I don’t believe his little experiment in journalism arbitrage ever went anywhere, but it fit into a sort of thinking common in certain circles in earlier days of the web: The power of the Internet was to eliminate barriers to entry, and geography was going to be one of the first to go. And because the cost of living was so much lower in Mexico, he could pay them crazy low wages - like half the American going rate. Rather than Williamsburg bars, he’d tempt young journalists with great surfing, a sandals-based dress code, and cheap cerveza. So rather than pay 23-year-olds $24,000 a year to live in a closet in Brooklyn, he wanted to buy up some land in Mexico - somewhere in the Yucatán, on a beach - and build a little Content Village. The main expense any online publisher has is people, right? People who stubbornly insist on being paid actual money.īut the Internet meant reporters could churn out content from anywhere. I write a column for the print edition of the magazine here’s my latest.Ī few years back, around the time of the financial crisis, I remember hearing about a guy with a startup idea for a news site. Jon Gray was dominate in his seven innings of work, giving up just two hits and a walk while striking out five.Editor’s note: Our sister publication Nieman Reports is out with their new issue - go check it out. And although that was the only run they would end up needing, run number two came in the 8th inning thanks to a Corey Seager one-out double that scored Jonah Heim. Robbie Grossman broke up that no-hitter with one out on a single to right field.īack-to-back singles and a sac fly in the sixth inning led the Rangers to their first run out of the game. The Rangers were being no hit into the fifth inning.
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GAME 56: 2-0 Win vs Seattle Marinersįriday’s series premiere featured a pitchers duel and Texas came out on top. Ending Dunning’s line on five innings pitched, giving up three runs on seven hits and a walk and striking out six. However, Detroit was the team that was able to score the elusive third run to win the game.ĭane Dunning came out of the game having given up just the one run but giving up back-to-back singles to start the sixth innings, Jonathan Hernandez came in and allowed both of those runners to score. They had the same number of hits, 11, as the Tigers and the same left-on-base number, 10. The Rangers were 3-for-10 with runners in scoring position this game. The only hit he gave up was to Miguel Cabrera.
To make it even better, he struck out his first four batters and when he came in to the game the Rangers had just a one-run lead and a runner in scoring position with two outs. He pitched 2.2 innings, gave up just one hit and struck out seven. Grant Anderson made his MLB debut and was fantastic. In May, Eovaldi had a 0.96 ERA and 0.85 WHIP in 37.2 innings pitched. This earned him American League Pitcher of the Month for May. Nathan Eovaldi got his seventh win of the season with this shutout against the Detroit Tigers. I missed 90% of the games because of work so we’re going straight to Week 10! GAME 53: 5-0 Win Detroit Tigers Don’t worry, you didn’t miss week 9’s recap, I didn’t write one.
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