New Item: Be a baseball beat writer for a week — or maybe for a career
George: What about being a sports commentator? You know how I always make those witty comments during a game?
Jerry: You do make good comments.
George: So?
Jerry: Well, they generally give those jobs to ex-ballplayers and people, you know, in broadcasting.
George: [pause] Well that’s really not fair.
Jerry: I know.
It’s not fair. Like George, every baseball fan believes that covering baseball games is the ultimate fun job. You get to watch the game from the press box. You get to hang with the players afterwards. And then all you have to do is write about what happened! Playing the game itself — well, I don’t talk about this here, but I honestly believe there was a time I could have broken in to the bigs, if I’d just had more talent, or been coached more competently. Of course, those days are long gone. But sportswriting? I could do that. I could do that tomorrow. I make good comments!
You can do that. Just offer me something cool as a swap, and you’re in. This week I traded the Poconos vacation to the editor of phillybaseballnews.com, who’s offering what amounts to either a baseball writer fantasy camp, or a really unusual opportunity to break into sportswriting, if that’s a dream of yours. phillybaseballnews.com is offering you a week’s worth of full media access to the Phils’ farm clubs in Lehigh Valley and Lakewood, NJ. This is real baseball coverage, so you can’t be goofing around. You’ll have full press box access (yes, the buffet too, I checked) as well as locker room access after the game so you can do your job — interview players and write about it. Your work will be published on phillybaseballnews.com, and you’ll be paid for that work with year’s subscription to phillybaseballnews.com (an $89.95 value).
If this sounds like a heck of a lot of fun, offer me something interesting for it!
