Yes. You are correct. Thanks for clearing up my glaring and shameful mistake.
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So, I was reading this article on the final game in SI. It’s all factually correct but everything about the writing style is off. Do y’all think it was written by AI, a contract writer from India or something else?
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What’s wrong with it?
The lack of coherent flow. The tangentially related factoids scattered throughout. The overly frequent use of baseball-specific jargon. The lack of a named author. I could be wrong. It just seems off somehow.
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Seems consistent with the sad state of SI.
This is true. My dad bought me a subscription to SI shortly after the first issue, and I bought Mark one when he was a kid. I loved the magazine and read it cover to cover each week. After Time, Inc. sold SI or whatever happened, it went downhill rapidly. I let my subscription lapse last year, which made me quite sad.
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It’s simply an AP lift. That’s even more pathetic.
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Similar story - my grandfather was a charter subscriber and had passed down his subscription to my dad, and we discussed the stories each week; every Christmas, I could count on my SI renewal as a gift from him. The quality had already declined significantly before Time’s sale, and afterwards, the quality was nonexistent.
I did not notice a decline before the sale. I would not be surprised if you read with a more discerning eye.
Daddy, what are magazines? Just another casualty of the internet, Son.
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My guess is that was the rush-job story – the “get it on the wire now!” version that hadn’t been completely cleaned up or worked through, and SI never went back to replace it online with the later version.
Here is the later version – it’s got some of the same phrases, but is a much more complete story:
(The latter version also got a byline – Stephen Hawkins, a Texas-based AP sportswriter.)
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SI went downhill once Kathy Ireland stopped appearing on the cover of their swimsuit edition.
Ireland, McPhereson, Hunter
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Ireland
(Large gap)
Upton
Brinkley
McPherson
I’ll allow it
I used to know some sportswriters who would work “backwards” during the game. They would write “In the second inning Jeff Bagwell got a big homer that made the score 3-1” and then as the game goes on, they add new details above. At the end of the game, you lead with the final score and final inning, and then you have a backward chronology to follow. Then the sportswriter will come back later and add quotes and sportswriter bullshit.
It was a quick way to meet a sports deadline, back when there were newspapers and deadlines. This article kind of seems like a “quicky” get-the-new-out version before it got fleshed out later in the final article.
Two things:
This video recap is awesome - The 2022 World Series: Astros bring it home (2022 World Series Cinematic Recap) - YouTube
AND! Check out who you can see during the shot during the Yordan Game 6 AB!
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Holy cow!
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Who’s that Sasquatch with Jim?
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That IS Jim. He’s gone all Howard Hughes since the pandemic.
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