Those of us who do this sort of thing for a living are on intimate terms with deadlines. Some of us may not like them, but we know them all too well. That’s why I was more than a little curious to see what would happen in the blog-o-sphere yesterday when the Rangers traded star first baseman Mark Teixeira.
There are a half dozen or so well-done Rangers blogs run by people who don’t do this for a living. The most famous (and when I say famous, I mean it — this guy is a huge star in that particular universe) is written by a lawyer named Jamey Newberg called the Newberg Report. Sure enough, when I checked, Newberg had a flashing red box on his site announcing the trade.
That was impressive enough. But the one that blew me away was Lone Star Ball, run by Adam Morris, who I don’t know much about. (Wamre has actually met Newberg, both of them being Rangers’ fan big shots.) Morris’ coverage of the trade was mind-bogglingly amazing, a lesson to more established media outlets (take note, Belo and Star-Telegram owner McClatchy). Morris had a piece up called Previewing the pundits comments that made this ex-sportswriter laugh out loud. He riffed on Galloway, Jacques Taylor, Dale Hansen and the rest and it was brilliant.
