bud-black Stories - Gaslamp Ball
Harmony first in the Padres front office
Tim Sullivan has a great article about Bud Black's relationship with new Padres GM, Josh Byrnes. I learned many interesting things from this article, including the fact that Josh Byrnes and Bud Black used to work together, scouting prospects in Cleveland. I don't know why, but this gives me warm...
Bud Black is considering a jump to Anaheim's front office or The birth of an offseason non-story
Here's something weird to me. You're a beat writer. You're bored. You're looking to get more hits to your website from people other than the people who normally read you. So you make up a rumor. Completely unfounded. Doesn't really make a whole lot of sense, even to somebody who doesn't follow the...
RUMOR: The Angels are interested in Bud Black... AS THEIR GM!
Being a beat reporter is a tough gig. If nothing's happening, you have to kinda make stuff up. Other times you have to pull stuff out of your ass. I as a blogger have a duty to play along with the system. It's the mechanism. Beat reporters make up completely unfounded rumors that don't exactly make...

