Feb 09
In the past, we have stated that we have no desire to be a journalist. We love blogging about the Rays and consider the two endeavors to be beasts of a different feather (or whatever that cliche is).
But if you have a desire to be a journalist and love the Rays, MLB.com has a job for you.
MLB. com, the Official Site of Major League Baseball, is seeking freelance and/or full-time columnists and reporters to help cover Major League Baseball. We’re interested in candidates with solid reporting skills and a strong voice who are as well versed in writing about the sport off the field as they are about the games themselves.
Specifically, they are looking for somebody to write about the Rays, and maybe occasionally fetch Bill Chastain’s laundry.
Just think, maybe some day it will be your name in the “Webtopia” or maybe even the subject of your very own “Why Rays Columnists Suck.”
If anybody does apply for this position and hears back from MLB.com we would love hear about how the process is handled.
Sports Reporter [Monster.com]
Feb 09
Happy Birthday to Akinori Iwamura and Dioner Navarro. Aki is 30 and The Fat Catcher is 25. Now the Rays have extra incentive to “play nice” during Navi’s arbitration hearing today.
DEVIL DOGS WEBTOPIA…
- The Boston Globe has a nice feature story on Rocco Baldelli and the progression of his career and his struggles to get on the baseball field and how he and his family have dealt with all that has come their way. [Boston Globe]
- Marc Topkin previews Dioner Navarro’s arbitration case which will be held today…What is $400K among friends, especially on a guy’s birthday? [St. Pete Times]
- Slow news day? John Romano rips into Bud Selig for something he hasn’t done yet. Romano finds it hypocritical that Selig at some point will ask for public money to pay for the Rays new stadium when the commissioner made more than $17 million in 2008. [St. Pete Times]
- Fangraphs takes a look at how the Rays bullpen might shake out in 2008, from a fantasy perspective. [Fangraphs]
- Rays of Light previews first base for the Rays. [Rays of Light]
