My Squawk about Philadelphia Inquirer sportswriter Frank Fitzpatrick’s complaints over the Yankee Stadium auxiliary press box has gotten picked up in the tweetosphere, so I thought I should follow up on it.
The biggest thing that got me about Fitzpatrick’s complaint about the press box was that he was griping about the very same weather conditions that the fans – and, for that matter, the players – also had to endure. Besides, as I wrote, it was 52 degrees at game time. That’s not exactly the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field.
Look, I get that sportswriters don’t have the easiest of jobs – they have to write quickly, they don’t always get treated very well from the people they’re covering, they have a lot of travel, and their industry is shedding jobs like crazy. But at the same time, to gripe that – shocker – there are a lot of press jammed in at a World Series game seems a bit much to me.
We count on sportswriters to give us the inside scoop on what’s going on with the teams we follow. And we want to hear the sportswriters’ insights on the game, not their moaning that they didn’t get a good seat in the main press box.
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