MLB’s Advanced Media Strategy: What Strategy?

By Sean P. On April 13, 2011 · 18 Comments · In Business of Baseball, General Musings, Media, TV and Radio

Although I think about this all the time, I got set off on this ironically by something on Twitter. to have the head of MLB’s advanced media on his podcast to explain their “media strategy”. This was after MLBAM apparently removed a video of a NESN reporter choking on a sandwich [...]

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Media Thoughts: Taking Advantage Of Twitter

By Moshe Mandel On March 29, 2011 · 20 Comments · In General Musings

(comic from geekandpoke.typepad.com)

Time Magazine recently released its list of the top 140 twitter accounts, and there were a number of accounts listed under the “sports” heading:

Old Hoss Radbourn
Eric Stangel
Dara Torres
Brian Wilson
Rory McIlroy
Apolo Ohno
Steve Nash
Rio Ferdinand
[...]

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About MLB and Twitter

By Rebecca Glass On April 28, 2010 · 3 Comments · In Uncategorized

[Moshe asked me to share this with you, so I have]

[Caveat:  This story is still developing.  Recommend reading this post from Fang's Bites for background info, and updates.]

This evening, that MLB.com is now preventing their writers from tweeting anything non-baseball related.

I wish I could adequately put into words [...]

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Granderson's New Handset

By Moshe Mandel On April 8, 2010 · 8 Comments · In Uncategorized

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Twitter is an amazing tool for fans and bloggers, in that it provides access to people with expertise that many fans would not have had the ability to speak with in the past. [...]

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Discussion: What Do You Expect From Baseball Writers On Twitter?

By Moshe Mandel On March 22, 2010 · 8 Comments · In Uncategorized

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Twitter has entirely changed how baseball reporters and writers deal with the information that they collect and how they interact with their readership. Ken Rosenthal chimed in on this topic last night (h/t @crashburnalley):

Early in my career, I would lose sleep if I reported something [...]

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Some lazy Saturday afternoon links

By Larry Koestler On January 9, 2010 · 3 Comments · In Uncategorized

If you read Yankeeist you probably also already Fangraphs, so even though you don’t need me to tell you to go there, I’m going to anyway. Matt Klaasen’s post from yesterday on Dayton Moore and Omar Minaya cracked me up. To wit:

“One might be tempted to see [...]

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Discussion: Does Twitter Mean The Death Of The Reporter?

By Moshe Mandel On September 11, 2009 · 2 Comments · In Uncategorized

Yesterday, I first read the news about David Robertson’s successful meeting with Dr. Andrews on River Ave. Blues. At the time, I noticed that their story had no link, and instead began with the words “The Yankees have just updated us…” I did a quick search among the local beat reporter blogs and found [...]

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Red Sox to acquire Victor Martinez, per twitter

By Eric Schultz On July 31, 2009 · 8 Comments · In Uncategorized

No word on the price yet, but hopefully the Indians were able to extract some valuable players/prospects from Boston.  The is from Bob Nightengale, a USA Today writer.  Of the big 3 of Halladay, Adrian Gonzalez, and Martinez, V-Mart would likely have had the lowest cost, and is not the same caliber player [...]

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