I wasn’t shocked to see ESPN run some garbage story about Manfred. I was pretty surprised, however, to see it written by Van Natta. He is not normally a puff piece kind of writer - he’s an actual investigative reporter with a pretty good rep. Would really like to know how that came about because it just seems odd.
I wasn’t shocked to see ESPN run some garbage story about Manfred. I was pretty surprised, however, to see it written by Van Natta. He is not normally a puff piece kind of writer - he’s an actual investigative reporter with a pretty good rep. Would really like to know how that came about because it just seems odd.
Was thinking the same exact thing. Has the slow death of quality investigative reporting at ESPN forced Van Natta to take whatever assignments are available for freelancers?
I wasn’t shocked to see ESPN run some garbage story about Manfred. I was pretty surprised, however, to see it written by Van Natta. He is not normally a puff piece kind of writer - he’s an actual investigative reporter with a pretty good rep. Would really like to know how that came about because it just seems odd.
Was thinking the same exact thing. Has the slow death of quality investigative reporting at ESPN forced Van Natta to take whatever assignments are available for freelancers?
It’s a really interesting question. I never would’ve thought his name would be attached to a piece like this.
I'm guessing ESPN was thinking "we need to run a fluff piece on Rob Manfred, with natta a bad thing about him in it."
These jokes write themselves, folks.