Its been awhile

Yes it has been awhile but sometimes life happens and writing takes a back seat.
You all know how that goes.
It's kind of like when you are in school and you know you absolutely have to write a paper and you have to make yourself finally do it.
The only difference is that I don't have to do it.
Then something happens and you know you have to be the opinionated person that you are and put something on a blog.
That's my curse I guess.

Many times I have talked about the demise of the local newspaper that no longer covers local sports. In my opinion that has come to an all-time terrible this week when the Telegraph cover the Masters like it's in our back yard and doesn't have a word about region baseball tournaments, area track and field, soccer, or even tennis, with teams advancing to the state tournament all over the place.
NO, the Telegraph writes about the Masters.
I just don't get it.
I remember for so many years Daniel Shirley covering the Masters for the Telegraph, but all during that time, he was emailing stories of local things that needed to be covered, because basically, the Telegraph is a Middle Georgia newspaper. Now it is a Middle Georgia newspaper that doesn't cover the area sports.
I think it's pathetic.
So last week it is announced that WGXA has also decided not to cover sports anymore. Okay who is making the decisions around here ? Cam and AJ were kicking butt covering anything and everything that looked like local sports and they were doing a damn good job. But they come into work one day and are told to pack their bags. Not only is this a poor example of southern hospitality, but its about as poor a decision as I have heard since, since, well since the Telegraph decided not to cover local sports.
So now it is basically up to WMAZ to carry a huge torch, and I know they will continue to put out a great product. But are they really able to cover everything in this area that deserves coverage ? The answer to that is no. I know they will try. Sure during football WMGT will still put out high school football show and WgXA may also , but it wont be the same.
So what leads to the failures of media in Macon ? I don't have an answer to that. The Telegraph sports department put out a quality product, but the numbers were never good. I assume WGXA had the same issues. Macon has to support the product to be successful and that has always been a problem.
I just think it's sad that a city the size of Macon has one news outlet now that gives a crap about high school sports.

I know I will miss a few things but lets just mention what the Telegraph and WGXA are missing this week
Tattnall baseball vs FPD on Monday in the second round of the region tournament. Tattnall is 23-1 on the year but gets nothing and FPD has battled all year to get to this point and it will be a great game on Monday. Tattnall had a 30 game winning streak but no mention in a newspaper. They have won 37 of the last 38 games.
Stratford and FPD girls soccer both have chances to make long runs in the state tournament
AAU basketball is hot as fire in this area and the city has several highly ranked players in the state.
The city baseball and soccer scenes are as good as they have been in several years and not to mention spring football practice
The tennis scene with FPD and Stratford battling for supremacy in both boys and girls tennis.
This is all stuff that has been covered for years and now kids don't get press.
Farewell AJ and Cam , you did good