By LUIS GONZALEZ<\/p>\n
It was a long night on the diamond and in newsrooms, too, last night.<\/p>\n
The New York Mets beat the Florida Marlins 9-8 in a 16-inning bout.<\/p>\n
Miami scored their eight runs in five innings, bringing the score to 8-7 going into the sixth. The offensive onslaught between the two National League East teams slowed down as only the Mets scored two runs in the next 10 innings.<\/p>\n
Coverage of a game that ran until around one in the morning was troublesome who were not sitting in the stands.<\/p>\n
Newspapers, such as The Miami Herald<\/em>, have to run on strict deadlines for their print publications. Last night\u2019s game hurt many newspaper traditionalists.<\/p>\n On the front page of the sports section in The Herald<\/em> lays a story of Marlins Owner Jeffrey Loria\u2019s plan to erect a statue of the late Jose Fernandez outside of Marlins Park. What is missing for the reader that walks to their driveway grabbing their plastic bag-covered newspaper in the morning, is an article from the game of their baseball team\u2019s favorite game.<\/p>\n Frustrated, readers may perceive this as a lack of effort or a mistake from the newspaper and look down upon their subscribed publication. But it is not their fault.<\/p>\n To their credit, the lead story on the sports tab on The Herald’<\/em>s website is the article about the game from the beat writer, Andre Fernandez.<\/p>\n There are extraneous situations that occur in sports that simply do not meet publication’s deadline for print. The Miami Herald<\/em> did not want what happened to the Boston Globe<\/em> during the Super Bowl coverage and run an edition of a newspaper with the wrong information and that was the smart move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By LUIS GONZALEZ It was a long night on the diamond and in newsrooms, too, last night. The New York Mets beat the Florida Marlins 9-8 in a 16-inning bout. Miami scored their eight runs in five innings, bringing the … Continue reading