As we continue our series on the biggest Boston sports media stories of 2008, we come to a crazy few weeks this summer on the baseball beat in the local papers and websites. In that span, we saw the following movement:
Gordon Edes: Boston Globe to Yahoo! Sports
Rob Bradford: Boston Herald to WEEI.com
Alex Speier: NH Union Leader to WEEI.com
Jeff Horrigan: Boston Herald to Private Sector
Tony Massarotti: Boston Herald to Boston.com
Sean McAdam: Providence Journal to Boston Herald
Adam Kilgore: Washington Post to Boston Globe
Daniel Barbarisi: Providence Journal city hall beat to Red Sox beat.
Looking through that list, it seems easier to point out that the only people who stayed put in their baseball gigs were Amalie Benjamin and Nick Cafardo of the Globe and Michael Silverman of the Herald.
All of that movement certainly gave this site plenty to report on during those few weeks.
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The best of the bunch was the smartest of the bunch: Jeff Horrigan went to the private sector.
i love ABenji,THOSE GLASSES !! Dorothy Parker had it all wrong…
I dream of someday seeing:
Dan Shaughnessy: Boston Globe to Barnum and Bailey Circus
John Tomase: Boston Herald to Walmart door greeter
Gerry Callahan: WEEI to unemployment line
John Dennis: WEEI to old folks home
I think D and C would be better served taking care of the gorillas at the Franklin Park Zoo. That would be justice.
John Dennis: WEEI to undertaker
Didn’t a few people leave the Pro Jo Red Sox beat. I thought Steven Krasner left there.
As well as Jeff Goldberg from the Courant who had his position eliminated.
I mentioned Goldberg in the buyouts piece yesterday.
You forgot to mention Steve Krasner, the reliable, old hand from the ProJo, taking a buyout. He’s already missed.
Good call here, I wasn’t aware that Krasner took the buyout, thanks!
I still miss MUSTARD & JOHNSON. Couldn’t they at least be heard talking politics on RKO???
They filled in for D&C on Monday and joked that they’ll probably be back together again at this time next year.
There’s a reason I’m an independent. Why would want to join institutions that would take Mustard (DNC) or Johnson (GOP)? Cripes, any political parties that encourage idiot Yankee fans to call up deserve our censure.