It is official -- the DMN is done with the Rangers

by Adam J. Morris on Jan 12, 2009 6:12 PM CST

The much rumored merger of the DMN and S-T sports coverage is now official...as of February 1, the S-T will stop covering the Stars and Mavs with beat reporters and will just run the DMN's stuff, and the DMN won't cover the Rangers, opting instead to just run the S-T's stuff.

So, for us Rangers fans, we are down to just 1 newspaper providing us news. This is disappointing.

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But we are already in crisis mode!

the preceding post was a great success.

by DShep on Jan 12, 2009 6:14 PM CST reply actions

LONESTARBALL

— An Independent News Agency Covering Rangers Baseball —

Time to open the checkbook, Morris.

Deploy us.

Give me Sheets or give me Offseason Blues Part III.

by inactive lsb user on Jan 12, 2009 6:15 PM CST reply actions

I call first dibs on a media pass

by cstorm15 on Jan 12, 2009 6:17 PM CST up reply actions

Ha, In all seriousness

I wonder how much money AJM can make if he did do something like that.

"Come on man you have to admit the average guy in a baseball clubhouse...... is relatively a douchebag." BGL.

by sprite on Jan 12, 2009 6:21 PM CST up reply actions

I could go fetch lunch for people.

You don’t want me writing anything/

You dick that was uncalled for - male cheerleader

by iorange555 on Jan 12, 2009 6:34 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs

The

/ was totally on purpose.

You dick that was uncalled for - male cheerleader

by iorange555 on Jan 12, 2009 6:34 PM CST up reply actions

After your grocery store post?

Grab a typewriter, son.

by shroomer on Jan 12, 2009 10:58 PM CST up reply actions

I was thinking for starters, pay minimum wage to a few employees, before building up a base.

I’m taking Venture Planning and will get back to you on that. Adam is entrepreneurial and would pony up for what truly matters: Texas Rangers Baseball.

Give me Sheets or give me Offseason Blues Part III.

by inactive lsb user on Jan 12, 2009 6:37 PM CST up reply actions

Ironic

This announcement comes on the biggest news day of the offseason.

by cstorm15 on Jan 12, 2009 6:17 PM CST reply actions

Any word on Evan Grant?

Haven’t seen him anywhere.. even on the Cowboys beat. I worry that he is on the way out, as he did not show up on the DMN blog during Michaelgate.

by mattrpav on Jan 12, 2009 6:20 PM CST reply actions

That was exactly

what I was going to ask. I have not seen his byline in the newspaper for any sports story in at least a month. And he has not blogged either. I wonder if he has gone the way of Kevin Blackistone and Ed Bark and has taken some kind of buyout. Hope not. He’s a good dude.

"We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round." - Tony Romo

by kentbenfer on Jan 12, 2009 8:10 PM CST up reply actions

Since we're on the topic of Young

Can’t we get him to fork over some money to save the DMN Rangers beat, so Young can get his name out there for other teams to trade for him?

In Smoak We Trust

by Smoak Some on Jan 12, 2009 6:25 PM CST reply actions

And this comes

a few days after the DMN announces a price increase from .75 to $1.00

Cut the staff, reduce the sports coverage and increase prices…is Hicks running Belo now?

"Losers assemble in little groups and bitch about the coaches and the system and other players in other little groups. Winners assemble as a team."
- Bill Parcells

by Taylor on Jan 12, 2009 6:57 PM CST reply actions 1 recs

Sports isn't the only thing that the newspapers are sharing...

I saw on WFAA that they were doing that with other features. Sounds like to me that eventually there will be a total merger.

by Redcaps on Jan 12, 2009 6:57 PM CST reply actions

Huh.

My interest in newspaper coverage of the Rangers dips to zero.

Hope EG lands on his feet somewhere.

by LiamP on Jan 12, 2009 7:02 PM CST reply actions

Woohoo - go Fort Worth!

by JBImaknee on Jan 12, 2009 7:08 PM CST reply actions

Clearly,

the wrong paper got the Ranger Coverage. The Morning News had better coverage and more impartial columnists. I always thought the Fort Worthless Star-Telegram was just that, worthless…

by SanDiegoKev on Jan 12, 2009 8:00 PM CST reply actions

I don't give two shits about the columnists.

I just prefer EG to Wilson and the other guy whose name I don’t remember.

by LiamP on Jan 12, 2009 8:24 PM CST up reply actions

The hits keep on coming

What an utterly craptastic day to be a Rangers fan.

"Was this really necsarry?" - cowpoke/hurler hurley

by trza on Jan 12, 2009 8:22 PM CST reply actions

Just a thought.

What are the papers going to do when the only good team in town is the Rangers? Seems like the other clubs are sliding backwards while the Rangers seem to have a positive building experience coming up.

Maybe they’ll be like all the “fans” and come back when we win.

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by Andy Seiler on Jan 12, 2009 9:10 PM CST reply actions

Yet nothing about Ranger management

and how’s they’ve been able to take a top-10 sports market team to the point where the only major metropolitan newspaper doesn’t want to cover them anymore.
The DMN is still covering the Stars, the Cowboys, and the Mavs.
Yet it’s the fault of the DMN. How naive.

I'm just killing time until I'm reincarnated.

by Clueless on Jan 12, 2009 9:30 PM CST reply actions

You suck-diddly-uck, Flanders...

…at logic.

"Please. What the hell do you know about starting a sports-related website and then deciding to leave it to work on other things and then? How dare you, sir." -- Michael Schur, aka FireJoeMorgan's Ken Tremendous, to Will Leitch

by ghtd36 on Jan 12, 2009 11:28 PM CST up reply actions

Best to say nothing

than to expose your cluelessness…seriously.

1 + 1 = wtf are you talking about?

I'm just killing time until I'm reincarnated.

by Clueless on Jan 13, 2009 4:47 AM CST up reply actions

The Morning News' coverage will resume in February 2011.

by oc on Jan 13, 2009 12:14 AM CST reply actions

I'll

probably be dead by then.

"Being elite is not something that you acquire, it is something that becomes of you and your status" - Miles

by miles on Jan 13, 2009 12:25 AM CST up reply actions

Meh.

The 40 Trumps All!!!

I don‘t know you who you are. I don‘t know what you want. If you‘re looking for me to be a man and move to third base for the good of the team, I can tell you, I don't have man parts. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills acquired over a very long career of being a horrible piece of shit fucking douche bag, skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you trade me now, that will be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don‘t, I will look for you, I will find you. And I will throw a gigantic hissy fit in the media.

by thedirkatron on Jan 13, 2009 3:20 AM CST reply actions

Thanks for your thoughts; I am out here and alive

Great LSB Community:

Just wanted to make an appearance and say thanks for all your support in recent months. I haven’t been able to say anything and still can’t say much. I want you to know, though, that I’ve read every word you’ve written and I’ve been truly moved by your support. The great thing for me about this blog is the ability to get the pulse of really fervent Rangers fans and toi be able to interact with them. Believe me, we will be in touch. Not sure where the newspaper business is going these days; it’s a scary environment out there. But I do believe in my heart that the community of Rangers fans out there is significant and it grows and it deserves strong quality and lots of variety when it comes to the coverage of their favorite team.

Your thoughts have been taken deep into my heart. Thanks.

Evan

by Evan Grant on Jan 13, 2009 7:05 AM CST reply actions 5 recs

The Hardline

could use a plus 1

by Anonymous New Guy on Jan 13, 2009 9:02 AM CST up reply actions

Screw the Hardline

Its all about the Fan for Rangers talk. Take Cowlishaw out of the Ben and Skin show and give Evan that spot. :D

Thanks Evan for all the work you’ve put into the Rangers.

By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
-The Outlaw

by Gdawg on Jan 13, 2009 11:44 AM CST up reply actions

Thank you, Evan...

…with a cousin in the newspaper business and him trying to explain to me the case of the DMN / ST, I don’t think any of these newspaper guys understand that this world does not revolve solely around the Cowboys. I am a Texas Ranger fan and proud of it. I look to several avenues for news on the team and losing the one with an inside track to the team, is ludicrous. It would never happen with the Cowboys, Mavericks, or probably even the Stars. I guess they feel as though we, as Ranger fans, are used to getting the short end of the straw and we won’t know any better. Well, they are wrong. We are the first to recognize that we are “last to know when it’s raining, but the first to die in the flood”. I’ll be looking for the “Grant me some time in Arlington Blog”.

"The path you choose, you also choose its destination..."

by pro82 on Jan 13, 2009 9:38 AM CST up reply actions

To be fair

It did happen with the Mavs and Stars.

"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan

by Dirk Diggler on Jan 13, 2009 9:43 AM CST up reply actions

My apologies to the...

…Mavericks and Stars fans. They don’t deserve it either. However, having company does not help this misery.

"The path you choose, you also choose its destination..."

by pro82 on Jan 13, 2009 10:35 AM CST up reply actions

My apologies to the...

…Mavericks and Stars fans. They don’t deserve it either. However, having company does not help this misery.

"The path you choose, you also choose its destination..."

by pro82 on Jan 13, 2009 10:35 AM CST up reply actions

Good Luck Evan

Hope something works out for you DFW. If not I hope you are able to get a better gig.

Building the Rangers and Rays

by Goyogringo on Jan 13, 2009 10:26 AM CST up reply actions

Evan

Best of luck as things shake out. I hope you get a good opportunity, and selfishly, I hope it still means Ranger coverage.

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by t ball on Jan 13, 2009 12:45 PM CST up reply actions

Good luck Evan

Hopefully you land on-line as the baseball reporter for the South / South West. It hurts as a Ranger’s fan to see another avenue of information close while knowing that the fans will still be stuck with Galloway as the standard byline for Ranger’s news.

by laxtonto on Jan 13, 2009 1:11 PM CST up reply actions

All the best to you Evan.

Good luck in your future endeavors, and thank you heartily for all of your dedication over the years.

Be Well, Friend!

"...my balls are really like a veiny flesh color" blueballlefty on Jun 4, 2008 7:44 PM EDT
"you gonna lose your horse. seriously." FX2
Yes we can! November 04, 2008

by Rodney on Jan 13, 2009 2:26 PM CST up reply actions

Good luck, to ya Evan

Here’s hoping you’ll get back into covering the Rangers someday – wherever you wind up, your readers will be lucky to have you. I know I’ve vehemently disagreed with you in the past on some stuff, but you truly where the best beatwriter we had. I’ll miss you dude.

Did Jon Daniels downsize your old position at Dunking Donuts?

by LSJ on Jan 13, 2009 4:17 PM CST up reply actions

Quick

If you live in Dallas proper, you know the DMN has a daily free newspaper called Quick DFW which is portions of articles from the big newspaper plus stuff on local goings-ons such as concerts, restaurant and bar type articles. Anyways, I noted that beginning the last week of December Quick went from daily to weekly.

More troubling signs.

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by FuturePants on Jan 13, 2009 9:42 AM CST reply actions