I love the #HRDerby more than I like most people
I'm not the only one struggling with these camera angles, right?
Jul 12, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
We've gone from MLB denying players access to interpreters to condemning once-in-a-lifetime players for using interpreters to avoid being misconstrued by the same media condemning them. Any take on Shohei Ohtani concluding he's anything but great for baseball is just uninformed.
It's hard for many to accept that we live in a global society, but we do, and that's as true in sports (perhaps truer) than in any other industry. Esp in a sport like baseball, that has a global presence but does itself no favors in projecting a limited and myopic Americanness
Jan 19, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
This was a foreign correspondent, making her inherently more vulnerable, who four years later had to watch him become the GM of a team in the largest media market in the country.
She left sportswriting, and journalism, altogether. "I started to ask myself, 'Why do I have to put myself through these situations to earn a living?'"
