Get Paid To Write About The Mets

Not by me…by mlb.com.
You can find the job below on monster.com.
I’m looking for writers too, but I won’t pay you. Contact me if interested.

Sports Reporter

About the Job

MLB.com, the Official Site of Major League Baseball, is seeking freelance and/or full-time columnists and reporters to help cover Major League Baseball. We’re interested in candidates with solid reporting skills and a strong voice who are as well versed in writing about the sport off the field as they are about the games themselves.

Responsibilities include:

– Column writing from live games across the country, as well as the news of the day off the field.

– Non-column writing that helps feed the beast that is a 24-by-7 deadline cycle.

– Factual reporting; intelligent writing.

– Nuanced analysis and insightful commentary.

– Professional representation of our company inside and outside our walls.

– Multimedia experience a plus.

Qualifications include:

– Four-year degree preferred.

– Passion for the sport, as well as a thorough knowledge of the sport.

– Experienced in writing on deadline.

– Able to produce clean, crisp copy.

– Team player to work in field, as well as with editors.

– Good communicator and well-organized.

– Self-starter with a wealth of ideas.

– Willing to travel.

– Bilingual a plus.

“Due to the volume of applications for each position, MLB.com will only contact those applications who are selected to be interviewed.â€

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February 5, 2009

Mike’s Theme sounds like America F*** Yeah (To Me)

EXPLICIT LANGUAGE (on the bottom one)

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February 5, 2009

Bonds Hit More HRs Than Anyone & You Need To Accept That

Whether you like it or not, Barry Bonds holds the record for most home runs in a season and most home runs in a career.

Barry Bonds is baseball’s home run king.

Worry about whether or not Selig knew bonds was doing roids or not (that’s a piece by fellow Mets Policeman Cyclones Fan).

You can place Barry in the Hall of Infamy with Shoeless Joe and Pete Rose. Personally I think Bonds & Rose should be in , I will pass judgment on Jackson because I didn’t see him play.

You can boo Barry when you see him on the street. You can throw away your Bonds jersey. You can erase your VCR tape of him hitting #73.

You need to accept that he’s the King, and no asterisk or “voiding” of the record is going to change the fact that he hit more home runs than anyone.

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February 5, 2009

More Springsteen-gate

http://www.nme.com/news/bruce-springsteen-and-the-e-street-band/42549 says:

Bruce Springsteen‘s E Street Band pre-recorded the music that was played during their Super Bowl half-time performance on Sunday (February 1), according to one of the event’s producers.

Apparently the only live element of the performance was the Boss‘ vocals, while the music was laid down ahead of time.

“The Super Bowl performances are all on tape,” producer of Super Bowl pre-game entertainment Hank Neuberger told the Chicago Tribune.

“There is no way you can set up a full band in five minutes with microphones, get all the settings right, and expect to get quality sound,” he said. “The Super Bowl has been doing that for years with virtually all the bands.”

Meanwhile, Consumerist (http://consumerist.com/) linked back to us about Springsteen’s letter to fans about the ticketmaster controversy. You can read that here: https://metspolice.com/2009/02/springsteen-talks-about-springsteen.html

…and this guy (http://springsteeninformationcenter.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/bruce-springsteen-class-action-suit-against-ticketmaster/) says he will start a class action suit against TM.

Don’t forget the Million Manny March 2 is tonight at 7 in front of SNY. 51st and 6th. Hopefully we can get back to writing about the Mets soon. As soon as they throw a ball or sign Manny.

February 5, 2009

Selig Knew Bonds Was Doing Roids

Court documents released today show that Barry Bonds tested positive for steroids up to 5 times during his home run tear between 2000 and 2006.

No real shock there. Seriously, anyone who didn’t believe Bonds was juiced probably also believes the world is flat.

The real news to come out of the unsealed documents is this:

June 4, 2003: MLB urine test originally negative; retested later by government it was positive for THG, clomiphene, exogenous testosterone

July 7, 2006: MLB urine test positive for D-amphetamine

So the first test by MLB they screwed up – fine, it happens. Although it is interesting that it happened to the person taht everyone knew was juicing.

The second test is big though. Bonds tested positive for steroids AFTER Bud Selig and MLB had instituted what it called a strong anti-steroid policy. Prior to the 2005 season, MLB stated that a first positive test would result in a MANDATORY 10 game suspension.

So why wasn’t Bonds suspended?

More importantly – at the time of the positive test Bonds had not yet passed Hank Aaron (I’m too lazy to look up the exact number he was behind, but it was about 25 or so).

Selig knowingly let a juiced player surpass Hank Aaron.

Bonds is guilty – and so is Selig.

Time for the commissioner to step down