New Baltimore Sun Oriole beat writer

[Going Underground]

https://mobile.twitter.com/NathanSRuiz/status/110550

 

Nathan Ruiz who covered Oklahoma State sports.

Excited to announce that I’m joining The Baltimore Sun as an Orioles beat writer later this month. The Big 12 Tournament will be my last assignment for The Oklahoman. I could not have asked for a better group of partners, editors and mentors to work alongside this past year.

[Moose Milligan]

Hey Nathan, don't get anything wrong or else @wildcard might be waiting for you in a dark alley somewhere.

[Luke-OH]

Young guy, graduated college in 2017.  Looking at some of his work for his baseball stuff is pretty run-of-the-mill, but he does a good interview and captures personal stories well. 

[Moose Milligan]

13 minutes ago, Luke-OH said:

Young guy, graduated college in 2017.  Looking at some of his work for his baseball stuff is pretty run-of-the-mill, but he does a good interview and captures personal stories well. 

Where's he rank on the 20-80 scale? 

[Luke-OH]

2 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

Where's he rank on the 20-80 scale? 

I'm not a good enough writer to grade anyone else's writing, something something about glass houses.

I do think he's good, I think if Meoli can coach him up in baseball knowledge, he'll be a strong beat writer. 

Here's an article he wrote if you want to check it out, you can find all his work for the Oklahoman by clicking his name. 

https://newsok.com/article/5624373/osu-baseball-stanford-grad-transfer-bryce-carter-hopes-to-design-ballparks

[Moose Milligan]

1 minute ago, Luke-OH said:

I'm not a good enough writer to grade anyone else's writing, something something about glass houses.

I do think he's good, I think if Meoli can coach him up in baseball knowledge, he'll be a strong beat writer. 

Here's an article he wrote if you want to check it out, you can find all his work for the Oklahoman by clicking his name. 

https://newsok.com/article/5624373/osu-baseball-stanford-grad-transfer-bryce-carter-hopes-to-design-ballparks

I was making a prospect joke

Beat writers don't have to wow anyone with their prose.  Just stick to the who, what, where, when and why.  

And you're a good writer, take some credit.  

[Going Underground]

Also the Sun has been slashing jobs and salary for years.This is who they would end up with,young and inexperienced. Plus Meoli is still the senior beat writer.

[Luke-OH]

1 minute ago, Moose Milligan said:

I was making a prospect joke

Beat writers don't have to wow anyone with their prose.  Just stick to the who, what, where, when and why.  

And you're a good writer, take some credit.  

The 20-80 joke is so prevalent on prospect/draft twitter that it's gotten to the point where it's not really a joke and some scout/analysts grade everything from beer to puns with the scale. It's pretty weird.

I can write well enough to get my baseball/prospect knowledge across. I wouldn't go much further than that. I appreciate that compliment though. 

[scOtt]

1 hour ago, Luke-OH said:

I'm not a good enough writer to grade anyone else's writing, something something about glass houses.

I do think he's good, I think if Meoli can coach him up in baseball knowledge, he'll be a strong beat writer. 

Here's an article he wrote if you want to check it out, you can find all his work for the Oklahoman by clicking his name. 

https://newsok.com/article/5624373/osu-baseball-stanford-grad-transfer-bryce-carter-hopes-to-design-ballparks

There's a South Pacific island. Their King lives in an big grass hut, two stories, built inside a tree. This king has a thing about thrones. He collects them. Other tribute islands bring them to him as gifts. He has his people building him more thrones all the time.

Then one day, the King's hut completely collapses to the ground!

 

 

The moral of this story?

 

People who live in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones.

[Legend_Of_Joey]

1 hour ago, Moose Milligan said:

Where's he rank on the 20-80 scale? 

The more serious question is...

Does he have any options left?