VoyForums

[ VoyUser Login optional ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 12:59:59 07/18/11 Mon
Author: Tom, Not Jerry
Subject: New Pirates beat writer for P-G?

I hear they're hiring John Delcos, who covered baseball in the NY suburbs and has most recently been writing for a Mets website.

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Replies:

[> Re: New Pirates beat writer for P-G? -- Let's all be honest..., 19:37:31 07/18/11 Mon [1]

You know John Perotto will take to Facebook and Twitter to lament how unfair the decision is, which is pretty much why he didn't get it.

[ Post a Reply to This Message ]
[ Edit | View ]
[> [> Re: New Pirates beat writer for P-G? -- John Perrotto, 23:38:44 07/18/11 Mon [1]

If you're going to bash me, at least spell my name right, for crying out loud.

[ Post a Reply to This Message ]
[ Edit | View ]

[> [> [> Re: New Pirates beat writer for P-G? -- Sorry, John,, 11:17:51 07/19/11 Tue [1]

It's not bashing you.
I'm being honest - and I wish someone had told you this when bashing the Nuttings in public. Right or not about them (and you probably were right ) you just don't do that in public. How can anyone realistically expect you to objectively cover the team on a daily basis?

[ Post a Reply to This Message ]
[ Edit | View ]

[> [> [> [> Re: New Pirates beat writer for P-G? -- John Perrotto, 13:30:38 07/19/11 Tue [1]

No, it wasn't the best way to handle it but if you've ever been totally lied to, had your life turned upside down AND had Ogden minions trying to ruin your reputation in the business by making up total lies about you, I think it'd be hard not to fight back. If it would have been just a parting of the ways, it would be one thing. When people spread likes about you and try to have you blackballed out of the business then they've crossed the line. Contact me off-forum and I'll gladly give you the details that I'd prefer not to go any more public here.

[ Post a Reply to This Message ]
[ Edit | View ]

[> [> [> [> [> Re: New Pirates beat writer for P-G? -- Sorry again, 20:36:51 07/19/11 Tue [1]

First, sorry for the typo on your name.
Second, something at the risk of outing myself. I'm also a Nutting paper survivor, I got out before it got bad. Do you really think he has the power and capabilities to ruin a career? Be serious. He's all talk. Everyone in newspaper knows what a lousy company he runs, but we also know what a weak bully he is. Be better than him, you don't need to fight back, because you aren't the only person he's treated that way. We know what he is about, he's an afterthought and a joke in the publishing industry. Maybe I'm wrong about you. I think you write well, but I get the feeling by reading on other boards what you have Tweeted and put on Facebook that you have an extremely thin skin and feel the need to react to every little thing said. Don't. You can't change what Nutting did, but you can be a better person than him, which isn't hard to do. I took the high road on the way out of there even after I saw all the backstabbing and cheating and lies. That's how he does business.

[ Post a Reply to This Message ]
[ Edit | View ]

[> [> [> [> [> Re: New Pirates beat writer for P-G? -- So Glad To Be Ex, 20:46:37 07/19/11 Tue [1]

I can't speak to whatever issues Mr. Perrotto had, but I can tell you this. The worst time of my 19-year newspaper career was a terrible 14 months I spent with an Ogden Newspaper. It was an awful place to work, a combination of beginners who were willing to take any job (like me) and lifers who'd had their souls destroyed by working so long in a place that valued the bottom line over everything else. "Cheap" is too mild a word. So I can sympathize, although I agree it's best to keep one's innermost thoughts about a past employer out of social media. Trashing a former employer -- even a notoriously bad one -- will never do you any good. Warn people one-on-one as a professional courtesy, but don't put it in "writing" where a Google search might find it with your name attached.

>No, it wasn't the best way to handle it but if you've
>ever been totally lied to, had your life turned upside
>down AND had Ogden minions trying to ruin your
>reputation in the business by making up total lies
>about you, I think it'd be hard not to fight back. If
>it would have been just a parting of the ways, it
>would be one thing. When people spread likes about you
>and try to have you blackballed out of the business
>then they've crossed the line. Contact me off-forum
>and I'll gladly give you the details that I'd prefer
>not to go any more public here.

[ Post a Reply to This Message ]
[ Edit | View ]

[> Re: New Pirates beat writer for P-G? -- Tommy Gun, 15:50:26 07/24/11 Sun [1]

>I hear they're hiring John Delcos, who covered
>baseball in the NY suburbs and has most recently been
>writing for a Mets website.

Is this a joke? Delcos was the Steelers' beat writer for the P-G -- briefly -- in, I believe, 1985. Don't think he made it out of training camp before then-SE Bruce Keidan changed his mind and gave Ed Bouchette the Steelers' beat. He's had it ever since, and Delcos didn't stay around.

[ Post a Reply to This Message ]
[ Edit | View ]
[> [> Re: New Pirates beat writer for P-G? -- bucfever, 06:26:56 07/25/11 Mon [1]

It wasn't a joke, it almost happened. But now it's decided P-G's Pirates coverage is a tag team of Brink and Sanserino.

>>I hear they're hiring John Delcos, who covered
>>baseball in the NY suburbs and has most recently been
>>writing for a Mets website.
>
>Is this a joke? Delcos was the Steelers' beat writer
>for the P-G -- briefly -- in, I believe, 1985. Don't
>think he made it out of training camp before then-SE
>Bruce Keidan changed his mind and gave Ed Bouchette
>the Steelers' beat. He's had it ever since, and Delcos
>didn't stay around.

[ Post a Reply to This Message ]
[ Edit | View ]

[> [> [> Re: New Pirates beat writer for P-G? -- Yikes, 05:21:38 07/26/11 Tue [1]

That is what the P-G is going with to cover a Major League Baseball team?
Talk about waving the white flag.
Both of those young men should be underlings to Mike White, nothing more.

[ Post a Reply to This Message ]
[ Edit | View ]

[> [> [> [> Re: New Pirates beat writer for P-G? -- James, 14:00:03 07/26/11 Tue [1]

>That is what the P-G is going with to cover a Major
>League Baseball team?
>Talk about waving the white flag.
>Both of those young men should be underlings to Mike
>White, nothing more.

The young fellows could use some guidance, which they won't get.

But considering the season started with Dunlap on the beat, there really isn't a loss of quality on the coverage.

[ Post a Reply to This Message ]
[ Edit | View ]

[> [> [> [> [> Re: New Pirates beat writer for P-G? -- Oh-oh..., 15:57:12 07/26/11 Tue [1]

The self-proclaimed up and coming writer who up and went is gonna be mad on Twitter.

[ Post a Reply to This Message ]
[ Edit | View ]

[> [> [> [> [> [> Re: New Pirates beat writer for P-G? -- Smyle Overway, 12:43:55 07/31/11 Sun [1]

Jenn Menendez hire at P-G is apparently official. She comes to town from a paper in Maine.

[ Post a Reply to This Message ]
[ Edit | View ]

[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: New Pirates beat writer for P-G? -- Ken, 01:25:58 08/02/11 Tue [1]

>Jenn Menendez hire at P-G is apparently official. She
>comes to town from a paper in Maine.

Yes, she will be covering WVU football and Duquesne basketball.

[ Post a Reply to This Message ]
[ Edit | View ]

[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Just wondering ... -- Duq Grad, 09:09:15 08/02/11 Tue [1]

What newspaper in Maine is Menendez coming from? Anyone have any background on her, experience?

>>Jenn Menendez hire at P-G is apparently official. She
>>comes to town from a paper in Maine.
>
>Yes, she will be covering WVU football and Duquesne
>basketball.

[ Post a Reply to This Message ]
[ Edit | View ]

[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Re: Just wondering ... -- Slippery Rock Dropout, 12:39:21 08/03/11 Wed [1]

Mr. Google is your friend:

http://blogs.pressherald.mainetoday.com/blogs/jenn-menendez





>What newspaper in Maine is Menendez coming from?
>Anyone have any background on her, experience?
>
>>>Jenn Menendez hire at P-G is apparently official. She
>>>comes to town from a paper in Maine.
>>
>>Yes, she will be covering WVU football and Duquesne
>>basketball.

[ Post a Reply to This Message ]
[ Edit | View ]

[ VoyUser Login ] Not required to post.
Post a public reply to this message | Go post a new public message
 Note: This forum is moderated -- new posts are not visible until approved.
* HTML allowed in marked fields.
Message subject (required):

Name (required):

  Expression (Optional mood/title along with your name) Examples: (happy, sad, The Joyful, etc.) help)

  E-mail address (optional):

* Type your message here:


Note: This forum is moderated -- new posts are not visible until approved.

Notice: Copies of your message may remain on this and other systems on internet. Please be respectful.
 The Voy.com User Agreement applies to all visitors.

[ Contact Forum Admin ]

Forum timezone: GMT-8
VF Version: 2.94, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2012 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.