Seriously. It's 12:40pm on a Spring Training game day. The game started 35 minutes ago. The Chronicle has two beat writers in Jose de Jesus Ortiz and Brian McTaggart. Tags' last blog post was last night. Ortiz hasn't blogged in almost a week. In six Main Stories, there are two links to Chipper Jones' extension and an AL Central preview. Up until about five minutes ago there was no update about the Reds/Astros game, and Roy is pitching.
I'm not faulting Tags or JJO, but this is ridiculous. I've heard from a couple of people that they don't even go to the Chronicle for Astros news - they come here. And while I'm flattered, and humbled, that is absolutely ludicrous (woo!). A guy's blog in Tennessee has better and more up-to-date information on the professional baseball team than the hometown newspaper - and the only newspaper serving Houston.
Who else is pissed?
We didn't come out here to play tiddlywinks, son.
-Hal Smith
