When you read all of the articles by team beat reporters over the course of a season, you end up feeling like you know them. They all do their work in the same locker room, with the same players giving the same postgame material, but it comes out a little bit differently for each writer.
Often that means emphasizing slightly different stories. But sometimes it’s the same stories. Today the topics in the Tampa Bay Times and on MLB.com are exactly the same, so let’s play a game (one of the worst things about the demise of the Tampa Tribune is that now it’s Topkin or Mooney, not and, and our game is less interesting).