Injury Report: 2024-2025 Injury thread | HF’s Longest Thread Just Got Longer

[expatriatedtexan]

I am not saying your wrong, but I honestly can't remember a time when Dater was good. That's probably because I came to Colorado from Southern New Hampshire (back in 97) where we had the Boston sports media which is so damn good. They would get real facts, write great insights and call BS to all the pro sports teams when needed.

Other than Edwards, they also had GREAT PBP hockey broadcasts. Fred Cusick and Johnny Pearson were some of the best to call hockey games, IMO. Yes they were homers but they were very skilled and knowledgeable of the game. Those two are missed.

I was really young with this stuff happened, 4 or 5, but here is sample size:

You didn't appreciate Dater's writing for the Post back in the day? I'm basically talking about the time period where you moved to Denver in '97. The internet was young and sports journalism was pretty much the same online as it was in the press because bandwidth at the time would not allow high def pictures much less video. Even audio was challenging for sites.

Dater filed his game stories, every night. Always having a narrative of the play. When we couldn't watch games live, we (I) depended on/loved journalists that could take a few sentences and describe the situation and atmosphere while breaking down the play.

/oldmanrant

 

[RoyIsALegend]

You didn't appreciate Dater's writing for the Post back in the day? I'm basically talking about the time period where you moved to Denver in '97. The internet was young and sports journalism was pretty much the same online as it was in the press because bandwidth at the time would not allow high def pictures much less video. Even audio was challenging for sites.

Dater filed his game stories, every night. Always having a narrative of the play. When we couldn't watch games live, we (I) depended on/loved journalists that could take a few sentences and describe the situation and atmosphere while breaking down the play.

/oldmanrant

 

[Foppa2118]

You didn't appreciate Dater's writing for the Post back in the day? I'm basically talking about the time period where you moved to Denver in '97. The internet was young and sports journalism was pretty much the same online as it was in the press because bandwidth at the time would not allow high def pictures much less video. Even audio was challenging for sites.

Dater filed his game stories, every night. Always having a narrative of the play. When we couldn't watch games live, we (I) depended on/loved journalists that could take a few sentences and describe the situation and atmosphere while breaking down the play.

/oldmanrant

That's an interesting point about how sports journalism was back then. Social media kind of feeds into all of Dater's bad habits, and that's kind of essential to his job now.

He is a talented writer though and back then that was all he did. With social media, his hot takes come out, which invites the trolls, which he responds to, and he feels he has to compete with other reporters, and that doesn't always bring out the best in him either.

I don't follow him closely, but it seems he's doing a little better? Not sure. Maybe not professionally but personally? I hope that's the case for him.