Globe Baseball Coverage

[geoduck no quahog]

So, I'm kicking around whether or not to pay for full coverage.
 
I'm leaning against it because the free Boston.com articles are an embarrassment to any city that calls itself a Sports Town.
 
Steve Silva? Really? That's what coverage has come to?
 
I'm concerned that the paid portion of the site is what we see for free online + Nick Cafardo...hardly worth it.
 
Also, the free section is technically terrible, and contains a remarkable amount of out-of-date content - with real updates few and far between (and late).
 
Lastly, if i click one more "photo-sequence-essay" posted in the guise of a real article, I'll need to kill myself rather than the site.
 
So my question is this - for those of you who read the print edition: is subscribing to the online version worthwhile? Judging from the free portions online, I remain skeptical.

 

[ChinaCat2]

its actually the free stuff + Cafardo and Peter Abraham.
 
I don't think its worth it anymore. I cancelled my print subscription last month. You can do better reading Spieir, Bradford and Edes rather than anything the Globe has.

 

[Chad Finn]

I've gotta stop clicking on these threads.

 

[bluefenderstrat]

I've gotta stop clicking on these threads.

 
We're all rooting for you, but the legendary Boston Globe Sports Section of our collective youth is now home to mediocrities and trolls, and not much else.   

 

[terrisus]

Basically, as long as the Globe continues to employ CHB, I don't view anything that happens there as making them deserving of being given money.
If they're going to insist on continuing to employ him, the best thing would be for them to go out of business.

 

[joe dokes]

I've gotta stop clicking on these threads.

I suppose the best that can collectively be said is, "don't take it personally, man, cuz' it ain't you...."
 
 
We get the print edition at home on Saturday and Sunday (not even sure if they allow that deal anymore..but they let us go ther when we threatened to pull the plug altogether), so we can access the online stuff.  It's not what it was, and if I paid for 7 days, I'd be pissed at what it is, but I am not ready to pull the dead-tree plug completely. Part of it is just a habit of 35 years or so.  And the Sunday paper still keeps me involved for an hour or so. (not half a day like it used to be, but whatever.). Besides,  where better to read the Sunday baseball column than in the peace and quiet of the bathroom?
 
I look at it as "we've cut back from x to 'a lot less than x."  If you're starting from zero, you might look at it differently. But if you can keep the subscription down to the minimum they'll allow, it might be worth it.

 

[Humphrey]

I suppose the best that can collectively be said is, "don't take it personally, man, cuz' it ain't you...."
 
 
We get the print edition at home on Saturday and Sunday (not even sure if they allow that deal anymore..but they let us go ther when we threatened to pull the plug altogether), so we can access the online stuff.  It's not what it was, and if I paid for 7 days, I'd be pissed at what it is, but I am not ready to pull the dead-tree plug completely. Part of it is just a habit of 35 years or so.  And the Sunday paper still keeps me involved for an hour or so. (not half a day like it used to be, but whatever.). Besides,  where better to read the Sunday baseball column than in the peace and quiet of the bathroom?
 
I look at it as "we've cut back from x to 'a lot less than x."  If you're starting from zero, you might look at it differently. But if you can keep the subscription down to the minimum they'll allow, it might be worth it.

I'd have to say that a Cafardo column and what one does in the bathroom do share some similarities.    

 

[The Talented Allen Ripley]

Basically, as long as the Globe continues to employ CHB, I don't view anything that happens there as making them deserving of being given money.
If they're going to insist on continuing to employ him, the best thing would be for them to go out of business.

 
Cafardo is the bigger crime against humanity by far.

 

[John Marzano Olympic Hero]

 
Cafardo is the bigger crime against humanity by far.

 
Quoted for truth. If Cafardo left the Globe or was assigned literally anywhere, the Sunday Sports Section would improve 327%.