OT: column on death of box scores in newspapers

[GoldenAge50s]

My AM routine, for many yrs, has been to get up, start the coffee and go get the paper from the driveway.

I cannot imagine starting my day w/out sitting at the kitchen table, coffee cup in one hand, cigarette in the other and the paper in front of me for an hour or two of wakeup time.

[KCRfan1]

I remember when the Kansas City Star printed all of the player stats in the Sunday paper. As a kid back in the day, I loved looking at the paper. Now, I just open my laptop...........Kind of miss being a kid.

[ValKehl]

Ever since I was in junior high, one of my cherished daily pleasures has been reading the sports pages, especially the box scores during baseball season, while eating breakfast. These days, at age 71 and retired, I no longer have to dash off to school or work, leaving much more time to totally digest the sports section. If I'm "lucky," I'll croak before the Washington Post decides to eliminate the box scores!
Val

[Butch7999]

As Reilly usedta say, "Wot a revoltin' development." We're with Fred and Val on this one (except subsitute "lunch" for "breakfast").

Although even as guys with some background in the newspaper biz we can sorta kinda see the one point -- the depth of stats available
on-line far surpassing what a newspaper can provide -- we're nauseated by the egotism of Sherman and his ilk ("readers would be better served
with... my columns"). It's a happy wonder that our hilariously inept local rag hasn't yet terminated the boxes and replaced them
with still more deathless, utterly fascinating first-person accounts of their hack writers' golf games, because who can ever get tired of
reading about those?

[sportsguy]

I will be honest - I check them on-line as I really don't get newspapers anymore.

[Mountaineer1999]

They are pulling the boxscores but leaving the stupid comics which I am 100% certain no one reads. One more reason to stop the presses.