Time to unfollow Rucker

#26
#26
SpringBokVol said:
The problem with pay sites is that it isn't real journalism.

There isn't a editor demanding an unbias viewpoint.

It allows a once fine journalist to embrace his homer side.
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I don't even care that much if a "sports journalist" is a homer, as long as he's upfront about it. What he can't do is get so close to the participants that his readers can't really trust him to give the whole story. That's when he stops being even a pretend journalist and starts being just a jocksniffer.
 
#27
#27
He's always been pretty bad about claiming he knew of something well before everyone else started reporting it... yet he never mentioned it.

That and the announcing of his breakup (thankfully we know they are now back together?) was also pretty rough.
 
#28
#28
I'm done after last night's tweet:

"Never understood why some get so mad at coaches for "lack of loyalty." Where's the loyalty from schools to their coaches?"

He sounds like some of the everyday morons talking about how its everyone else's fault but Pearl.

Plus his radio show blows.
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#30
#30
I follow a bunch of people, but interested to see what he writes... but it's not like I live and die by every tweet.
 
#31
#31
Never been a fan of Rucker. Now that he's on GVX247, everything he puts on Twitter is a "paid read." Occasionaly he'll put a "free read" on there but it's something I've already heard about.
 
#32
#32
He's always saying how busy he is and how he doesn't get any sleep. You think you're important, we get it.
 
#35
#35
Heebs said:
I'm done after last night's tweet:

"Never understood why some get so mad at coaches for "lack of loyalty." Where's the loyalty from schools to their coaches?"

He sounds like some of the everyday morons talking about how its everyone else's fault but Pearl.

Plus his radio show blows.
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If one needed any evidence that he's turning into Softball, Jr., that's all you need. Completely delusional.
 
#37
#37
TennNC said:
Have you ever covered sports (or anything for that matter) for a living?
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People don't understand that as a Journalist,not a columnist,you have to be out in front of the news. You don't want to be the last guy reporting something or you will lose your job. Being a beat writer is hard during season. You lose a lot of your life for 5-6 months and it's not a ton of money. Most people on here have trouble constructing a sentence much less a 3000 word article.
 
#38
#38
Rucker seems to really enjoy the part of his job where he has great seats for all the games and gets to hang out with all the players and coaches. But any time a situation comes up that requires him to start doing Actual Reporting, he complains. Imagine if he were working as a real reporter and had to spend time at the courthouse and city council meetings.
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#39
#39
rockytopcam said:
People don't understand that as a Journalist,not a columnist,you have to be out in front of the news. You don't want to be the last guy reporting something or you will lose your job. Being a beat writer is hard during season. You lose a lot of your life for 5-6 months and it's not a ton of money. Most people on here have trouble constructing a sentence much less a 3000 word article.
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People don't understand most everything - unless they've done it themselves. Let's see if Kingston Vol has.
 
#40
#40
rockytopcam said:
People don't understand that as a Journalist,not a columnist,you have to be out in front of the news. You don't want to be the last guy reporting something or you will lose your job. Being a beat writer is hard during season. You lose a lot of your life for 5-6 months and it's not a ton of money. Most people on here have trouble constructing a sentence much less a 3000 word article.
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Looks like most people here can't even understand the context in which the comment was made. It had nothing to do with Bruce Pearl.
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#42
#42
Some people take twitter a little too serious. Its not like he's posting this stuff to an AP news feed.
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#44
#44
TennNC said:
What does this mean?
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It means that sports is entertainment, and covering it has all the gravitas and importance of being a gossip reporter. I have no doubt that it can be enormously hard work, but chasing down what's going on with Angelina Jolie and her kids is probably hard work too.

There's a longstanding tendency for "sports journalists" to take themselves far, far too seriously. They gloss over the fact that 99 percent of the time, they're writing articles about men playing a game with a ball. If you're serious about journalism, you cover something that matters.
 
#45
#45
You guys are way too serious about this. We should start creeping on his facebook statuses now too, and start a thread on why we're unfriending him. Grow up.
 
#46
#46
LawVol13 said:
I assume he's referring to the fact that Rucker's turned into a glorified cheerleader for Pearl and company.
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If Rucker could write a Pulitzer Prize winning article on his hatred for the DH rule, the ridiculousness of defining roles for relief pitchers, and the overrated career of Ichiro, Vercin would still take issue with it.
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#49
#49
doozer said:
If Rucker could write a Pulitzer Prize winning article on his hatred for the DH rule, the ridiculousness of defining roles for relief pitchers, and the overrated career of Ichiro, Vercin would still take issue with it.
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I'm not a fan of Rucker's recent ass kissing of Pearl. Other than that, I haven't followed him enough to know if I like his journalism or not. But, the crap he's been writing lately is nothing but Griffithesque Pearl fluff.
 
#50
#50
doozer said:
The irony here is outstanding.
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I write posts on a message board in my spare time. (Which I invite you to ignore, by the way, since I can't recall you having anything interesting to say in, well, ever.) "Sports journalists," in contrast, set off after college and say, "This is what I'm going to do with my life. I spent all that time in journalism school, but instead of covering anything that means anything, I'm going to go spend 30 years talking to jocks in locker rooms. But I'm still a journalist, dammit!"
 
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