Saturday, May 15, 2004
SPIROSITY
Remember the latter part of last January? Remember when an unknown reporter named Justin Spiro from a little site called Detroit Sports Net tried to say the Mariners were signing Ivan Rodriguez?
Here's a quote I dug up in the archive in one of Jeremy's posts.
Ah, yes. I'd link to the Detroit Sports Net page, but it'd tell you that "This account is currently deactivated. Please contact 'Billing' or 'Support'." So, all the DSN quotes I can get would have to be dug for, whether it be through Google or through our archives.
Anyway, I'd been wondering for months about what's happened to Justin Spiro since. I looked through the referrer logs, and saw that someone had searched us for Justin Spiro. In the same search, a post appeared in the Top Forum by poster Justinizcool89, who did a little investigation of his own...
Usually I stop short of posting random message board stuff, but the links check out. Unfortunately, the same links don't match Spiro with the titles that the poster is tacking to him; I've found him only as a assistant/contributing editor to both MCS and MHS.
Yes, there is hope for all of us. Justin Spiro has a job, even after the fiasco last winter. Even though I'm probably not going to be a getting-paid writer, I think there is hope for all of us if we screw up that badly or trust the wrong people a little too much. Of course, one could say that Detroit Sports Net was sunk because of him. I think it's a fair assumption.
Here's a quote I dug up in the archive in one of Jeremy's posts.
- Detroit Sports Net has just received a tip from a source close to Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez that the catcher has plans to sign with the Seattle Mariners. The source claimed that “the deal is not official, but everything from this point forward is a technicality”.
Ah, yes. I'd link to the Detroit Sports Net page, but it'd tell you that "This account is currently deactivated. Please contact 'Billing' or 'Support'." So, all the DSN quotes I can get would have to be dug for, whether it be through Google or through our archives.
Anyway, I'd been wondering for months about what's happened to Justin Spiro since. I looked through the referrer logs, and saw that someone had searched us for Justin Spiro. In the same search, a post appeared in the Top Forum by poster Justinizcool89, who did a little investigation of his own...
- Remember the reporter that had Pudge Rodriguez going to the Seattle Mariners this past off-season??? His name was Justin Spiro, and he went into hiding for several months after his report fell through.
We all waited for an explanation from him and never got it. I did some digging and discovered that Detroit Sports Net, the former home of Spiro, went defunct soon after Spiro's report fell through. Spiro had become famous in the local Detroit area for having reported the Jason Johnson and Fernando Vina signings with the Tigers, as well as the Miguel Tejada to Orioles deal.
The Pudge report was the first to hit a national scale, though. As we all know, he led us to believe Rodriguez was all but signed to a contract with the M's. As it turns out, Spiro is known as a phenomenal writer over in Michigan and had a reputation for being credible. Sounds like a bunch of BS to me.
Either way, Spiro has made his comeback. He is now a contributing editor at MOTOR CITY SPORTS as well as the Editor-in-Chief at MILE HIGH SPORTS
Usually I stop short of posting random message board stuff, but the links check out. Unfortunately, the same links don't match Spiro with the titles that the poster is tacking to him; I've found him only as a assistant/contributing editor to both MCS and MHS.
Yes, there is hope for all of us. Justin Spiro has a job, even after the fiasco last winter. Even though I'm probably not going to be a getting-paid writer, I think there is hope for all of us if we screw up that badly or trust the wrong people a little too much. Of course, one could say that Detroit Sports Net was sunk because of him. I think it's a fair assumption.
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