How long are they going to freeze us out?

So the building I work in must be ancient or something because the darn thing has a boiler that does it's heating.  Well, the way it works, which I don't quite understand, is that every now and then the building pumps in fresh air from outside.  Now, in the spring and summer that's no biggy because it's warm.  In the winter, when the outside temp is 50?  Now that's a problem.  So the room temperature is probably somewhere around 62 to 64 on any given day instead of a comfy 72 degrees.  Hell I'd settle for 70.  So we bundle up.  Now for those of us who sit under the air vents, it's hell.  It's always cold and our hands and feet are always frozen.  Lately it's been so cold it is actually bothering my back.  That's just damn near the craziest thing.

Otherwise, I had a twitter war with a reporter for Nascar today.  Just not a fan of the fact that he was like the first person to point out something and did it on Twitter and then picked a fight with anyone and everyone who chose to feel differently than he did.  I think it was very unprofessional to air his grievance on Twitter, he seems to think it was ok, but cheering in the press box?  No that's worthy of burning someone at the cross.

People these days just think it's cool to air out whatever they want on Twitter because it happens.  He literally told me that.  It happened, what did you expect?  That you act like an adult about it.  That's what.  He still didn't get it.  Still doesn't get that I, as a non-credentialed fan, do not have access to the activities happening in the press box.  So until someone who is privy to that activity points it out I am totally oblivious.  I don't know there's bias because I CAN'T SEE IT.

But no, this reporter just decided it was his job to point out supposed bias by other members of the media.  That wasn't his job.

Now we have bloggers who want to be legitimate members of the media once they finish school who are worried that because they express their opinions now they won't be hired later.  Because they're worried it'll become so black and white in the media that there will be no room for journalists who do both reporting of the facts and commentary on the facts separately from their straight forward reporting of the facts.

Pete Pistone said, as long as they stay professional they'll be ok.  I think the same.  Also, as long as they maintain integrity, don't blur the lines between fact and fiction, and manage to maintain that line between journalism and commentary theyll be fine.  But what we're seeing all too much these days are reporters who claim to be journalists but often inject their opinions in to their stories.

Some are good at drawing that line.  They report stories on one place, comment on them on another place.  This helps the fan understand when they're looking at a statement of fact versus an interpretation of that fact.

In the end this whole mess has taken away from some good beginning of the year storylines and I hope everyone just moves on. 

Yeah we get it, NO CHEERING IN THE PRESS BOX!

BE CAREFUL NOT TO CHEER!!