Roch forgets about Maverick Handley

[Frobby]

Roch remembers about Maverick Handley:

https://www.masnsports.com/blog/handley

[wildcard]

36 minutes ago, Frobby said:

Roch remembers about Maverick Handley:

https://www.masnsports.com/blog/handley

Better late than never.

[eddie83]

14 minutes ago, wildcard said:

Better late than never.

Maybe you guilted him into the story. 

[Frobby]

1 hour ago, eddie83 said:

Maybe you guilted him into the story. 

Or, he ran out of other things to write about.  But in any event, I’m glad Handley has gotten a long stint in spring training and has gotten a lot out of it, it appears.  And, he’s looked pretty good out there.  

[CHIP]

Just now, Frobby said:

Roch remembers about Maverick Handley:

https://www.masnsports.com/blog/handley

I've only been following the O's since they drafted 3 Cardinal in 2019.  It was pretty fun to see the 2022 9th rounder getting his AB yesterday in front of Handley.  With that being said and my limited history.  Roch seems to be a writer who may have been good at one point but now seems like a guy that is hanging on in a digital would trying to survive on clicks.  As such... he has to write about the low hanging fruit that any person could write about without much effort.  He does his 'mailbag' to be sarcastic and witty but that grows tiresome if I can even finish reading those...

As for this 'interview' with Handley, I read the interview and thought it sounded like Maverick was on the phone with his mother or father trying to stay positive about his situation.  Don't say anything negative and keep a positive mindset.  Hoping for an injury is bad karma.   It reminded me of when Melewski interviewed Cody Roberts after Roberts became the sacrificial Travel Squad catcher... Roberts almost ran out of every thing he could say about sitting in a hotel and spinning it into a positive.   It is almost a real life version of Bull Durham when Crash Davis was giving Nuke LaLoosh veteran advice on his interviews, "Of course it's boring!  That's the point.  Write it down.  I just want to give it my best shot and the good Lord willing things will work out."

I also read 'like' like 11 times.  Like that is excessive.  Like Handley had to think about dumbing down his answers to not like overwhelm Roch.  

You can't really blame Roch though...  When the starters leave after the 5th or 6th inning he has to scurry down to get his interviews in with the future starters.  So he misses anything that happens after that.  Then he has to go write his story to publish as soon as the game is over by adding anything that he may have seen in the box score or on someone else's twitter feed.  Be the first to publish and get the clicks.

Reading Roch's writing is like watching gold mining shows... where miners are hoping to find some gold in old tailing piles hoping that have are the leftovers of someone else's hard work and they don't have to spend any real time or effort in the process... So I read him hoping that maybe Roch finds and reports on a nugget that someone missed.

[CaptDbog]

55 minutes ago, CHIP said:

I've only been following the O's since they drafted 3 Cardinal in 2019.  It was pretty fun to see the 2022 9th rounder getting his AB yesterday in front of Handley.  With that being said and my limited history.  Roch seems to be a writer who may have been good at one point but now seems like a guy that is hanging on in a digital would trying to survive on clicks.  As such... he has to write about the low hanging fruit that any person could write about without much effort.  He does his 'mailbag' to be sarcastic and witty but that grows tiresome if I can even finish reading those...

As for this 'interview' with Handley, I read the interview and thought it sounded like Maverick was on the phone with his mother or father trying to stay positive about his situation.  Don't say anything negative and keep a positive mindset.  Hoping for an injury is bad karma.   It reminded me of when Melewski interviewed Cody Roberts after Roberts became the sacrificial Travel Squad catcher... Roberts almost ran out of every thing he could say about sitting in a hotel and spinning it into a positive.   It is almost a real life version of Bull Durham when Crash Davis was giving Nuke LaLoosh veteran advice on his interviews, "Of course it's boring!  That's the point.  Write it down.  I just want to give it my best shot and the good Lord willing things will work out."

I also read 'like' like 11 times.  Like that is excessive.  Like Handley had to think about dumbing down his answers to not like overwhelm Roch.  

You can't really blame Roch though...  When the starters leave after the 5th or 6th inning he has to scurry down to get his interviews in with the future starters.  So he misses anything that happens after that.  Then he has to go write his story to publish as soon as the game is over by adding anything that he may have seen in the box score or on someone else's twitter feed.  Be the first to publish and get the clicks.

Reading Roch's writing is like watching gold mining shows... where miners are hoping to find some gold in old tailing piles hoping that have are the leftovers of someone else's hard work and they don't have to spend any real time or effort in the process... So I read him hoping that maybe Roch finds and reports on a nugget that someone missed.

Roch sold his soul to the Owners. I have a hard time calling him a journalist. He is basically a PR rep for the team.