The Media

Everybody’s favorite bloviating Post-Dispatch columnist was back on ESPN’s “The Sports Reporters” this past weekend, making his usual batch of subtly bizarre statements and finding new ways to make St. Louis fans angry. Who, you ask? You know...

It’s no secret that radio has been hit hard by the tanking economy. With layoffs and budget cuts abound, stations have gotten creative when it comes to trimming costs, and no position is safe, especially that of the call screener. The bridge be...

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As this week’s JSF Original deftly exposed, there’s an unwritten rule in the ad biz that if you buy time during the radio broadcast of a baseball game, you need to sprinkle in some baseball terminology regardless of whether it makes any s...

Not much more to say, other than when Joey Gladstone shows up at Scottrade Center to watch a Saturday night Blues game, you sure as hell better believe we’re going to have the necessary documentation. If someone spots Stephanie Tanner at Busch...

Bryan Burwell isn’t just a lowly scribe for the local paper, he’s a TV personality. And I’m not talking The Fan Show or some cheap local production, although he’s done his share of those. He’s a national TV personality. He’s done NBA game...

It opened during the most dominant stretch in recent Cardinals history, a tin shed erected in the mid-2000′s that fancied itself a “saloon”, adorned with The Mad Hungarian’s name. Just a few years later, it faded away with a w...

For the past ten seasons in St. Louis, Matthew Leach has been running the Cardinals beat. Ten seasons. Or, 1620 games. Plus post-seasons. To put it into perspective, when Leach began his tenure at Spring Training in 2001, Rick Ankiel was on the mound...

After a few months of silence and doubt about Dan McLaughlin’s future in the industry, the Post-Dispatch delivered news that the broadcaster will retain his position at Fox Sports Midwest despite a second DUI arrest last September.  The preser...

In the sports world, if an athlete’s name is to be permanently associated with a cheesy pun, it needs constant media stroking to mature. Toss out the snappy phrase every time it’s even moderately appropriate and watch the minions start li...

Albert Pujols wants his name back, damn it. Undoubtedly so he can slap it on some godforsaken Bennigan’s in Orange County.  This was the focus of many a national media headline this week, as the Pujols 5 Westport Grill – is no more. Please, cont...

When the words “journalist” and “fan” cross paths in reference to the same person, sometimes things get ugly.  A journalist is supposed to be a neutral reporter of news, not a homer.  Homers report news in a manner that is c...