New baseball story on the home page this morning

Great writing. Carl, I really hope that Chicken continues to have you do this. I wish there was a paypal link or some way to contribute to the effort.

thanks CD...you do the same

Spirit of Dunson,

You ask a great question. I should start by saying I've always had the tendency to write long pieces (and I think they're undervalued at most newspapers, especially now). Also, the last newspaper where I worked had many more pages than most its size, so its writers could write longer than those at a lot of papers.

That said, yes, the Internet does provide opportunities to write longer. There's no question I could use an editor (as all writers do). I'm sure I could write these reports tighter, but Chicken and I are operating under some limitations that restrict me to about 10 stories a month. I used to write that many in less than a week.

To give you as much as I can with two baseball stories a week, I write longer pieces. I try to put as much from my interviews on the page, without simply transcribing the entire text and reprinting verbatim. The quotes I post are much longer than what you'd find in a newspaper, and maybe it's overkill, but again I want to get as much information into the two baseball pieces I write each week.

I think players and coaches like it too, because the full context of their comments is given ample consideration.

Did this answer your questions? But yes, I like the format. I'm given a lot of creative freedom, and I enjoy that.


(Note: I had to modify this post because I used the wrong word, "reporters" instead of "reports," and then I had the wrong subject-verb agreement in another sentence, so there's another argument for having an editor.)

Thanks, Carl. Enjoyed it.

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Carl Dubois

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Your contributions to this site has seriously upgraded the overall education level, or in the very least the writing ability. Keep it up

There's a home page??????

Excellent article--thanks. Think I now have a better "feel" for the team as a whole.

Carl,

You should post a link to your blog/column for us lazy folk.

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