Comments on: Wood out a couple more weeks

By: markberman

markberman — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 16:31:12 +0000

Crooked Road, just to explain myself — this blog gets thousands upon thousands of hits. Roanoke Times cares how many people click on the blog to read it, not how many make comments. And the reason I may not blog as much as you would like is because the blog is only a small part of my job. I write articles for the paper (and the website) almost every day — and on a variety of topics. Last Sunday, for example, I had a big story on our all-state college football team. On Tuesday, I had a big story on Tiki Barber. In Friday’s paper, I had a story on ACC men’s basketball but also a story on the VT women’s basketball game (and also did our weekly TV listings). I had a story on VT men’s basketball in today’s paper and will have the game story from here at Maryland in tomorrow’s paper. But also in tomorrow’s paper I’ll have a story on the Notre Dame football ast. equipment manager who is from Roanoke. Don’t want you to think I don’t earn my paycheck just because I don’t blog 24-7!

By: tom

tom — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:46:09 +0000

Wow- you are very strange. Mark, just ignore people like this and keep up the coverage. Thank you!

By: crooked road

crooked road — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:50:58 +0000

Pardon – nine in eleven days. Sorry for the error.

By: crooked road

crooked road — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:49:41 +0000

rodant, five blogs in eleven days – 24 total comments? Five blogs out of nine in eleven days on a website that created zero comments? I would think the one thing a blogger would indeed want is actual commentary and clicks on the site. Of course, I’m not employed by the RT, so I’m sure my sensibilities totally differ from their economic savvy. I’d presume that far more discussion would be welcome than is currently generated on here.

Semantic arguments about Hokie basketball can become a very short subject with the RT, so I’ll let that topic stand as given. Feel free to generate as much discussion as possible, though. I’d welcome the opportunity to chat about Hokie hoops.

By: Rodant

Rodant — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 04:29:50 +0000

Mark, keep up the good work and you should know by no that CR only wants to draw a response. Don’t give him the satisfaction.

By: markberman

markberman — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:03:13 +0000

Crooked road, I never reported that he would only miss a few weeks. I had reported that he was out indefinitely, would miss at least the Vegas and BYU trips and would be reevaluated after New Year’s. I reported the day the injury was announced that Johnson had no idea when Wood would be back. At first I wrote that he was out indefinitely and would miss at least the Vegas games and probably the BYU game too. A few days later, I wrote that he would also be out for BYU. But I never wrote that he would only miss 2 games or would only miss 3 games. I wrote that he would miss at least 2 games, that he would miss at least 3 games. There’s a big difference. I never wrote that he would only miss a few weeks. Writing that he is out indefinitely means no one knows how many weeks he will miss. I have NEVER reported that he would be “back any day.”

By: crooked road

crooked road — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:56:32 +0000

What a shocker – a broken foot that doesn’t heal in two weeks, as ‘supposed’ by VT athletic department staff? Who could have imagined?

‘It is a broken foot. Not exactly like bones heal themselves in 7-10 days. I’d be really surprised if Wood is back before the Wake Forest game at the soonest. The thin bench is really going to become apparent, like I predicted preseason. We’ve already been forced to play defenses that were not ideal because of lack of post players. Now we’ll be hurt in other ways. We’re only a third of the way into the season, too. The tough games start in about ten days…’

So, I posted that on December 18th, when the mantra was that Wood might be back any day – and NOBODY questioned it? No reporter? No ‘loyal fan’? Nobody thought it odd that Marshall Wood was supposed to heal a broken foot in two weeks? I’d have LOVED to run that one by Bill Walton back in the day…