnists much anymore. I really like Art Martone, but I guess he doesn't qualify as a "columnist" for purposes of this poll). I would take the Boston Sports Guy over any of these others, and that's not saying much (but again, he doesn't qualify as a "local" "print" columnist, either).
Paps did not hit his spots that good tonight, 5/4. A win vs. Toronto anyhow. Expect Hansen sooner rather than later if this Seanez/Tavarez combo continues to get pounded either in part or in whole. Foulke was not great.
Last night, my nephew and I were watching the game together by phone, and the ESPN radrar gun was always 3-4 MPH higher than the NESN gun. So does that mean Foulke's 85 are "88-89's"?
Interesting Gammo tidbit today...paraphrasing, he said that Aaron Boone was able to read something in Beckett's motion or whatever that telegraphed the next pitch and pass it on to his teamates back when he was in Cincinatti and Beckett was a Marlin. Supposedly, sez Petey Boy, he pulled the same trick again in Josh's CLE disaster. It did look like some of those Indians hitters knew when the fast ball was coming.
Each is sometimes on the pre-game stuff. Bradford has also appeared a few times on the Big Show on WEEI; don't know if Snow has.
you'd think that but no.
I haven't met Ryan, but folks I know have and tell me he's a pretty friendly guy who'll talk sports with anyone. The choice of Ryan for best sports columnist in Boston is incredibly well-deserved.
I've noticed this too. Maybe he's reading it from the Fenway radar gun? They flash the pitch speed on one of the scoreboards after most pitches.
basically, he would systematically give me the cold shoulder. Between my time at the Cornell Daily Sun and at the Middlesex News (now MetroWest Daily News) I covered many events in Boston, probably a half-dozen of which were also covered by Ryan. And he literally wouldn't talk to me in the press box.
example:
Q. "Mr. Ryan, how many Beanpots is this for you?"
A. (looks at me on his left. looks at Mike Shalin on his right. Turns to Shalin and strikes up a conversation.)
other times he would reply very gruffly and dismissively. To me, he seemed extremely self-important. Maybe he considered this to be some weird form of hazing, I don't know.
This is in contrast to a handful of other beat writers who were really friendly and helpful to a newbie, like Mike Shalin, and to the many other beat writers who were at least collegial. The only other writer I came across who had such a cold shoulder was Mark Blaudschun.
That is weird. I have heard only good things about Ryan. This blogger had a fantastic experience with him. (Scroll to the bottom)
I believe the Braves' currently hold the record for richest deal, at $13 million./year The Yankees are at $10 million, IIRC.
There are going to be some unhappy radio stations in NYC.
Snow should lose points for that lead sentence from today's game piece.
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