Newspaper Buyouts Come in Threes

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Rumor: Murray Chass Riding His New-Age Horseless Carriage Into the Sunset
Published 4/3/2008 by Junior at FIRE JOE MORGAN
Did we contribute, in some minuscule, 0.000000001% way to Murray Chass allegedly being bought out by the New York Times? The Big Lead is reporting Chass' impending departure. The news, of course, will take a few days to reach Murray, as he depends solely on the Pony Express for communication (the Postal Service, he maintains, is a passing fad that he won't abide). ...

Mnookin’s Martinez Eulogy: Surely Pedro’s Not Dead Yet?
Published 4/3/2008 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... Far too classy to be gloating over Murray Chass being put out to pasture (then again, maybe he didn’t hear about it yet), Feeding The Monster’s ...

Murray Chass Bought Out; Hates Bloggers
Published 4/4/2008 by Eamonn Brennan at FanHouse
Filed under: New York, MLB Media WatchThe Big Lead reported today that longtime New York Times baseball columnist Murray Chass is taking an involuntary buyout, which is almost entirely sad. It's a tough dawn in the newspaper industry; buyouts for older staffers are a regrettable, if suddenly inevitable, fact of life, but that doesn't make them any more appealing. So here's where, normally, I'd rip on Murray Chass for being closeminded and silly, and for letting his column quality drift dramatically in recent years, but in ...

The Big Lead: Newspaper Buyouts Come in Threes
Published 4/4/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
The Big Lead: Newspaper Buyouts Come in Threes Or...how Murray Chass finally got tossed out of Mnook-in High. Somebody, somewhere, once stated that major events happen in threes, and in the sports newspaper world, a sad trifecta is about to take place: On the heels of Chicago Tribune NBA encyclopedia Sam Smith taking a buyout, and Boston Globe sports staple Jackie MacMullan doing the same, multiple sources tell us that venerable New York Times baseball scribe Murray Chass is in the final stages of accepting a buyout. Multiple sources say that Chass’s impending departure is ...

Friday Brain Dump
Published 4/4/2008 by Eric Simon at Amazin' Avenue: Front Page Posts
... 2000 season and he was an absolute stud in the NLCS against the Cardinals. He was also kind enough to leave the Mets for the clear skies and superior schools of Colorado, leaving the Mets with a lousy sandwich pick they wasted on some bum. Hampton as done practically doodily-squat since then, turning in a decent year for the Braves in 2003 and otherwise pitching either horribly or infrequently or both. Anyway, thanks, Mike. The end of an era? According to The Big Lead, crumbum and hater of anything newfangled Murray Chass is a whisker away from ...

Published 4/4/2008 by Aaron at AaronGleeman.com
... Brantley look very, very silly: I'm normally not much of a Thom Brennaman fan, but he at least does his best to combat the incredibly aggressive stream of stupidity that's flowing from his broadcast partner. This seems like a dream job, but I'm told that the benefits package is lacking. After sitting through an angry, anti-blogger diatribe by recently bought-out New York Times columnist Murray Chass, Jon ...

Baseball Today: Friday, April 4
Published 4/4/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... THE MARCH OF TIME: The stathead world is abuzz with the news that Murray Chass, the very well-connected but numbers-phobic baseball writer for the New York Times, is apparently being given a buyout. (The Big Lead) Flags at Fire Joe Morgan ...

We won’t have Murray Chass to kick around anymore (maybe…)
Published 4/4/2008 by Seth Mnookin at The Feeding the Monster Blog -- In which the author discusses Boston, the Red Sox, the media, and very occasionally popular music.
... Not surprisingly, I’ve gotten lots of emails about the news that Murray Chass might have been nudged out the door at the Times. This would undoubtedly be a good thing for the sportswriting profession, as well as for anyone who regularly reads the Times’ sports section. (Just last week I had lunch with a longtime baseball scribe who said, more or less unprompted, that Chass was the worst sportswriter in the country…maybe ever.) ...

Buyout fever.
Published 4/4/2008 by Paulsen at Sports Media Watch
Some of the preeminent sportswriters in the country are losing their jobs. Several prominent sportswriters have either been offered or have accepted buyouts in recent weeks . Boston Globe NBA scribe Jackie MacMullan and Chicago Tribune NBA writer Sam Smith have both accepted buyouts, while New York Times baseball writer ...

Bye Bye Murray
Published 4/7/2008 by Craig Calcaterra at ShysterBall
The Big Lead reported on Friday that Murray Chass is about to get shoved out the door at the Times. This has created some degree of joy among ...

Some good news...
Published 4/7/2008 by Earl at The GYS Network
...as the Sox sit in the AL East basement. (On pace to win 69 games! Oh no!) The New York Times is (probably) about to fire Murray Chass.

When Malo Met Ducksnorts
Published 4/7/2008 by E.L.M. at El Lefty Malo
... in about 10 feet before the 2006 season. Based on how well the Padres used Petco Park to their advantage last year, I’d be reluctant to change the configuration. The Padres accounted for 61.5% of all home runs hit in their own park in 2007, which was the highest mark in the big leagues. They’d never done anything like that before, but assuming they can keep it up, I’m happy with the dimensions. *** And speaking of baseball coverage… could this be true? Oh please oh please let it be true. Bruce Jenkins, you’re next.

Some Monday bonus links
Published 4/7/2008 by Dave at NJ.com: Pride of the Yankees
We found a few links we wanted to pass along while checking out our favorite writers (read: Neyer and Olney ) at ESPN.com today. Rob Neyer's goodies included : This story from The Big Lead informing us that blogger-hating Murray Chass is in the process of being bought out by the NY Times . For a more -- ahem -- colorful rant on Chass's hatred for "new-era" baseball statistics (PG-13 language), see the Fire Joe Morgan entry linked to by The Big Lead . A great, great story from the LA ...

Lucky Sevens
Published 4/9/2008 by Jay at The Futility Infielder
... . That almost certainly wasn't Chass' only public gaffe in recent years, but it couldn't have helped his cause much when it came time for the New York Times bean-counters to reckon with their dwindling inventory of staplers and paper clip holders. Reportedly , Chass is in the process of being bought out (he ...