What are your thoughts on Andrew Stoeten and The Batflip?

[Brock Beauchamp]

2 hours ago, BB17 said:

Reality is being a beat writer is a pretty s***** job. You're probably making like 50K a year and have to work basically every day in the summer. 

I only know the salary of one person at The Athletic and it's a lot more than $50k a year. I'd say closer to double that. Not a fortune by any means but a good salary.

Though I have no idea if that's average, below average, or above average within the company.

[Omar]

I think Stoeten gets a bad rap sometimes.  Perhaps he is one those writers that is best taken in homeopathic doses.  I think he likely has an account on the here, we just have to figure out who it is.  

[Stangstag]

1 hour ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

I only know the salary of one person at The Athletic and it's a lot more than $50k a year. I'd say closer to double that. Not a fortune by any means but a good salary.

Though I have no idea if that's average, below average, or above average within the company.

That’s way more than I would’ve expected 

[Laika]

six figures for a sports writer is pretty high, but no doubt some of the heavy hitters make good money. 

most beat writers are closer to entry level writer salaries 

[max silver]

6 hours ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

The Athletic doesn't have a Jays beat writer? Seriously?

I recall there was discussion that they were attempting to hire a new writer. I used to receive a ton of value from my Athletic subscription as there were the aforementioned 3 Blue Jays centric writers along with several Flames writers as well, but not it's down to zero for each. A large chunk of the Blue Jays coverage now is basically Ken Rosenthal dunking on the organization at every possible opportunity which is not something I'm interested in paying for as I could read Steve Simmons for free if I was actually interested in that kind of content.

[Spanky99]

1 hour ago, Omar said:

I think Stoeten gets a bad rap sometimes.  Perhaps he is one those writers that is best taken in homeopathic doses.  I think he likely has an account on the here, we just have to figure out who it is.  

Jonn

 

[max silver]

3 hours ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

I only know the salary of one person at The Athletic and it's a lot more than $50k a year. I'd say closer to double that. Not a fortune by any means but a good salary.

Though I have no idea if that's average, below average, or above average within the company.

I saw a post suggesting that a reader had seen the job listing for the Athletic Jays beat writer and it was in the $75k range or thereabouts.

[max silver]

54 minutes ago, Spanky99 said:

Jonn

 

[max silver]

2 hours ago, Omar said:

I think Stoeten gets a bad rap sometimes.  Perhaps he is one those writers that is best taken in homeopathic doses.  I think he likely has an account on the here, we just have to figure out who it is.  

I generally enjoy most of what Stoeten writes, my only real issue is some of the SJW nonsense he pushes at times.

[Brock Beauchamp]

15 minutes ago, max silver said:

I saw a post suggesting that a reader had seen the job listing for the Athletic Jays beat writer and it was in the $75k range or thereabouts.

In US dollars, that sounds about right. I suspect they have incentives based on social following, history of work, etc.

[Spanky99]

51 minutes ago, max silver said:

It's poetic. lol

 

[Stangstag]

3 hours ago, Spanky99 said:

Jonn

 

I was thinking the same lolll

[Terminator]

On 3/1/2025 at 11:56 AM, Laika said:

There are lots of quality baseball guys in Toronto now.

I like Shi, Zwelling, BNS, and Keegan Matheson. 

Keegan Matheson is shockingly good for being the official beat writer. Going to read his book when it comes out.

[BB17]

6 hours ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

In US dollars, that sounds about right. I suspect they have incentives based on social following, history of work, etc.

I just looked up the posting, said 65-75k CDN dollars. I guess it’s more than 50 but that’s not much of a salary/ will go that far in a city like Toronto. Rent alone is like $2200/month to live in a dog crate condo lol.

[Spanky99]

On 2/28/2025 at 10:04 AM, Brownie19 said:

This board would never harass anyone 🤥

This post is underrated.

[Brock Beauchamp]

8 hours ago, BB17 said:

I just looked up the posting, said 65-75k CDN dollars. I guess it’s more than 50 but that’s not much of a salary/ will go that far in a city like Toronto. Rent alone is like $2200/month to live in a dog crate condo lol.

Yeah, that's pretty bad in CAD.