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The Washington Post, Owned by a Guy Worth $239 Billion, Reportedly Not Sending Nationals Writers to Spring Training
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There’s been some buzz about layoffs and general cost cutting at The Washington Post, and NYT media writer Erik Wemple is reporting that the paper won’t send its beat reporters to spring training:
On one hand, the Nationals are a huge joke and +10000 to win the National League East at PA sports betting apps. They are in a rebuild and they haven’t put together a winning season since they inexplicably won the World Series back in 2019, so it’s not like there’s some incredible demand for Nats content in 2026, especially since everybody already knows what’s going to happen in the division. The Phillies will win 95 games and lose in the NLDS, the Mets will fall apart spectacularly at some point, and the Braves’ season will be derailed by injuries. The Marlins, meantime, will continue to do whatever it is they do down there.
On the other hand, this is the WaPo we’re talking about here, owned by Jeff Bezos, who is worth more than $200 billion dollars. If the guy wanted to, he could send every baseball writer in the country to space in his Blue Origin rocket, then have enough money left over to buy Greenland, Iceland, and probably Antarctica at the same time while still being a top-5 richest guy on Earth. And sure, it’s his business, this is the private sector, capitalism/etc. and he can run it however he wants, but it’s pretty dumb from an optics perspective. The WaPo crying poor is like you and me claiming that we can’t afford a bag of Sour Patch Kids from the 7-Eleven, to then stuff into our JNCOs and smuggle into the movie theater.
Just send the Nats writers to West Palm. It’s not that expensive. They go down to Florida for a couple of weeks and start to build relationships with the new players and a new coaching staff. Then, when the Nats turn the corner, and they’re no longer complete dog shit, you have some well-entrenched scribes who have done the legwork and are in a position to publish a lot of good content and break some stories.
Someone at the WaPo needs to show some NATITUDE here.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com