Where are the baseball boxscores?

Ok. In the S-L and the Times there are no opening day boxscores other than the Mets and Yanks. Where the heck are the boxscores?? Have the papers stopped carrying them? If they have, how do I get them? Do I have to start buying the Sporting News again and get them weekly? Is it on the internet? [I have no kids handy at the moment to strong arm for assistance]. Thanks in advance for any answers/help.

http://m.mlb.com/scoreboard

Or. http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/scoreboard

Tap each box for detaills.

I know they're easily accessible online. But I always liked having a full page of boxscores to peruse in black and white. It was a nice graphical summary of a whole day's play you could scan all at once.

I can only conclude that with newspapers bleeding money, it was a place to cut costs.

Ok. Thanks very much Max. I'm with "mrincredible". Having to get on a computer to get the box scores that used to be in my morning papers, 1-2 pages in black and white, clicking one by one, is awful. Turns what used to be fun into a chore. C'est la vie I guess, but if this is progress they can keep it.

ml1 said:

I can only conclude that with newspapers bleeding money, it was a place to cut costs.

Yup.

Boo.

Agreed.

Back in the days when type was printed on paper that was then given a wax backing and pasted on page boards, watching a newspaper compositor piece together six columns of boxscores to maximize the fit -- a three-inch 1-0 game in this spot, a five-inch 10-8 slugfest in that spot, no, wait, over there instead -- all in a three-card-Monte-like rush on deadline was a marvel to behold.

DaveSchmidt said:

Back in the days when type was printed on paper that was then given a wax backing and pasted on page boards, watching a newspaper compositor piece together six columns of boxscores to maximize the fit -- a three-inch 1-0 game in this spot, a five-inch 10-8 slugfest in that spot, no, wait, over there instead -- all in a three-card-Monte-like rush on deadline was a marvel to behold.

Was this done with or without computers?

Boxscores arrived and were printed via computer, then pasted onto the pages by hand. These days, at larger papers at least, type is placed onto a virtual page on the computer and sent straight to the presses, no paste-up required.

Interesting. I assume when you say type is placed onto a virtual page - no "paste-up" required, they still use the term pasted (as in copy and paste). Thanks for the inside scoop!

You're most welcome. Actually, though, no one at these papers really says "pasted" or "paste-up" anymore in that context. More like "design" a page and then "output" it.

(I'll reserve "pasted" to describe a team like the Phillies in a game like yesterday's opener. Word should come in handy this season.)

Hamels' heart must not be in it. Can you blame him?

Heh. Yes.

ETA: If that is indeed the case, which I hasten to add I have no way of knowing.

So you both made me turn my eyes further north from D.C. to see what the heck you guys were talking about. Embarrassed to say that I forgot or never knew about the Red Sox/Phillies possible trade. I love how this writer begins the article. Know him Dave?

"Well, the Boston Red Sox hoped they might win a few games with Cole Hamels on the mound this season, so maybe what took place on opening day at Citizens Bank Park was just one of those cosmic jokes baseball likes to play on its participants"
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/phillies/20150407_When_Hamels_struggles__Phillies_are_in_real_trouble.html#byGdkCQ0ct4P02Tw.99

Yep, I knew Bob, though not well. I appreciate curmudgeons with a sense of humor.

Bad news, Chip. According to this, TSN stopped running boxscores even before Lenny Dykstra started taking his special vitamins (and the trend continues):

http://jimromenesko.com/2015/04/07/some-mcclatchy-papers-are-dropping-baseball-box-scores-from-the-print-edition/

Good luck this afternoon.